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London, England, 1807-06-02 00:00:00

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PORTEMOITIII, JUNE I.
Arrived yeller lay evening, the Eali. Howe,
Winvitast,the Wsxroav Eaft Indiiman, add feverat
outward b"und veffeis, from the Downs : alfo, this
day, the Gibraltar packet; from Waterford ; his
Majefly's (hips, CAROLINE, tidal Plymonth ; STAR,
sod BLossom. from the Downs.—Sailed his Majefty's
ROYAL GSOIGI* for Plymouth; GOSHAWK* on
a crilice; and FURY, with a convoy for the Downs.
DEAL, JUNE r.
Sailed his Majefty's (hips SSALARIC, for Yarmouth,
and the KANGAROO, on a cruize. Arrived the
Boonuoutto gun brig, from a cruize, and remains in
the Downs with the reit of the !hips as per laft.—
Wind E. S. E.

CHATHAM, JUNE 2.
The Marquis of Huntley, lately purchafed into hit
Majeßy's fervice, went down to Long Reach LA
week, to lie as a powder chip.—The Lords Com- '
ariffioners of the Admiralty have ordered the name
of the Banter frigate to be changed to the Banterer,
and h commifion by Captain SHSPHELD.
Ships in Cottuniffion, and fitting at this Port—Hercule 74 ;
inflexible, Monmouth, and Leiden 64 ; Franebife g 6; Coffackas;
Banterer, 21; Sapphire and Rcianuind (lops ; Cho, Cephalua,Ra-
lcigh, and Peacock brigs.
YARMOUTH, JUNE a.
Loft off Kiffingland, in the gale, a Pruffian vellel,
crew rived by a pilot boat; and the Robert, a fifhing.
boat, Robert Sterry, of and from Lowelloir, 101 l at
lea—ao account of the crew beiqg raved ; but part of
her nets and (hip's materials has been picked up at
lea. The following veffels arrived with the lalt con-
voy from the Baltic I... Spring, Pratt ; Becky, Dar-
;—Baltic, Sandford p-a-Memel, Maitin ;—Ceres,
Laws ; (Economy, Mandfisip ; and Karen (a Dane)
with timber and deals. The (tip on ihore, mentioned
in In, left, is the Herinoni. Ecblefs matter, of Ko-
&Aug, from Copenhagen.

GREENOCK, MAY sq.
The Francis, Braint, arrived here on Wednefday
Sfterooon, fr ,rn New York, after a pa Wage of 24 days.
Sailed on the Id latent, in company with the Fanny
Galloway ; Oliver Elfworth, Bennett ; and the In.
flan (Zicen for Liverpool ; Concord, John.
lone, tot Amfterdam ; and Stephen, for Bout.
ilea= Spoke on the 13th indent, in lat. 41. 37. N.
long. $3. W. the fhip London, Avery, from Savan-
nah, bound to Liverpool, out fifteen days. The
Francis left the following vat's loading for this,port,
viz. FaCtor, Caldwell ; Althiras, ; George,„
Taylor ; and Lavinia, Sharp. The George was to
fail oft the t4th, and the Lavinia on the 24th inflant.
Letters have been received from the Argo, one of
the outward bound Weft India fleet, dated March
;3, lat. r7.;6. long_ 30.5 t. Mating her being well, in
company with the Mariner Duke, Thames, Simon
Cock, and Marina, all bound to the Weft Indies, the
whole have miffed the convoy, and were proceeding
for their deftinatioe.

Gitorgium MAT v.... Paired by the Liberty, Hammond;
Batt, Warts; Ann, Romelfon ; Martini!, and the
Konigiburg, Driver, from Memel ; Count Lerwick, Cookfoa,
been Norway; Hoffnung. --, and the Three Brothers, Lawton,
Isom Tonningen.—Sailed the Ceres, Buffet, for Tooningen •
Ina, Warner, for Archangel ; and the Speedwell, Fwdlay, for
Malta.
OaaVa styli), June t.a.-Pafted by the Twilight, Twerdale, from
Eigo ; Aurora, Davis, from Newry; Two Sifters, Brown; Ann,
Stratton ; Flora, Hanka° ; &lige, Wright ; String, Trcdevell ;
leo, Rear; Durham, Taylor; Port of Sunderland, Dodds; Ed-
stard,Newfoo, Tucker, Richardfon ; Ind the Boreas, Wright, from
kernel; Juno, Simmons ; Ratbdon, Pettigrew ; and the Morning
test, Volke from Copenhagen ; Copenhagen, Mefdes, from
Dentate; Charlotte, Falneaux, from Koningiburgh ; Neptunos,
Rine, from Riga; Little Sarah, Rowe, from Verdi; Prbvidentia,
Falcon ; Fortuna, Andetfon, Paul and Catharine, ; and the
Ober, Barker, from Norway.
ARRIVED,

