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London, England, 1809-06-13 00:00:00

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NAPA I:V7titidaAVelk"6.
EAST iNDtA 4110Pli1tI0
An aceount has been received at the East India
;House, this morning, that the following ships, nut-.
livard-bound, were on the sth of April last 111 well,
hi lit. 8. 35 S. long. 27, 30 W. under convoy of his
Majesty's ship Straus, viz.--
TRIM BRITON, NICPTUNIC, SCALCIIT CASTLr, WAIRIN
INGS, CUMBERLAND, and LAID NILLVILLVI
'llle LADY CASTLIREACIII part..l company the 311611 MN**
FALMOUTH; JUNE IR. •
Arrived the Nancy, Fos- nit, from -Quebec, for
London, with loss of an ;nichor and cable.—SAled
the Rowena, Dowve, for St. Domingo; Charming
Kitty, MANNIxo, for Ronduras:—the Princess Char-
lotte packet, for Lisbon, is expected to sail early to- .
morrow. Wind N. W. : . •
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• PLYMotrrH DOCK, MICK It. • "
The Humber hired armed ship, from the Deal's*:
passed down Channel last evening.. The Stm.tatrio
of 74. guns, passed up Channel yesterday afternoon;
for Torbay.
Sailed the Harlequin hired armed ship, with ai.
convoy of merchantmen Ad two dock-yard trans-
ports.--the Supply and Deptio: d, (w the Downs ; the.,
Endeavour -armed brig, with the camel store-ship
under cor.vny, for Falmouth, and.-tepal thence. to
Swansea ; and the PI.OVER ilocp, of -II gnus, on a
(rola., in chace.of a stout rreneh• corvette privateer,
of 20 guns, *high fell. in With eta lit..kcsc Joan hired
lusger, of eiami on:Thnriday morning last, soon
afitr her entering the chops of the Channel, and en-
gaged her for half an hour, isheii the BLACK. Joxe
obliged. ber Opponent to sheer off. This is the same
corvette that engaged . dee, Got.nri Nen some time
since. The. BLAct kits hats no men either killed or
. wounded.

