Star.
London, England, 1802-01-11 00:00:00

hiPEDitiON TO BCiPf.

irrieCi Or A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER tit TNt
61ST REGIMENT OF TOOT, IN EGTFT.
" In the Mozambique Channel we had frequent
Urns, with heavy fwells ; and sometimes hard
fqualls of wind,accompanied by thunder and light-
n;ng, which gave us confiderable alarm on account
of the quantity of gunpowder on board. One of
thefe fqualls came on fo fuddenly in the middle of
a fine night, when every fail was let, as to throw
our fhip on her beam ends. Her malts went over
her fide, and the luckily righted. I never beheld
a fight fo awful. The night was very dark ; bat
the livid flathes of lightning, which appeared to
fet the heavens on fire, rendered it at times fo
light, as to make a nail upon deck as vilible as at
noi•n-day. The Chip went at the rate of nine knots
apt hour, lying down on one fide, and letting the
lea in a foam with the rapidity of her courfe, till
the malls all went, and we expeeed every mo-
ment to fill with water, or to be dallied in pieces
againft the furrounding fboals. Such was the ge-
neral tenor of our voyage.
g At g•aka, we were given to underhand, that
we thanld be only eight or ten days reaching Coat.,
as the Inuth weft monfoon was then blowing, and
expelled t nrevail a fortnight longer. We laid
in our tea 'cock accordingly. Judge, therefore,
what our fituation was At the end of thirty days!
Short allowance of water, and fait provifions, with
a :ttle rice, formed our whole fubfiftence. Our
bc'ettits and flour were all exhavhd fourteen days
before our arrival atColir. I frequently went to bed
in a !late of excruciating hunger, not daring to eat
fat meat for Scar of exciting third, which fdread-
ed Rill more. We had only a glafs of bad rum
each a day, to keep nineteen honed fellows, cram-
med together in the ward-room of a French fri-
gate, in good humour with one another. We
fometimesloft eight or ten miles a day, the (hip
being fo light as to be totally unable to Rem the
inalhenfe waves; which rulhed to her bows, and
knocked her about in an unmerciful manner.

" At length we arrived atenfir, on the tzth of
June, difembarl.ed, and encamped about half a
mile from the town, on a randy &fat t. After be-
in; fo long at Tea, we' flattered our imaginations
with the hopes of being amply rewarded for all
our privations by a plentiful fupply of necefraries
and comforts at Colir, and bad already in fancy
devoured frefh bread at.d meat, milk and vegeta-
bles. But no fuch good fortune attended its there.
)Blot a tree, or a blade of grafs is to be feen within
at hundred miles of Cofir. The fiat thing we did
Was to dig a well; and loon came to water in fla-
vour more unpleafant than Tea-water; but rather
prefer.tble becattfe it quenched our thirft. We were
molt painfully incommoded by a continual hot
vim!, which blew acrofs the defart, dried up the
pores of the tkin, and, in fpite of the intenfe heat,
prevented all perfpiration. Add to there circum-
fiances thore of the infeas, which fwarmect about
us, and drove us almoft to madnefs, by flying up
our nofes and down our throats ; a conliant tor-
menting thirft, which parched our mouths in a
manner of which the mon feverifh patient in Eng-
land can ICarcelv form an idea.

" We rem.,ined at Cofir five weeks. We got a
little Madeira from General BA I RD'S army, which
alone, 1 believe, kept molt of us alive. The hor-
rors of our march acrofs the defart I referve to en-
tertain you with at a future period. Sore eyes,
blinduefs, and fevers, were the phyfical evils which
attended our journey. But the greateft evil of all,
in the opinion of men, whole loyal fpirit braved
every difficulty, was that which terminated our
expedition t—the circumilpee of our arrival at
Rofetta, on the 31ft of Auguft, uhcn we received
the intelligence that Ale x andt ;A was fur renderinii.
All the retieffiments, which we feand very plenti-
fully in this land of Canaan, 'did not prevent us
from regretting the opportunity, for which we had
fo ardently longed, of letting down our fatigues
and hardfhips to the honourable (core of our Coun-
try's caufe, after a fignal difplay of the valour
which animated our little army. We hope to
gierry this deficiency at the Manilas, or at Tome
valuable pofiellion of the enemy, to which
the Indian army is deftined. _ .

