Star.
London, England, 1801-05-01 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 27.

Arrived—the St. Fronde Dc Affig, P. Hawkey, from W-
hoa; Braorery, N. Beg, from Oporto; and Two Brothen,
J.Srringer, from Malbehokts; the Harriet, Hurry, frosts haw
at Honduras; the Batten, Bunker, from hence at Dublin; the
Marc, Malley, from hence at ditto; the Perfcrerance. Walker,
from hence at ditto; the Catharine, Graham, from hence at
ditto; the Britannia, Martin, from Oporto at Hoylake ; the
Boadicea, Hoary, fronedltto at ditto; the stEtive, Hitchatgen,
from ditto at ditto.
The Egyptian, PINCIL, was well at Winnebeck
en the old Coati, sd January.

NICE, APRIL sy.
Two French frigates which appeared afew days
ago off Nice, were conceived to be • enemies ; bat
one has anchored at Villefranche, after having, it,
is fait!, landed boo troops in Corlica, and the other
is at Antibes.
The following is the Monthly Statement of the
British Naval Force, exclutive of the hired armed
wails, which are chiefly employed in protelting
the coafling trade of Great Britain :
30's Prz. st!. • 70.
In port and Suing - - 16 3 as 65 sio
Guardia's - - - 4 t s 0 7
In the Itsgllfh and WI Channels as 0 33 40 98
In thelibwns and North Seas g 1 ss 58 91
Oa the Bahic Service st :1 7 31 6a
At the Weft India Mandy and us
the Paffitge . . • s t 35 27 sit
At Jamaica - - - 4 o :8 tx 33
In America and Newfoundland o 0 4 6 SO
Cape of Good Hope, Eaft Indies,
and en the PafrAge - so 6 9 23 38
Afriea and on Secret Expedition I 1 15 9 34
On the Coaft of Lifban - - 4 0 10 3 17
Gilt of Portugal, Gibraltar, and
Matterrarican - 16 s 41 S 4 13
71cdpItal and Prlfen thips • 17 4 0 23

Total in Ceaurt/Mos - 136 sir sog 191

Receiving Mips - * 9
Service:lllk, and repairing for fa-
- - ti s• s 6
- so o 21 3t
zst s S

vice -
la Onllmary
"dal •

Total 293 27 249 330
FFATIC OF TOO ORDMAIT Al RAft PILOT.
Vsolosal - - 13 o $ Ey
Pllamb - - - 19 o 9 11
Clothro -
- . - - V• 3 1 I

•SanelA _
Rives .

- tiiis
-- •tst 9

616

.or
Am.

J 9
'3

Ii

Total 40 4 36 36l 11$
The Lion, Howa, from Liverpool to London,
is captured and carried into France.
The Helen and Mary, Lacav, from London
toLimerick, is captured and carried into Boulogne.
The Swan brig, of Halifax, bound to Surinam,
I. taken by a corvette, and burnt.
The Union, MILLaa, from Greenock to Lou-
'lon, was captured the sods ult. off Beachy, by the
Dcffiix privateer, and carried into Dieppe.
'fhe Polly and Ann, WILLIAMS, from Cork to
bridon, is taken and carried into Boulogne.
The Samuel, Ct./Ars, from Yarmouth to New-
wile, is taken and carried into Dunkirk.
The Year, Lomoon, from Yarmouth to South.'
hampton ; And the Swallow, Wisa.oca, from Yar-
mouth to Liverpool, have been captured off
Beachy, retaken br the Helder frigate, and fent
into Ramfgate.
l.a MISIIIVt, the look-out frigate of Sir Jou%
Walaaa's froadton, has captured the hcadmoil
(hip, a corvette, of Admiral GAIITMI4iUMI'S
'quadron. There is great =fon to lbOpt the two
4.,:eta will meet.

RoriL ACADEMY.

35. ne Bear': Daughter of Bdhsual-Grees.—
W. °whs.—A-very pretty defign, executed in a
rather particular Rile ; but as the effeß•produced
is good, we !hall not quarrel with the means to
which the artift has had recourfe.—He has evi-
dently Rudied Nature, as well as the works of
thofe who have contrived to obtain celebrity with-
out paying much refpeCt to that Goddefs.

Cii*isr entering yernialent.—H. SINGLETON.
—1 here is a chaftity of defign in this picture, and
a general diftribution of light and thade that
pleafes the eye, but the colouring is rather of a
cold hue.—The principal figure is well conceived,
and the expreffion given to the faces of thole in the
surrounding groupes is tinted to the fubjea.—
Mr. S. improves in his general Kyle of execution,
but he does not fufficiently attend to the minutia
of hiflory.

