Star.
London, England, 1807-10-02 00:00:00

NEW biSCOVERIES.

141..arittn, A ucurr Is.—The itnTal Hydrographi-
cal Office of this city has poblifhed, by command of
the PR:Nca .or Peace, in Ibe Gazette of this city,
the following notice, relative to a difcovery recently
made in the South Sea :

The frigate la Pala, belonging to the Philippine
Company, and commanded by Don John Baptille
Monteverde, on her voyage from Manilla to Lima,
difcovered on the 18th of February, 1806, a group
of Wands, the fduthermoft of Which is fituated in
3 deg. 29 min. North latitude, and 162 deg. s min.
Eaft longitude, from Cadiz.
There ;Elands. 29 in number, occupy a fpace cf to
leagues from N. E. to S W. and are Ceparated by
channels, one or two leagues in breadth. They are
low, woody, and interfeßed with rivers. Their in-
habitants are of the molt pacific difpofition. They
first approached the frigate to the number of 2 r, in
two canoes.
iVfo!tt they had come within mufiret fhor, they
ceafed rowing, and held tome ent-ia nuts towards
the Spaniards, fhouting and making flans. Tire
frigate dewed her fails, and !witted the Sillnifh co.
lours-this ma'aceuvre having apparently excitedlorne
apprehenfions in the iflanders, the Spann colours
were (truck, and a white flag was twitted, the crew,
at the fame time, calling and making Cgns to the
canoes to approach. They, accordingly, came along•
fide, and gave the Spaniards Come cocoa nuts, with-
out demanding any thing in return, but none of them
:maid be perfuaded to come on board. The crew of
the frigate then diftribtned among them Come old
kniv.r, iron r ings, and pieces of red cloth ; and this
liberality excited fuch joy and gratitude in there
good people, that they immediately 'tripped their
canoes to make prefents to the Spaniards ; their
nets, their fifh hooks, their cocoa nut !hells, which
ferved them for cups, their enormous hats, made of
the leaves of the palm tree, were all, in a moment,
removed on board of the frigate ; and they, at length
proceeded to (trip themfelves of their only garment,
fattened round their waift, in order to via), their
gratitude to their benefaetorr. Still they were not
content with themfelves, and gave the Spaniards to
underhand that they would mutt n to their ifland to
fetch other prefents, and requelling that the frigate
would wait for them.

Tittle Indians are tall, well made, tobufl, and
aftive. They arc of an dive colour, have flat notes,
black curled hair, but of confiderable length. In
each car.oe was a venerable old man, naked like the
others, and who appeared to be their Chief. One
very remarkable circumflance is, that thtfe two old
men were white, and had aquiline notes. They had
rather the air of S.,aniards than of Savages. Captain
Mcmtever de adds, ihat there Minders, and their aged
Chiefs, b .re a confiderable refernblance, in their
features and collo:101, to the Indians of the iflands of
Sr. Barthr.kmew, and theft of Cafe and Ibißai,
where he landed in 18co, with the frigate la Philip•
riue, a mtnandcl by Don Juan Ibarguitia.