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1 . COURT OF Ktbto's Sat cif, JUAIt 111 '
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. DUNN V. I.EWIII. 0.
A ireniict had been obtained in this 4.0 e :7'ert
Plaintiff, a servant girl, against the Defen nt,./
combmaker eat Ludgate-hill, Pt./taring fOyelf . XS:
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soiled her. The Jury g the her £CISJ damage,. ...
Mr. lianas this day applied to -the Court for theft.
interposition under the following ertratTliiiary 0.1.1,.
cunistances: the Learne4 Counsel stated, that if,.
pealed application, had been male to t!,e Plainftffi
Attornieq, Me -srs. Harris and Son, bath y the *tele
aud the girl, fsr the anon ?y obtained under 4,e vey.;:.
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diet; tke.Atornies refus,d to pay i! over, allidging. •
' at one time that they had only received aelnirh,cf.i
• they thought they were justified in taking.' -rather
than risk a new trial: This sum was deiti*ded,
which they refused to pay, because the • pirl'itita not
of age, and stated that they had placed that-iom in-
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; the Bank of England in trust for her; that tb'y had
applied to a Mr. Goraet- for that purpose. Mr. Go-
mez, however, 'had denied all .knowlege of the cir-
cumstance. In this state of the hats' less, they made
another application, and Messrs. Harris referred them.
to an Attorney, a;; being the Deendant's Attorney,
when in fact the perspn to *hoot they applied was
not. After many evasive answers, the uncle at length •
; ' succeeded in obtaining the name of the XXlendant's
Attorney from a third person, and to the Attorney.
he went. From him they:Janina, to their great asto-
hishrnent„ that iii. far from having paid only gel Sr`i
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he ut actually paid over £l9O to Nlessrs.•Kirr •.ao
being the full amoupt of the verdict, together wills,. '
3E40 costa. ) •
The Court, upon this statement, directed that thio.,
mone.y so paid to Messrs. Harris should by them be;.
• immediately handed over to the M tster, together with
their bill of costs; to abide taxation, and that they -
should answer the matters of the affidavits., :.
JUNI le.-R. and T. Stricklend and six ethers, were brought
ap for pegment a they were convicted of a riotous metoier t
Fonduntihridge, Hampshire, end of singing obscene and libel iv n
songs against cne T. Honeywnod, and his wife. It appeared ill
evidence that the two Stricitisatils were- sons of an Attorney et_
that place, who had collected the others, with a view to celebrate.
the old English custom of riding skinunington, a custom kept op
in many places where the wife fs master; this was impe•ed to ha% •
the case of the prosecutor, and thei:fore this processfoe was in."
*tinted and kept up With aril noise iatil two o'clock on kbe
Sunday morning. . 1
The Court reprobated their conduct, sod as the Strickland* '
were the ringleaders, t4er.vera hound to appear when called.:
upon, their father undertaking,4l ply all theprosecution expecces
the ethers were dismissed, with advice telle more carefia of their :-
conduct in future.
111ALLTT C. 'MAINS. -
An action to recover the sum of £lO 10s. Pfloslgings. The
Plaintiff is a pastry-dook in Smithfield, the IMendartt occupied
apartments in his 'Raoul at the rate of sttguineas per anntan He
quitted.theto on the 99th December last, and teitdered the Plain-
tiff £lO. 19s. id. being the amount for the quarter's rent due at
Christians, and the three subset/ow,* days, het the Plaintiff re-
fund-to receive the money tenaered, and becistglashis action fur. '
the quarter's rent up to Lady-day last. • "the-question in the CU..'
was whether the parole admission of the Plaintiff, that he the ,
Defendant was at liberty to quit as soon as he tomtit convenient '
to himself, was to &e taken as a waver of the right to the guar•.
ser's notice?
It was shown by evidence for the trefendant that there had been •
a diazrini..; no his goods for ic9l, half a year's rebeclue at 1111-,.
ehaelmas - that the Plaintiff upcn receiving the motley proinised-;
the Deletidant (who had complained that be dal not hop to late
Im:ern:Cot to repair the lodging,) he 'troth! now he heal.got his,: '
money, repair immediately, lout the Defendant told him that It
was to late, for his Family had been putsto too much inconveni:
rece, for him to consent to remain any logger. 'ale Plaintiff
replied, that he was at liberty to go, fur that the apartments
Were ttoderiati and he could lily day get more for them.
Leald'Ettiteenaouon was of opinion, that this parole permisfe!
slon_to 4111: part, was not sufficiently, boding un the Plaintiff. The t
Custesta ef yearly lodging letting lacing a quarter', notice.. '
The tory aecordinzfy fop nd a verdict for the Plaictiff---Da-
images 410 10s,


PORTSMOUTH, fuNr -
Sed the BLossimi sloop or war, from the bcwns;
a fleet of transports from the Medi tbrranean ; Emme-
line, MunoocK, from New York, for London, in 26
ddvc _Sailed a. fleet of merchantmen for the River ;
DIiFENDEIt, With a convoy to Plymouth and PRO-
Tkc-roa, with ditto to Guernsey.—Wind N.W.

