Star.
London, England, 1809-09-22 00:00:00

ThE ARMY,

NAP AL tiftrELLlGArkt
We have just learnt that the Princess Augusta pac.:
ket Is arrived at Falmouth, with a mail from the
Leeward Islands.—Mail not up.
FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 19.
Sailed the Princess Charlotte packet, with two mails
for Lisbon ; and the Dispatch packet, with mails for
Cadiz.
PLYMOUTH-DOCK, SEPTEMBER 20.
Arrived the Unite frigate, from the Mediterranean,
last from Portsmouth ; and the Pheasant sloop, from
the Leeward Islands.—Sailed the Acteon sloop,
GROVES Acting, for Liverpool.—Put back la Rhin
frigate, which sailed yesterday for Rochefort.—Winil
S.W. has blown a violent gale the whole day.
The John and Charlotte timber ship, which arrived
in Catwater on Monday, from Prince Edward's Island,
was nearly in a sinking state ; she encountered most
dreadful gales on her passage, and her crew were
nearly exhausted at the pumps, which had been kept
going near a fortnight.
What with. the war of elements," and the enemy's
privateers, the underwriters will experience more
heavy losses than they have for several years past.—
A gentleman who came passenger in the brig Henry,
froth Martinique, states, that they sailed from thence
the illat 'sly, in company with near 50 sail, under
ceitrOoy of the Intrepid, Captain, and Express cutter.
On the 27th of August, about 2 a. m. they experienced
a most tremendous gale ; and at day-light next morn-
ing 17 sail were discovered totally dismasted, and in
the greatest distress. The Henry lost her main and
mizen-masts, and had every article on deck washed
overboard ; part of her cargo, consisting of cocoa,
coffee, and sugar, was also thrown overboard, toge-
ther with 16 guns.—Many vessels are known to have
foundered, and it is feared that the Express cutter
has shared the Stifle fats. ihrieral wrecks were seen
with the people clinging to them, without_ the other
ships of the convoy being able to render them any
assistance.—The Jamaica fleet encountered the same
dreadful weather as the Martinique convoy:
PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 21.
Arrived his Majesty's ships CHRISTIAN' VII. WARS-
and GosirAwsE, from a cruize ; also the Har-
.viot West-Indiaman under jury-Masts. Wind W.
DOVER, SEPTEMBER 21.
Came in last night a fine large new French lugger
privateer, captured three days ago by the LIVELY fri-
gate and novae sloop of war, off &achy Head.—
The Limit has since been cruizing, but without suc-
cess, and has carried away her mainmast. A French
privateer last night, at ten o'clock, chaced a brig
close into our Pier-heads, and followed after her
within pistol-shot of our batteries, which kept up a
heavy cannonade on her whilst within reach of shot,
.but lam sorry to say without striking her. A French
'lugger vas in sight about five o'clock this afternoon
from our Pier-heads, standing over, and a cc nvoy of
about twenty sail of different kind of vessels are
working down Channel, tinder the protection of a
brig. Wind W. N. W. and moderate.
ANOTHIIa LETTO, SAME DATE.
A most daring '•attempt was made last night at
nine o'cloCk, by a French-privateer, to capture a light
brig, lying at a short distance front our pier. As
soon as it was ascertained that an enemy was on
the Zoast, the Townsend Battery, manned by the
Dever Volunteer Artillery, opened a very heavy fire,
but with no great effect.

The Supreme Central Junta host resew the me
British Officers, for their conduce at the me,
morable battle of Talavera, vise
I.ord MACDUTY,
Colonel Roca*, aid To be Deigadier-Generals.
Colonel CARIIOI.,
Desides which they are expected to be invested with
die ancient and distinguished Order bf St. Sago.
Jot x TROTTER, Esq. Storekeeper-General, will
leave London immediately, to giveup Portchester
c_.lstle to the Transport Board. This Castle has been
I_,e grand depot for all kind of military stores for the
"ley during the war, but it is immediately to be
ivied with French prioners—seven thousand of them
march in as soon as the stores can be removed.
The transport, with two companies of the First
root Guards, under the command of Lieutenant Co-
Asow, with Captain STAELZS, and Ensigns
r...asos and Tuonorox, which was missing, and
ccacerning
which there existed some uneasiness, is ar-
rived safe, and the men and officers disembarked at
Chatham, in good health.
The flank companies of the Coldstream Cords
anived in town yesterday morning from the island of
wakhereo. They seed itt general t'9 be ,persiadeti
that the f'rench had poisoned the water in [but
island, and indeed every thing might be expected from
so unprincipled an enemy.
The Dukes of CL anisca and CUMBERLAND Tester.
terday morning reviewed the Royal Horse Guards,
Blues, on Wakefield Plain.,
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FORTIFICATIONS..

The immense works erected on-that part of the
coast of Kent, which cannot be considered under the
protection of our shipping in the Downs, and which
is immediately opposite to that great iendezvous of
the French flotilla, Boulogne, are now nearly wen.
tided; they begin with the ancient castle of Doves,
which, front its peculiar strength and elevated situa-
tion, has long been considered impregnable ; Go-
vernment have, however, been employed in construc-
ting subterraneous works, consisting of three tiers of
batteries, casentates, kc. &c. with barracks for 10,000
men. The height opposite the barracks is also regu-
larly fortified by flanking redoubts, bastions, &c. &c.
There is also a citadel with ditch *and draw-bridge,
and barracks for 5000 men ; a shaft of a most beau-
tiful and commodious description, having four diffe-
rent staircases (round an open area which both lights
and ventilates) communicates with the town, the
height of which is upwards of 300 feet. By this shaft
it is calculated that 20,000 men might pass froin
height to the town, or vice versa, in half an hour.--
net arc also four other batteries called Guildford's,
Townshend's, Amherst's, and Archtliffo, J. that:

lic,ra is now the most completely fortiAed
M,dta and Gibraltar) of any place in the sritiah
minions, and forms a moat novel and interesting specs
tack to the eye of the stranger.