At Liverpool, the Molly. Bean, fiom Trinidad; Dernetara
Itglis; and the Jane, Thompfon, from Demerara; WllHanr, Wil
Hams, from Jamaica; Fanny, Galloway; and the Oliver, Elfwotth,
from New York; the Charles, Hamilton, from
Tonningen. in the Clyde, Francis, Blaine, from New York; and
tie ifabena, Simmons, from Honduran At Surinam, Simon
Cock, Boon ; and the Freedom, Carr, from London. At Dcme
ran, Tarleton, Jackfon, from London; Wifuby, Gtay; and the
Sufarmah,—....--•—, trout LiverpooL At Berbice, Neptune, Frier,
from Liverpool; the Commerce, Walker, frum the Clyde. At
Baltimore, Diana, Holbrook, from Liverpool. At Virginia, Leo-
nidas, M•Kenzie, from Liverpool. At Savannah, Alexander,
Hamilton, from Liverpool ; and the Miforta, Dunlop, from the
Clyde. At New York, Little George, M'NUlage ; and Lavinia,
—, from the Clyde; Protedlion, —, from Bdfait ; Charles,
longlin, from Newry; Sufan, Collins, from Dublin ; Packet, Cot-
tle; Venus, Bunee , and Laura, Roffiter, from Bridol ; Remit
once, Law; Otis, Crocker; Gold Hunter, Vofe • and the Science,
Howard, from London ; Liberty, Chcw; Wiliam Penn, Harty ;
Chatham, Wagon ; Huron, Tayler ; Ann, Morris; Dryad, Grant ;
Meteor), Chriftian ; Eliza, Waterman; John Drybro •, Alexan-
der, Moores; Canton. Kennedy ; Nankin, Nicholfon.: Centurion,
Spalding; Neptune, Stanton ; Mary, Bunee ; and the Charles,
Crandon, from Liverpoal. At Bolton, New Packet, Trott; and
the Baton, ..---, front Liverpool ; and the Romeo, La Bolquett,
from London. At Trinidad, Liberty, Kennedy, from Africa. At
Charlelton, Governor Clanton), from Africa; Jupiter.
Lime; and the Mialffippi, Morris, from Liverpool At Philo!.
delphia, American, Watley; Haleyon, Read; Wettern Tradert
Whitefides; Liverpool, Hamilton; and the tenopboa, to Ht, from
Liverpool; John and Alice, Tayler ; Eliza, Morris; and the Re
beers, Barry, from London. In ths River, the Argo, Burk, from
'Waterfonl; John and Sally, Rogers; and the Thetis, Menghans.
front Cork. At Copenhagen. the Farmer, Lamb, from Charier-
ron. At Cork, the Penfylvania, from New York. At
fail the Aurora, Fitzamotons, front London. At Bombay, the
lady Barlow, from London; and the Lord Caitlereagh,
----, from China.
The Jane, Oa a, from Lifbon for the Clyde, is cap- ,
tured and cat tied into St. Maims.
I The Herkimer, ROWL&ND, from New York for
London, is put into Virginia in di(lrefs.
The Favourite, from Guernfey for G tt-
amburgh, is captured and carried into St. Valery.
The Exchange, PoPeLLWSLL, from Memel for
London, is on fhore on Bornholm.
The BSLLITTI (loop of war, having tinder convoy
two tranfports laden with arms and military flares,
frinn Woolwich, arrived at Elfineur on the 18th
iaftant, and immediately proceeded op the Baltic, it
is faid for Riga. The Waal:masa (loop of war, and
larrairro gun brig, arrived at Elfineur at the lame
time flom Yarmouth.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZILMONit
Anis Dragon, for the Pandour, will be recalled on Wedniblays
add Thurfdays for three months, at No. 3, Clifford's inn.
The Northumberland, for the Mary, captured Sept.
will be paid at Mr teckya's Plymouth, on Friday be=t; and
there recalled on Tuoidays and Fridays.