DEAL, JUNE 12. . -
Arrived and sailed for, the River, the Heywood,
M,lsTostt, from Jamaica.—Arrived the Vigilant,
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Ct.ievonn, for Malta ; William and Ann, SOtaLit, for
Quebec; Fortune, flio'rox, for Barbadoes ; Bee,
STONEROUSE, for Halifax ; Transter,.POTTElt, for Gi-
braltar ; Echo, Sawn' ; and Vigilant, Hmsneatsov,
for Lisbon. Also arrived Vie Earl Spencer faired
armed cuttee from Cork, having under her convoy
the ship Eliza, from the coast of Guinea, which sailed
through fur the river; and the Osprey and Fly sloops
from a crnize.-.Sailed the Fearless and Thinshcr.
gun-brigs, with • the Countess of Elgin hired armed
cutter, to survey the.. Flemish banks ; the Peruvian'
sloop on a cruise; and the Henry Addington East-
India ship for Portsmouth. An American ship passed
here t! is day from the westward for the river.
GREINOCK, JUNE 9.
The Mary, Gisseoi, arrived here yesterday from
Denterara--..sailed thence the c...'2d April in company
with the Helen, M`KINLAY, of Us port, for Grenada,
to join the ships there, which were to Ft-Teed soon
afser to join the ceetiretr appointed to salt frotit To'r
tola, lOrtylkfays Mt- the Ariadee, Bl HD ; and La-
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SHARP, loadin-, for this port. spoke the Mary,
of Stranraer, from Leith for Pictou, all well, in lat.
44. long. SF.—Arrived at Port- Glasgow the Pene-
lope, Nl4lsarous, from St. Vincent's:-.-sailed thence
the 15th.AprO ; the vessels that were to join convoy
from thence had sailed three days -proviousio the Pe.
nelopels sailing to join thlfgener4l convoy at Thrtola ;
among which were the Hi.rcules, RoOots ; and Bri-
tannia, Men us, loadiog, to sail next convoy for
Clyde. Spoke 23d of the Union, BRET, from
Whitehaven, bound to 1at..53. 35. long: 25.
52. E. all. well.
The Mary, Clarke, arrived at Cagliari, Sarelnia, on the 30.11
.41.riu; she sailed from Citfraltar on the tith of thaemonth, in
cbropany with. a fleet of Spanish transports, convoyed by two Spa.
rish line of battle ships, and two flritish b igates, bound from Ca-
diz foe Majorca, with fireeoh prisoners.
The Pitt, Hawthornwaite, sailed from Dominica 18th April,
in company with the Nancy, and Caear ; parted from the Nancy
or. 2.d May, in lat. 34. long. 3.—Ou the Stab April, spoke his
Nijesty'. brig Surinam, in lat. 18. 45.10ng. 61 45. on a cruise,
sit well. On the !4th, spoke his Majesty's ship Indian, from Ber-
muda, on a ocular, in lat. 21. 38. 10ng.65. 34. an Well. On. tt,e
19th May, in lat. 50. 46. loud. 17. 37. spoke the Mary, Crighton,
horn hence to frinidad, all wt...

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TAYLOR T. FORBES.
This is a cue the decision of which is intereedet td those wt•ts
May have occasion to hold their debtors to ball, Ouce it rt./ulnae:
the form of making affidavitA for that purpose.
The defendant had been held to hail upon an affidavit, stating,
that he owed the plaintiff a sum of money for goods sold and de-
livered to the defendant, without stating that they were sold VI
the plaintiff to the dtrendant. Uptist which Mr. Stirroughs had
obtained a liule to *hew cause why the defendant should not be
discharged on filing common bail, on the ground that the athdaylc
on whith be was held to bzli was insufficient.
Mr. MAITATT shcwed cause against the rule, and observed
that there were conflicting decisions by the Court upon this sub-
ject, and it was Impossible to reconcile them ; but he submitted
that the more recent were in support of this foto,' of
The authorities were Cathloe Hagger, 8 East.
ger w. Reetscni, 8 Term Rep. 3311.—Mackeazie v. Mackenzie,
' Term Rep.
Mr. Butt coutsefir supported this rule upon the authority of the
latter case.