F:om Dover to Folkestone no works of defence are
7,ecessary, as the cliff is inaccessible. From Folkis-
tone to Dungeness, forming an open bay of about
10 tr,iles in breadth, .a great number of platten°
tmers are constructed, which are of a circular form,
bomb proof, and have one gun of
.very Jorge calibre
cn the top ; they are so distributed that no part-uf the
cast which is assailable is without the ranged their«
s'.lst ; 30 men in each might defend themselves as
long as their provision lasted in perfect security. The
old castle of Sandgate has also been greatly enlarged,
and now contains a number of guns.
A redoubt, consisting of bomb-proof towers and
very formidable outworks, has also been erected at
Brockman's Barn. At Shornecliffe there is a battery,
called by that name; and at Hythe, Sutherland, and
Manctief, batteries which, with three others at Dun-
geness, complete the • line of coast. In addition to'
the above, a military canal has beau cur from Shorne-
cliffe town Rye. Mncl difference of opinion has
arisen as to the utility of is canal, as a defensive mi,
litary work, but thus much is certain, that it opens
an easy communication with a part of the country
called the Weald or Wild of Kent, which, from the
badness of its roads, and consequent difficulty of get-
ting its produce (consisting of timber) to market, has
been cut off from intercourse with the rest of the
county, and which this canal will most effectually
obviate. It also begins to be of the most essential
service for the conveyance of troops and baggage,
many regiments baying passed from Rye to Hythe,
a distance of 25 miles, without fatigue ; and imme-
.l.iately after landing, a distance of 15 miles farther by
!-10., without halting, thereby performing a distance
•:0 miles in one day, saving a great expence to
rjuvernment, and relieving the innkeepers, who are
very thinly scattered in that neighbourhood, from an
~pprcssi ve burthen.

The merchantman got under weigh and proceeded
lot the Downs though it was high water, and might
have entered the harbour. They were soon out of
the reach of out shot, and the brig would in all pro-
bability have been captured under the South Foreland,
but for the guns at the Castle, which opened a heavy
fire upon the priiateer, and obliged her to sheer off.

Another privateer is now in sight from Boulogne,
but as the Roma.is in the Roads it is hoped she may
be captured.

The LIVIELY frigate has sent in here a large French
lugger of 16 guns, which she captured off Beach}•-
head.

Me whole of the works above described are pet—
!.,rmeci in the most substantial and skilful mannpr—
dlsplay a great deal of science in the engineer depart-
ment, and are worthy a great country; indeed, it is
!noter of pleasing reflection, that many of the roads,
rznals, at.-- unite great commercial adeptages with
:;iat indispensable defensive- preparation, which the
7,01:,ics of Europe now require us to adopt With a
luldic-.1 thus employed AT HOME we base nothing to

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On Tuesday, as Mr. GARROW was going to RiMs•
tte, to join a sailing party, accompanied only by a
.i.tleman, the carriage was overturned, but without
::,y seriousinjuyy happening.

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131tEENOCk, SEPT. lJit
Accettnts were received here on Friday, that the
ship Neptune, Capt. SMITH, of this port, was captured
24th February last, off the coast of Peru, by a Spanish
privateer, of 22 guns and 170 men, and carried into
Callao, after a gallant defence, in which seven were
killed and nine wounded on board the Neptune. The
following is a list of killed and svccinded on board the
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ship Neptune in the above engagement :
Mr. William Alderson, First Officer ; Mr. Hagh Livingston,
gunner; David Stewart, and Robert Iket'Winnie, seamen, killed
24th February, I so.
Mr. Jas. Fleck, boatswain, mortally waunded, died let March.
Isaac Mains, seaman, ditto, died 27th February.
Robert Wilson, seaman, ditto, died 29tli February.
Mr. Archibald Shannon, Third Officer, dangerously ivountkd,
recovering 25th April.
Alm. Hill, seaman, ditto, recovered 28th February.
Wm. Baird, Landman, ditto, recovered 20th March.
Donald Niven, seaman, ditto, recovered 26th March. .
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Mr. hazer Smith, Commander, slightly wounded.
Mr. Alex. Perry, carpenter; Geo. Edmunds; Ben. Smith,. and
Wm Cumming, seamen, ditto.
The Union, RENNIE, from St. Vincent's, arrived
at Port-Glasgow on Saturday ; parted from fleet
on the night of the 15th ult. in a heavy gale of wind,
which continued till the evening of the 17th ; d:d not
see any of the fleet since parting. The ship Tyson,
bound to Clyde, was captured and burnt, by a French
privateer, on her way from Martinique to join convoy
at Tortola. Spoke, on the Qth instant, the schooner
Eliza, of Exeter, from Milford, bound to Newfound-
land, out three weeks, in lat. 55.38. long. 30. N.—
on tht 12th, the ship Watt, from Quebec, bound for
Liverpool; on the 13th, the brig Jane, of Maryport,
from Nova Scotia, bound for Belfast, all well.—Same
day, saw a vessel under jury lower masts, without a
bowsprit, lat. 55. 56. long. 9. 30.
The Fox packet, HAMILTON, arrived here this
morning, from Kingston, Jamaica, (last from New-
foundland). Sailed from Kingston 28th July, and
from Newfoundland 28th August; saw two sail
standing in Channel.
The Stag, LOVE, from St. Thomas's, in 40, days,
passed yesterday for Port Glasgow. Left the Ja-
maica and Leeward Island fleets, off Cape Clear, on
Tuesday last.
The Paragon, HaGue, arrived here on Saturday
last from New York, after a passage of 35 days, on
account of the fever having broke out in the neigh-
bourhood of New York : she was immediately on ar-
rival put under quarantine, but was released last night.
The Mary, CLL'RE, from Quebec, arrived here yes
terday, sailed thence 13th August.
The Lady Coote, CONNELL, from Jamaica, passed
for Port Glasgow on Saturday, parted from the fleet
on the '2Bth ult. in a heavy gale.
Fielding, MUNCIIIE, of this port, at Limerick, from
Liverpool, in two days.
The Paragon, FONSYTII, of this port, sailed from
Martinique, July 27th, in company with the Levia-
than, Toots, arrived at Liverpool, parted a few days
afterwards.

