Star.
London, England, 1802-05-26 00:00:00

DISIAIDtPrION OF IRIZE MONEY.

To the Oilcan and Arad, til'a for the rapture of the FrIZCS
frigate la Dttlaigneofe, a Mud didrihution will be otad.rit"
board the above fhips, nn their arrival iu port.
The frifgard, for the eaptarc of the Hymphe, and rhe t I
Union, wilt be paid on the rifg.trd's arrival in port.
To the Phaeton, a dlftrilminn of the vroc:cds of the Ar.lt-
riesis Chip la Nynaphe, will be =de, at No.
friday the 38th init.

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The llunp Lpecdy., for the capture of the folk:wing prig. •,
via. Spant& brie Ecce Homo, and the French !hip .
Spanith °tip Pine), Spaniel ?Came l:1 Gamo, and :,p4aifh lr ••
DWG Subretimili sad U COrICo de Cadiz. iu company with t
Kangaroo, will he paid on Friday neat rue 2.3 th :r.R. -t No.
Beaufort Buildings.
The Agamemnon, for the capture of the corn vetrcl eta
done di Rofariu St. Antonio di Padua, wiii be;:dd ots the :a.);•1
hilt at du:White lion, Wych-Gout.

Early on Monday morning the cotton-mill it
Calvet, in Derby!hire, was dilcovered to be On
and notwithllanding every exertiow to extingain,
the flames, in leis than two hours it was entirel.',
confitined. It is not rifeertained how the aceideet
happened ; the works were minutely examiired !tit •
on Sunday night, and every thing appeared in Ir.
fed order. The las is rilimated :It 20,0001.
On Wediiefitiv, at about two o'clock in the Af-
ternoon, the drying loft of the paper mill, ner,
Pennycuick, belonging to Meas. Ch. Cowan ;MA
Suns, was difeovered to be on tire, and, in a very
,hurt time, that part of the prernifes, confining' of
the vattlotife, tinifhing-houfe, counting-lior'e.
and drying has, with a great part of the iltrek
and litenfils therein, was, notwitl.dancling eve v
enicrtion, entirely continued. The rapidity of till-
baffied'eves y exertion of the neighbourhoo.!.
at d numerwus workmen employed about tlfe m..-
nUfattory.
On l'uefifiry fe'riniglit fix men Mewl:4T ~,
Royal Waggon '['rain, with fix horses and Qrr
carts, were wiployed in conveying flout from ill,:
white dyke to Rat:1114:1W, which is GI
a mile off floors floni'llroad-flairs, aN
ter form. an Mold, but waiting ton h
tide coining oil fo rapid as to pr'zveot
their imminent danger WAS perceived 1,
hairs feamen, who put off busas to tin
notwitlilLunling whist one matt anal
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abovit
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1.4 W INTILLIGEhCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. MAY 24
TAT KW; T• atSZUTAN.
The defendant in this cafe was bronght up foil
judgment, haring been convided of a libel upon
Mr. liongloon, Clerk of the Birmingham Canal
Comoany. After affidavits on both tides had heed
Mid, and Cominfel had been heard in mitigation
and aogravation of ptiniflutient, he was ionnoitted
till next Terni. A very important point was pre-
decided, that hearlay evidence cannot be
fated is an affidavit. In the King and Archer, the
Coon went G. far as to fay that where A. refufes
to &pole to what he has feen or heard, B. may.
to vt:lcim he has told it. But Lord ELLPSIIn
fir rt obferved, he was not vet prepared to fay
t'oat lie wonld have concurred in that deciflort,
told he would by no means path it the length of
receiving fuch teftimnny, where it was not 'worn
that the evidence might not have been regularly
obtained. rot r!vo v. aaLrioce•
The defendant, who flood consined of felling
Cad bread to the Marines of Chatham, and who
was bronglit no on Thuriday lag, was again
brought rip this day for judgment.
Mr. Jailio.e Giosa, an pronouncing the fen.
tence of the Court. animadverted upon the mil-
chievoos nature of his offence, the evil of, which
might hare extended much Gelber than it atluallY
did. He od-cured, that the defendant had pro:
duce(' many affidavits of his good charatler, and
he was nor). to remark in reply, that many per.
font apparently bore fair .c.harafters in pri.
,•ate life. ferried to think they might plunder thi
public with ;rat...mit.. The convisAion before the
Court clearly Chewed that the defendant did not
meiit the charader he had produced. The fens
tenet 'lie Court had directed him to pronounce
was, that the defendant Mould be fined in the film
of torsi. and inapricrined m his Majefiy's (load nfl