125. Portrait of Lord Nellig--S. W. BitCHEY.
R. A.—This is a very faithful likenefs of the Hero
of Aboukir and Copenhagen—He is reprefented
on fhip-board, in the moment of aftion ; but the
furrounding fcenery wants fublimity of defign.—
The general hue of the piaure is alto rather too
grey.
175. Pari Scene.--G. STUBBS, R. A.—The
fubjea of this piaure is a Park, accompanied by
A Dog-Keeper, taking a wounded Deer.—The ani-
mals are.finely painted, but the man is a tamely-
correa portrait, and the landfcape is deficient in
freedom of penciling ; the management of the
light and (bade is, however, good, and the local
colouring true to Engli(h nature.
188. The f.oveAk Maid.—J. Opts, R. A.—Per-
haps, without exception, the bell piaure in the
Exhibition. The fickly languidnefs of the pining
Damfcl, the earneft folicitude of the attendant
Nurfe, and the baffled fagacity of the Doaor, are
finely contrafted : the manes of light and (bade
are alto admirably difpofecr; and the colouring of
the whole is extremely brilliant and effative.—
The introduction of " the wanton god that pierces
hearts" does violence to the purity of the defisn,
which Rands in no need of fuch mythological
machinery.

198. Fje ir interview of Mostar aid Teleseatiou
with Cal .—B. Wirt-, R. A.—This is an ani-
matod d gn, and altogether a very claffical and
elegant compofition.—The landfcape is the molt
objectionable part of the pidure, and the colour-
ing of the fea and the fky does not at all accord.
—The retiring Rom is well depided, but the wa-
ter is much too green.

FEKALE FASHIONS toa Dredks.—
t. The milk hat, made of crimped ftraw, wove
in a frame with filk ; turned up on one fide, or in
front, with a bunch of liraw and wild corn dowers,
or a bunch of oats; finifbed at the top with a ftraw
rofette.—z. Cap of white muffin, with a deep lace
border, ornamented with green plaited ribbon, and
green flower in front.-3. Turban of white muffin,
ornamented with beads and white oftrich feathers:
—4. Hat made of blue filk, and turned up in front.
—s. Half-drefs cap made of white muffin, and
ornamented with green wreaths.-6. Hat of ftraw
and ribbon interwoven; turned up in front, and
ornamented with a bunch of rofes.-7. Drefs hat
of filk, turned up in front, and ornamented with
white oftrich feathers.-8. Cap of muffin, orna-
mented with red rotes, and white oftrich feathers.
—9. Large Draw hat, trimmed and tied under the
chin with blue ribbons.
Walking Drefles.-1. Round drefs of white mut-
lin. Spencer cloak of worked muffin, trimmed
all round with white lace. Bonnet of white muf-
fin, the crown full, and confined acrois with white
ribbon, bows of white ribbon, before and behind.
—z. Bltie habit, trimmed with gold cord. Hat
trimmed with gold band, and black feather in front.
Mifcellaneous Obfervations.—The colours are
lilac, pea. yellow, and navy blue. Split
fracas,antfine Chips, in the Pi/zrie and (Pk shapes,
prevail in hats. A new bw4 girdle and trim-
ming is beginning to be much worn round the
(boulder and arms. Several new bonnets, in crape
and Patin, have, as ufual, been invented this fea-
fon. Spencer cloaks, and fhort peliires, made of
white and cBloured main, trimmed with lace, are
becoming general. •
The neeeffity of making all legal preceptsimdli-
gible, even so the awful aveseitier, has frequently
been urged. The following inflame is another
proof olthat neceffity. Two Afrefors under the
Imams AB met a few days ago at a public houfe
near Whitehaven, to concert meafures for the dif-
charge of their duty, properly. After reading in
the precept the claufe which fays—u You are alfo
required to make out and deliver a like ftatement
of the amount of income of any infant, ideot, lu-
natic, or married woman, Sic."—the following
dialogue took place : •
A. Lowetk What does that mean 1