BELFAST, SEPTEMBER IS.

The Hibernia arrived here on Wednesday frOm
Jamaica ; sailed from Kingston on the 17th of July,
and from Negril Bay on the 20th, under convoy of
the Favourite sloop of war. On the 27th of August,
the fleet met with a dreadful gale, by which several'
of the ships were dismasted. The Martha Brae, of
Bristol, lost her fore and main-mast, and the Pil-
grim, of Greenock, her main-top-mast, and top-
galiant-maq. These are the only ships whose names
we could find out, as the whole fleet almost separated
in the gale. The morning after the gale, were seen
at a distance many other vessels dismasted, apparently
quite unmanageable, and on the 'same morning fell
in with th:! Windward Island fleet. Two days after,
the gale, the ship Samuel Barnet, of London, ono
of the fleet, picked up the Captain arid Supercargo
of an American vessel; hound from Boston to Oporto,
that had been dismasted and water-logged in the gale,
and had lost all her crew, except the two before men-
tioned.

PROM LLOYD'S LIST.
GRAVISZND, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Proselyte, Barton, and
Eehd, Rowe, from Borbadoes ; the Amelia, Craig; from Saint
Croix; Southampton, Wenman ; Eluston, Symes ; and British
Queen, Ormand, from Jamaica.—Sailed the General Wellesley,
Johns, for Cadiz ; Mary, Stafford, for Jamaica ; and Hind, Clack,
far Gibraltar.
-nw Parr, Barnett, from Curacoa to London, foundered at
sea; the master and five of the crew arrived at Plymouth.
The Eden, from Grenada, and the Baltic, from St. Croix, were
spoken with by Captain Maundy, of the British Queen, at the
entrance of the Channel.
The Cyrus, West, was well round Cape Horn, the 24th
of Ft•bruary ast, with 550 barrels of nil.
The Good Intent, Tawford ; Active, Teindal; and the Cupid,
Lawrence, were driven on shore near Whitby, in a violent gale,
I on Thursday sennilht.
The Susannah, Messop, from Quebec, upset St sea.
It is stated, that the 'French privateer, of six guns, which cap-
tured the Hazard, from Quebec, sailed in company with seven
other prl vateers, for the purpose of cruizing in the Channel.
' An American schooner, coming up Channel, was captured off
Beachy Head, on Tuesday, by a French privateer.
HARWICH, SEPTEMBER 21. • The Mull, from Quebec to Liverpool, is lust.
Sailed the Lord Nelson, Captain STEWART, with ARRIVED/
At Port-an-Prince, the Rowina, Downie; and Bermuda, John,
mails and passengers for Gottenburg ; and the Lord. from London.
Duncan, Captain HAMILTON, with mails and passers- F At Portsmouth, the Thomas, Coulson, from St. Kitt's ;
Aim-
well, Nelson, from Jamaica ; and Fortune, Middleton, front
gers for Flushing.—Arrived the Diana packet, Cap- Quebec,
,the GyeernekralEallildiotLt,- , from Qfuebec Bourdeaux,i
tan M,DoNocou, with mails and 20 Officers, from ChAasteCromes New
Flushing ; the troops there continue very sickly ;in At Falmouth, the D.yade, Bacon, 7ilom Savannah;ll and Cato,
the course of four days prior to the sailing of the Phillips, from Charleston.
At Martinique, the Nancy, Rayne, from London; Lottery,
packet, not less than 400 men were buried ! ! Richards, from Cork ; Martin, —, from Plymouth ; Ruckers,
YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 21. Soper, from London ; Susannah, Butcher; Speedy, Harford ; Spe-
czuaclacteion, Sym, from Liverpool; and David, Thorp, from Pen-
The DILIGENCE armed ship, and STARLING gun-
brig, remain with the convoy for Gottenburgh.— Off the Start, the Golden Grove, Pearce, from Tobago.
Sailed the HAVOC, for Harwich, with transports.— lAntt
LheeitPhootliel
e, tlileisHreopse, 7jeofrmom9uNeebspeefoundland:
Arrived the LOCUST gun-brig, from the Nore. At St. Vincent's, Penelope, —, from the Clyde.
A collier, from the North to London, coal 4don, AA tt So
Bristol
mtihi teon4tirhane ran, Fennfrioceli, fNroemw t?cueerbke.c.and
Atlas,
in on the north of the Pier; crew saved, but ship and Reid, from Barbadoes.
Off Aberdeen, the Leonidas, Hutchinson, front Montreal.
cargo is feared will be lost. Marquis of Huntley, At Hoylake, the Arno, Welcoreb,trnm Palermo.
ROBINSON master, from Scotland, is put in with loss In tHhe Cli'reehk,.sthle Angusswt, Kefmp, forombAlicant.
of anchor and cables. Nautilus, IVIII. PALMER, laden Intthe Clyde,te theerSnt.,Johne,s,Kreorn,lfr-om Nueew Brunswick ; Lady
with sundries, is put ,in here, having received great Coate, Connell, from Jamaica; Union, Renuie, front St. Vin-
