Star.
London, England, 1801-04-07 00:00:00

BRIDGETOWN, BARBAT)01:3, J.kNUARY 17.

The !hips Thames and Commerce (the latter with
recruits) which parted 'from! the London Fleet on
the 14th Dec. arrived here on Wednefday and
Thurfday lift ; and this- morning the (hips Cots
(with 200 of the 6th Battalion of the both Regi-
ment), and RANGER, having alto feparated from
the Fleet on the above day; arrived the formor
',Goad to Jamaica, and the latter to St. Lucia.
JAN. 30.-.—The brig Friends, bound to Marti.
pie°, one of the London Fleet, and parted on the
i;th Dec. arrived here yefterday evening.
Accounts received from Dominique, at Marti.
nieo, and from thence communicated to us, Rate,
tha: a French frigate had been taken by two of our
/loops of war, and' carried Into the Saints, with
goo troops and General ROc HAM szau on board,
from France, bound to.Guadaloupe.—lt was alto
reported, that this frigate was one of a Squadron
cf five, with troops on board for the Well Indies,
from which (he had parted on the paffage, and
that the Englifh Commanders having got poffef-
fion of her private fignals, were in hopes of decoy-
ing Tome of her contorts.
From Martinico we are alfis informed, that a
!mall Squadron of French .privateers had made a
,!efcent on Tortola, where they had committed
many txceffes of plunder and burning. One of
our frigates hog been difpatchecl with troops, for
the proteition Oldie place. .
_ _ •_ _

Jew ms---Forty-five fail of the London Fleet
arrived here on Wednefday evening ; among thcm,
the !tips Berwick, Witte and Duke of York,
Bossii-r, are for this Ifland. They were fepa-
rated from the Convoy on the t4th December, and
were concluded hither by the !hip JUPITER, of Ja-
maica, Captain Boatman. to whom the Mailers
of there vetch have haadfosnely expreffed their
thanks for the judicious manner in which.he led
them.
*Fhe remainder of .the Fleet are momentarily

The American brig Eagle, from Portfmouth
N. H.) Gkoics RoLttss matter, arrived yeaer.
'day. She was hoarded in lat. 22. N. long. 55. 30.
br the Frenen privateer fehooncr Egs pte le Con-
git,:rer, Captain LYKI:EMAR, from Guadaloupe,
who, after putting the mates and crews of two
American prizes, which he had captured a day or
two previous, on board, having fount] this veffel
leaky and lumber loaded, permitted her on the
,9th roll. to proceed.
His Majefly's fhip LEVIATHAN arrived off Car-
Fie /lay this morning, and we underftand that
dmiral DUCKWORTH has hoified his Flag on
board a Tranfport at Martinico, fcr the purpofe of
fending this fine.fhip to cruize to windward for the
protedion of our ezpeded trade.
pot. v.—The (hip Aurora, Captain REDMAN,
aimed this morning. She feparated from the
London Fleet on the 14. th December, and on the
zBth, in fight of Madeira, was captured by the
French corvette la Mouche, of IS guns and zoo
men,'which alfo, two days after, captured the
!hip Adventure, bound to Martinico, but wAs
loon after re-captured by his Majefly's fhip Bova-
nstaisOand having given information of the cap-
ture of Aurora, the frigate fell in with, and
re-captured her alfo on the 9th infant, having
been then twelve days in poffcllon of the enemy;
during which time, however, no depredation what-
ever was made upon the cargo, Captain REDMAN
being fuffered to remain on board. The Adven-
ture was alto ordered for this port, but has not yet
arrivedb

The Acrivs and AURORA frigates arrived at
Portfmouth, from off Havre, brought an account
of two large French frigates having efcaped from
that port on Tuefday night laft, and that the jas
SON, Lieut. Losace, (aging Commander), and
the LAPWING, Capt. ROTHERAM, were left in
chace of them; with every probability of their
overtaking them. The above was communicated
to them by fome filhing boats, as the frigates failed
the night before the AURORA and ACTI vs arrived
off the port.
A gentleman in Dtindee writes thus t—, I have
a letter from a friend at Dunkirk, in which are
the following particulars :The Lady Stormont,
Groins' TODD mailer, bound from Dundee to
London, fhip and cargo valued at upwards of
ts,oool. fterling, was taken on the nth March by
the Bellonc Fiench privateer, mounting so guns,
commanded by Citizen Btawarea it, and carried
into Dunkirk. Capt. TODD, and a gentleman pal:
fenger, were kindly treated by Capt. B. and his
officers while on board the privateer. On the 9th
fay/a two-decked (hip beanng W. by N. (fuppofed
the liminess:A) at five, fame day, a (mall cutter
hearin S. which at half pail five engaged the Bel-
lone for fome minutes, during which time the
Englifh prifoners were confined in fo !Mall a fpace
as to be almoß fuifocated ; chaced the fame cutter
till liven P. M. when the Bellone Reered for Dun-
ktrk. . During this cruife the &Bone had taken
the following !hips :—Hope's Increafe, POTTIR
Jean, Saar:roe' and Lively, ARMSTRONG from
Sunderland, to London, with coals ; Providence,
Ssownon, from ditto, to ditto, with coals and
grindßimes ; Sufanna, .Waectia, from ditto, to
---; Thames, —, from Newcaftle to
Lon-
eon. with coals. She funk the George, and burnt
the Thames."
12TRACT OF A LITTIR, niT&O TIC 34TH MARCH,