D. I ant not fu iT ; but Munk it means
A. Not fuck a Wng. lea far more likely to mein harm

S. Brno vows what are they
• A. Why, 'WO, tam not quite certain, butt think-1 Ibiza
' in my heart it either means women that have never been mar-
' riot, or have neva bad children.
It is difficult to fay in which confirudion of the
term thefe legitimate defcendants of Degherry and
Verges might finally have fettled : but with that
' mod* which always accompanies:xi fenA, they
appealed to the decifion of a third perlon who'
happened to he in the room ; and who, to the fur.
prife of Mr. A. Wiest* gave his verdict in favour
tfMr. B I
WonocncEs.—The breed of this bird in Eng-
land was clearly afeertained aft Week in the coun-
ty of Suffolk. A Gentleman (booting in a wood
belonging to Mr. Wamaivr. of Bnttenham, in
that county, ftufbed a Cad which be (hot at, and
miffed ; but the bird wheeled round, and then
hovered near the (pot from whence it arofe ; this
induced the Gentleman to look upon the ground,
when he difcovered a Woodcock's nen, containing
three eggs. Mr. Winn' ire being informed of the
‘ircumilance, had the nea carefully watched, and
two days after, the eggs were hatched, and the
young, which like partridges inftantly leave their
ad, were laity taken off 7 the old bird.

LAW INTELLICE7(er

COURT OF RING's -BENCH, APRIL

In a cafe of Pleading, where the Defendant had
pleaded a tham plea,
Lord KINvoN took occafion to obferve—it was
once raid, rather harfhly, by a Learned Judge who
had heard a number of cafes fluted incorrealy at
the Bar—" It was the perdition of Wellmintler
Hall that cafes were improperly and unfairly Rated
under the cottrfe of argument. He could with
there was a Rule by which Counfel thould be com-
pelled to cite their cafes upon oath."—" Upon my
word (faid Lord Kenyon) I could with that parties
thould be obliged to tile their Pleadings upon oath ;
for it is the bane of the profellion anu its pradice,
that fo much fham Pleading is continued."
The Learned Gentleman, who figned the plea,
faid he was very forty for it ; that he had done it
inadvertently, and without knowing it was not
true. He only looked to the legal effea of it,
.fuppofing the fait it Rated to be correct.
Lord KIN Y 011." The Court dues not expett
that Gentlemen at the Bar thould he anfwerable
' for the truth of the Pleadings they fign,becaufe they
cannot know whether they be true or not. All that
they are to look to is the legal effeet of Pleadings—
fuppofing them to be true ; but it is othcrwife with '
thofe who inftrua them." The Pleadings in this
cafe were then allowed to be amended.

CHURCH V. THE EARL OS LONSDALE AND OTHERS.
Mr. HOLROYD raid, that fome time ago be was
under the neceffity of applying to increafe Iffues
againft the Earl of Lonfdale, and the Court or-
dered him to take a levy of tool. When that came
to be inforced, a tool. Bank Note was given to the
party on behalf of the Noble Earl; this was enough,
he believed, to fatisfy the coils hitlaerto incurred
on the part of the Plaintiff, but that did not ob-
tain his objet, which was to compel an appear-
ance on the part of the Noble Earl; he was there-
fore under the neceffity of moving the,Court to in-
creafe Iffues nil' further, and the Court, after hear-
ing this llatement of the cafe, allowed moot.; but
when the Party came to inforce the Order of the
Court, the Cattle at Whitehaven was (hut up, fo
that no levy could be made at all there, on any
thing belonging to the Noble Earl : they were
therefore Ander the neceffity of going to the har-
bour and taking a (hip which was the property of
the Noble Earl, which (hip has fince remained in
the hands of the Sheriff, the expenee of looking
after which was enormous as well as the trouble ;
the Motion therefore now was, that the Sheriff
might be at liberty to fell the chip for the purpofe
of producing this 10001. ordered by the Court to
be levied, and refloring to my Lord Low suet%
the furplus of the produce of the Gk.--Aule to
(hew Caufe granted.