cent's; Goodwill, Sime, front Kramichie ; Paragon, —, from
damage at sea, from London, bound to Leeds.— New York ; Matty, Clow, from Quebec ; and Fox, Hamilton,
Twee Gebroders, T. K.vovy master, from Ham-
from Jamaica.
At Lisbon, the Aurora, M'Carthy, front Portsmouth; Bent
burgh, with loss of anchors and cables. Triton, Hu.- Success°, —; and Jupiter, Musquito, from Cork ; John Adams,
TON 'PALMER, with loss of anchors, from London, to Shaw, front Bristol; and Serra Pequena, from Liverpool.
At Quebec, the Resolution, Walker; and Nancy, Armstrong,
the North, with oil-cakes ; and De Vrow Hendrika, rion, London.
H. R. CHRAGED from Tonntngen, with sundries ; At Guernsey, the Mary Ann, Cobb,from Oporto.
At Waterford, the Dunkin, —, from Newfoundland.
sent in by the BRITISH FAlti cutter. At Kinsale, the Aiusley, —, from Trinidad.
Remain in the RoadepeAoebuck, Dauntless, Red. At Plymouth, te George, AO:woe, from Malta.; and John
hreapt, Act*, --
RiChnlOilld•—Wind W. N. W. and Lltarlotte, from Miramichie.
At Halifax, the Bee, Stonehouse, from London.
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At tiverpool, the Saphello, brooirt, from George Town ; The
tts, l'Arker, from Quebec; Albion, Little; and Henrietta, MMtr.
front Surinam ; Nelfy, Wilson, from Antigua; Richard, Paten,
front St. Lucia; Tom Robarti, from St. Croix; Bell,--, from
Prince Edward's Island; Hibernia, Findlay; Eliza; Crandall; and
Western Trader, --, from Philadelphia; Sterling, Johnson,
frem New York ; Eupliemia, Lowe, from Savannah ; and Pass:
verance, Barker, from Baltimore.
In the River, the Ponsamento, Felix, from Lisbon.
Off Dover, the Olive Branch, Scott, front Jamaica.
At Cork, the Marshland, Barry, front Grenada; General Hun-
ter, —; Garland, —; Integrity, Banda ; and Esther, Boland,
front Quebec; William, Glanviliti from St. I.ucie ; and Overt°,
from St. Übe's.
At Belfast, the Lady Carleton, from Martinique- Hi-
hernia, M'Doual, from Jamaica; Curessenia' Conceitien, 'from.
Algeciras ; Marth.t, Weldridge, from Quebec ; Mary Ann, Fisher,
front Prince Edward's Island ; Pomona. Satidalous, front Gotten-
burgh ; and.. Elizabeth, front London.
ZICTRACT 01,..A LETTER FROM AM OFFICER ON BOARD DIE
MAJESTY'S SHIP SULTAN':
• gg Off Toulon, July ES.
" We have had a very unsuccessful cruize off Ge-
nra,, not having taken a single prize, one emrty ves-
sel excepted; which we made use of for sending dis-
patches to Lord Coiling wood. The Lieutenant and
boat's crew sent oe board the prize, were attacked
near Toulon, by a French schooner and several row-
b7ats ; finding they could not escape, the Lieutenant
sent all his men away, except one, a marine, in the
jolly boat, and remained in the vessel himself, with
his companion. The Frenchmen, to the number of
200, came close alongside, and, although the Lieu-
tenant only was on deck they seemed afraid to board,
and br a
.cowardly manner poured a :volley of small
arms upon him, but luckily without ,effect: When
they at last boarded, they threw the Lieutenant down
into the hold, and again fired at him and his cOmpa-
nion, whom they wounded.
66 A Spanish privateer soon afterwards hove in
sight, and the rascally Frenchmen abandoned our yes-
.cel, carrying with them the clothes of the Lieutenant
and the wounded marine.
" Some time afterwards we sent off three boats on
a three days cruize, and nearly lost two of them, con-
taining our First Lieutenant, and 35 of our best men.
On the third cb.y we proceeded in the Sultan to the
appointed rendezvous, when one only, of our boats
joined us—three days afterwards we sent a flag of
truce into Genoa to know their fate, when the Go-
vernor gave us a very polite answer, saying, that our
boats were not taken, if they had he would have de-
livered the men up. He added, that two of our boats
had been chaced towards Corsica, by one of their
armed vessels. When we afterwards joined the fleet
we learned that all our men were safe. 'The boats,
after searching for us for several days, made the best
of their way to the Madalene Islands, neati-Sardinia,
Without any thing to eat or drink. They landed at
an bland belonging to the French, called Capria,
where they got some grass and fresh water, on w!iich
they lived for three days. At .the Maldenes they
got provisions and water, from whence they proceeded
to Minorca. -

