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AMAIIIALLTY MAY, 20. 18c6.
Copy of t 01:r from Yore Admiral I Atrd entHnitvont.l. Cnm.
"411117 I" C"ef 61, Mlieft'et ilbizt and in •he M.
iiNteroutmo. to William MAtAlen, Eic. dated an hoard II e
Ofeek ac Cadis, Aptil 30. Ilk&
far thr information of the I.ords Comotiltiorters
9f the Aetr.l•4:ty. a Lett.r front eaptaia Mundy. of his Ma-
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• idly a 11,h. the I.:)ara. eltlng .n weadCt of ii. h.vhut e,rttortd
he Spantiltfothatal reboancr Atphstllta. uu the nivrliing of the
28th inft.tot, Act a lung Chace. I am, S.:e.
(Signed) COL Ll t: 0 WOOD.
His Mitfty's Ship Hydra,.t &a. April 23, :8:6.
My Lori—l have the !Inflow to inform rm. his
rstb,lic M.sjefte: fchamet Aeunnauta, e..mmanded
. . .

b Lieutenant Don PM, De hit• DIV IL. and delliued
'or Buenos Ayres. with difratches. was captured
this mertting by his ?gaieties (hip tinder my corn-
smand, alter a chAce of tart hundred and thirty miles,
in 14t. 14. deg 9 min. N. and long. 9 deg. 29 min.
W. She is a rem:likable fine vaci of her 'kind,

having ori,ti.oilly carried ten (ix pounders and two
eislus, all of which. however, *ere taken out pre-
%tutus to her proceeding limas the Atlantic, no the
above fervi• c; at the ti.ne of capture having only
four fixes m.,onted nn flocks. and a complement
of twenty officers arid men. She is coppered, and
well found in every fort of (lore, a;,::1 appears per-
fealv adapted for his fervice. I have the
honour to he, &c. (Signed) G. m Too Dy.

Copy of • tarter from Vice Admiral Darrel, Commander in
'Chief of Ms Ikt+ ftfil ships and V, fat at Jvmalca, to Wil
liilla Madden, I fq. dated at Port Royal, March ay, vlic.6.
Sir—l have the honour to Wore, for the information of the
CordeCoututifilon n of the Admiraity..the Co..y of a Letter I
haw reeely‘d from Captain Waller of the Serpent, detailing the
earore of one of hi. Catholic Majrfly% vomit' codas by theboats
of that Soap, to a very gallant manner. I am, Sta. ,
(Sired) s• a NACRE&
His Majef‘• '. 01,ry, Serpent, Port Royal Huboar,
Jainalea, Muth 6, i 8.6.
Sir—l have the trai.our to inform you, that, on
the aSth of November lad, being off the iflanJ of
Booed, at five P. M. two fail appeared in the N.E. COURT OP KING'S BENCH, MAY at.
qnarter. As they were far to windward, and night TOIL KING V. jr,NN COL
approaching, I jadged, by commencing a chace at This man was brought op from Avid:iry tom
Mat tiete, there was but little rape& of keeping under an attachment, to receive the judgment of the
fight of- them after elofe of day, I therefore contr. Court, for a breach of his duty, as a Juryman, nn the
execution of a Writ of !writ y, in an aininn brought
Hued with the (hip in the fame nitration as when fir ft
en till dune, and then bore up ; made all fail for
by William Selby, Efq. againft a perfon of the name
kruxillo Bay, the entrance of which we reached be-
of Moffitt, for trefpalliog upon his property, under
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fore eleyen o'clock the fame night. I was induced to the pretence of nutting.