1801, IRON A PERSON 11l DUNKIRK.
"To fail this afternoon, or to-morrow, the
Bellone privateer, Citizen BLAIIKWAS Commander,
mounts 16 four-pounders, two short eighteen ditto,
and one long nine ditto. She now has three.top-
gallant rard, aloft, her fore and main top-gallant
mails cut Ihort off by the rigging at the malt-head;
the wizen top-gallant yard is rigged upon the pole
a her mizen top-maft. Shc appears rather nar-
tow when end on ; ,has a fi head, and car-
ries a boat acrofs her (tern ;Viblack bends, and
too black llrtaks above the fame, and then two
or three Rreaks yellow, and then black above that.
There is a (mall lugger privateer to fail from hence
the fame time with the Bellone. She has yel-
wir (ides, and will not mount more than four or
fix guns. It is thought thefe rails are deitiped
(Or the North coatt."

COURTS.M.V.TIRL.—Wednerday Lift a Court-
Martial w4s held on board his Majeky's [hip GLA.
DIRTOR, in Portfinouth hsrbour, for the trial of
Capt. Dos caw, his Officers and Ship's Company,
for the lots of the SCOUT doop, on the Shingles,
in her palidge through the Needles; Vice-Admi-
ral-GAUDIER, Pretident, and M. Gassy Kau, Efq.
Judge-Advocate. After hearing the narrative of
Captain Dolmas, the Court was of opinion, that
the lots of the Paid Hoop was occalioned by her
being drilled on the Shingles by the rapidity of
the tide, after.lhe was tacked, and before (be got
head way through the water, the (hip having put
in ftaye,.,by the Pilot's diredions, whilft the pro-
per mark (fiellig the light of Hurft Caftle) was
in fight, and that no blame was imputable to the
Paid Capt. HENRY DUNCAN, his Officers, the Pilot,
or Ship's Company, for their condua upon that
occafion.

Same day, Andrew Whereon, a feaman be-
longing to the HIND, was tried for defertion. He
being found guilty, was fentenced to receive three
dozen lathes on board the fait! (hip.
A Court-Martial was held on Saturday on board
the Rosy, in Sheernefs harbour, to try Mr. Tho-
mas Scott, Boatfwain of the PRINCE EDWARD, Re-
ceiving Ship, at Chatham, for (hiking the en-
tinel when on duty, and for mutinous behaviour
to Lieut. GRAVEt, COmmanding Officer of the
LION, (which (hip's crew was then on board the
PRINCE E owe RD ) ; when the charges being proved
in part, the Court rendered him incapable of ever
again ferving as an Officer in his Majclty's Navy,
and ordered him to ferve before the matt, in fuch
of his Ma)'efty's !hips as the Lords Commiffioners
of the Admiralty (hall dire&.
Thurfday fe'nnight the Lord Provoft, Magif
trates and Council of Edinburgh, upon complaint
of Mr. JAMES DIXON; matter of the Mary, of New-
canle, wi th concurrence of the Trinity-honfe, Leith,
difmiffed the following perfons from their employ-
ment as Pilots for Leith Harbour, viz. Jame: Car-
ney, Jobe Seaton, James Bucker, "'awe Logan, and ,
yam: Noble. The complaint fisted, that on the
sift of laft month, his (hip got on a rock called
the Heriot, near Inchkeith, and having made a
fignal of diftrefs, a boat with the above perfons in
it came off to his affiftance • but as the wind was
unfavourabli to get into Leith, he wifhed to go to
Barntifland, and -anted them to take him in there.
They a(ked twenty-five guineas for their trouble,
which he thought exorbitant ; upon this they,
with much abufive language, left his Ihip, and had
it not been for the anitlance afforded by Captair.
LAURENCE &ENE, of Leith, who came off in a
(mall yawl, and carried him into Burntifland, hi,
(hip and cargo would have been loft. The Magif
trates, confidering this condud as molt improper
and difgraceful, difmiffed the above perfons from
the fervice of the Port of Leith, being refolved
that every perfon, a(ling under their authority,
(hould afford every afliftance to ftrangers frequent-
ing that Port in fimilar cafes of diarefs.
Arrived at Liverpool, Ephron, Lirsom, from
New Brunfwick ; Commerce, PROCTOR ; Alfred,
FORSTER; and Benfon, POSTLETHWAITS, from
Martinique.
The EUGIINIE (loop of war, Captain SUMMER-
VILLE, arrived at Deal, from a cruize, with the
brig un*, of Aberdeen, Gloms WALLACE mar-
ter, from Lyna to Penzance, laden with grain,
taken by a French privateer near Dungenefs, and
retaken by the EUGENIE near Dieppe, and fent
into Dover; the privateer had taken another brig,
with a fimilar cargo, with which (he efcaped.