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" The enemy carries on an immense trade from
Marseilles, as far as Leghorn, and we want much to
see a few dashing Commanders, with troops, to Lind
on some parts of their coasts, where we are not ex-
pected.
44 The Volontaire frigate landed a party of marines
lately, and took a battery of eight guns, without any
loss. •It is impossible to destroy their trade, without
destroying the fortifications under which their vessels
take shelter. This is very easily accomplished—there
are few or no soldiers on the coast, and when one of
our armed vessels makes its appearance, the peas:ints
generally put on soldiers old clothes, and form on the
beach, by way of Brightening us; but they soon run
away."
Extract-from the Jo& of the snow Eliza, of London,
SOUTHERN master, arrived at Penzance :

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'4 Sept. 1, at 5 a. ni. in Lit. 47. 11. N. long.. 41. i 9. W. after a
tremendous hurricane on the Slit August; saw three sail of ships
with main-top-masts gone, and at half-past 5, p. ni. saw a sl::p
dismasted and water-logged. '1 he. weather being moderate we
lowered our boat down, and went on board with four in. n, .a
order to see if any one was left on board ; but I found nobai
,either could I leant her name, but she appeared to be a St..
built brig, with a flush deck, and much rake in her stem, with a
black stern, had been formerly green, with two cabin win 1
tarred top-tide, .with a broad white paint streak, and two y
mouldings
,above,--both her lower masts left in s• 3 c.rv.. :‘bout
6 feet above the deck, and painted. yellow. I recollect her being
in convoy with us, under his Majesty's ship Foxhound. :•poka
the Swan, Fen Wick, who informs us that the Young John .14
foundered."

Copy of a letter from Captain CLAPPISON, of the
Raikes, of Hull, from Quebec, dated Portsmouth,
Sept. 19 :
" Sept. 7, at 6 a.m. saw a brig with no topmasts up, at 9a. ne.
spoke her, she proved to be the Weinholt, of Teignmouth, Capt.
l.angdon, from Liverpool 28 days, and bound to:it-John's, New-
foundland, with provisions and salt. but had, on or about the
Ist of September, shipped a heavy sea, which carried away her
top-masts,' top-gallant masts, top and lower mast heads, and
washed away her boats, companion, binnacle, compass, fire hearth
and fore scuttle, and did other damage, the ship then lying two
streaks of the main-deck In the Water, with / feet water in her
hold and had the mitfortusre to hue one man overboard, named
Thomas Fuers, and after getting the ship dear. of water, and
pumping a deal of salt up, she endeavoured to gee to the West-
ward! but could not, so t 'nought it best to bear away for the Chan-
nel. The Captain and crew seemed to be in good spirits, and said ,
they wanted for nothing only fine weather, and he said I could
render him no assistance, as the erhip made very little water, so
I left him with'only his fore-sail set; he said he was in lat. 49.
30. N. and long. 24. 00. W.; our lung. 27. 30. W."
Eftract from a letter. of Captain T. WILKINSON, of
the Salamine,. bound to St. Domingo, dated Portland.
road, Sept. 18:
I have to inform you; that yesterday, being about .12 leagues
from the Start, I diseovered.a privateer in chace of several mer.
chant vessels, we immediately gave chace, and getting within
gun-thot, kept up a heavy fire with our long bowLchacers. The
schooner threw overboard al her guns, anchors, and every thing
on the deck, and took shaker in Cherbourg. The batteries opened
their fire on us, and slightly wounded three rum. lam happy to
say the Salamine saved. many valuable vessels from being taken.
We dbserved in Cherbourg two sail of the line, and five other ves-
sels of war."

A letter from Captain SMITH, of the Eagle, arrived
in the Downs, from Prince Edward's Island, says :
" On the 24th of August, in lat. 45. 54. N. and long. 59. 34.
fell in with the Corsica, belonging to North Shields, water-legged,
dismauted, and all hrr boats lost,.and the hull in a parting state;
took out the people, 10 in numba, who had been four dabs on
the wreck, without any provisions. On taking the people from
the wrack, the Captain was the only person Missing. On the 6th
inst. spoke the Caledonia, in lat. 48. 17. all well."
On the night of the 18th ins:ant, a severe storm
came on at Liverpool, by which the following vessels
were driven on sbore :
• Minerva Smyth, Pactorius, for Philadelphia, full c f water ;.-.•
Harmonia, Nynes, fur the Brazils, full of water; Sarah, Gill, fur
Heligoland, with loss of bowsprit and other damage; Margaret,
Burns' for Rio /enters, damage not known ; Demerary, Irglis,
with loss of both anchors and cables, and full of water, since got
into the Old Dock Baton ; arid the Stephen, Barry, koaa New.
Otlouss, with loss of anchors and cables.