COMET —On Wcdnefday evening, a Comet made
its appearance, yilsble to the naked eye, in the neigh-
bourhcod of London. Its place lot mcd nearly a
right angle with the bligkt liar Ardurus, and the
elegant conflellation Corona, or the Northern Crown,
and fet altu..l due Wc4 about eight o'clock. Its
sr;Tearance she naked eye, was that of a (hr of the
fis It magnitude, having a very ditlinguifhable beam
ol light es Eebttloll:y, extending to the left or South
of its bo.ly, cf about a font or eighteen inches in
length. The c lour of the whole was very white.
Capt. MI% BY is appointed to comin,,nd the Thalia
frigate, at Plymouth.
A letter from a Lieutenant on beard Else 'BELLit•
ROPHON, to his filler in London, dated the 16th ult.
oil' Racist:fart, zmntions a very providential efcape
of that Gentleman. It may he recollected that about
the month ef November lath, Lieutenant Hucis rs,
with a fmall petty, attempted to cut a veffel out of
Roc'sefort in the night. The Frenchmen were pre-
pied for the attack; they had an extraordinary
nunilser of military on board, repulfed our boats,
and Lieut. HUGHES, who headed the party, was
feverely sl molded by a mulke.t ball, which paired
tbrotty.h 11:e abdomen, but without injuring the in•
tellues. Ile now (late, that on the Thurfday pre•
vissas to the date of hi; Liter, he had what he con-
ceived to be a mote miraculous efcape than that of
halt Novernher. On that day there was a moll fudden
and heavy fquall of which wis followed by
the molt tremendous thoch of thunder and lightning
that was cw:r heard or seen any where near the lati-
tude in which they were at that time. It clollly re-
fenstsleci rue of the thunder-Rorms which are expe-
rien:ed on the coati. of Africa, which ate laid to be
worle than thole ttfually witneffed in the Welt Indies.
The main and mizen malls mere Cnivered by the light-
ning ; the rigginr, was on fit c in various parts; fonieof
thefailswere enveloped in fmoke and lite,likc burning
tinder ; the lightning darted through the decks and
bottom of the Ihip (in the lea Orate, right through
to the water ), and at one place a plank was, by the
force of the eledric fluid, flatted out from the 'hip's
fide. Ore mati was killed and 1 a were wounded. But
the moll milli kable cit camnance is, that a flalh of
the4;litning entirely dellroyed a hat belonging to
Lieut. Hucis Es, the writer of the letter, and then
being attraded by the (word which hung by his fide,
twitted the blade in a moll curious manner, and left
his perfon entirely unhurt.
The late norm aipears, from the following ac•
count, to have been very fevere in the Highlands of
Scotland. A party of military, in marching from
Invernefs, by the higlihnd road, to Perth, were over-
taken by the florm, during which one of their num•
ber, a recruit, finding himfelf fatigued, fat down on
a (tone by the way to reit a little. His companions,
in the mean time, travelled on a few miles, and being
difappointed in the expeftation of their friend over-
taking them,became fornewhat anxious for his fafety,
and returning, found him dead, and nearly covered
with fnow..
The memorable Lottery Scheme of the Pigot Dia•
mond, though confifting of 20,000 Numbers, and
unaccompanied with any other Prize, was found
fufficiently attraftive to induce a purchafe of every
one of the Tickets. But what was the Pigot Dia
mond, in pint of real value, to the 40,000 pounder
in the prefenr New Lottery Plan ?—which,
bough contaiting but ao,oco Numbers, pofreffes
tikewde three Capitals of ao,oool. three of toioool.
ten of wool. acc. kc.

sPaltriNa IN2 ..7LLIGEV 4.
NEV7tatikr.lCHT FIRS I 0:11.0
i"!..I.,RSOAY..eCT.
Mr La% e'slioluronia beat SR C. 12unbtiry'r!eV', ibeaeh.
Pirft halt. of Ab M sogs-6 to 4 r•ga.ilit Vo!ornnia.
Lord Grorvmor's Builrm:h, 311 2th. beat Mr Mclif.'s Sufan, bft
t3lh—Two.yr 61.1 C. tacgs—S,tfr4 on bellrlilt.
Mr Artiltle6 Wormwood, Sit &b. beat Lord Grofirennt'S Mt-
teora, 8R ti!—Two-yr old C. ix►s-6 to 4 aglt Wormwood
Mr Lake's Citizen, by l'otteridge, beat Lord F. G. Ofbornes
Matilda, by Whiaeyi Bft alb each.—Two-yi old C b. ft..-
6 to 4 on Citirm
The King's Plate of moo for 4 yr olds carrying telt a".h. i-yr
olds tilt 61b. 6-yr cl 's 12a. and aged aft alb—ll. C.
Ilti Wyndhant's b It Canopy,. 4 yrs old
Duke of Grafton'a•b to Parafol, aged - a
Lord G 11. Caventlifh's be by Wa:4, 4.yrs cid 3
Mr. D. Radclir.'s b b BarSarofra, 5 yrs old dr
Mr. Lake's be 12 Gaiety, S yrs oil dr
Even brtring on Parafol.
Town Plate of Fifty Potu.ds for 3-yr old Colts, Sit 7lb. and Fillies
ft :lb.—D. I.

Mr. Pzyhe's h c rerdinansi
Mr Wyndhant's h c by Ambrntio
Mr Latex hr f Volumnia. by Mr re:e.e
Mr Howorth'i b f Laurttta
Mr C. Br Aviv:o3l:- Waulrnan
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Five tat aga Ferdinand : 3 to t agit Mr Wyndham's b e.
Fven batin7 on Lauretta.
_ _

Mr D. Radelit-es Satins rec. from Mr Fcrmor's Hippomenes,
Bft 31b. each—Ab M. ociegb. h ft.

