Star.
London, England, 1802-11-22 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND Eaft.
aaitirto• DM
2 Dublin, s
s Waterford 2
I Haniburgh .0
1 French 0
A Dutch •

p,smovTn, Nov. 2o.—Arrived the Pearl, Coke, from Bit-
boa; Gatcom'),--, from Newfoundland ; :.n4:l the Coke,
from mAr ....—Sailcd the Concord frigate; Renard ; Hunter ;
and Shark {loops on a cruize.
polursmouln, Nov. 21—Arrived the Guftaff, Bargefon,
fru:Stockholm

REMAIN AT SPITURAD:
8 f Admiral Mfr. am;
9 t Capt. 0. B. DRURY
80 Sir R. STRACUAN
r.S Capt. SUTTON
36 WILLIAMS
36 •••••• CUMBERLAND
32 STILTS
32 ••••• VA:ISII7AR?
Lieutenant GUYON.

lleptnne
Donegal

Amazon
pryad
AI. male
Nl.Ocienne
s;ariici (gun Vtffel)

1* *ARBOUR.
..
Hercule 84 Capt. FERRIS
.
.
Loire 44 —•• MAI [LAND
riamond - ---- F.LPHINSTON*
•
1-1,1r4 • 33 6 Hon. Capt. Panei
Lc da , - - 38 HARDT
Ai olla - - 36 DIXON
Alarm . . 32 ---. PARKE*
DeterMillee • 34 --.- Bacaut
Alonzo . - z 6 .—.-- FAU MINOT&
rhinos - i 6 --. RAYNSTOR IS
liElbrook i 6 Lieut. Szaacte
Cenfor, gun-eel - ATCHISON.
DEAL, Nov. u.—Came down the Arrow Hoop of war, from
ghtand,....Wiod S. E.
GRAVESEND, Nov. 21.—Pallhd bt the Nein*, Wilton; and
rberty, ----, from Memel; Diligan,-o%—, from Ferrol; and
Triumph, ---, from Ro.te2dam.
ARRIVED

Off Dover, the Princeisti Weise, R ley, ftom Faro and
the Tamer, C.ornelly. frost Malagao-;At Hull, Apollo, Rowles,
Amnia, Boyce, John, and Rua Company, Robinfon,
from Feteriburgh.--At Leith, Mary, Dempiter, from Pe-
tufborgh..—At ,Havre, Adtivity, —, from Virginia.—ln
the Tad--Jolly Bachelor, --- from Archangelo.-At Do-
ver, the Terpilchore frigate, from; Jamaicao.-At Jamaica, the
William and Henry, Duell, and Reliance, Alien, from Lon-
don; Mille, Mills, from Cora; Intrepd, Hutehinfon and
Win Tradir, Manlove, from Liverpool; Brothers, Hart,
from New Brunfwick ; Brothers, Willoughby, Betfey,
lad Maria; —, from Africa.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.
La Minerve, for the captain of the cargo of the Dania
!hip Frau Catherine, will be paid on Wednefday, the aft day
of December neat, et Na 9, New Broad-ftreet.
A diftribution for the Cofmopolite, will be made to the
(loop Swan, and the Kordy, Fury, and Terror gun.treffels, at
No. ti, Ceell4treet, Seery lbws:ding Friday.
The Soap Dart,. for the eataure of the Kaufhandel, will
he paid at Na 2, Little Scotland-yard, on Monday the aid
What ; and alto for the Rote= and cargo..
The cutter Pigmy, for the capture of the cargo of the Ot-
toman ;There St. Michele, will be paid at N 0.9, Neer Broad-
beet, on Wednefday, the aft day of Decembet next.
The Gieyhound, for the capture of the cargo of the Greek
vitae St. Nicole, will be paid at the fame day and plgee.
The Noy Kite, for the follow; prima, the Anton Harman,
the jeffrove Catharine, theism upon her arrival
&Leith.
To the Amethyft, for the captdre of the French (hip la Mo
fie, a diftribution will be made on her arrival in port.
La Nymph, for the capture of the fame French (hip, will
be Paid on Friday, the 26th bd. at Plymouth.
The Sirius, for the capture of the French flip Favori, will
be paid on Friday the 26th init. at Plymouth.
The Indefatigible, for the capture of the fame French !hip,
will he paid it the fame time and plate.