FROM THE EAST INDIA GAZETTE, kciv.. j.
Previous to the departure of the Betfey from Prince of tralei's
liland. Captain Grant and the crew of the Strathfpey arrived there,
in the (hill's boat, having been wrecked In the Straits of Cdlong.
The Malays had compelled Captain Otant to give a written de-
claration of the furrvnder of the ship to them. His Majeity's ibips
the Caroline and Harrier, were dispatched immediately to recover,
if poilible, the Strathipey. The Dutch Prises =ails at Prince of
Wakes Eland.

Some difference had taken place refpeding the bargain of the
cargo of captured fpices; on which account it was faid the Dutch
Indianian, the Vidtoria and her cargo, would be font to England
by the captors.
We hear that each of the gallant Commanders, who captured'
the Dutch fquadron, will (hare about sopool. prize-money, and
'that the (hare of each feaman will be about 4001.
The Pallas frigate was fitting out for a cruise off Manilla, in
conjunCtion with the Greyhound and Harrier.
The Spaniel prize, San Raphael, captured by the Wellefley, was
fold for tson dollars.
The Retaliation, prize to his Majeßy's Gip la Dedaigneufe,
Captain Duct, and lately fold at Prince of Wales's ifland, had been
captured on the Malabar coati, plundered, and fubfequently fet
fire to and burnt by a Frensh privateer.

Tht EMERALD frigate has arrived in the Downs,',
after a very faccefsful cruize.
The Anna, of 96 tons, laden with glafs ; the Bet.
fey, of too tons; the Catherine and the Alicia, of
130 tons ; the Garland, of 130 tons ; all from Ireland'
with provilions, are taken and carried into Calais.—
The Jane, of 117 tnn• laden with faltk white wine,
oranges, &c. bound to Greenock, is taken and carried
into Granville.

BELL ROCK LIGHT Houss.—Preparatisins, are
now in confiderable forwardnefs for carrying into ex-
ecution this important work, fo long the lubjed of
Parliamentary difeuftion. It is to be eredted.under the
direction of Mr. Rennie, who ufes the Aberdeen
granite, as the moll durable ftnne wherewith :to con-
ftrua the foundations and outfide coutfe of the buil
ding.
A Lift of the killed wounded and miffing in the
boats commanded by Lieutenant Gunn, Nis's, be-
longing to his Majefty's fbip leis, Capt. Joao Tow k a,
under the command of Captain THOMAS BAKER.* Of
his Majefty's (hip TRIBUNE', on an attack the
enemy's veffels under Mount Campelo, 30th April,
1907.
Mr. Matthew Derenzey, Midagpman ; • John Harriot,
dan-
gemutly.
Tames Lane, Robert Ovington, Thomas Minnard..-clanger-
Robert Treveigus, fa cquis tly.
From the tow-rope having parted or being (hot away, the vefrel
drifted in the furf, there men who are not accounted for as under
mentioned, are hoped to be prifonera.
Marines..-Thomas Tucker. Corporal ; Mlebarl Donavan, Ste
phen Jeaves, Henry Cooke... Sailors, Andrew Jeffreis, obert
Piper, Peter Wright, James Lamour, James Simpfon, Edmund
Cavanah —Reported by Sag of truce, two marines killed, me
Once dead, and three tailors wounded. The Spaniards only ac-
knowledge tight, we Sod ten miffing.
A Lia of men wounded in the boats commanded
,by Captain THOMAS BAKER, of his Majefty's (hip
Tuxtla it, on an attack of the enemy's iteffels, under
Mount Campelo, 3oth April, 1807.
James Anderfoo Coxfvrain in the barge with Captain Baker,
J badly.—ames Read, (ad) Seaman in the cutter with Lieutenant
kA'Donad, dangeroufly.
• Wounded in the boat with Lieutenant Guthery.