,g In leaving Egypt, we naturally (peculate on
its future fate. We have heard enough to con-
vince us th:it the French will leave no (lone un-
turned in order to regain the poffefGon of it. To
prevent this, we know not whether we should re-
tain Alexandria, or Come other footing in the
country r but, however this may be, we ate per-
fuaded that our Government will never give up
Malta, which glut& the pairage to the Levant,
and confequently to Egypt.,,

The firfl battalion of the 85th regiment has
failed from Madeira for Jamaica. The fecond
battalion is waiting in Portfea barracks fur trait-
ports, under like dettination.
Moft of the militia regiments not already arriv-
ed at their difoanding quarters, are undcr orders
to proceed thither.
The firll divilion of the Edinburgh Militia par-
fed through that city on Tuefday, and the fecond
on Wcdritiday, on their route to Muffelburgli.—
They are replaced at Glafgow by the Ayr and
Rtnfrewthire.

CHALLVNGF.—A mefrage, amounting to a chal-
lenge, was fall week fent by an officer lately re-
turned from India, to —MILLS, Efq. the Chair-
man of the EaR India Company. The circuits-
fiance has given rife to much,converfittion at both
ends of the. town. We underßand, that the offi-
cer, Mr. J. complained of certain language ufed by
the Chairman refpeding his father, who had been
a Governor in India. He therefore fent Capt. G.
a relation of his, to wait upon Mr. MILLS, not as
Chairman of the Court of Direslors, but as a gen-
tleman and a foldieri for Mr. MI sss is Lieutenant-
Colonel of one of the India Company Volunteer
Regiments. The Chairman, however, conceiving
that the matter regarded his official condu&, fub-
mitted it td the Court of Diredors, who were of
opinion thatMr.Mtsss fhould not accept the chal-
lenge, and they have direded their Solicitor to
take legal Reps agaittli Mr. J. We fuppofe a cri-
ri:nal information will be moved in the Court of
T. klg's Bench.