Th; Betfey, Ridley, from Petertburgh fOr Imstion, is
brought into Yarmouth Roads, after being On Hadbro' Sand,
tad dderted by the crew.
The Santos Maityde, Gomz, from Peterlburgh for Union,
is on Sore on the COaft of Sweden.
Sunday fennight arrived in Leith Roads, his Majefty's 'hip
laicidde, Capt. R6i2I4IIAGZW.
The Mary, Dzursrut, we are happy to announce, rarely
%mud on Tuefdaz night In Leith Roads. She was a miffing
Rip.
By the William, arrived at Magee, the rsth instant, from
Offittindand In Norway, *MA port the left oft Thurfday the
I ith, we have received accounts of . the lots of the Mary, of
Dundee, Captain Henna it sox,. at New iiillefound, Norway;
Ind reports the Iletfey to be run down and totally loft in the
Csttegatc.
The brig Tay, Knox, maker, bound to Sligo with a argil
at (agars, he. over in Greenock harbour, on the night be.
tvirt Friday and Saturday tali, and damaged part of her cargo
(particularly the fugars) which is now rebinding to afcertain
the
The Jain and Better, Capt. Psalm jonarsON, is Irrird at
Ile Rofs of Kirkcudbright, from Memel, for Dumfries, with
timber.
A ktter from St. Peterfbargh, dated ath Ge.fays—" We
here continued weflerly winds, which prevent Slips from fall- i
ina., One hip, that failed about a month ago, is , not
hrring been able to get out of the gulph, and has beef 1.
Wan back to tionftradt. The price of goods
The Dutch (hip Philadelphia, Captain Matzen, for Cornea,
Med co Friday from Spithead, having completed her repails.
A letter from Liftsen, dated 3d November, faysa—" The
Orme Brooch, Williandon, that failed the xoth oftfor Greenock,
nib mike, is put back with damage, and the weather is fet
kidding% and blows hard at north wee

The 29th of this month the Englifh State Lot,
tor! begins Drawing. )
SCHEME.
s a £2.5P°O 8 of £SCO
3 of 10,000 as of ICO
3 of 9:00 44 of Sa
6 of Tom & 9.400
ofl),_
___f I,
N. Only 32400 Mauls bib:ad oo,ouu.
The Tickets and Stamped Shares that may be
entitled to the above Capital Benefits are on Sale
$t thcaoLsores Fortunate Office, No. 16, Corn-
hill : where, in the prefent Year, Two Prizes of
23.0001. and 5,0001. each, were fold, divided into
Shares, and one of 20001. in a Whole 'ticket. ,
,•
• 4 Be careful to fee that every Share is figned by
tie Public's moll obettientanttnna obliged hum.
14e fervant, W. NICHOLSON.
The extraordinary fuecefs of the Houfe of
RicKAlnsoo, Coomuct and Co. by felling the
Firit Drawn Capital Prizes in Shares, is truly
altonifiling. In the State Lottery, 1799, they fold
No. 26,803, a Firft Drawn Ticket, entitled to
7hirtyThoufand and Eighteen Pounds ( the great&
Prize ever divided in Shares). In the prefent year
they have elk fold No. 48,752, # Firli Drawn
Ticket, Prize of Twenty Thoufana Pounds; and
L 140,. 7105, another Firtt Drawn Ticket, a Twenty
11°41and Pound Prize, both in glares ; likewife
r`o• 48,318, a Prize of Twenty Thoufand Pounds,
`a a whole Ticket. As RscHAIDSON GOODLUCE,
and Co. are in fo Rich a Vein of Luck, the Public

Li* Mt ILLIORArcz.

COURT OF KING'i BENCH, NOV. ao.

THE I[lllG V. GIBBONS.
The Defendant is the printer convhted of pub-
Ming a libcl On Captain Shuttleworth, by print
mg a hand-bill, wjiich was hawked about the
ftreets of Wapping, purporting to be a particu-
lar account of a bloody murder committed by
him on a boy on board his 'lip, and upon which
charge Captain Shuttleworth has fince been tried
and acquitted He put in an affidavit hating that
he was originally a copper-plate printer; that he
could neither read nor write ; that he was obliged
to depend folely upon his compofitor, and that he
was utterly ignorant of the tendency of the hand-
bill which had been found to be a libel.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTI.CR obferved, that this
fuppofition was excluded by the fads of his having
Paid to Captain Shuttleworth'slriend, he had bet-
ter not ftir in the matter, as it would only make
things worfe, and by his having afterwards pub-
Wised a fecond edition of the hand bill more libel-
lous than the firft.