The Royal Sovereign yacht is repairing and tak-
ing in her (trues at Deptford, to be ready to attend
his MAPISTIN if he fhquld be difpofed for another
excurlion this fummer to Weymouth, which he is

much inclined to make.
The CARY Mit frigate, at Deptford, is to be pre-
pared for immediate lervice. • The LOIRE frigate is
alfo undergoing a repair at the fame place.
The Saw jossvm, fuppored to be the largeft veffel
in the Navy, as well as r•ne of the belt fea-boats, is
rapidly getting a thorough repair lathe Royal Dock.
LEWES FA I R.—Qn Tuefday there was a very large
fhow of cattle of all defcriptions, but they were fo ex-
tremely dull of fale, that but few pUrchares wei e

made.
Friday laft, a man fell over the Chop Thames, at
Ratcliff Crofs, in heaving up the anchor, and was
drowned.
A Gentleman's Servant, in Great Ruffell.ftreet
Bloomibury, robbed the houfe of a great quantity of
Plate, fuck as tankard, waiters, goblets, &c. laft Sa-
turday night, and has not fince been heard of.
Yefterday T. Kelly, a Watchman in Shoreditch,
was fully committed from Worfitip ftreet Office,
charged with having ftolen, from a building he was
appointed to proteet, a quantity of unflaked lime, the
property of Mr. W. Plumftead.
Yefterday a labourer fell from a fcafrold in Alder-
manbury, by which he was fo much hurt as to be
taken to the hofpital without hopes of recovery.
Leff week, as Mr. Briggs of the Royal Engineers,
was bathing in the liver Thames, near Wokinghatth '
in Osfordfhire, he was unfortunately drowned.
A few days agnoi quarrel arofe between force
country people at the fair of Claranbridge, Ireland,
in which one man was unfortunately killed.
A bay gelding, belonging to Birchewood Farm,
in the New Foreft, a few days fince died, in eonfe-
' quenee of Tome evil.difpofed perfon having violently
forced feveral nails, Clones, &c. into its ftomach.

On Saturday fe'nnight, as three young men were 1
fwimming in the Channel, near Belfaft, one of them
named Smyth, became weak, and Rrove to get bot-
tom in a place where the water was upwards of ten
feet deep; after defcending to a confiderable depth,
not finding the bottom, he was feized with fear, the
fatal attendant on danger, cfpecially in water; his
limbs refuted to perform their funitions, he was in
the ad of drowning, and called out to his compa-
nions for help, but they cowardly fled to the thore,
and left the helplefs man to drown, without offering
him the fmallett affiftance •he had evidently been
drowned in two minutes before their eyes, and within
a few yards of upwards of twenty fpetiators, had it
not been for the exertions of a Mr. M'Adarn, who
plunged into the water with his clothes on, and ref=
cued him from his perilous fituation.
In confequence of the notoriety of three of the Ca.
pitals in the late Lottery being attained by befpoke
Numbers, it is inconceivable how many orders are
daily flowing in to the refpe&ive offices for fele&
Numbers. The Tickets, we undertland, are now
ifruable at the Bank for fupplying the various offices.
—N. B. As the Scheme confilts only of zomoo
Tickets, dreamers oul regard no hint from a night-
ly vifion of any Nufhmbed r exceeding that amount.

LAW JNTBLLIGv cE.