The circumflances, directed to the Court by Mr.
believe, by . the dire inn they were fleeting, added
Ws tine, on the mot of the profecution, were there—
to ether circumfi,tnces, this was their dellination.—
Mr. Selby is the owner of it large extent of woods in
At two in the morning of the 29th, there verels
Buckinghamfhire, called Whan-dtin Closes, in which
*ere Peen rounding the call point forming Tr uxillo
ft r, but kto the land that they were great depredations are continually committed by the
Shareely to difcerned. Experiencing a thong enr
. people living round the neighbnurbond : fame under
baulinge ft eat
the pretence of being c•imm mete and having a right
mill, at the fame time felting the (hip out, and the
wind afro in that direEtion, which they avoided in to turn cattle there, and others of gathering nuts. pie.
fhore, I found, under there great difadvantages, king up acorns, &c. ; the damage, however, done to
there was no probability of ailing againa them with his woods, independent of the annual lots by wood.
effea without the boa's, fo they were intlawly dif-
Settlers; made it necetraty for Mr. Selby to put a
patched under the orders of Mr. WILLIAM PATFULL,
flop to it, by legal means, and his keepers having
the Second Lieutenant, and Mr. Cremates Tarim marked font perfons of the names of Mollitt. Arnold,
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Mailer's Mate, in the launch, and the cutter with Cole, and Keen, who were repeatedly (mind trefpa
Mr. Sault ..t. Nosseicr, Midfhipman. and Mr. ring in the Chace, and who, on being intertured by
''somas Souris, the Putter, all of whom came the keepers, infilled they had a tight to go into the
forward in a very handfnme manner, offering their Chace whenever they liked, and would do fn.
Cervices, as well as every man employed on this flea. Mr. Selby immediately brought rations *genii
Boa iiie had made them ant before night i one to them to try that tight—all except Mollitt, how-
be a felucca, the other felucca rigged forward, hut
ever, being made fenfible of their error, applied,
baying a reformer fail aft, which convinced me they through their friend+, to Mr. Selby, to diteon-
tinue the proceedings spina them, which he was
Were enemy's armed veffels, I therefore diretted the
boats to a& together,- and attempt the largo, aro._ prevailed upon to dn, on their figning a written ono-
fogy for their conduCt. Moffitt Rill, however. infifi-
en approaching her they received a heavy difeharge
fromgreatgunsandfmall arms,hut theirexertinns Pion ing upon the right, the aelion was eutitinned, and a
for want of any defence afterwards obtain-
castled, them to boatd and carry their ethic& ; which judgment
eel againft him, on whiell a Writ of Inquiry of Da-
- roved to be a fehonner built veffel and gtiirda c”fla,
caned the St. Chrifin Vil Penn, bearing the colours magus was awarded, and a Jury from the neigh.
and belonging to hie Catholic Majefiy, from the bourhood of Whaddon Chace fummoned to execute
of whom the prifoner John Cox was one, and
Havannab, mounting one long traveling eighteen- K.
pounder, two four-pounders, four brats threepoun with other perfons of the names of Whitby and Grace,
ders, (mall arms, Ste. and forty men, commanded by
refuted to find any verdifk, alledging that the defen-
Don Joel' CHarsroest. Talmo, who, and twenty. dant Mollitt had in their opinion a right to be in the
five others, efeaped by jumping overboard and (wins- Chace, and there could be no harm in his gathering
ming on &ore: Lieutenant" Parrutt, with the a few nuts; and as he was not proved to have
launch alone loft no time in purfuing the other, but broken any of the boughs, they did not think lie
am lorry to fay, the eluded his vigilance under cover had done any damage, and would nut find any
verdia &sena him, and though the Sheriff re.
of the night, by lowering her falls, thea (weeping
g Rated it to be their duty (as the Defen-
round the oppofite fide of the bay dote I. Luke Peatsinf
Keys ; and at daylight was nearly under the fort dant Moffitt had by the proceedings admitted that he
had committed the trefpafs complained of, and did
Truzillo ; i Spanifb -felucca privateer mounting one
not attempt to jultify it,, to Sada verdia, however
tuuromunder and forty men; (he had accidentally
t
)Dined the captured vela off Cape Antonio five days
fmall he damage they might give; and though Mr.
hefore. I feel much pleafure in laying this fervice Selby's Attorney exprefsly told them, that the aiffion
was brought merely to try the quellion of right, yet
was performed without the lots of a man, and great
credit is due to Lieutenant Parrtrxt, not only for up by the attendant, and that heavy damages were
not defired, Cox and the other. hill pet lilted in re-
his judgment in laying the boats on board, the gal.