Sir NASH GROSE then delivered the judgment of
the Court in thefe terms—" George Gibbons, you
are here to receive the fentence of this Court,

having • confeifed that, for the purpofe of pervert-
ing the law and juftice of the Country, by influ-
encing the minds of thofe entrufted with its admi-
"hillration, and to procure the death of John Shut-
tleworth, accufed of a fou,lmurder you, before
his trial, printed and publithed a falfe and mali-
cious account of the fads which conftituted the

charge againft him. How well you fuppofed this
libel calculated to anfwer the pirpore for which it
was intended, the trouble you took in extending its
circulation fufficiently proves to us. The occafion
on which you publifhed it was that of a perfon in
cuftody for the molt dreadful of all crimes, the
death of a human creature, and your attempt was
to enforce the belief that he was guilty. If there
is any one thing in the inftitution of the Trial by
Jury more important than another, it is, that the
individuals who compote it fhould meet perfectly
unprejudiced,and, if poffible,perfeely unacquaint-
ed with the fubjee they are to try. However de-
firable fair and impartial publications of judicial
proceedings may be, when all parties have been
fully heard, certain I am that nothing can have a
worfe or more dangerous tendency than carat*
information, when the iccufed can have had no
opportunity'of defending himfelf. Your offence is,
however, of a much more aggravated nature than
the one to which I have 'referred ; for you have
publilhed, and induftrioufly circulated a libel, the
avowed (Nee of which was to prevent the courfe
of juftice; and to procure the conviaion of a man
for murder, who has fence been acquitted of the
foul imputation. If fuch had not been your con-
feffion, your malicious intention would have been
but too manifett, from the nature of the libel itfelf;
and by refufing.to give up the name of the author,
the fuppofition is natural, that the author was no
other than yourfelf. Your behaviour afterwards
to the profecutor, when you told him, if he
interfered in the bulinefs he would only make it
worfe, is an additional aggravation of your crime.
If you had not confeffed on the record the motive
by which your miad was aeuated, one would hird-
ly have believed that any town could have commit-
ted fuch an offence. On which of the human
paffions your delinquency is founded it is difficult
to account, but of this your own confcience may
inform you • and it is to be hoped that, during the
remainder of your life, you will endeavour to make
forme atonement for your paft conduct. To you
may be juftly applied one of the fentences in your
Own libel—you fay, g This infiance affords a
proof that the favoured image of man is capable
of ads of the utmoft depravity and malice.' Such
is truly the character of your offence. To prevent
the repetition of it hereafter, and to preferve the
inftitution of trial by Jury uncontaminated, the
Court doth order and adjudge that you,-George
Gibbons, be imprifoned, and kept to hard labour,
in the Houfe of Correction, for the term of fix ca-
lendar months, and that, within that period, you
hand once in and upon the pillory for one whole
hour, between the hours of twelve and two, in
front of the crofs ftreets at the Seven Dials."
• He had allowed Judgment to go againft him by default.
THE KING V. GOODWIN.
The ATTORNEY-GEm sem. moved for judgment
againft the defendant, upon a conviction for per-
jury, in a profecution againft Itobinfon and Hart,
two fmugglers, tried at the affixes for Maidftone.
Mr. MARRIOTT addreffed the Court in mitiga-
tion of punilhment.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in a fpeech of con-
fiderable length, inveighed againft the prevalence
of the crime &Perjury, and called upon the Court
for the utmelt fevetity of punifhment.
The defendant was remanded, and ordered to
be brought up again this day week. The Attor-
ney-General's remarks shall precede-our report of
the judgment pronounced by the Court.
THE KING V. WINTER.
The Defendant was convicted at Maidftone of
having naval ftores in his poffeffion. This is the
Gentleman who, when in Court, begged for mercy
on his knees, and boafted of his loyalty and his
fevices to the Goiernment.
Sir N. GROSE thus pronounced the udgment
of the Court —g, Thomas Winter, you havebeen
convicted of the offence of having in your polTef-
lion a quantity of naval ftores, which you muff
have known could not have been legally obtained
by shore from whom you purchafed them. That
Gad men, in the employment of his blajefty in his-
Dock-yards, make a conflant praeice of embez-
zling filch articles, and thereby greatly increafe
the public debt of the country, is but too noto-
, pious, and that others equally as bad, encourage
them by receiving the articles ftolen, is as true.—
The magtude of the punament for this offence,
one would think fufficient to prevent the cons-
miffion of it; yet, notwithftanding the feverity of
the law, offenders teem to =creak. Finditi that