KELSO RACES, MONDAY, SFPT. it.
This day a Plate of Fifty Pounds, for three a.(l fur year 01441
was run for over Caverton Edge, arid wou by
Mr Ballie's Streamer
Marquis of Donegal's hay colt
Mr Scurfy's brown cult

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as. Olt
3 dr

Won eify.
TUMMY. sartlimsr.it 22.
This day a Plate of Pifty Poilm!,, for ati ages, WO inn for and
won by
Mr Baittie's Streamer

Mr Hutfon's bay gelding
Sir Alexandcr Dotes bay colt

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3 s
2 dr
4 &

Mr Stony's brown colt
Won ofy—'ugh odds Streamer woo.
There was afterward; a hai k race and pr'ney race,
both of which afforded excellent fport. The weather
yellerday %vas rather unfavourable, but this day being
remarkably fine, a good deal of company were on the
ground. Among the moll dillinguifired, we obferved
the Earls of Dalkeith, Amain, and Home; Sir
Alexander Don, Sir H. H. Matdougal, Sir john
Scott, Sir John Johnßone, Hon. Gilbert Elliot,
George Baillie, Efq. Robert Pringle, Efq. Henry
Collingwood, Efq. Colonel Johnfion, Colonel Lock-
hart Elliot, Major M‘Lean, &c. The Countefs of
Dalkcith, the Countefs of Home, and Lady Mint,
were alfo prefent, with many other fafhionables.
There were ordinaries each day, u ufaal, affetablies,
and a concerto in the evening.

BOTAN r BAr.

By the favour of a Gentleman in the Eaft India
efiablifhment, refident at St. Helena, we have receiv-
ed a (cries of the Sidney Gazettes, to July 13, 113c6,
which we believe are the ha from New South Wales.
With refpeEt to the pitblie intelligence they con-
tain, there can be little that is generally interetting to
Europeans, otherwife than as every friend of huma-
nity will be glad to fee decency and order prevail in
a fettlement where confiderable infraCtions of law and
juftice might be expelled. It will be fuppofed that
the trials for offences are numerous ; but it will be
learnt with fatisfaetion, that by thefe papers they
apps :r to be condtraed with equity and impartiality;
and, although the nature of the Government, or
rather tile defcription of the fubjeas, does not admit
the feleCtion of a Jury, yet the decifinns of the Judge
appear to be the refult of patient examinati •n, and
of a deliberate attention to the refpedive rights of the
individual and the public.
It has been dircovered, that many of the convicts
have effected their efcape by the American (hips
which have touched upon the coaft, in confequence
of which fome falutary regulations have been adopted,
to prevent this praaice in future. Our Readers will
recollea, that leveral cafes have recently occurred,
of perfms returning from tranfportation, which we
have recorded in our accounts of criminal proceed-
ing., and molt of them have ease from the tanks
explained in thefe Gazettes.
A quantity of Bum, in (mall lots, Were fold at
public anaion, at los. to 14e. per pair ; a herd of
twine, at 4d. per pound, alive ; maize, in the public
market, at Los. per bufhel ; potatoes, tcrs. to 195. 6d.
per bag ; tobacco, ts. to as. per pound.
Every account confirms our former report of
the apparent excellence of Port Dalrymple for the
purpofes of our extenfive fettlements, as from the
furveys already taken, fome very fine tracks of land
are difcovered. Not more than 12 miles from the
(cite of the town, on the Wellern Arm, a heavy fall
of water, from mountainous precipices, has received
the name of the Smaller Cafcade ; there being sno•
ther of prodigious magnitude and height, fifty miles
fur ther dittant.
The natives appear Rill to be but little difpofed
to fraternity, but on the contrary, always difappear
when approached. No adcident has, however, oc-
curred from any all of aggreffionlon their part; which
has never gone further than putfuing one or two
(hagglers to the confines of the encampments : they
are in general more robuft than the native inhabitants
of this part of the country ; but, from the conflate.
tion of their weapons, it can hardly be fuppofed they
accuftom themfelvet to hottility againft each other.
Their (pears, though of prodigious length, ate not
barbed, and quite fmnoth at the point ;—they are
thrown withoui the of ftance of the wamin.h• which
adds confiderably to the velocity of the weapon ; ytr:
fuck is their dexterity, that at a confiderable diftance
they ftrike, and frequently kill the game therpurfue.
They carry neither clubs nor fhields, and hence they
may be concluded to be peaceably difpofed to one
another, or the very fmall portion of,ingennity which
initruted them in the contrivance of their only wea-
pon, would certainly have extended to that of a de.
fence againft it, were there allual necellity.
From thefe particulars, fomething may be collected
of the infirm Rate of facitty, in a country nearly co.
retentive with Europe, commencing, like ancient
Rome, the afylum for fugitives and delinquents
and perhaps deitined, like her, in a future age, to be.
came the miftrefs of the world. Let not palled
nations look with contempt upon this people ;—;he
ipirit of enterprite is no where more confpicnous
and neceflity, the mother of invention, may produce
effeas apparently miraculous, in communities worm
with age and decrepitude, and debilitated by' the ;Iv.
dolence and apathy of modern luxury and refineme