MISS ROBERTSON.—this Lady has not been
removed to Maidltone gaol, as was Rated on Sa-
turday. Her creditors have lodged detainers
againft her, and the remains at Huntingdon, where
flue was taken into cuftody. When Mr. MARTYR,
the carpenter, arrived at the inn at which the was
apprehended, he was at once informed, that two
Ladies of the defcription of Mifs SNAIL pa and Mifs
Rosearsos, were in the honfe. Their names
were unknown. He fet the officers on the watch,
and went up Itairs to the apartment of the two
ladies. Mifs SHARPE was in the fitting-room, but
at fir( denied that Mifs ROBERTSON was in her
company. Mr. MARTYR and the officers Aced
her to open a door that led to a contiguous bed-
chamber. It was locked; and the laid the had
not the key. One of the officers, with his foot,
bur( the door open. Mifs Ross:mon was dif-
covered (landing on the floor, in a flannel night-
gown. Though it was late in the morning, (he
had but juft ftarted out of bed.'
Her perfon was immediately identified, and (he
was condu&ed to the gaol. In the gaol the was
left in a Rate of extreme wretchednefs : her money
being entirely exhaufled, flue was without means to
procure any comfort : the was obliged to make a
fourths in a room in which the found three other
women : had not one of them admitted her, in
companion, to flare her bed, the 'have flept
on the floor : the is now in very 411 health ; and
Mifs Sivars, who, though not in necelfary con-
finement, Rill attends her, has written to folicit
Mr. MARTYR for money for Ma ROBERTSON'S im-
mediate fubf►Rence.

Her creditors met at one o'clock, P. M. on Sa-
turday laft, at the Bricklayers' Arms, in the Kent
Road4to confider what they fhonlcrdo for the re-
covery of the debts the owes them. The total finfi
is not lets than is,cool. fterling.
Every article Miff Woatersox ordered, during
her refidence at Blackheath, was in the moft mag-
nificent and expenfive Ityle f lhawls at Sol. each;
jewellery, beds, linen, furniture, flowers, 8(c. c
She was, to the laft, ready with references to
pie of the higheft rank and charaCter. A
other pretences, the talked of a bond for to
from the Earl of Rosialair, at a tithe when the
patience of her creditors was no longer to be
deluded.
A woman and her infant child, refiding in a
cottage near Claine's Church, Worcefter, were on
Wedncfday night burned to fuch caeca, by a
fire occationed by the falling of a candle againft
the window curtain, that their lives are defpaired
of.
A diftiller's carman, on Friday, riding on the
top of fome empty calks in Blackman-ftreet, Bo-
rough, was thrown off, and his (cull train/ed.

CORN AND MEAL.

ALNWICK. MARCH ao.

It is a notorious fad that at this moment many
thoufands of families, in opulent and middling cir-
cumitances, have double, and Tome treble, the
flock of Corn and Meal they ever laid in, in times
of plenty, the bad tendency of which is obvious ;
as itmult of courfe create an unufual and unne-
celary demand, which is always accompanied by
a high price. Hence we find many of thofc who,
in the molt unqualified terms condemn (peculation,
become a numerous fet of (peculators themfelves,
and as that kind of monopoly is couched under the
idea of confumption, it more than any other kind
eahauces the price, and fupports in its full vigour a
fpirit of fpeculation among the farmers and dealers.
—lf you want the price of corn kept down, or the
price lower, when very extravagant, do not on any
account whatever bring it out ofthe hands of the
' farmers until you be in abfolute want of it ; and,
infiead of keeping a larger ftbek than in plentiful
years, every individual should contrive to keep as
(mall a flock as pollible, otherwife he becomes a
monopolizer, to the injury of the poor—and, in
general, to his own difadvantage in the end. A
dull fale has always a tendency to damp the far-
mers and dialers, and of courfelower the markets;
but, as long as individuals continue to fupport
(peculation, by an unneceffary demand, you may
be allured prices will keep up, and, I believe, no
longer.—l am new perfuadcd that at prefent, be-
fides what may be imported, we havimore corn than
will ferve till long after harveft—and as markets
have taken a favourable turn, let us fecond the
alteration by leffening the demand, and by no
means keep an unneceffary flock, which, in times
of fcarcity, has much worfe effel than we appre-
hend it has.

