Star.
London, England, 1806-11-25 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE GLASGOW PACKET.

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The following are Dome farther particulars refpal-
ing the lots of this /rad :
The Glafgow Packet, .Moses Jon sr srom mailer,
failed from Leith on Sunday the 16th int. at five
o'clock in the evening, with twenty-one paffengers on
board. At two o'clock next morning the (truck upon
a busk rock outfide the Fearn Hands, and the water
immediately rnfhed in ; feting there was no
pollibi-
lily of faring the fhip, the Captain ordered the boat to
b: got out, and two men to get her to the lee bow, to
fare the women if poflible, but the wind and tea being
fo flrong. they 101 l their bold, and immediately the
boat was out of fight ; the (tern boat had been (love ;
in pieces. The flop being now full of water, the lea
made a fair paffage over her, guns were fired In
long as the veffel was above water ;—there being
no appearance of any aflillance, every one were
obliged to catch the rigging, or any place where '
they could hold themfelves (alt—they continued in
this tare till day light, when five of the paffengers
were miffing. At this time three Holy Ifland boats
appeared, but could not come nearer the ye Tel !
than twenty yards, the lea running fo high, they were
called to heave their filhing lines on board, which the
Captain Mined mend the paffengers, who then
threw themfelves into the lea, and were drawn by the
gasmen into their boats. Captain JOlllll7Oll was
the left that got off the wreck, except a men, his
wife, and child, who could not be got at ; they,
however, a little after were got out. Other three
paffengers, and ooe of the (hip's fervent'' were loft
after day -light, and before any micro left the (hip I
the ref got fate on one of the Mend'. The veffel
tensained all day OD the rock. and went to pieces
during the night. Only a very (mall pan of the cargo
is fared.

THEITR4.

LA night a nn► Melo Drapta Afterpiece, trail-
[
dated from the Freneb, by the junior Moms' ; thel
mark compnCed by hi► father, intitled—TeirE, or, fle
Jaye of Morstgott, was performed at this Theatre
1 The following are the principal

DIU MAT'S itIONX :
Omni Tekell Mr. ELLTSIVII.
Wolf (his friend) M- Douro's.
Conrack (the Miller) Mr. WIRIOCUTON.
Count Cara& (the General) - Mr. CAMAS.
Mezina, the Heroine of Moutgatz Miff Dolma's.
Chi-lane . Mrs. BLAND.
We collated the following as the ground-wwk of
the Rory is King of Hungary, but has been
In miferably reduced by a neighbouring Count, (.a
rap, that he is difcovered, at the commencement of
the Piece, lurking in a starved Rate in a wood, at-
tended by his friend Wolf, who protefts and conceals
him. Some very interelling feenes enfue, in which,
by the dexterity, bravery, and enterprife of Ifloy,
the King efcapes the RriEt fearches fet on foot for him
by the Count. At the crifis of his affairs, when his
()...12eets had been fummoned to (offender her caille.
eh: Kirg and Wolf appear, and a grand battle enfues,
in which the Count is defeated.

We were rather pleated with this new entertainment
titan otberwife. The author has evinced emifiJerable
ingenuity in keeping the audience in furpence and
anxiety for the fate of the King, in the feveral elopes
he makes, through the fidelity of Wolf, admirably
reprefented by Dovrros. _ .

The fcenery is of the arft rate clefcription, parti-
cularly that in the fecond AEI, reprefenting a water
and a windmill both in ration. . The murk is lively,
and exceedingly pretty. Euxesriia, b1•11411MS.
WM:It/CHUM, Mifs Duncan, and Mrs. &AID, be-
flowed the moil minute atteni ion on their refpetlive
charafters. The piece was mull favourably received,
and was announced for repetition amida the loud
applaufcs of a crowded andicace.

GENERAL 'UNCTION.

Lin or Members returned, in addition to thofl al•
ready given :

Comma aaaaa itz.—Sir Willlun Pazooo.
IRELAND.
Coo nry or T Thomas Knox, I. Stuart, Efq.
COONfT or Sitar... Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald tad
Henry Arthur Herbert, Efq.
nowspATßleg...Rdifard S. ltuthren, Rfq.
COUNTY Of DONROAL,..SIE J. Stewart tad Dairy Vaughan
Brooke, Efq.
CARL0W..4013...-- Roblafon.
MIDDLFSEX—TWELFTH DAY.
The crowd in front of the hulling, yellerday was
!treater than on any former day of the Eleftion, and
Sir Francis Burdett's was the prevailing colour, both
on, and in front of the Millings.
On the poll being exhibite.:, the numbers were
found to be—