Nesegate for Ss weeks. and further until the fine
was paid.
TA• 11NQ t. lOWA IWO *rums.
This was a Rule calling on the defendants to
Clew lby what authority the defendants claimed to
be Freemen of the Cite of Litchfield, againit which
there was no cat& Iltiwn, and the Rule mots made
ahti.lote. Till ZINO v. 01111 MS.
This was a Rut: calling nu the defendant to
thew eante why a Criminal Information should not
be filed agaiii3 him, upon a charge of pithlifking
a libel on a perfon of the name of Shuttkworth,
who is to be tried at the Admiralty Seffions upon
a charge of murder. No cattle fileWll, and. there-
fore the Rule was made ablidine.
TN{ ZINO W. newer.
This was a charge againit the defendant, for
that he being the Commander of a bag called the
Hardy, in his Majefly's fervice, aged as purfer
al-
of that 'hip, while there was no real purger, and
that in that charader, he cheated the Comniiffion-
ers by means of a &lie charge of 81d. per pound
weight, itifteail of 74d. which he actually paid to
a butcher at Cowes, in the Ifle of Wight, while
the brig was in Cowes Roads, from November,
sBOO, to January. toot. • That this over charge
and cheat amounted in the article of butcher's
meat alone, to toal. 4s. it being on 2889 pounds
*eight. There was another charge, of cheating
Government in like manner on the Cubic& of peate
and other articles of provifions with which this
(hip was provided doting this period, upon which'
charges he was tried before Mr. Jullice Lamaism,
at the lag Aflizes for the county of Southampton,
and Found guilty. and he now came up to receive
the Judgment of the Court.
The defendant tlated in his affidavit the hiflory
of hislife in the navr, which had now been for 2$
years, in the courfe of which he never was before
accufed. Several affidavits were made Alfa by
officers of the navy, among whim seas that of Sir
Andrew Snape Hammond, giving the defendant
a good charader.
Mr. Scijeant Laos addrelTed the Court on be-
half of the defendant, in mitigation of puuillonent.
He laid it would be improper to attzmpt either to
fay the defendant was nut guilty, becaufe the Jury
had decided it, or to fay that the offence was not
ferioto ; all he would fay was, that in giving the
judgment which the Court found itfelf called up-
on to deliver, they would give the defendant the
benefit of a good charatler which he had been
earning for 28 years in the fervice of his King and
Country. The affidavits in his behalf were made
perfons who had no temptation to reprefent his
charader otherwise than as it appeared to be from
Lis condud. The judgment, therefore, he pre-
fumed, would not be more rigid than the Court
found thenifelves compelled, under all the circuits-
ofaalone, to pronoutice upon A MAU at
*dole of life utich had fur a 8 years
bald' cow exception' only) bee', honourably em-
ployed its thte fervice of his Country.
Mr. Dassas, on the part of the profeeution,
faibl.he felt nu difpofitioo to detraa from the .able
of the defendant's claraftet. but he thought he
Mould not difidnirge his duty if be did nut (tate
that this did appear to him to be a cafe of very
great guilt. It .was true the defendant, now be.
fore the Court. belonged so ass honourable pro-
feffion, and that lietait (creed aft years, as repre-
tented by :is Counfel, and he was wiUing to be-
lieve he fo served hisK.ing aad country with Ito-
nour, the laogth of time however mull, among
other advantages, have glass the defendant am-
ple opportunities of becoming acquainted with the
duties he was to difeharge. Heoole in the fervice
gradually, and was at halt appointed to an office
of troll and confidence, the returrtbehxdthonght
it
to make for this was, that of being guilty of al
great fraud, and there were circuaiffinces of great
criminality in .is ptfo. The Court would pa
cave. that in order to. prevent thee frauds ups.
G avernmeht, die legal:Kure had made fume 4:11
pious contrivances. by erode/ ins it impoffilie.
without involving a number of perfons. to as tea
render the conuniifies of it difficult.—Firlt, there
SSIAti he a voucher of tire tkinF Odd ; 2dly, there
anon be a ceriitizate of two reipedable inhabitant*.
• of the place wheat the goods may fold, ipecifyifig,
the nsasket paicc of the article at the time it was
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