On Sunky evening a very heavy ihower of hail
fell to the northward of the metropolis, but fortu-
nately it did not lafl long enough to do any ma-
terial damage to the blolfom which now cove. s thz
fru't trees. _ _

A large quantity of foreign fpirits were laft week
Peen floating off the Norfolk coaft, near Happif-
burgh, and drawn afhore by fome labouring men,
who drank of it to fuch excefi, that one of them
died the next day, and two others nearly loft their
lives. _ _ _

At Lcdbury fair on Monday the price of cheefe
fell upwards of 125. per cwt.
The following hint, if adopted, may prove ufc
fol, and, we preurne, the experiment may be eafily
made in many fitnations. A Gentleman in the
neighbourhood of Cockermouth, planted laft year
a quarter of an acre of ground with carrots, with-
out dungiug. The produce was upwards of 600
!lone. Some of thefe carrots weighed 3116. each.
and mcafurcd twelve inches in circumference. This
may be admitted as a curiofity : but the experi-
ment had been made for another purpofe ; and it
anfwered beyond expedation. Work horfes were
fed with the carrots through winter, and were iu
the moll thriving condition, and fit for their ufual
work the enfuing feafott, at about one-fourth of
the charge of the accuftomed feeding.
Moufehold Heath, Norfolk, is at length inclof-
ing, and fome lots of it have, we underfland, been
let at ass. per acre, although previous to inclo-
fore, it was not worth lb many pence.
CURIOUS TENUR S.—The lands of Briannon, a
village near BLndford, in Dorfetfhire, were held
by a tenure which obliged the proprietor, when'
the King marched to war againft either Scotland
or Wales, to furniih a man to walk before him,
without any other clothes than his fhirt and draw-
ers ; holding in one hand a law without a ping,
and in the other, an arrow without afro' her.
Among the lulus Natant of the prefent age,
mar!) crhaps be reckoned the following : A Cow,
the property of Jdhn Proffer, farmer, of Halton.
hill, in Littondale, in Craven, calved on the night
of Thurfday, the tsth day of March, tBol, a
fine whye calf, of a green velour, a fhade darker
than the gofsling green. It has three common
brown (pots on either fide, andone on the top of the
head, each about an inch broad ; and one brown
foot. The young animal appears in perfect health,
and likely to do well, if it be not too much dif-
turbed by the curiofity of the allonifhed neighbours.
On the laft market day at Plymouth, it was full
of every necelfary of life at reduced prices. Butter
is. a pound, potatoes ts. a gallon, and other things
in proportion. All went off quietly, without any
difpofiuon of rioting; and the farmers went home
highly pleafed with the protection afforded them
by the civil and military power.
Ric:rs.—ln the afternoon of Friday fe'nnight a
tumult took place in the corn-market at Sunder.
land, in confcquence of the price of wheat, 405.
being demanded by one of the dealers for a boll
of that grain; the populace immediately raked the
kennels for dirt, with which they befmeared the
farmer, who was glad to retreat to the Fountain
Inn, the windows of which houfe were aft:it/ed
with Roues and brick-bats, as were alto thofc of the
Half-Moon and Queen's-Head. Betides the da-
mage &Rained in the brittle materials of the
honks attacked, a quantity dawn was madly trod-
' den under foot, and feveral of the farmers carts
were teen floating to 1 a the next morning. A
juftice of the Peace with a few contlables kind
upon one of the infurgents, and committed him to
the cage; but he was Coon after liberated by a de-
tachment of the rioters. things continued thus
till about nine o'clock, when the Juftice, with an
pinecareafed body of conftables, again made his ap.
ra nce, and read the riot-ad on the Reps of the
George lon, by candle-light ; but with fo little
(need's, that it was deemed prudent to plant a
military guard round his houfe during the niht.
In• the midi of the fray a party of the Lancalbire
Militia were called out. . _

Thurfday three men going about Stith dancing
bears, were taken up by order of Jultice Huirrta,
of Queen-f-quare, as vagrants, when the nutter and
owner of the bears was committed to Bridewell.
Thurfday evening, about ten o'clock, as .Mr.
Lazenby, of Walbrook, was returning to town
from Sydenlviun in a poll chaife, he was flopped
by a angle highwayman, between Dulwich gal
Camberwell, stmi robbed of his calk.