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OLD 134.114 t.
ntttAskit 21.
Moab: flyer and Arne Kennington were capitally
indicted for privately stealing from the person of Ben-
jamin Burd, on the 3d of August last, a £5O, two
020: , one £lO, and One £5 notes.
The prosecuthe stated, that he was the purier of a
inan of war, and that on the day specified in the in-
.: dletment he had received from the house of Praed
"iftiftb. bankers, near Temple-Bar, Bank-of-England
t.btes ti 3 the amount of £10.5. H. dined with a
friend, and afterwards went to.a Coffee-house, from
which he departed between twelve and one o'clock
at night ; but in his way up the "Suand,nearly oppo-.
site Surrey-street, he, was knocked down and •robbed
of the notes Which Ise had in his .pocket. He did
fuit see by who ;—but hfrriifgg teem two women
just before, he believed it was-by them. On the
*hitting morning he went to the 11 ank and stopped
pa rent of the notes of which he had been robbed.
James l'olland, a publican, proved, that on the
frifrini)ig after the robbery he Changed 'a 101. note,
61ft of thole which the prOseChteir had lost, for the
ilti'sorier Matilda Dyer.
VOilliatn Alder, a painter and gustier, stated, the
prison * Anne Bennington, Came to hiM in the month
iif Augnat last, and)iked hien for change of a 501.
itote, and offering hitt], if he would acCOMModate her,
five per 'cent. for his Trouble; in consequence of this
birer„ and not having the change himself, he took the
Rote to the Bank to obtain small nodes, where he was
striped, the note having been recogniked as another
of those which had been in the possession of the pro-
seciterk, pleyions to his tieing robbed. From the in.
fdrinati:on Or withelt, the'refore, the prisoner was ap-
jAhtitided.
The prisoners both denied the t/fatte of having
*den the notes ; but did not bring forViard any evi-
Once to. prime by what in'eans they had come into
eitir possession.
Tge fudge, in shihtning up, observed, that it *as
rule in laW that it Was incumbent On whoever *as
Your in I)4Ssstssioii of stolen inotietty, 'to prove how
theY 'obtained it. :Snide witnesses had `given decent
iharidei s to the 'priitoriets, one 'Of whom sold oysters
iit thetild of n street, and *ho, cifenmstaneed as she
Nkiis in lifh;mnsk thin treen 'able to have "proved 'of
*ll6m the ireceitridl, 301. note, IT she had got it ho-
Vegtly. they *Pik cOnsititiently both fohnd tuirty—
Math.

George Cooper, it, compositor, was tried for stealing
Ipveral pages of printing type, the property, of Messrs.
Joseph Harding and Edward Wright, of St. 'John's-
`square, Clerkeuwell, printers, oh the 12th of August,
last.
By the evidence of Mr. Harding, Mr. John Delon,
overseer, and 'John Park, his apprentice, it ap-
ed that in consequence of some suspicion that
fropefty.haa been stolen from the office, they deter-
tpined to be on the watch ; very early in the morning
of the day stated in the indictment the prisoner wasi
Seen to come into the office, go up stairs into the front
composhrg room, and from thence to a closet, in which
several.pages of letterwere tied and papered up ; he
.put some of thepliges into a handkerchief along with
a.pair of-pantaloons •Of his es e, and walked down
air&with the bundle under,his arm. -Ur. Harding,
M. heron, and the boy then discovered themselves,
"and the prisoner was taken into custody. The types
Were identified by a comparison with an impression
which had been taken, from them, which the overseer
had in his 'pocket, and by the hand-Writing Of the
overseer on one of the papers.
The -prisoner give in Written 'paper, 'calling 'for
mercy. The Jtitlf todnil him
-Martha Hecaron and Afery-Trillitty, two -C yprians,
Niere'conlicted of stealing a -sil*er watch from the
Ifetitin'tifaitiin halted Thonias,'ldlioliad 'gone with
thcliitinentiOned prisoner to a biothel in the purlieus
of St. Giles's.

Thiiffair 'sided indicted 'for 'privately
'stealing ihe dwelling housezof John Fowler, aPUb-
lican, in St. llohn's•street, a silver watch, value 395.
'tlie 'property of William ?coke, on the night of the
'l2th of Ally lAst.
Tt appeiretr that-theyrikiner *steins old lodger in
the house, and that • the prosecutor slept with him on
the night in "question. •In the iriinniitg 'the prose-
c•
ut& 'missed his lsreeChes, in the- fOb'Of WhiCh'vras de-
'posited the watch.... Shortly after the prisoner got up
and went out, and after a.diligent• search the breeches
were found tinder the kitchen stairs, but -the watch
'Walt gl:me. StripiCian then -attaehecrto" the .priiinier,
:Cam. was appreliinded* afird on ''searehed by
"HatioCk; one of. the officets of fiatton' Garden po-
lice office, a pawnbroker's duplicate for the watch Was
found eoteealed in his hat. •

......_ .
'theje facts being clearly subitintialed;•the
--"Oritkiiter fai found Guilty.
-ilhhr' was indiCted'for stealing In the chtel.
lisfg "hOdle '6f W. 'Pints, disisafel 'tolhelibiodne:Of
"f6l;y
The prisoner' wasseto the house of the7ptesecutor,
who takes'i nteriglistig, In 'the Strinid,:tand,'-ddritig
-his-abseitce;bbflined-a'btindle of clottths s)f a little
.441, .i.hich • Ole-said' *Nits 'her rpifterty, Agit *ma%
turned ont •to belong to a Mrs. CoBk,'ta'WhOns • tt4
4prcrietuiorspaq-21: Asifty the hits. The tptliststier Ira
;atpliffeth tied L.e fait slttret; hut
lirieny.
.'"ohn't"4yra' porter, ittidlev iefseite ot Matthews
6‘4l)tuh-itriker, rn 7fiatnts'iOitet,
ilbrsfealiag iVattifftf'Srushes; the iit'opeity-cThr4

Hl!limos was fop_st guilty of sttallrig, t*O
shouldert rinitteon; Wise WPM-gate' Mirket.
(tifiet(icrwith robbing Mr.
00en'heTin; a riieiChant,inifittielLitreet; Gixklritan's
gelds, to whom he was porter.
The articles, which ceintistedbf sinticistkinge,trng-
hams, painttr'sl briishes,-*Wer:§toiics,-..gia'se.relectoti,
leifid *ft Oirraii Ciithaie iM es'of fouirinu
-a cupboard, at 'the Marquis bLaii. by public' homel
"in Me Of I'vhich-cup :thepiiciiner
'NI-ts:kept /key ; being allOtiech6 dci—sia hi iheland—
lord, in conscpience, as he said; of his alwais'eiting
Meals 'if ihe'haur,e.
On 'the eintlenee of Mr.- epeilheimithe.bilietririette
*toik•hirn,•.and the lanillofir-Oflhd fittiEclittitfie;tbai:
:rfsoneivifai !band Giiilty.
Tice 04111115 fig 'tire alio cOitrieteci of iiileinies
lifizabeth Mtram, for straws a one round Daze t site, tbe
impany of J. Simi&