HIGH COUIiT tIP ATIPSAI..
On Thnrfday, gn Appeal from a Decifron of the
High Court of Admiralty came on to be heard be-
fore a numerous meeting of the Lords of the Council,
at their office in Whitehall, of the utmoft importance
to thofe concerned in the neutral trade, the law of
nations, and commerce in general. The quetlion
principally depended upon the prefent mode of pro-
ceeding in blockading ports. The fettling of this
quefiion has been looked forward to by those con-
cerned in the bufinefs for fevsral years pall. It arofe
out of the order of the Council for the blockade of
the Dutch ports.
The appellant in the eaufe was Johan Wolff, the
mailer of the Patrioten, on behalf of himfelf, for the
flip and cargo, and on behalf of Danifh fubjetls the
owners thereof. The refpondents were Lieutenant
Henry Hawes, commander of his Majefly's hired
armed lugger Phcenix, the captor, and James He-
feltine, Efq. his Majefty's Procurator General.
It appeared, on behalf of the appellant's, cafe, that
the Patrioten was a Dana ship, the property of Lars
Borreten, of Drammen, in Norway, which, in the
month of July, 1798, was laden at that port with a
cargo of fir balks and deals, the produce of Norway,
the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Holfier, of Bram-
men, contigned to be delivered at a market in Hol-
land, and the (hip was accordingly proceeding thi.
Cher, when she was captured on the loth of Auguft
following, by his Majefty's hired armed lugger Plitt
ete, Lieutenant Henry Hawes commander, upon the
High Seas, about fix or (even leagues to the north-
weft of the Texel, on Friday the rod) of Auguft,
about ten at night, becaufe the was bound to H
land, and upon fufpicion of her cargo being Dutch
property, and the was brought into the port of Yar-
mouth ; that the failed under Dana neutral colours,
and had no other colours on board ; that there was
not any refiftance made at the time the veffel was
•aken. The captor found the appellant's (the matter
of the veffel) papers endorfed by the Lieutenant of
tie Proferpine, occupied in the blockade, and that
he was not to enter any port of Holland.
The following is the order of Council for the Bloc-
kade, under which authority the refpondent aaed:—
" underfigned Secretary of State of his Britannic Majefty
has received orders to inform Count Wale" Jarifberg, his Danifh
Majefty's Eteny Extraordinary, and Miuilter Plenipotentiary,
that the King has thought proper, without delay, for the defence
of his States and the security of Ms Subfeets, to make tee of all
the means which the fuperiority of his Wavy puts in his power,
and for that purpoth to caulk the inlet of the port at the Texel to
be ftridtty blockaded, which Wall lle maintained and executed in
the molt exa manner, according to all the customs of war, and
in fuch a mintier as has always be dune on like oecafiont.
"In conformity whereto, Count Wedel Jarilberg is requefted
th'at he will be pleated to inform theDanith consuls and merchants
who rade in England that theaforementloned port at the Texel
is and that be looked upon and regarded as blockaded, and that,
from this day's date, no neutral (hips dull be at liberty to put in
there, on any account, or under any pretext whatever, and that
all the meaftwes which the law of nations, and the treaties (Witt-
ing between his Majefty and the different Powers authorize, Wall
in future be taken and executed, with refpeet to fuck (hips as are
deftined to the aforcfaid port, or after the publication of there pre•
Cents may endeavour to run in there. (Signed)