en teeeivers of (tole*. goods, namely** tranfporta-
tion for fourteen years. It is highly. necelTary
this law should be promulgated. frfeems from
the evidence, that you are by trade a bricklayer,
and alfo ad as a carpenter in the eretlion of
houfes of your own. In one of thofc hqufes it ap-
pears you employed new nails with the King's
mark on them, and you admit you purchased
them of children. No man who lives where you
do, could dottiat as to the place from whence fuch
articles wert taken, and to buy them of children,
• is encouraging them in a pra6tice which mull Ul-
timately bring them to ruin. The Court has
taken all the circumflances you have alledgt d in
mitigation of puniihment into its confideration,
and it does not inflia on you all the severity of
the law, but orders that you be imprifoned fix
months in the county gaol at Maid flone, and that
you be placed in and upon the pillory, for one
hour, oppofite the Dock-yard, at Chetham."
As he went out of Court, he implored that his
fentence might be mitigated, and that he might
not be pilloried in a place where he was fo well
known.

, MANDAMUS.
Mr. WOOD obferved, that they were all in great
confufion in the town of Berwick upon-Tweed, as
the late Mayor was at Edinburgh when the pfe•
fent Mayor was chofen, and they did not know
whether, from the abfence of the prefiding Officer,
the Eleaion was not invalid. To try the queftion,
he moved for a mandamus to the Corporation to
proceed to a new Elation ; but the Court, as a
preferable method, granted a Rule nifi for an in-
formation in the nature of a quo warranto again(
the prefent Mayor.

COLLET AND. ANOTHER V. LORD KEITH,
This was an action brought by John Collet and
Anthony Butler, Owners of the (hip Argonaut and
her cargo, again[} the defendant, the Right Hon.
George Lord Keith, for damages, on account of
the defendant's having feiZed the raid fhip, where-
by the became wholly loft to the plaintiffs, toge-.
ther with her cargo.
The defendant pleaded the general iffue of Not
Guilty, and five other pleas, by way ofjuttiScation.
of his conduct. The fubftance of them was, "That
at the time of taking the faid !hip, the Cape uf
Good Hope was in the poffeffion of the King of
Great Britain by conqueft ; that he was the Com-
mander in Chief of his Majefty's naval force at the
Cape, and that he had reafon to fufpeti, and did
furped that the faid (hip was about to carry on
' correfpondence with the enemy, who were exped-
ed there ; that therefore he feized the faid fhip for
the prefervation and fafety of the fettlement, that
is, in thort, for Rate neceffity, as it was lawful for
him to do ; that when this feizure took place,
there was no new code of laws given by the Bri.
tiih to the fettlement, and therefore the old Dutch
laws continued, and that he fubmitted the caufe of
the detention of the fhip to a Court of Juflice at
the Cape; that for the purpofes of Rate neceffity,
he in conjunition with his Colleague, Sir Charles
Craig, laid an embargo on all (hips at the Cape of
Good Hope, at. this time, and that he kept and de-
tained the faid Chip under the authority and pro-
ceedings of the faid Court of Juftice, until by the
negligence of the plaintiffs the was loft." This
was the fubflance of the noble defendant's juftifi-
cation.' To which the plaintiffs replied, that the
defendant feized and detained the 'faid (hip of his
own. wrong.
There was another plea, Rating that the defen-.
dant detained the faid fhip as an illicit trader ;
but which plea was not juftified by the defendant.
The fubftance of the cafe was this—ln the year
1796, the plaintiffs being the owners of the (hip
Argonaut, Collet, one of the plaintiffs, commanded
her as Captain, and failed from Philadelphia to
Europe, with a cargo of flour upon freight, arrived
at Breit in July, and went from thence to Bow -
deaux. She proceeded to Madeira, there took in a
cargo of wines and brandy, and fome Britifh goods,
and proceeded on her vgyage towardstheEaft Indies.
On the ad of Anna thearrived at the Cape, where
the Noble Defendant was the Commander of the
Britith Naval force. She put in at the Cape, with
intention, as the plaintiffs contended, of flaying
only four or five days, while they took water and
fome refrethment, but which my Lord Keith full
Need to be for the purpofe of giving information
to the enemy, and making nfe of her neutral cha.
rafter for that purpofe, another flip having done
' fo the preceding day, and Admiral Mitchellrs fleet,
as well as Richerry's,being hourly expeaed. When
the (hip came in, an Officer came on board the (hip
immediately, to examine her papers. On the 3d
of Auguß Captain Collet cent on chore to go up
to Cape Town, and in the evening of the fame day
about fix or (even o'clock, there came a Midfhip-
man on board, together with a corporal and eight
marines, for the purpofe of preventing commu-
nication with the fhore. The (hip was removed
on the 4th into another part of the harbour, and
continued under the care of an Officer fent by my
Lord Keith. She was continued always under
fuch care, nor was the Captain, after he came
back from (bore, permitted to go on board the
Admiral's (hip without a guard. So that there
was no queftion upon the fetz;ng of the (hip by the
defendant. She was iremoved by order of my
Lord Keith, out of a place in which (he was, and
where the mutt have been blown to atoms in cafe a
french or Dutch fleet came in, and placed in a
fltuation intended for her fecurity, where (he was
kept for fome time, and after tome correfpondence
k place between my Lord Keith and Mr. col-
let, in which his Lordfhip raid, that none of the
treafure .fhould be taken from her, but that what-
t.oo
ever might be wanted for her proteition and fafety,
?or. Collet might have, for asking ; but Mr. Col-
let abandoned the (hip, faying he would purfue
'his remedy for an illegal detention of her. Lord
Keith faid, he would take the whole charge of the
care of the (hip upon bimfelf, provided Mi. Collet
would, by writing, rilinquifh her, which Mr. Col-
let refufed to do. Some time afterwards the was
loft liy means of a tempett.
lifter this an aatea..was brought, the title of
. _