Mary Cl for dealing two Shifts and *the,: articles, ase peo•
perty of L. ,tbisett.
L White, fur stooling a pocket b4iit, the property of 0. Low-
ther Ctollob, frbin hit person.
' Miser Brown, fbr Stealing teveaty yard& et alpinist, the pre-
perty of P. Kerrisor.
J. Bellamy% for stealing twelve pounds of sugar, the property
'of T. Hogg, and Co.
G. heading, for iteali,tg bete pair 6f bobts, the "apart* a It.
Wilkinson.
J. corbyn' lbr stealing One pburd and a Outlier of isinglass, '
the property of W. lilskot, and to.; and
J. Drummond, for stealing a coat, the property of J. Robinson.
Jews "Ones was indicted for feloniously stealing
Fin a dwelling house, in the day time, on the I Ith
instant, seven pairs of sheets, a tortoise-shell cased
watch, and two silver tea-spoons, the property of,
Mary Earl, the mistress of a small day-school in
Change-court.
The prisoner, on being brought to the bar, pleaded
; but not having been heard by the Court his
trial proceeded.
The loss of tire property was distinctly proved by
three witnesss, none of whom, however, could identify
the prisoner, and the only circumstance that led to a
'strong suspicion that he Was the person who conlitit.'
ted the robbery, was on examination of his lodging,'
in consequence of some theft-he had afterwards cons-
mined, when a pair of sleeves, the property of the
present prosecatrix, were found in a bag hid under
his bed. These sleeves, however, were not produced.,
The prisoner was, therefore, under the direction nfl
Mr. Justice BAILEY, acquitted, for the want of effee..,
tive evidence. He was detained, however, to tAcei
his trial for the 'second offence.
Joseph Sureties stood indicted for having feloniously
1
stolen and embezzled 931. Ist. monies which he had
been entrusted to receive as the clerk or servant of a
Mrs. Parsons, of Hackney, who kept a hay and straw
sale shop in Whitechapel markt, in which the priso-
ner was employed.
Mrs. Parsons being called, she was asked, by Ba-
ron HEATH, if the prisqper had been her clerk or
servant ? ghe replied, Ne had trartsacted business for
her on cornmission, but was not a regular servant.
The Learned Judge here said, it was impossible to
proceed further in this case, the indictment having
been erroneously laid. The prisoner was therefore
acquitted.
The prosecutrix seemed much affected, and left the
Court in great distress.
Ann Chamberlain was choged 'with having robbed
Joseph Moxon of his watch, value 31.
The prosecutor said, that on the night of the 24th
of Aunt last, he was passing along the Strand, when
the prisoner accosted him, and a variety of loving ex..
pressions, such as are generally applied in street court-
ship, passed between them. In this manner they pro.
ceeded along, perfectly jocund and gay, till they ap-
proached Beaufort-Buildings, where the god Mercu-
ry predominating over the softer divinity Love, the
prisoner caught him round the waist, and forced him,
against his will, nearly twenty paces frdm the Strand, I
down Beaufort-buildings ; that whilst she held him
in this strong embrace, he felt a tug at his watch,
.ut did not miss it until the fervor of her grasp•sub-
sided, when he discovered that the watch had walked
off. Two suspicious men passed them at the time,
and when he made a noise about his watch, one of
them ran away. He however secured the prisoner,
and took her to the watch house, where she was search-
ei, but no watch was found.

On his cross-examination by Mr. BARRY, on be-
half of the prisoner, he admitted that he had left his
work at six o'clock, and from that hour till twelve
•'clock he had drank at different public houses ; but
still he contended that he was perfectly sober. When
pressed to state the quantity that he drank, it appear-
ed that it was quite sufficient, at least, to remove the
idea of " perfectly sober !"
The Judge, in summing up, remarked upcn that
circumstance ; but his observations were stronger
upon that part of his evidence, when he asserted that
the prisoner, " against his will, forced him nearly 20
paces down Beaufort-buildings ;" the prosecutor
'being a powerful and corpulent man, the prisoner -st.
sickly, small, and delicate looking woman.
The Jury, after a little deliberation, brought in a
♦erdict—Not Guilty.
The following were also acquitted, viz. Mary
Southall, Anne Newnan, -Margaret Payne, Mary
W..Eoscon, Elizabeth Biggs, J. Dennis, and
H. Edwards, alias Taylor, who was ordered to re-
main.

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PRINCE Or WALES'S

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COON' OF JUNCAtURII, DEC. 7, 1406.
RANIMOO, A NATIVii 00 INDIA, MAI:STIFF.
LIEUTICNANT-COLONNL T. T. lIIASsECT, DEFENIPANT.
This was an action of assault, battery, and false-
imptisonment, in which the plaintiff complained of
an assault, Etc. on the 13th of November, 1807, and
of an imprisonment from thence to the 28th January,
1808 ; and laid his damages at 600 dollars.