" Downing ftreet, tith June, "798. Gaenviste."
The appellant, on his voyage, did not alter his
courfe upon the appearance of his Majefty's lugger,
the Phenix, and his courfe was at all times, when
weather would permit, directed for Vile ; and the
was dillant from thence about fix or fevenleagues, and
her courfe was not altered, at any time, to any other
port or place, except when (he put into Torgerfoen,
by ftrefs of weather. She was boarded on the 9th of
Auguft by an officer belonging to his Majefty's (hip
the Proferpine, who warned the Captain, and told
him he mutt not go into any port in Holland, on ac-
count of their being blockaded.
The officer examined the (hip's papers, and found
that the was bound generally to fame port in Hol-
land, and that the whole of the cargo belonged to
Magdalena Elizabeth St. Hollter' except tz dozen
of ufers, which belonged to Johan Wolff, of Dram-
men, in Norway, the mallet of the vetrel. After the
officer had examined the bill of lading, he put the
following eadot fement upon it :
" Auguft 9, 1798.
" Warned off the Fly Bland, and all other pelts and inlets in the
Zuyder Sea, by his Britannic Majefty's chip Prnfeepine:'
After which, on the I rib inftant, in the evening,
the was lopped, and detained in going into the Fly
PalTage, by the Phenix lugger.
Several witneffes proved that the Patrioten was
built at Dramfnen in the year 1783, and that the
cargo was to be fold in Holland, at a market, to the
higheft bidder, and if an immediate sale could not be
procured, k was to be left in the cufiody of Jacob
Thyman Laakeman, an agent. The whole was prow
ed to be Danith property.
At the hearing before the Judge of the Admiralty,
the claim and proofs were read, and Advocates and
Proaors on both flies, thereon, by interlocutory de-
cree, rejefted the claim for the Blip, and the mailer's
private adventure, and pronounced the fame to have
belonged, at the time of the capture and feizure
thereof, to enemies of the Crown of Great Britain,
and as such, or otherwife, subject and liable to con-
fifcation, and condemned the fame as good and law-
ful prize, takenby his Majefty's hired lugger Phenix,
Lieutenant Henry Hawes commander I and in re-
fped to the cargo, directed a certificate to he exhibi-
ted by the captors, as to the time when the blockade
of the port of Amfterdana was publicly notified by
his Majefty's Minitters, and referved the adjudica-
tion of the cargo till fuch certificate (hould have been
exhibited.
Oa the 22d of February, 1799, the cafe came be-
fore the Court again, for a further hearing, when a
certificate, that the blockade of the Texel was nod.
fled to Count JarlibergshirDanith Majefty's Minifler
at the Court of Great Britain, on the 11th of June,
1798, figned by George Hammond Efq. the Under
Secretary of State—The Advocates and proctors on
both fides were heard upon the production of the
certificate ; after which, rejeaed the claim for the
cargo, and, by interlocutory decree, pronounced the
Paid cargo to have belonged, at the time of the cap-
ture and feizure thereof, to enemies of the Crown of
Great Britain, and as fuch, or otherwife, subject and
liable to confiscation ; and condemned the lame as
goodarme lawfuldancudtterthe
Phenix,prize,taken by his Majefty's hired
Henry Hawes commander.
From this decree the Appellants appealed.
Sir Jona Nicaot.s, the King's Advocate, war
heard by their Lord(hips for near two hours, in fop-
port of the decree. He argued in favour of the no.
tification of the blockade, and that the bill of lading