lant manner he led them on, but for his 'Lebec net. toting to find any verdict, and the prifoner Cox broke
tion rerpefiing the purfuit; of the other Officers and op the Jury by leaving the hours. Mr. Selby was
men employed tinder his orders, highly merit my therefore under the necetlity of iffuing and executing
another Writ of Inquiry ag2init Moffitt, and he is now
warmed acknowledgments, all of whom I take the
lying in Aylefinary Goal, in confequence of the vet
liberty of recommending to Your notice. I have the
I onour to be, Ece. (Signed) J. WALLER• did given againil him. .For this conchal of Cox's,
Copy of a Letter from Rear Admiral the Honourable Sir Alex-
however, an attachment was iffued ageinfl him by the
ander Cochrane, Bart Commander in Chief of his Majcily's Conn of King's Bench, and he was taken Into collo.
Ship and Wirei, at the Leeward Man.* to Witham Mandan dy, and lodged in Aylrtbory Goal, and was now
Efq dated at Barbaduca, Merck 30. brought up to receive the fentence of the Court for
Sir -1 mein& for the information of the Lord•Commiffioners his conduel.
of the Admiralty. Copy or a Letter from Sir Edward Berry, Cap-
The Court, Oler Tome revere animadverfinns on the
tale of hi. Majeity's Ship Agamemnon, giving an account of the
rifonet's condo°, and the mifehief it
CAplUfe. by that (hip and the Carysinrt, of la Li Tine. a very fine p might ncealion
brig corvette. of IS guns and 1,-.0 men, born 1.'06,m, w;th dif- by the encouragement it would give to others, if they
p.tches to:Martinique I have the honour to be, &e. (tippled they could commit their lawlefs depredations
(Signed) AI EX COCHRAN& , without the till: of being puniihed by a Jury when
His Majeity's Ship Agamtmnon,at Sea, March 24. called to account, fentenced the priinner to Rand
Sir—l have the honour to acquaint you, that this committed to the King's Bench,untels Mr. Selby would
morning at daylight, Nlartiniq.ie hearing S. S i deg. be at the expellee of conveying him to the county
W. dittance 170 miles, two fail were fern to wind. goal.—On this Mr. Sclby's Coutifel humanely inter-
ward, evidently a frigate in chace of a trig, (leering fcred, and declared, that as the m 4tter was only taken
large tinder a prefs of fail. Captain M‘K s nes, of up for the fake of example to ~diets, it was not his
the Caerenar, foon made himfelf known to me by client's with to prels for any fevetity agaittit tl.c pti.
fional, and that the chace was an enemy ; the CA- loner, unlefs the Court thrtild think it necclf iry. On
aysroar having been in chace thirty Iv.urs, and by I which the Conti ponponed the order for his impti•
he greaten perievetance and attention kept fight of fonment, and direeted that he (lionlit he btought up
her the whole night. the enemy mantras ling in a 1 ag.iin the fita day of next term, unlefs he in the
-allerly Rile the whole time. At half raft (even, mean time paid all the expenses of the fecond writ
'he could not trots us, fhe furrentlered, and i of inquiry, and of the proceedings againti hint.—
, be the Ft end' Ish,tion al brig la lartine, I Mr. Jutlice Grids, at the fame time, dcfired, that
'aot os e r Drc it AUTI•Ves. commander, the prili•ner and his advilers would let it betinderßood
:rat, bi.und to Martinique, out ss days, lin the country, that the trefpatres in tit., Chafe c.,m-
made it7:y ta;:tme t the is a remarkably I plained of by there proceedings,and particularly under
luite new, morons IS wins, two of which i loch pretences as were row let up, were not to be
1 overboard is the chace, is hell appoint• I endured, and ought to be feverely punitFed, and that
refpeC! ; fails unf: •mmrnly fall, and i', I it was the duty Of every per (nn afting as a J:ityman,
m, 4.4 cll . alculated I,:r his Majett y's ;cr. . to prevent and difcourage them by his verdiCt, Nhen
&•.:. (oigned) L. Berri, Captain. 1 called upon by legal proceedings to do to.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

T sulkily Rile
' finding the cc
piovett to be
Nlnnfieur Ca
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iron' L'Ories
and had not
. fine veffel, qu
WCTC thrown
• ed in every rl
i. my opinine
. 1 hisvc,