LONDON AMIZKETS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, ;PETI..6.

Wheat has declined full Sr. ,;.;„ -r. Runs C-^nt
Kitt, Effex, and Suffolk, went '; .o t - r quar-
ter, and fine Gasitzic frum 16t. . • • - . It:ie-
tiwk—Bayley is full 6s. per qw,-t: . -1 • .1.1 in
fale.--Oats are full as. and '1 I, • ;, in
41. Per quarter lower.—White and fu:l
tee. and Grey asses as. per q6llfr: t.,Lr —l:4 no
alteration.

CURRENT PRICE OF '.4.
Wheat • 'cos to nos od Grey Peafe c 4
Fine i6ss to egos od Short Sntali Oats •7, LU .54 A
Dantzie wheat t 591 to 1651 od Fine ditto 4g. 1. A
Rye 7os to 1014 od Poland, ditto les t,s 41. A
Sul:folk Barley 461 to 84s ad Fine „trio d
Norfolk Barley 45* to Bas :411 Small Beans 6os to yos
Malt 76s to 931 od tins co, to cos osl
Whitc Peale 98s to toss Id 'rick ditto sas to Sys cd

PRICE OF FLOUR this Morning.

Fine, 1255. to 1301.--Med, t scs. Fine Pollard, -s. Bran, —..

RETURN OF WHEAT IN MARK-LANE.
Including only from the sad of March to the 38th of March,
agreeable to the New Ada.
34 Quarters 1741 od 741 itarters
• 70 1721 od 333,
20 1701 04 549
148 --•-••• 1683 od 136
12 1651 04 40
211 ••••••••••-• 1601 6d 42!
20 ••••••• 158$ 011 '59
210 1577 id sszt
/10 1371 04 429
27 zsiSa od 94
195 1551 ad 103
113 1544 911 378 ---
s 2331 od 11
70 -•-••••- 1511 Od
238 . 1301 od 130
102 ---- 1483 od •
Total-6,0r3 Quartera. Average 140.74.
Cl. 4d. lower than lilt return.

1471 od
146$ oil
14.fs ad
144$ od
1434 ad •
241$ Od
141$ od
14. od
138. od
136$ ad
233. ad
.13o$ od
is6s ad
zsca ad
1164 od

ENTRY of CORN in the PORT ut I.ONI %0N during LA
week.—\lbcat, 2210 gri.—Flour, 3cc cwt.—Ctova sad,
it it cwt.—Ryc, tlO qrs.—Lariey, 163 41-,.—Pcaie, 3oc qr.
—Beans, 120 qrs.

There were entered an Saturday at the Cgflest-hoofe,
19,000 Quarters What 3,1t10 Ouat:ers Rye
B,o= Q2._tarters Oats 475 (tilincri Peet
1,500 (barters Barky
In the week,
33.195 Quarters Wheat Sao Quarters Peak
8,410 Quarters Oats its o,.vtrvrs Beans
t,840 Quarters Batley 5,513 Cwt. Nt'heat Fluor
:,,300 Quart Ts Rye as Cvr. Wheat Meal
PRICE OF HOPS.
Kent ill ox to 13113 s) a I Kent 1311 Otto 151 os
SuS'ex t co; to t3l or, X Stifles 131 os to 141 tos
Elia tat css to 131 Os) Fun. sal oos to SOI Oa pe
SEEDS PER lIIINDRED WEIGHT, April 6.
Red Clover as to tsos
White ditto 30s to 1114 per curt.
Tref,dl • Ss to dos
Turnip acs to 3811 per boatel
Rye Guts ars to 16s per quarter
Cinquefoil 741 so gos Per ditto
Multard- S %%like sag to s6s od per ballad
Seed. j Brown las to ids 6d per ditto
Canary Seed zas to 135 p,.r dkto
Pape Seed 461 to 521 puha.
SMITHFIELD, April 6.
To fink the offal--per Rote of Sib.
Beet 5s od to 6s od Veal - 6s 04 to 71 6d
Mutenn 5$ 44 to 7s od Pork - 64 4d to 7., ed
Stock at Market thi. morning, Beats 23c,, Sheep and Li,mb,