I
Merely Rated that the Pattioten was bound general!?
to Holland, without mend ming any particular port;
and that the cargo being eirtuidly conligned to
Jacob Thymen Laakeman, without dating his rep
deuce, was evidently a deception s, and there was
proof of the commander being Informed of the block.
ade ; he therefore prayed their Lordthips to confirm
the decree of the Court of Chancery.
Dr. Lawalen was heard for upwards of two
hours for the Appellants. The Learned Door com-
menced with (toting the very,great importance of the
quetlion which their Lordfitips were called upon that
day to decide, which had been looked forward to by
Foreign Minitlers, and the mercantile world, for font
years, for a full board of the Privy Council to decide,
as to this day it remained undefined what a blockade
meant ; it was, therefore, an entire new mieftion.—
He Rated, that blockades had originated from the
military fytlem of warfare, in belleging towns ; but,
in a military liege, an enemy knew the force they
had to contend with ; but, in modern blockades of
ports, the commander of a lugger boards and attacks
a poor neutral, tells him the port to which he it
, bound is blockaded, and he mutt not enter it. The
1 poor foreigner probably hears it, for the firs time,
land after all does not underaand the language fuffi-
ciently to be aware ofthe confequences. l'ile blockade
4 of the Texel was certainly too general a te'm for
1 any man to underhand. It never could have been
the intention cf the Government to have blockaded
every little port in the Zuyder Sea. Foreign Courts
had not (efficient notice of a blockade before they
could bind their fubjelts. It had to go as far as Com-
; hagen, Contlantinople, die. To confiiture a block-
-1 ade, it is neceffary that the place thould be invefted
1 with a fbfficient number of rails that are flatinned
to prevent any communication with the P 4 ,t block-
-1 4ded, and he contended that one veffel was eat fuf-
' ficient to confiitute a blockade. He argued, that
there was no right in this or any other country to
order a blockade, but. for the purpofe of annoying an
. enemy in warfare, and not in cafes of commerce,
and to interfere in the trade of neutrals, except for
our own fafety. He argued at confiderable length,
1 the great hardfhips of owners of neutrals, and if
there was not a free pattage for them, theirs was a
!iron); cafe for compaffion. To induce the penalties
of a breach of blockade, there °meld be proof
both of an aaual blockade then raining, and of the
arflual or prefumptive knowledge of the blockade,
by the patty charged with violating it; and the
Learned Daaor contended, there was no proof in
this cafe. Officers and others, employed to carry a
blockade into effea, cannot, at their own pleafures
and for their own profit, vary and extend the opera-
tion which has been notified by the Government from
which they derive all their authority. The notifica.
Lion of a bt ckade having the theft of a per..ll law,
ought to be aridly conftruedin favonr of thite upon
whole property a difobediente or neglect of it, even
by their Agents, is fo heavily to fall ; and the public
notice given by his Majetly's Government to the
Danifh Minitler, did not either in words, or even in
any fair interpretation to be celleaed from the mo-
tives there Affigned for the exitlence of the blockade,
contain any prohibition of entrance by the Vlie Paf-
fage. His Majetly's Government, after the bkckade
of the Texel was declared, continued to give licences
Ito Neutral (hips, to go from this country through the
1 Vlie Pottage, and fifty-two licences were gi anted. A
public notice does not carry with it conclufive proof,
however it may afford fume prefumption of an aaual
blockade ; and from the evidence in this caufe, it ap-
pears, that no adtual blockade of the Vlie Paltage
I then exifiet
The cafe occupied the attention of their Lordthips
from ten o'clock till near four, when the Counfel for
the Appellants having finned, their Lordthips con•
fulted for a few minutes, and deferred their decifion
upon the queflion to a future day.
N. B. The decition of this important queflion was
confidered fo great, that the late Minitlers, and all
the Members of the Privy Council were Commonest
to attend. The following were prefent—Earl Cam•
den, the Prefident of the Council ; the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Matter of the Rolls, the Duke of Mon-
trofe, Vircount Caftlereagb, and two others. The
American Ambattadors attended, and paid very
1 great attention to the whole of the proceeding.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 30.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved for a Wilt of
Mandamus to be directed to the chief Butgeffes and
Commonalty of the Corporation of Seaford, com-
manding them to proceed to the eleEti mi of Sir.
James Cook, who had been candidate for the office
of Bailiff of that Borough. By the ttatute of the 6th
of the King, it was directed. that where there was an
eleftion of a public officer of that borough on one day,
and not completed, then they fhonld proceed on the
next ; and if the Bailiff did not proceed on the next,
he was to be compelled to do fo by Mandamus The
affidavit Rated, that the eleEtion took place on a given
day, when Mr. Cook and another were candidates,
in which Mr. Cook had a majority of legal votes, al.
though his opponent had a colourable majority, and
therefore he ought to be returned ; but as the Bur-
geffes and Freemen had not all voted. the eleitiOn
ought to go on another day. Rule to thew caufe.
The Rule Nill, obtained lett Term, to file a crimi-
nal information againft Mr. John Brown, for a libel
upon Admiral Montague, imputing to him that he
mifufed the powers of his flation for purpofes of pri.
vate oppreffion, was made abfolute, and the patty
will be brought up to receive judgment.
The Criminal Information moved for again(! Dr.
Campbell, for a libel on the College rif Phyficians,
was alfo male abfolute ; and the information filed
againft Mr. Robert Williams, a Welch Attorney, for
improper conduit towards the Grand Jury of the
County, was poftponed for The prefent.