William Mai& Efq. . 094
George Byng, Bfg. . 2t33
Bit Francis Burdett . 901
Mr. Brno made his bow, and retired.
Sir Fas.ncis BUIDI TT then Repped forward, and
addrefed the Meeting nearly to the following effea
—Gentlemen, after the very honourable exertion of
the independent part of the County this day, in their
own and my behalf, I fhould be wanting in gratitude
were I not to return you my moft hearty thanks. In
doing In, however, I cannot forbear from putting in,
'fur thofe who have thus voluntarily and fponraneouLly, ,
come forward in my fopport, a claim to that fpecies
of independence which is above every fufpicion of
undo.: influence. I'his claim, I prefume to think, is
no more than what is due to their merits. Acknow-,
!edged, as it is, at all hands, and by every perfon who
pro cites to be acquainted with the fituation of this
country, that we are at this moment in a Rate of un-
precedented
calamity, and that the burdens which a s
have to fubmit to are without example, it teems a
fubjeft well worthy of enquiry, how we have been
brought into thee Iltuation s and who are the perfume
to whom blame is imputable for the calamities with
which we are loaded. It is a well known principle
laid down and alted on by the Magiltrates of this
country, that, when a robbery has been committed,
the bell way of difeovering the perpetrators of it, i.
to look about indict what wrong are flufh of cath at
the time, and who kern to have derived benefit from
the commit:lion of the grime. This is a principle fa
rational, that it is aaed on almoft univerfally in the
common concerns of life : and, if beneficial there, fo
much the more applicable mutt it be elleemed is one
public concerns. I do not think, therefore, that it
can be efteemed inapplicable to the prefeot lituation
of this country, or &rye as a bad medium through
which to difcover the authors of our calamity. If
there are perfons who fpring up like mufhrooms, or
fungoffes in the midfl of corruption—whodike t.axioes
weeds, fpring up in the corners of the building, and
fpread their unfavoury knell around—if there are
perfons whole profperity increafes with the public ca.
lamity ; whole fortunes rife as the Rate of the coun-
try decays—if any perfon will point out to me Inch
men, I fhall point out to him the authors of the coun-
try's ruin !—(loud applasifes).—When I look at the
fpeeches of thole petions already returned as Mem-
bers to the now-corning Parliament—as for inflance,
Mr. Thornton, Mr. Wilberforce, and Mr. Sheridan,
who, though they never before agreed in any one
thing in all their lives—all concur in informing us of
the unprecedented tacrifices we fliall be called on to
make ; when 1 fee fanetity and profligacy walking
hand in hand ; loyalty and jacobinifm affuciating to-
gether, and joining in the fame cry; infiekd of calling
to my mind the idea of a Brains Houle of Parlia-
ment, it feems to me to be like the meeting of the
Counfellors of lteliobnam, in the Old Teflament,
who Paid, "Our predeceffors punifbed the people with
whips, but we a ill torment them with fcorpions."—
I Ibould be lorry to anticipate evil, but -I am afraid
it will be found that the little finger of this coming
Parliament will bear more heavily on the people than
the
halt Parliament.
the whole body of

•
Mr. Nlai.Lusu—.' Cent!men, I have merely to
thank you frr,he honuur you have dune me this day."
The Meeting then adjourned.

The Q.yr is has bccn molt gracioatly pleafei to
confer her Royal Appointment onWi Lida si
at Temple Bar, at CIA idanufallttrer to her MajeQy.
• ST. PIT ERSRORG /I, OCT. 9.—By an Oukaz, dated
September 24, his IMPERIAL MAIRSTY has been
pleated to appoint SAMUEL G tato, Efq. to alt as
Cpnfal General of Ruffia, ifi lieu of A I.szasosa
BAXTER, EfeballOM!d to retire on a penfion.

LAI, INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF kINOI3 BENCH.
NOVIIMItIt 14.

Tlll IMIS ON THE rstosrcuricw or WATKINS, 11. TM&

MAGISTRATES OP PLYMOUTH 1110 C
The public are particularly defired to faptud their
lodgment relpeeing the merits of this application,
until the whole comet before the Court, when it is
believed that the Magiarates will jail/ their ever
se.