APRIL 29.... THE RING O. STEVENS.
Mr. ATTORNEY Grasasi. prayed the judgment
of the Court on the Defendant.
The circumflances of his offence were there : A
perfon of the name of James Halfey was indiCted
at the Maidftone Allizes, and convifted of unlaw-
fully having in his poffeffion Naval Stores ; to wit,
a quantity of Copper Sheathing, with the broad
Arrow upon it. He was fentenctd to three months
imprifonment in the Houfe of CorreCtion, and to
be publicly whipped, for fifty yards, in his Ma-
jelly's Dock-yard at Woolwich. The information
which had been filed by his Majelly's Attorney
General againft the Defendant Rated, among other
things, that the execution of the fentence of whip-
ping—Halfey was committed to the Defendant, who
was Under Turnkey to Mr. Watfon, the Keeper of
the Jail at Maidlione, and that he had wilfully and
contemptuoufly negleCted to execute that part of
the fentence. It appeared that the Defendant did
whip Halley, but not in his Majefty's Dockyard
at Woolwich, purfuant to the fentence. And it
was doubted whether Halley had been whipped
as the law required, inafmuch as after the whip;
Om, there was no appearance of blood on the
Prifoner's back.
Mr. Emma appeared as Counfel for the De-
fendant, and Paid, it was impoflible to look at this
cafe without teeing how important it was that the
judgments of Criminal Courts fhould not be com-
promifed, but carried into arid execution. This
man had been i• his office upwards of 34 years,
with the bell charaaer. It did not appear that he
had aced in this cafe from any corrupt motive, and
no inconvenience had arifen from this aft.

Mr. AT-roamer GINIRAL raid, he entirely con:
curred with Mr. ERSICIIIII in every, thing he had
raid. This man had certainly an extremely good
cbara&er.
Lord KEN row.—" Mr. Eas curl has treated this
offence juft in the manner in which it ought to be
treated. It-is abiblutely and indifpenfably necef.
Cary that the fentences of Criminal Conrts &meld
be firialy executed by the officers of junice. But
there are circumftances in this cafe to induce the
Court to take the Defendant's recognizance to ap-
pear when required to receive the judgment of the
Court. We cannot let a flight judgment appear
on the Records of the Court for fuck an offence."

Mr. jusTici Gaoss.—" It muff be an heavy
judgment, if any. At the fame time, the age and
former good conduit of the Defendant, ate circuits•
fiances that weigh ftrongly in his favour. I hope
it will in future be underllood, that the fentence
of the law mutt be executed wherejt is ordered by
the law to be executed, and that we are not to be
told by any Commiffioners that the officers of juf-
tice are not to enter into his Majefty's Dock-yard
at Woolwich, for the purpofe of executing the fen-
' tence of the law."
The Defendant was difcharged, on undertaking
to come up when required, to receive the judgment
of the Court.

Doves v. Novas.
Mr. RAINI, on the part of Mr. Bowes, obtained
a Rulc to thew canfe why a Prohibition fhould not
be direited to the Prerogative Court of the Arch-
hilltop of Canterbury, to Bay proceedings on the
Will of Lady Strathmore ? • It was allcdged,
among other things, that her Ladyfhip had dif-
pofed of fome property in her IA Will, which Ile
had no power to do, &c. And that there were
fome points which muil be previoully decided in
the... Temporal Courts.
.•

*vl'-'.4ftetttttlittPraffio Sr•INNOUPer'r•-""1
This•mrits, an information filed: by leave of the
Court stgainft.theitiv. AuguttusßeiVer, for cot.-
refpondence• brletters, and dircourfe in public,
amounting to a challenge to fight a duel, on elle
part of the Defendant, with Major Pain, .at Nor-
wich. The mitunderttanding arofe out of fame
conVerfation refpeding the. Defendant's father.
The Caufe Rood for trial at the IA Affizes for
Thetford, when it was propofed, on the part of the
Profecution, that. if the Defendant withJrew his
plea of Not Guilty, and fuffered Judgment to go
by default, or allowed a tingle Wieners to be ex-
amined for the mere purpofe of recording a verdift
againft him, heihmQ hear no more of the matter,
but this the Defendant declined, and initead of it
he defended the cafe as tirenuoutly as he was able,
and Mr. Minas delivered a vehement Philippic
againft the Profecutor, which it was alledged by
Counfel for the Profecution, mull have been done
in purfuance"of the inftrudions of the Defendant;
becaufe if that Learned Gentleman had been left'
to the free exercife of his difcretion, he poirefii:d
too much of it to purfue a courft fo ir: itat:,)g to
the feelings of the Profecutor, who was a Man of
Honour, and which mutt ultimately prove fo ins
jurious to his own Client; and this was, to-day,
affigned as the reafon why,the Profecutor could
not now accept of an apology from the Defendant,
and why he appealed to the Juffice of the-Court
for the protedion of his honour. '
Mr. Easciits this day addreffed the Court hr
behalf of the Defendant,. and walled very:much•
[ that this fubjed might be put into fame
,train of
amicable adjuftment. . •
Mr. Mgr/ rosH, on the fame fide, defired to sett
the cafe on the eloquent addreA of hillearnedleader.
Mr. MINGAY, Mr. GARII.OI% Mr. DARISL, Mr.
WILSON and Mr. Btsr,• addrelled the Court in
fupport of the Profectuion; and effigned the rea.
Eons already hated chiefly as the caufe of Major
Pain's calling for the judgment of the Courti
The Affidavits being all read,
The Defendant allcdged that it was not his ob.
jed to fight a duel with the Profecutor, nor had
he any, with to infult him, or to treat him uncivil-
ly, 8:c: but the finding of the Jury who pronounced
him guilty, difpofed of that matter,as was fairly ad-
mitted by Mr. ERSKINE in his addrefs to the Court.
Lord Kamvom faid, that the objed of itll Profe-
melon and of Puniflnent, was 'to..tut aft end to
offences, but too often that objet fin-k&—tHe look-
ed forward with fear and trembling as to sihat mAy
be the confequence of indulging this fpirit of dtieT:
ing ; he read with pain and forro*, various ac?
counts in Newfpapers of thefe things, and fothe.
times of a dreadful catattroPhe by which whole
families were overwhelmed with calamity.—Tllt
Court therefore mull do all they 'deflate deter all
defcriptions of Perfons from committieg this of-
fence :—it highly imported• the Public that thei
I &could do fo. At prefent the Defendant molt
Rand committed to the Prifon of that Court, the
King's Bench, and be brought up this day fe'n.
night to receive the judgment of the. Coert..4 '

