Star.
London, England, 1823-04-26 00:00:00

JUDICIAL CONDEMNATION OVA BRITISH

VESSEL. j _ _
The following important intelligence- was yesterday posted
at Lloyd's:
" Condemnation of the Aurora, MiKtmar, of and from Glas-
gow and St. Thomas's captured and carried into Porto Rico,
the Bth of February last, by a Spanish privateer.
" Having examined the Petition of the Captain of the priva-
teer Scipio, the papers of navigation, and other documents, con-
cerning the English ship Aurora, results that the said vessel, with
a cargo of dry goods and provisions, did clear out from the port
of Greenock, in Great Britain, without the necessary certificate
from the Spanisb.Ambassador in London, which would have as-
certained her legai dispatch; according to the agreement of allied '
nations. Being thus irregulaily'dispatched, and bound for the
Bay of Honduras; and whereas the said port is aow in a state
of rebellion and insurrection, and also in a state of blockade for
various causes and dcclaratiops; and,- further, the cargo of the
said ship being composed of prohibited articles of contratrentioa,
according.to the Elst Article of Privateering Ordinance, also
that of the 34th, which renders the said port of Honduras MA
state of blockade, for holding the establishment of some English
Merchants, who promote the apirit of revolt and insurrection in
their clandestine trade with our said colony, so injurious to the
national interest.

" And whereas Captain Allen M'Khday being destined. to
the said rebellious port and in conaideratio:s of the foremen-
tinned articles of the Royal Ordinance, compared with the Royal
Ordinance of the gth'of February, 1819, declaring illicit the in-
' troduction of et kinds of provisions to the said rebellious port or
-ports is the said Bay of Houderas, together with the vessel or
veassls. is a good and lawful prize, the same being calculated for
sustaining and promoting war.
"In conifderation thereof, I thought proper, with the
aforementioned proofs, to condemn the ship Aurora, with her
cargo, in favour of the aforesaid privateer Scipio ; and further,
I do hereby order that the Captain of the aforesaid British ship
Aurora, together with her crew, must henceforth regulate their
conduct according to the Articles 41 and 42 of the Ordinance of
Privateering. (Signed) " DoCtor QUIONES, Chief Judge."

The following atticle, in the Etoile, seems to con-
firm the capture of a Spanish ship by the French in
the West Indies :

" The Finest, arrived at Havre front Martinique on the 21st
of April. brings the news of the Jean Bart having entered Mar-
tinique Roads wish her rich prize.
" The Captain of the Annibal writes, that this galleon, for so
he calls the prize, was a letter,of marque; that in the night she
misiouk the Jean Bart for a merchantman, and attacked her :
Ithis gave occasion to the capture."
IIESTON PARK HUNT RACES, APRIL as. .
Ilunters' Stake of £5O, by a Subscription et £7 sack withAl
added. heats, two miles, and to cam
Captain Stone's Corinthian I I
Mr. James's Mountebank S 3
Mr. Howard's Frisky • - 5 2
Udney's Amy - • • 1410 4.: t 4
Six started.-4 to 4 eget 441214* Ilse;
Sweepstakes of 10 sovereigns oink*btuassigisampo.beed,;'•
.
Mr. Owen's Radrcal Ors two-mile.firat.
captain Smith's b. m. . • • : a
Mr. Harvey's Frolic - • • a .• w •p••
The started, but the other two were int pbcedo'
PEDESTRIANISM. •••• • •
MAWS 'ROM LONDON TO BATH AND litiosi.—.Mr..tamees, the
pedestrian, undertook to accomplish the gbQve Milfib last week,
in seventy-two hours' for 100 sovereigni, but time beat Mat by
nearly 20 miles. A Mr. Holdsworth started oa tie 'semi kird
of match on Tuesday, for 200 sovereigns. Be readied *Marl-
borough Forest at tin at tight on the first dey 172-adiaaN dfter
halting two hours, he proceeded on his herculean task, and
touched the 106th mile-stone in 3} hours. He attired at Ilan 3
gerford on his return, keeping time nearly two boors in his
your. He had the last 52 mik4 to do freaollarwhaidt insight
hours, and be won the match with mucludillicoky, and bad is
minutes to ipare. Tam was backed at 6to 4.
Townsbend completed his task of fifty miksper day of twelve
boars, half backwards, yesterday evening, at a few minutes i c.
fore eight o'clock.
CROOKID COINCIDENCE.—A pamphlet, published
in the year 1703, has the knowing strange title:—
Deformity of Cured : a Sermon preached at St.
:Michael's, Crooked-lane, before the Prince of Orange,
by the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Crowishankr. Sold by
Matthew Denton,
,at the Croolvd Billet, near Crip.
*gate, and by all other. booksellers. The words of
the text ate-0 Every crooked path shall be 'wade
straight?" and the:Prince before whom it was preaChed
was deformed in person, and lived in enttchedfriars.


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