LA INTiiuditiEt

GRIM. CON.
JACKSON V. LORI) VISCOUNT MILSINCTOWN.
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A Jury was impannelled on Saturday lane by
the Sheriffs, in order to affefs the damages in the
above caufe, where judgment was fuffered to go
by default. The damages were laid at to,oool.
Mr. Serjeant Best addreffed the Jury on the
part of the plaintiff, informing them that it was
an action to recover compenfation in damages
from the defendant, for 'having alienated the al
feßions of the plaintiff's wife, deprived him of
the comforts of her fociety, and induced her to
elope and live with him in adultery, which the (till
continued to do. The elopement took place on
the 4th of Augult laft. Unfortunately, in thele
corrupt and profligate days, cafes of this kind oc•
curled fo frequently, that he fhould be going over
a very hackneyed fubjed, were he to attempt pref:
Ping a due fenfe of the heinous nature of fuch a
trefpafs upon the peace of a hufband, or to aggra-
vate it by reprefenting the difgrace which fuch
refleßed on the children, and the unea-
finds which it could not fail of fpreading through
all the branches of a family. Thefe circunittances
came home to the breath of all men of every de-
fcription, for which reafon, and confidering the
very refpeCtable Gentlemen I have now the honour
of addreffing, I may, with the greaten fafety,
leave that part of the fubjeß to their own feelings.
He was prepared to lay before them, and fupport
by evidence, a cafe, than which none was ever
brought before a Court of Janice more entitled to
at lean pecuniary damages; for as to compentli-
tion, taking that word in its true import, it was
evident that nothing could compenfate a man for
fuch an injury to his happinefs. It was true, in-
deed, that the crime, for fuch offences were really
crimes, did not come aggravated by thole circum-
ilances which fontetimes occurred, fuch as betray-
ing the confidence of a friend, and making that a
conveyance to the affeeions of his wife; hut there
were tome aggravating circumaances which would
merit the attention of the Jury. His client did
not call upon them for thole exemplary and yin-
didive damages meant to operate as a punifhmentl
on the offending party ; but he fhould look to
them for a retribution at lean for the loffes he had
fuftained.—The learned Counfel then proceeded
to explain the nature of the cafe. The plaintiff, li
Mr. Henry Jackfon, was a Gentleman in the pro-
fenion of the law, very eminent in that line, and
nephew to a late diftinguithed Baronet (Sir Wm.
Middleton), and of mon refpeetable family con-
neCtions. The defendant, Lord Vircount Milling-
town, was the eldett fon of the wealthy Earl of,
Portmore. The unfortunate Lady, the ohjal of
1
his &dot:Hon, was grand-daughter to a moil re-
fpc4table Baronet in Kent (Sir C. Bifhop), and.
niece to Sir George Warren ; her father was at
this time a Colonel in the army. They would
have in evidence, that this Lady was by blood
conneßed with many of the fire and molt refpec-
table families in the kingdom. At the age of 22,
when married to Mr. Jackfon, on the 26th of Sep-
tember 1791, the was alining in beauty and ac-
complithments, and adorned with every virtue ;
the was, in fad, a perfon of that defcription that
the feleCtion of fuch a woman for a wife mull do
honour to the prudence and tale of any ;Ilan.'
The hatband and wife, it would be (hewn, lived
togc:her in the moil perked love and harmony.
In the year 1793, Mr. Jackfon had the misfortune
to be afflieted with a paralytic Rinke, which made
it neceittry for him to fufpend all application to
bufinefs, and retire to the country, for th 2
pur-
pole of ftrengthening his health. He took apart-
ments in Sunbury, where Mrs. Jackfon attended
on him with all that care, attention, and anxi.ty,
that could have been 'hewn by the moll aniduous
and affetionate of wives. Their mutual harmony
continued down to July 1799, when Mrs. Jackfon
went to Sporrengton, in Suffer, on a vifit to her
father (Colonel Bifhop), and mother. Sir George
and Lady Warren being then at Brighton, invited
Major and Mrs. Vince (liner to Mrs. Jackfon)
and three other unmarried fitters, to pats the
race-week with them ; and thortly afterwards they
were joined by Colonel Bithop ; and Mrs. Jackfon
and her lifters were invited by Lady Charles So-
merfet to a ball and (upper, which commenced
the acquaintance between Mrs. Jackfon and Lord
Milfingtown, who was introduced to her by Sir
G. Warren. His Lordniip feleßed Mrs. Jackfon
for his partner, and it was remarked thate paid
her very particular attention ; but The came up
to London a few days afterwards. In the
&miner following the fame Ladies were on a
vifit to Mrs. Middleton, filler to Sir Wm. Middle-
ton, and uncle to the plaintiff, at Eton, and it hap-
pening that the Afcot Races took place ft that
time, they made a party to it, and were joined by
Lord M. who was afterwards introduced to Mrs.
Middleton, at her houfe, both by Mrs. Jackfon and
Mifs Bifhop, as a fuitor of the latter young Lady.
Mr. Jackfon golng down, in a day or two after-
wards, a fimilar introdußion took place between
him and Lord M. There enfued feveral water
parties on the river, and things fccmed fo far draw-
ing to a conclufion, that Mr. J.willing to promote
fo advantageous a match with a nobleman of Lord
M.'s rank and fortune, (which confederation was
frequently preffed upon him by his Lady) and be-
ing folicited to do fo by Mifs Bifhop herfelf, gave
his Lordthip an invitation to his hoofe, which the
latter accepted, and continued his vifits there all
the fununer of itioo, Rill appearing to dire& his
attentions to Mifs Bifhop. In confiquence of the
frequent reports of the intended marriage, Lord
Milfingtown, with Mr. and Mrs. J. and Mifs BAN),
were invited, and paid virus to Colonel Bifhop,
their father, and feveral other perfons. At length
Mr. J. finding that his Lordfhip made no propo-
fals, and having fufpicions of his illicit intentions,
communicated to his wife his deign to break off
with, and inform him that his vifits mutt be dif-
continued. The Lady wilhed to ditfuade him from
doing fo under different pretences, and even guar.
relied with him on the fubjeß ; but he perlilted in
his determination, and left it to Mrs. J. to inform
Lord Milfingtown of it in whatmanner the pleafed.
The communication being made, the Plaintiff's
cyca were fOOll opened, to hie [uprise and mord-.