DUCHY COURT OF LANCASTER.
This Court fat for the firft time within three years
for the hearing of a caufe.
EX PARTE THE MAYOR AND CORPORET[OII OE LM.
Mr. Wat.ros, the Attorney General of the Duchy,
and Mr. S:rjeant VAUGHAN, the Recorder of Lei.
ceder, on the part of the Mayor, Rated a petition
from him, requiring the interfercnci of the Chancel•
for of the Duchy, to give direftions as to the future
conduit of the Conftable of the Cattle of Leicefter,
which belongs to the Duchy, and to cenfure him for
mirconduet, under the following .circumflances.
The Corporation is partly foundcd by a charter,
• 1:71u7s over.

A

ter atio, of the 7th of James I. wherein it is re-
i red, that the Mayor for the time being (hall, on
the 17th of November, annually be (worn before the
Steward of the Cattle of Leicefler, to preferve the
Duchy liberties. For t.to years after this Charter,
and up to the year 1766, the Mellor and Corpora-
tion stied to go in procetlion with the mace before
them, habited in their gowns and formalities, to the
Cattle at Leicefler, where the Mayor was fworn in.
When the Mayor arrived at a certain gutter, he was
met by the Conflable of the Cattle, who attended
him to the gate, and back again to the gutter, and
when the Mayor patted the gutter, which was the
boundary of the view of the Cattle, the Mace Beater
was ordered to flope his Mace, and he bore it re-
clined upon his arm, inßead of carrying it upon his
Moulder. In the year 1766 the Recorder of I.eicef
ter advifcd the Mayor not to Rope the Mace, and
there being a difpute between the Corporation and
the Steward, K was agreed between them, or at lean
a cailom was adopted, of diluting the proceflion, and
the Conßable met the Mayor at the gutter in his or-
dinary drefs, and walked• with him arm in arm to
the Callle, and back to the gutter.
Mr. Brown, the prefent Con(table, infifled that the
old cuflom fhould be revived, and gave notice to the
Mayor, a fhort time before noon of the 17th of No•
vemher lag, that the Mayor would not be admitted
unlefs he appeared in his formalittrs and Hoped the
Mace at the gutter, according to the good old ctif-
torn in King James's time. The Mayor, however,
proceeded in his undrefs, and when he got to the
gate he found it (hut ; but a voice from within, the
Conflable's, declared that be could not be admitted;
that the Steward was then holding a Court to Attar
him in, but if he wanted time to prepare the Corpo-
ration he would adjourn the Court till four o'clock.
The Mayor now contended that he ought to be per-
Iniitod to go to be (worn in as he pleated ; the Con-
[table Willed that he fhould not ; and the Steward
fubmitted to the Court, and Rood neuter between the
I:tigAntE.
The Sat rcivoit GENERAL and Mr. HEALD were
heard for Mr. Brown the Conllable.
His Honour the CHANCELLOR doubted whether
he had any jurifdietion unlefs the Contlable was an
officer of his Court. He was unwilling to fay, that
the Mayor, after an ufage of 38 years, fhould not
be admitted to be (worn in without his formalities ;
at the fame time he thought form: were firVanees, 4nd
it would be better to adopt the old practice. He,
therefore, adjourned the cafe till Hilary Term, and
recommended the parties to adjuß the ceremony ami
cably on the next 17th of November.
His Honour, during the fitting of the Court, wore
a black filk gown, without a wig.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 31.
RACE HIRSES.-FERMOR V. WARDER.

Sir SA RAU Rost, tut- moved for an injunction in this cafe, to
ftay the proceedings at law, now carried on againft the Plaintiff
grounded on four Poft Obit Bonds, paired for the fum of 60:01.
by the Plaintiff, in the life time of his father, fence deceafed, and
made payable on the event of the father's death. The confedera-
tion for thefe bonds was only four horfes, which Sir Samuel Ro
milly Rated were ruionyzirour horfes, withoutbloodorpedigree,and
confequently the parchafer could not find out their anceftors, if he
fhould want to difpofe of them at any time ; it was Rated that the
Plaintiff was an years old at the time of the contract, and bad
paid one half year's intereft on the bonds, in his father's life time
...the bonds were fettlect to intereft until the father's death ; and
it was urged, that this was a fair contract with a man, not a mi-
nor, nor young.
Mr. Rica ARD s, for the Defendant, fupported the contraa, and
fubmitted to the Chancellor, that although his LordWp vas tn.tter
acquainted with the courfe of this, and other Courts, than with
race mirk., yet, that in his travels on the Northern Cit cult, he
had teen Mutes worth, and fold for, one thoufand pounds each—
and that as the Plaintiff wifhed to (port thole horfes at Newmar-
ket, in his father's life time, and was to have much money at his
father's death, it was not unfair to gratify him, and make him pay
for his amufentent. It was further urged for the D.fendanr, that
it would be vet y hard to grant an injunction againft the Defen-
dant: Mr. Warder. who could not controul the proceedings at law
which were carried on in the name of John Wilton, to whom
Warder had affigned the bonds ; and who, as was Rated, fold the
whole for about twelve hundred pounds only. It was alto Rated,
that John Vi'ill'on's real name was W,lliani Wilton, and that his
anfwer to the Plaintiff's bill did not yet come in, as William did
not fe'em inclined to anfwer to, or by the name of John.
The Counfel for the Plaintiff in turn made an appeal to the
Chancellor's own experience, whether, without nobility of birth or
great diftindtion, his Lordfhip bad known of any buries fold at
fuck high prices ? His Lordfhip Rated, that Poft Obit bonds were
not voidable or bad where impofition was not pradifed, but that in
this cafe there appeared impufition, and that the age of the Plrin•
tiff made no difference ; that the bonds in the hands of the affig.
nee remained liable to the fame ohjeetions which exifted againft
them in the hands of Mr. Warder, the original obligee ; and that
Mr. Warder fhuuld be included with the Meffrs. Smith in the in-
junetion, for that the vendor mutt look to the then price of the
market only, and mould not profit by fuch a contradt.—lnjunetton
granted.