Bow-STREET.—Yefterday Benjamin 8ir..4. was.
brought before the fitting Magi orate, charged vita
violently affaulting, with intent to rob and courtier,
Margaret Smith, a refpeflable widow, whO keeps
a chandler's thop, in Chapel-ftreet, Paddington.
It appeared from the evidence of a number of
witneffes, that between ten and eleven o'clock on
Monday night, jult as the protecutrix was about
tolliut up her Ihop, a man came into it, and alked
for a rather of bacon, whith the ferved him with,
when he atked for another, and when the had
fervcd him with it, defired to have a thirdl'and,
by this extraordinary condua of ordering a rather
at a time, the fufpetited he was come for the pur-
pole of ealin,g fomething in the limp, which cauf.
ed her to fix her eyes upon him, and not lofe tight
of him, which be perceiving, ruched upon her, and
with horrid imprecations, ttruck her throe violent
blows on her head wish a hammer which he topk
from his pocket, and the blows brought her to the
ground, but her fcreams were extremely violent ;
that he made off without robbing hes, and though.
her fcreams were extremely loud, her neighbour‘
did not difcover from whence they proceeded, and
the contrived to get to the door of the next lioufe
to her, and when the door was opened the fell in:
to the paffage apparently' lifelefs, when affillance
was procured, and the witscouveyed to St. George's
Hofpital. • .
The prifoner is a journeyman thoemaker, and
Eves with his mailer in the fame neighbourhood,
' and about the time her fcreams were heard, the
prifoner was knOcking at his matter's door, and*
on his gaining admittance, he appeared much'
agitated, and after he bad been in forne time, hi
inquired of his matter if a furgeon had been feat
for the woman, and a variety of other tilt-pianos'
circumflances came out, which canted the prifoner
to be flifpated ; and on Tuefday he was taken in-
to cufiody, but through the imprudence of thofe
who had him in cuttody, in fuffering him to go
from his matter's fhop up ftairs, under a pretence
of changing his clothes, he jumped out of a back
one.p:ur of (Lairs window, and made his efcape ;
and the circumflances being made known to end.;
land, one of the captains of the patrole belonging
to the above office, and he learning that the pn-
foner had a brother who kept a public-honfe not
far from the neighbourhood, he Rationed his men
within fight of it on Wednefday night, mid at a
late houi the prifoner came to the door, when they
took him into cultody.and early yetterday morning
the officer brought the pricorer, and his men, and
feveral Itrangers, to the bod of the protecutrir,
and alked her if the man was among them who
had 'wounded her ? when the, without hefitation,
pointed out the prifoner.
The furgeon belonging tg the boipital, who has
attended the profefutrix, was of opmioq that her
tkull was fraftured; and that it bad been dofle br
a round inftrument timilar to the hammer which
was found in the priibner's room, and he had 'Alt
little hopes of her recovery. At the time the pry.
recutrix was attacked, the had el& and notes to
the amount of soh upon her.
The prifoner denied the charge, but admitted
having been to the loop on Mrmday night.' He
was committed fen further examination.