CIRCUIT INTALLIGENCE.

Gt./isnot'', SEPT. 26.
This day the Circuit Court Jrifliciary was opened
}ere, by the Right Hon. Lords CRAIG and MESA-
DALE. Hugh Logan and Robert Ramfay, accufed
of murder, were outlawed for non appearance. The
diet was deferred againit Adam Billie, accufed of
theft. He was recommitted to prifon on a new %cu..
rant, and is charged with flealing cotton from the fbip
Faaor, lying at Greenock.

AIIRDEIN, SPPT. 26.
On Wednefday lA, the Circuit Court of julticiary
was opened here, by the Right Hon. the Lord Jus-
TIC. CLIRR.

Nicholas keid, fervant to George Mackie, merchant
in Kintore, accufed of child murder, having failed to
appear, fentence of outlawry was pronounced againui
her.

3PDonald, travelling merchant, a ynung
man not nineteen years of age, but an old offender,
was indicted for felonioufly Healing, in the market
pl.icc of this city, on Friday the zzd of May fall, a
non:ber of pieces printed calico and cotton cloth,
from the Hand of James Chapman, with which
fiolen goods he was immediately after apprehended.
The libel was refiritied to an arbitrary puniftment,
and the prifoner having pled guilty to the inditiment
the Jury returned a verdifi accordingly; when, after
m very foitable addrefs and exhortation from his
Lordfhip, he received fentente of tranfportation be-
yond the feat for flven years.
The Lord Jurric a CLERE,,arter pronouncing fen-
tence on the prifoner, concluded an elegant ader:fs in
the following terms :
" None of you. I am convinced, will grudge the time or the
trouble which your attendance here to-day has tett you. Conli •
dering the high nature of the duty which you are here called on to
difeharge—cenfidering that the Trial by Jury is the great bul
wadi of our liberties—confidering that it conftitutes our proud
diftindtion tram all other rations--ehere is not one among you,
I am lure, who does not willingly fubmit to any pesfonal inconve-
'dame, in order to attend his duty to the poblic, or who would
not facrifice much pf his Individual comfort, for the prefervaden
of a privilege fo pre-eminently beneficial to our country.
" The Trial by Jury, Cendemen,ie *iced a privilege of high
and ineftimable value ; but the mere form of It is nothing A
(pint of liberty mutt animate and be perpetually do:rinsed by the
country, to give it effed—a fpirit unextioguifhable by any calamity
foreign or domeftic, that can belal us. What 1 mean by a fpirit
of liberty, is that rational and ardent attachment to freedom,
which roads in reverence and obedience to equal laws ; not that
wild licentioufnefs which at on.: time prevailed in a neighbouring
nation; and which has at length, by natural confenuence, brought
them order a defpotifm far more intolerable than that from which
they attempted to dupe. It t< a fpirit of genuine liberty, pervad-
ing the country, which alone can preferve the purity of Jury trial,
and give it efficacy : without this, it may become the aloft effec-
tual engine of tyranny, as was exemplified when this country fuf
fered under the defpotifin of Charles 11. and James 11. Their ty-
ranny was perpetrated through the medium of corrupted Juries ;
and the Trial by Jury would alto, in our days, be a guardian to
our liberty of little importance, if either the national virtue were
degraded, or if our Juries were cramped iu the difchaege of their
duty by undue influence.

.
" This nattaally leads us to contemplate the danger, to which
thtstild aft our other bleff rigs as a nation, arc at indent enticed
from the ambition nfa foreign and powerful enemy. That enemy,
depend upon it, aims. among other things, at the defttudien of
our Trial by Jury—for, if we form our opinion of his intentions
from his paft condutt, we have no great rcafon to confide in his
refped for an inftitution productive of happinefs. He allows, to
be fure,a femblance of Jury Trial ; but it is cortupttd and dcbafed
by the influence under which it Wits. Eis not, however, at the
deftruetion of this great privilcgc alone, that he aims—if he Mall
come here he will cane but to deftroy ; to tear from us property,
liberty, every thing that wt. viral. Let ns all, therefore, unite to
oppofe him. There may be among us, a difference of opinion
about the origin and mules of the war; but we arc Purely of one
mind, that it mutt be vigoroufly carried on—that we mutt defend
ourfelves from deftrudim ; for in fact it is now 1 war for our
eziftence.