Defendant pleaded not guilty, and justified the
acts, as Commanding-Officer of the 20th Regiment
Bengal Native Infantry.
it appeared in evidence, that plaintiff was hired as
a servant to the defendant, in 1807, to attend at ta-
lisle as a kismudghar ; that he was flogged with a
rattan two or three times, by the defendant's orders,
and at length complained to the Pace Magistrate,
who at that time exercised a jurisdiction within the
island, under certain regulations passed by the Go-
vernor and Council ; and who ordered that the defen-
dant should pay the plaintiff his wages, and discharge
him—but the plaintiff, on his return, was, by defen-
dant's order, flogged by clashies, and received twenty
stripes more, and was, at Afferent times, put in the
guardhouse, and imprisoned by the defendant's or-
ders, in all, for near three months : and at length,
on the 18th of November, Iso7, was brought by the
defendant on the public parade, and, after two se-
poys bad received corporal punishment, under the
sentence of a Court-martial, plaintiff was, by the
defendant's orders, tied up, and received 100 lashes
with a cat-o'-nine-tails, in consequence of an allega-
tion made by the defendant, that he had traduced his
character by representing him as a bad master—but
plaintiff was not tried, or sentenced by any Court-
Martial.
After the examination of several witnesses, on
both sides, Sir E. STANLEY was clearly of opinion,
that plaintiff had a right to a verdict. This was an
act which could not be justified by the Mutiny Act
of 27 Geo. 11, or the Articles of War framed under
it, orby the Native Articles of War, which had been
selected, in the year 1796, under the direction of Sir
R. Abercrombie, when he was Commander-in-Chief,
and promulgated by the Governor-General in Council,
and which, he believed, was the Code by which the
native troops were considered to be now governed.—
It was an act contrary to the usage of the army, and
repugnant to every principle of justice: no man was
subject to military, jurisdiction, but an officer, soldier
or sepoy, or some one connected with the army; nor
was any offence cognizable by the military tribunal,
or within its jurisdiction, but by some act which was
a breach of military duty, or a neglect of military
discipline ; and in no case could any person, as he
conceived, be subject-to military punishment, except
in consequence of a trial, and the sentence of a
Court-Martial ; but the defendant had undertaken to
be accuser and judge in his own cause, and inflicted
military punishment, expressly contrary to the Arti-
cles of War. It was true, this was an act done before
the Charter of Justice had been promulgated here,
and before this Court had been established ; but yet

the Charter Wended, in terms, to civil injuries which
had been sustained, as well as to crimes that had
been committed before the charter ; and as punish-
ments had been in certain cases inflicted for the one,
he could not say that civil injuries should not also be
redressed ; although, under certain limitations, where
they were safely done before the charter was pro-
claimed ; the object of the charter was to protect the
natives from oppression and injustice, and he should
always consider it his duty to regard their persons, li-
berties, and properties, with the saine watchful care
as he should the best European or British subjects ;
however, as this case had happened before the char-
ter, and the law might not be so generally known,
he should not give as large damages in this case, as
he should have done for a similar injury, if it had
been recently committed, or since the establishment
and introduction- of the British laws; in apportioning
damages he must also take into consideration all the
circumstances of mitigation, as well as aggravation,
the state of society here, and the description of per-
sons of whom many of the inferior classes were form-
ed ; and also the pecuniary circumstances of the deg
fendant, which -were represented as being far free
ffi
oNiluent; =moderate damages would have all the e
of making the law known, and of preventing slim'
practices in future ; but if such an outrage upon e c
laws should ever occur again, he should think it his
duty to *ive very large damages indeed ; in a former
ease against the defendant—of a trivial nature, colt-
pared to the present—he had mitigated the damages
lb 20 dollars ; in the present, he would give 100
dollars, which, though small, he trusted would have
the effect of preventing such practices in _future:—
' Plaintiff could not be considered under the desci4pr
lion of a camp-follower, as the army was in canton-
ments in time of peace ; and the offence, if any, was
only cognizable by the Civil Magistrate and the Civil
Judicature Which then existed here ; but, if he was
to be considered as falling under that description of
persons, who were subject to Military law, he should
have bien tried' by, a Cm:lit-Martial, before such a
'public punishment-was inflicted upon him; and the
t itself-havingbeerrordered-by an officer who was
acting as judge in his own cause, for a: supposed in-
jury done to himself, ,was, he conceived, unjustifiable.
Verdict for Plaintiff-150 Spanish dollars, , with
costs.

FccL A%''TIC A I PROMOTIONS.
Tuesday last, wos inaituttd, by the Lord Bishop of Long,.
/ the Rev. It. Govett, A.M. to the Vicarage of Stains s, in
county or Middlebea.
Saturday the Senatns Acad.tnicus of the University of Er,
burgh conferred the degree of Darfur in Divinity upon the Rtv.
latuei Smith, Minister of the Gospel at Eyi mouth, and the P,tv,
Robert Anderson, one of the 11livisters of Edinburgh,
l'hUr.day se'nnigtit, the Rcv. Wnt. Hamilton was admitted
tniniAter of the pari,li of Strathhiaile, in the re.riii of Dr. Gibb,
minister of St. Andrew's Gla:gow. The Rev.Wni.Free.
laud, of Buchanan, presided on the occasion.

On the itch insist?, at PlastatisS, the Lady of I.iestsoant.
Colonel Pattersoo, of the 21 it Foot, or Royal N. B. Fusileeee,
a daughter.
I At Catten, aver Nov/vice, the Lady of the Right ea. G.
lierbott, of a daughter.
On Mood.ty, the wife of Joseph Rice, not more than four fees
high, she lives is Lamb-alley, itishopsgate street, of three hne
children, two girls and a boy, who, with the ra,,thor, are likely
to do well. The 'husband, who is a Loot chaer, is ntlch t
the same height NA the wile.