Mr. Minimum), in the course of his speech on
Thnrsday last, did. ample justice to the merits and
services of Mr. MACDONALD, as first Conunissioner in.
America under the sixth article of the treaty of 1794;
very candidly admitting that he found the statements
made, to that Gentleman's honour, both by Lord.
HENKY--PRTTY and the CHAwcEI.LOR of the EXCHE-'
QC R, on the Friday preeceding, to lie perfectly con.,
recr; and as, in consequence of their having been
made towards the close of the debate they were not i
included in Sour report, we readily comply with the i
request of a friend of Mr. MACDON ALD for the satis,l . . . ,
faction of his other friends, by inserting the feliowing
note of what passed on that occasion, which has been ,
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sent us as taken from the Communication of a Nlcm- COUitf.6l7- COMMON. PLEAS, JUNE Is. ..
JUDGE v. BOOTH AND GEC •
her who *As pressent:—Lord Hollow' Pirri observed, 1 Booth, n attwney,
4' that he could not but consider it as very indelicate
and irepreper to hurt the feelings of individuals with- I they shoold not pay the amount of a debt for whAo th attirlinbei ,•
; ShTerihffis's Offiseacnracttoi°nobbtallinugat alge to make thema
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out baying etamined into their conduct ;'that kr his
part he halt taken pains, to•utake hirnielf acquainted ()15'2er I" liberati:4 thoYerKm who owed tabu, upon she -
I bad promised to be joint bail with OR Plahojr; std the gimiri
with the grounds on "Whiels com •t. had been ' Plaaltir° 61°1" l'!cl3*Ttnt 011. for him. ~ ,
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.s. pensa ion ! It was preyed by the affidavit oldie ptaintif.andlitlnalt.w.ii '.
made to IsTr. MacnoNALD, and the result was a con- I the attorney, that he-hid promised the *Witte liecem. joke
The rote was made absolute Witil.oos44 against
tikeillnl that•the talents•and services of dett Gentleman.,, bati with him for one Peters, to the limemittif 131. aft debt which
• were fully-entitled to the reintineralbins, be. had • IC- , Pete" I.Awt'd•
the attorney, bat refined against' the ether defends-zit: ' 4
ceived, and that op the:whole he had acqUitted hits-
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ADMTRALTY COURT, -TONE 8.. -.:t._701441.4.1.:Pir15e.„:
self .such *ability and honourable • integrity, 551" • ,
warranted every mark of his hlalusTV's favour which+,
. This day the Right Hon. Bir-W. littoklkul. .1 ' bad been- bestowed on him. The This Of
AO the adjatile.ation of the followin caset- •. • . .. • -
Busy, Bennet inaster.--:-This we Oil . illakiAlalliknee or- '
the Eicnror ea said; " that 11
.wai happy to agree
with the Noble Lord on the opposite side in every".
•; .IrStet sailed from liverpool to the,ceisi'ot istrickViere she
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condemnation in .the Vice-MA*ll4 * 'ot TOO*. 'lie '
thing which related to Mr.MaCDOSALD, andthe Ootri
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pensation granted forhis services.; that the whole of took in a cargo of slaves, and proceeded to Trlnkhd, add thensisi•
to Tortola, where she was led
the King, on the ground Of the-master's Intehtion ifiettwardi iti
st• a under the Act or the 40th of"'
gr. MActsosaLD's conduct, both in America and
, proceed to St.'llomas's, to dispose otthem.—..entenee &ruined,
•sinte in this country, was highly honourable to him,:
warranting the charadter which he sustained- among with costs.
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these who knew him, and above his praise."—We II
flasher, Newman mitster.—Thti`was an appltrlic atio
1101 n for tie
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find that his MAJESTY'S grant to Mr. MACDONAI,D was 1 captor's expences,Naliak WO -- • 'on the Oand of -
not merely for the- loss of his profession (as had been ! misconduct, autunite:lt-hill" ; pp*ioa
erroneously stated) but also "as an honourable testi- I ---"Pine.riefiPemme , - : . !,.. e::,... . /
molly of his able and upright conduct in. 1,
t-4 eZettltioll BIMAD.—This day tlie 'Wee` Ito' 4re.,(01411‘k-1
of his office ;" which office eeased,a4a4etemommi jok,•
.imen ; the' LORD MAYOR,
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theBth of 'Janet:try, 1802. •. . • - [(Feinted *.ptesebit .pvice#ta 001ititKWIN.
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Lord Ettxxiottorcsa.—The affidavit by which a person Is •
I held to bail, should not only be so worded as that theparty maki.l
' It should guard against perjury, bet also aninst arriecomeeptiorr of 44
forte of 'diem •Now•goods may be sold by one parson, and they
• may be delivered by another ; or they may be both sold and de.
livered by one person, and be the property of another ; and the
C istiritin may be misconceived, and brought by the person w!lo sAd
an.: delivered the goods, instead of their owner. I own that the
leasing of my mind is greatly in faveur of adhering to rltsid rurei
before a party shall be dt priced of his liberty ; and to hold that
no person shall be held to bail for debt, except where the party .
holding biro to bail shall, in his affidavit, net oaly not clime bf.'
fore the Court its * eetjured man, but shall nett come as a permit
misconceiving his Absolute.

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