Star.
London, England, 1801-05-09 00:00:00

YARMOUTH, MAY E.

Wednefday evening the Panics of WetAs
Packet, Captain HEARN, landed a Mellinger with
Difpatches from Colonel Cas v FORD, at Loweitoft.
This Packet has brought no Mails.—Arrived the
HAZARD cutter from a Eilli Ze.—SAiled the DIANA
Packet, Capt. OSBORN, with Mails, and Mars.
BARDY, JOSEPH, Buzrow, and feveral other Pal:
fengers.

We are happy to announce the arrival of the
Jamaica convoy. Several velrels have reached the
River, but the greater part have made the Cove
of Cork. _ .

The EMIRALD frigate, with 112 fail of veffels,
from Cork to the Weft Indies, were left all well
the gth of April, off Cape Finifterre (with a fair
wind), by the Hussaa frigate, which is arrived
at Cork.
The Induftry, WOOLASTON, from Yarmouth to
Poole. is taken and carried into Dieppe.
The Mary, MILLIR, of Jamaica, was captured
in March, off Savannah La Mar, by a Spanifh
fchooner.
The Cherie French fchooner, from Cayenne to
Bonrdeaux, is taken by the EARL Sr. VINCRNT
brig, and carried into Lifbon.
The Marina, —, from Glafgow to New York ;
and the Nancy. from Jamaica, are taken by
the Braave privateer.
The Charlotte, --, from St. Michael's to Lon-
don ; and the Speculation. —, from Ipfwich to
Chefter, have been taken by the Braave French
privateer, and burnt.
The James, LIATY, from Jamaica to Liverpool,
was taken by the Braave privateer, on the 7th of
April, retaken by the Hussaa frigate on the z ith
ditto, and is arrived at Cork.
The Spanifb fchooner la Hinds, from Cam.
peachy to the Havannah, and the American
fchooner Seahorfe, fmm Porto Cavell° to New
York, arc fent into Jamaica, by his Majefly's fhip
Rrvaratriov.
The Meriurioirs, St ric K F, from Bremen to Lon-
don, is ftranded near Middleberg.
The Wentworth, --, for Ln.idon, is put
back to Jamaica, being leaky. Car,: i damaged.
The American brig Neptune, fro;:i Porto Rico
to Charleftown, is fent into Jamaica by the Swal•
low brig.
The Kenyon, Roarwsow, from Jamaica to Li-
verpool, has been taken, reriken by the GALATI•
.frigates and arrived at Cork.

The Ann, SOUTHGATE, from London, is ar-
rived at Minorca, after being on fire, and throw-
ing great part of cargo overboard.
The Pomona, A.:limns, from St. Kitt's to
Laneafler, has been taken by a French privateer,
retaken by the AGNES privateer, of Jerfey, and ar-
rived at Kinfale.

The Hercules, MOLLER, from Bergen to Na-
ples, is detained by the HECTOR man of war, and
carried into Gibraltar.
The AUDACIOUS, of 74 guns, now fitting in Ha-
moaze, is to be Rear Admiral DECREE' Ihip.
Yederday fe'nnight a little (loop that had fail-
ed out of Newhaven harbour the preceding even-
ing, with a cargo for London, foundered off Bex-
hill, but the circumfiance being witnetred by the
crew of a veffel (leering the fame courfe, they dif-
patched a boat to the aflillance of tilde on board
the (loop, which fortunately reached them before
(he had quite dilappearcd, and thereby faved their
lives.

SONNET.-BY FL B. SHERIDAN, Eig4

Dry be that tear, my gentlell love,
Be hulh'd, that ftruygling figh,
Not feafon's day, nor fate shall prove
More fixed—more true than I!
Hulled be that figh—be dry that tear,
Crate boding Doubt—cede anxious Fear !
Afk'it thou how long my vows mail day
When all that's new Is pat?
How long—ab, DELIA, Can I fay
How long my life will laft !
Dry be that tear, be hulh'd that figh,
At (cad I'll love thee till I die!
And does that thought affedt thee too,
The thought of Sr xvio's death,
That he, who only breathes for you,
Molt yield that faithful breath?
Hulh'd be that figh, be dry that tear,
Nor let us lore our heaven here !