the tirt* of the 106, which happened in this cafe,
the Chip was under his 4..ordfhip's rettraint, and,
he being the reprefentat;ve of the. King of Great
Britain at ibe Cape,. the, Chip was proved to he
under the restraint of Princes, which. being a rick
within the.potcy, put an end to the queltion Upon

that iffue.
It was now pin Pored to read the evidence given
by my Lord Keith, on the trial of that iffire, to
prove the plaintiffs' cafe in this, namely, that he
had detained the !hip longer than was juitiriable,
whereby fhe was loft. N.
Mr. GAR ROW, Mr. Arista, and Mr. PARK, con-
tended, that this was evidence not to be received,
for that it was improperly pbtained, his Lordfhip
being made a witnefs on the trial of a crane- be-
tween two perfons who were iir'angers to him, and
afterwards the teftimony he theit gave, was. to be
turned againft himfelf in an aalon for the lois of
the !hip by his means, when he only detained her
from a fenfe he had of the intereft of his country.
That evidence, thus obtained, ought not to be re-
ceived; his Lordfhip ought to have been put on
his guard before he gave his evidence, and told
that he was not bound to fay any thing on that
occation, that might fable& him to an ;talon.—
That his Lordihip, if he had been fo cautioned,
might have accompanied his evidence with fuch
explanations avasight change the effect of it en-
tirely, with regard to the reasons he had for fuf-
peaing this veffel to have been intended to convey
information to the enemy at the. Cape, at the cri-
tical conjunaure when fhe entered that place, and
when he feized her... That his Lordfhip prefaced
his evidence, in that cafe, with Acing permiffion
to explain the nature of his lunation at the Cape
at that time, and to juftify his condua, when he
was told by the then Chief Juftice of England, it
was unneceffary to do fo, for that all the world
were prepared to teffify for his Lordthip in that
refpea. Lord Ketivom meant only to convey
what he felt in common with all his Majefty's fub-
jeds, the moll unfeigned regard towards my Lord
Keith for his condua as a gallant Officer, andiar-
ticularly at the Cape. My Lord KEN YON had no
idea that the evidence which my Lord Keith then
was about to give, was to be taken down, for the
purpofe of being read in -evidence in an aaion
againft himfelf ; if he had, that Noble and Learn-
ed Chief Juftice would never have fuffered my
Lord Keith to open his lips, without warning him
of his,danger; but for want of that fufpicion, Lord
Keith was not only not defused to explain every
thing, as he gave his evidence, but was hindered
from doing fo, and that which was only intended
as a compliment to him as a gallant Officer, bad
the effea of fubjeding him to an aaion. Under
thefe circumflances thefe Learned Gentlemen con-
tended, that this was not tetlimony either fairly
obtained, or freely given. If my Lord Keith
had been told, " there is a short hand writer at
your Lordfhip's elbow, taking down what you
fay, for the purpofe of proving it in an action
which will be brought againft you, for detaining
the chip in queftion," his Lordlhip would then
have taken care to explain, every point as he went
along ; inftead of which, by an intended compli-
ment, mot finterely paid by my Lord KENYON,
my Lord Keith was really prtyented from giving
any explanation of his condua at the Cape. For