" Permit me now, Gentlemen to congratulate you on the favour-
able arpeet of the moral, of the people in this pan of the country,
which swan fo coapicuouLly on the prefent *nation. It is par-
ticularly creeitable to the people themfeives, to you, Gentlemen,
who are of the ivlagiftracy, and to the public initrudors in this
populous and exterafivediftriet of the country, that fo little crimi-
nal Definers is row before the Court. It is tram the virtues of tEe
people, who muft be aecuftorned to reftrain the isnpulfr s of p ;!lion,
and to refift the allurements of temptation, that this pleating retult
in a great meafure Boas : yet much commendation is due to you,
my Lord (addreffing WWII(' to the Lord Provoft), and the other
Magiftrates of this city, and its vicinity, and to the fatittary co-
operation of t!.c Minlfters of Religion, for vigilance and aeltv.ty io
the fuppreffion of vice. Arid here, I would not he urderltocol to
refer merely to the Micifters of the Eltab:ifhed Church—l rejoice
that the Teachers of Religion of all denominations in this coun-
try are faithful to their duty; and that they ftraigthen the vir-
tuous habits of the people, not more by their zeal in the dole of
religion, than by the force of the example which they let before
their flocks. The excellent feminaries of education too, generally
inftitund, are to be regarded as productive of the favourable hate
of morals among the people of this country. All there vatium in•
Ititutions and privileges to which I have refetired, takeu collec-
tively, we call our Conflitution. to time pal it bath coauthored
to our pearl-tray, at:d we truft that in time to come, it will afford
is permanent happinefs.
" It way be dilated, perhaps, that I lbould deliver my renti•
mutts, with regard to the propofed introduction into this counts y
of Trial by Jury in Civil Caufes: but this does not appear to me
to be either neceffary or expedient in the prelim Rate of the mea-
fur& It is a grave and important gentian, which merits, and
will I hope receive, the molt deliberate direufrion. It is my Dufi-
nth, Guilts here, to adminifter to the belt of my ability, the law
as it Rands I have always done fo, and &laid the Legifloure
alter the law, I ball then, as I do now, attempt to adminifler
what in its wildcats it may diem haunt:jai to the country.
ing, therefore as I do, that it would he unbecoming in me to ftate
my own opinion. I mall not, Gentlemen, obtrude it upon you.—
But this (only I may fay : it des not follow, en the one hand.
that Jury Trial mutt be %sterol in Civil Caufes, becaufe it is fo in
Criminal ; neither, on the other, la it found argument, that Trial
by Jury in Civil Caufes will not do goot.l, becaufe it has not been
tried. With there obrervations. Gentlemen, I take my leave of fuch
of your Panther as have already done your duty as Jurymen, and
have only to add, :o thole who Ml remain in town, that I
expert, while they continue hart, they will do me the honour to
confider my table as 'Lair how."'
Tourlday the Cteurt again met, and proceeded
to the trial of Lewis Smith, paper Inanufadurer, at
Paper Mill of Culttr, and Alexander Walker, his fore-
man, accufed of forging or counterfeiting the Ramp
or !cal on the manufaftured paper, and alto of forg-
ing the Excite officer's name who attended the work.
Alexander Walker having failed to appear, fentence
of fugitation was pronounced againfl him. Mr. Smith
pled not guilty to the indiament, and the Advocate
Depute, after examination of the principal witneffes,
finding no evidence whatever tending to convietion,
did not confider it neeeffary to proceed to a farthdr
invelligation ; and the Jury being inclofed, immedi-
ately returned an unanimous verdin cf acquittal. Mr.
Smith was difnliffed fmpiici er him the bar, after
very app; opt iate addicts from the Judge, on this his
honourable renovation to ficiety.

Tuefday fennight, an alarming fire broke out in
the brewery of Melfic• PENTLAND and FyrzoettAt.o,
at Coleridge, near Dublin, and before any efficient
affiftance could be had, we regret to fay the entire
concern, with the (lock of liquor and corn in hand,
'a completely &limed.