OPERA-HOUSE MAIKWERADE.—On Thurfday
this place was open for the reception of maflcs.
We feldom witneffed fo great an affemblage, but
the charaFters were devoid both of intereft and
novelty. Harlequin, Fruit and Flower Girt, Chim-
nty-fweeterr, Horfetne;idr, fec. &c. compofed the
principal groupe.
A City Blood annoyed the company with a fpirited
reprefentation of a Drunkard. His pra6tice might
well befit him for the charaeler, but being turned
out was not quite fo natural, as it was always his
cuflom at home to fee out his friends. A Highlander
from his bright could not efcape notice, but he de-
fied any one to know him by his brogue, as he was
never heard to fpeak a word dorieg the evening.
A variety of milks reprefented Sailors from the
Baltic, who were all glib at giving the (hips names
they arrived in, but on being overhauled as to the
names of the Captains, they were taken aback. The
company did not feparate till a late hour.
Mr. T. HOPE'S Rout, in Cavendifh-fquare, on
Thurfday evening, was the molt numerous of the
feafon. The fpacious and magnificent fuite of
rooms, decorated with the finelt paintings, were
brilliantly illnminated. About 1200 perfonagcs
of the firft rank were prefent.
The Countefs of LONGFORD'S Ball and Supper
laft week was one of the handfomeft entertainments
of the feafon. The chief Ladies, among about 300
p!rfons prefent, were the Ducheffes of GORDON,
MANCHESTER, MONTROSE, BOLTON, and BEAU-
FORT ; the Marchioneffes of HERTFORD, BATH,
TOWNSH IND, and A sERCORN Counteffes of Es-
six, GOSFORD, CARHAMPTON, LEITRIM, LIVER-
POOL, CARLISLE, NEWARK, MOUNT EDGECUISSE,
CLARE, DALRIITH, BUXTON, HARRINGTON, CO.
NYNGH•M, WESTMORLAND, and CHOLISONDALET.
The moll diainguithed dancers were :
Lady Ma Taylor, Marquis of Lorne.
Lady E. Montague, Lord 'Maedonaki.
Lady C. Bligh, Captain Paget.
Lady C. Stuart, Mr. Wen. Fitzroy.
Lady H. O'Brien, Lord Louvain.
Lady C. Lennox, Lord Forbes.
Lady C. Clements, Lord C. Howard.
Baronefs NoLcalr's Ball on Wednefday, in
confequence of the young Baron coming of age,
was attended by upwards of 400 of the Gay and
Falltionable Circles. Although merely a compli-
mentary evening, yet the vifitorsexerted themfelves
with great emulation in reciprocal attentions, and
in the merry dance. The Ball was opened at half
pall ten o'clock, with the Country Dance of
" German Wake," by
Lady E. Percy, Baron Gee Ramis Nolcken.
Lady C. Howard, Lord Tamworth.
Lady M. Carpenter, Captain Redhead.
Conn refs of Aldborosgb, Mr. Skenngton.
Lady J. Percy, Mr Noklm.
Mils Brooke, Mr.Lesnahre.
Mif. Cult, Mr. Mailers.
Mifs Loftus, Mr. Campbell.
At two o'clock the Company partook of a vet 7
excellent Supper, at which wines and viands of all
kinds were ferved in the moil profufe manner.

The Dances recommenced at three o'clock; and
the Company feparated at five, charmed with the
hofpitable reception which they had experienced.
The Ball-Room was fitted up in a flyle of fu-
perior magnificence. In the interior of the Room
was a Grove, adorned with a number of variegated
lamps, which had a moll admirable eired. Round
each chandelier, were fufpended wreaths of arti-
ficial flowers, conlifting of rofes, lilies, wheat-ears,
pea-blooms, &c. &c. To add to this fuccefsfol
imitation of Nature, the whole Room was hung
round in a fimilar manner, fo as to give the towt
d'ail every vifual fafcination.
SINGULAR ACTIVITY.-.—On Saturday lan, for
tt,e trifling wager of ss. an affive tradefinan aF
Chelmsford, aged near 6o years, beat down a fines
pia, at the diliance of to yards, goo times, and-
fetched the ball himfelf, milling only once, and
which he performed in one hour ar l 43 minutes;
the ground he walked over is cak ..'.sted at 5 m.
100 yards.—After which, and on fame day,
he beat down the pin 700 times, miffing -rtly
bowls, at the

Of7M. af. 387.
I2M. 3 f. 18 yards,
which time he b►'

=aid tu.

LAY INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF. RING'S BENCH, MAY B. •

HANTS V. THOMPSON.