TN! RING IP. 011111IlL TIVPIAS PICTON.
• Our Readers will ',colic& the trial of the pees*
dant for infliCling torture. in the Wand of Trinidad,
upon Louifa Calderoni. The trial took place on the
34th of February laft, and anpeared in onr Paper cf
the 25111. In the tall term Mr. DALL•B, as Counfel
for Gcueral /Mon, had obtained a rule to !hew more
why a new trial fhould nor be granted. on the ground
of the mifreprefent .tion of the contents of a certain
book called the Reropilariwe, containing the laws for
the Government of the Spanins Well Indies, in the
evidence of P-ter Vargo', who had Rated, that it
contained nn authority for the infl•Ction of torture....
The queflion whether the new trial fhould be granted,
came on this day to be argued.
Lord Etc's; solawom read the report of the trial.
He laid, he had left it to the jury to lay, whether toe-
cure was authorized by the law of Old Spain, which
he thought they might airtime. If it were the law of
Old Spain they would then fay, whether it was autho-
rized in the Colonies, and though it were the law of
Old Spain, it would not Decal:ally follow that it was
law in the Spaniel Wen Indies. It appeared from
the evidence, that it had not been prattled there be-
fore the year 'Sot. nor was there any inefirunteat tat
that purpofe. That if the Jury %ere of opinion that
no habit of infliaing torture (tidal, and that there
was no law, nor no pro lice from which to infer the
law, they man find the Defendant Guilty. That it
might have been a material qnellion afterwards,
whether the Defendant came under the prometion of
the law by having conformed himfelf to it That
if he had no judicial authority to Mitt torture, the
illegal introdudion of the puniffiment, which he was
not intitleti to Millet, would be a criminal offence.---
That it was not neceffary to prove malice, which was
an inference of law if the ad was illegal ; anal that
the acute of a taillike in the application of the law
would be no defence. The Jury found that there
was no law for the inlliCling of torture in the Spelt&
Wed Indies, and therefore, under the dilation of his
Lordlhip, gave a general verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Wallow kid, that although he wilted it en
be diainelly underflood, that he did not oppofe any
indulgence the Court might think fit to grant the
Defendant, yet he felt it his duty, as Coonfel for the
profccution, to apprize their LordOsips of one dr.
curnliance. To fupport the motion for a new trial,
General Pißon had thought fit to file affidavits made
tinder the diration of the Deputy Governor of the
Hand of Trinidad, without any authority from the
Court. and not under: the mandato.' formerly goal
for the purpofe of taking depofitions. He therefore
hoped, that at lean, if the Court did not code* .
rejeCt that teflimony, it would allow the Pretereters
time to Rawer it.

Mr. D wifbed to owe nothing to the fealty
of the Counfil for the Crown, though, if neeeffary,
he might claim fomething from the indulgence a
the Court. The affidavits to which his Learned
Friend had objeded, were made under the following
eircumllances, and their Lordfhips would judge if
they were not fufficiently authenticated to be receiv-
ed as evidence. It would be in the recolleftion of
thous prefent at the trial, that a book had been pro-
duced, ayled in the Spaniffi language Reeeisilweisos
Leyte, or a collection of the laws for the government
of the Spanifh Well Indies, with refped to which Mr.
Peter Vargas bad (worn, that it contained nothing
authorising the inflidion of torture. This tellimony
was literally tree, but fubfiantially falfe: for altho
the book certainly contained nothing to warrant the
intliaion of torture in itfelf, yet in it was a pail:age,
directing, that where that book mould be filent, ref-on
fhould be had to the laws of Old Spain. When,
therefore, it was beard in Trinidad that General
Pidon had been found guilty on the ground of tor-
ture not being authorised, the Deputy Governor,
for his own vindication, having made ale of it, as
well as for the jullification of the Defendant, imme-
diately employed himfeif with feveral Aleaides to
make affidavits, formed upon retouch, containing
an explication of the laws which regulated the Mend.
There were te.tnfmitted, as official documents, to the
Secretary of State, and the Court would decide if
thefe affidavits, viewed in that light, were not tobe
read as an expofition of the law, upon which the De-
fendant mull be fuppofed to have afted.

The Court thought that fuch a certificate could not
be received when it appeared to be made for the par-
pore of the very caufe by tome perfons who-had bees
witneffed under the mandamus, and particularly when
the parties appeared to be interefied in the deeifion.
An affidavit was then offered, (worn in London by
the attorney, complaining of tome furprife, in refpeft
to the reading of the book called the Recopilacioni
in the evidence of Vargas, and that he could not
procure a copy previous to the trial, or the defendant
would have (hewn that although the Reeopilacion
did rat (peak of torture exprefsly as being lawful in
the Welt Indies, yet it leas tacitly authorifed by
mulling that the law of Old Spain Mould be obferv•
ed in all refpefts not otherwife provided for. Vargas
bad (worn to the literal truth, that there was nothiog
autborifing torture in the Recopilacion ; he had alto
farms that torture was held io general abhorrence in
Old Spain.

The Court, after tome dooluttatiao Paid, that as
there appeared to be come difficulty in afeerwriuiag
the law,. it might be well to enlarge the Rule, sill a
comrrillion fh.uld g,.) to Tiiniclac4 to inquire what
was the law with relpee to torture, before the Con.
quell by General Abercrombie, aid alto what was
the law of Old Spain in that refpeet.

•
The Rule was, therefore, enlarged for that purpofe.
Mr. GAllltnW, alluding to his firll fuggellion, of
his ready acquiefcence with what the Court might
think right, and fame rery improper infinuations that
had beau made againft him out of Court, expreffel
bimfelf fatitfied that it would be feen that he hal
condu&ed himfelf in this, as io all other profecution%
with a defire that every thing lhoild be done for ;be
purport of the mon eqnal jullue. [Tian mom