Mr. GILEs hated that this was an anion on
Policy of Infurance. The declaration confined of
three Counts, to which there was a Demurrer,
The Counfel obferved, that the ground of the De-
fendant's objeklion to the Declaration was, that
it hat:cl a lofs without hating who had futtained
that lots—without hating who was iitterelled in
the Policy. The objeft therefore of the Demur.
rer way to take the opinion of the Court upon this
Declaration. In the cafe of Crawford v.
this point was fomewhat confidered. The fourth
count in the Declaration in that cafe was fimilar
to this, though the decition in that cafe turn;d
chiefly on the fief count. Certainly at that
the confequcnces refitting from the determinatim
were not Rated fully to their Lordlhips. This
was a cafe of great importance. A great num-
ber of infurances, as in this cafe, and perhaps one
half of them, were made on goods Chipped on
board foreign !hips. And the Underwriters were
extremely anxious to know whether thele infuran-
ces were to be confidered as infurances on intact},
or whether they were to be confidered infuraa-
, ces wholly unconnected with inte.eft, becaufe very
different confequences would arife. Thu had al-.
wars been confidered as infurances oir intereft,
and the parties had acted upon that notion. Pie.
miums had been returned where the party had
not had an intereft. So average loffes had been
paid on fuch infurances: on this ground he ft:b-
rained that the party had an interell, and was
damnified only to a certain extent. Total Idles
had alto been paid with deduCtions, where the
party had not the whole of his property on board,
and therefore, if it had arrived fafe, he would
have called on the Underwriters for a return of
premium, making a dedrietion for the property
he had not on board. So there were cafes of abar-
donnient which had taken place on fuch infurances.
All there confequences refulted from their being
confidered as infurances on interell. But, if they
were not fo confidered, they would abfolutely ex-
clude them all. He did not Mean to fay this cafe
was within the 19th Geo. 11. c. 37, but he only
withed to imprefs on the Court, that it was im-
portant to the parties to know what conflruftion
the Court would put on fuch infurances ? If filch
a policy were to be confidered not as a contrad
en intereft, then the parties muit vary the form
of their contraft, and introduce new terms. lie
contended that the Declaration ought to have
Rated whowas interefled,becaufelt might turn oct
that it was a wagering policy, cr it might happen
that the party interefted wasindebted to die Under-
writers, and they would have a right to a fet-off ;
or the perfon intereftcd might be an alien enemy,
as in the cafe of Brand,: v. tvybet, and that would
be a geoi defence.—ln the courfe of the argumcnt
on the part of the Plaintiff,
Lord KENYON afked where the hardfhip was on
the Underwriters in this cafe ? He read the initru-
ment, and took the premium from the ;alum! ;
and his Lordthip faid, he was very foiry to obferve
here, as in too many other cafes, after the Under-
writer had got all the money he could out of the
Infured,when the day of payment came, he got up
and put on his fpetlacles to fee whether he could
not find out tome flaw in the inftrument he had
figned ? He knew whether it was legal or not.—
If it was not legal, honefty required that he thould
not have taken 70 per cent. to fign that which was
not a legal inftrument.
Mr. PULLER argued very ably on the other fide,
and contended, that in the cafe of a Policy of In-
furance of Goods in a foreign (hip, it was not only
not neceffary to prove the intereft of the Affured
at the trial, but unnecetrary even to hate it in the
Declaration; and in fupport of this, he quoted the
cafe of Crawford and Hunter, as a cafe in point.—
It is in the Eight Term Reports, page 23•—He
quoted feveral other authorities to the fame effeet,
and maintained, that before the Ad of the 19th of
Geo. 11. Policies of Infurance on Property even
in English (hips of all kinds, might be entered in-
to ; but that Statute had prohibited filch Policies
of Infurance as might be deemed Wager or Gam-
ing Policies; the operation, however, of that Ad
was confined folely to Property in Englilh (hips,
confequently the Law, as it regarded Infurance
of Property in Foreign Ships, remained the
fame as if that Statute had never pall. By the
Law, before the palling of that Ad, their was
no necdlity that intereft (hould be proved, or
hated as the Defendant infilted in this action ;
and therefore the Plaintiff, in this cafe, was in.
titled to judgment. This we give only as a Sketch
of the queftion, not pro/thing to enter on the ar.
guments by which either of there two Learned
Gentlemen fupported his Client's cafe, but of
which we may hereaftir give a lets defective
count. After a reply from Mr. Cit.'s,
Lord Ksevom (aid, it mull hand over for a fe.
cond argument. At pretent, he laid, he certainly
did not underhand it. He could not pollibly com-
prehend any doubt there was in it. It pad been
extremely well argued.

The inflance of a wife complaining of her hull
band having beenfiolns, is rather an extraordinary
cafe. Many of them might complain of their
hufbands' having ftroyd.
A little after nine o'clock on Saturday night, the
Commitfary's itore.honfe in South Lime.itreet, near
Rogerfon's-quay, Dublin, was difiorercd to be on
fire. In a few hours, notwithflanding tie exer-
tions of the people and the aid of the engines, the
whole of the infide of the building.with its c. n-
tents, were reduced to tithes.

Yellerday morning warty. a man anfwering the
defcription givcn by Jonsson. the milk carrier, in
the employ of Mr. Eau► of Narrow•llmi, Lime.
bottle, of the perfon charged with murdering hi•
wife early on Monday morning ialt, at a hut or a
farm on the lkirt of Bow Common. near Stepney,
and robbing her of t zs. wa• noppedby two coon-

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41M 1; sac. N a as. 1.4% nwrpCti ID) two Conn-
he fame diilance ; going the foace trymen, near Billericky, in ElTex, when he made
yards—and making in the whole. a derperate ref:Ranee, and had nearly cfrede4 his
,ards. in 4 hours 2: minutes, and in efcape, but a third perfon coming up to their affill-
beat doVIII the pin 1188 times, and awe, he was eonduaed to a magttlute at Barking,
in order for eaginination.