thefe reafons, the Learned Gentlemen fubmitted,
that this evidence, given by my Lord Keith in
another caufe, fhould not be read in this.
Mr. Juftice La BLANC over ruled this objeaion,
obferving, that it applied only to the degree of
weight to be given to the evidence under fuch sir-
cumtlances, and that was a point deferving of con-
fideration with the Jury ; but it was not any ob-
jettion to the admiffibility of the evidence—which
was therefore received, and read from the Notes
taken by Mr. Gurney, on the trial of Wilfon
againft Maryat, in 1796 ; by which it appeared
that my Lord Keith had done as was expreffed in
the pleadings on his behalf, but his Lordthip's mo-
tives for what he did, of course did not appear,
for the reafons afligned by his Counfel. It ap-
peared afterwards, that the Embargo which was
general upon the !hips at the Cape, was taken off,
and other !hips, bound as this was, to the Eaft In-
dies, were permitted to fail on the Bth of Septem-
ber, but the Argonaut was detained. There was
no queftion on the propriety of the firft feizure of
this (hip by his Lordfhip in the firft inftance for
State Neceflity. The only queftions were, Whe-
ther his Loicbhip feized her a fecond time impro-
perly, or continued the firft feizure after the caufe
of it was at an end ?
The trial 'ailed upwards of five hours; the Jury
retired, and after a deliberation of about three
quarters of an hour, brought in a Verdia far the
Plaintiffs, laying, " We are agreed that, in the
firft part, Lord Keith was jullified in what he did,
but not in the fecond."
Mr. Juftice Lx BLANC—" Then you are of opi-
nion that he ftopt the (hip at firft on the ground
of State Policy,•which was afterwards abandoned ?
That he took off the embargo, and then detained
her as an illicit trader, in which he was not juttified ?
..44 Yes."

"That my Lord Keith at firft feized and de-
tained the Ihip from an apprehenfion of danger to
the fettlement by communication with the enemy,
and that after the embargo was taken off he had
detained her as as illicit trader ?"
The Jury faid they were fatisfied on that point,
becaufe it appeared that the embargo was taken
off and other chips were permitted to fail. That
my Lord Keith never took off his reitraint from
this Ihip.
. 4 verdi& was then entered upon the general
iffue and two tail iffues, for the plaintiff, and all
the reit of the Record for the defendant.
Damages to be computed out of Court, by an
Arbitrator to be chofen by the parties.

, The Death of a Mifer was lately announced in
an American Paper thus On Friday lad died _ .
Jofiah Bramtree, of Beduington, at the age 0198.
He retained his money to the laft!"
A few Aart fume the young wife of a man near.

TO LAURA.

BY We SMYTH, NAL

The following elegant and nacre/this Tribute to the Old Scot-
alb Bads and Muficians, teems to be entitled to that praife
whi h Dr. Jouttson beftows on a part of Ga ET $ Elegy. as
exhibiting thoughts which we not to be found in any other
Writer.

You bid me fing the Song you love,
I hear, and wake the favoued lay;
For LAURA'S lips no with can move,
But I am Weft when I obey.
Yet while you bend the Brain to hetlr,
. My fancy dies on wayward wing,
And turns to him, the Poct dear,
Who formic' the Sons you bid the
Dear to my heart for evcr be
The Bard vrbo thus Mall melt and charm,
In eery age, each Maid like thee,
To Nature jun, to Genius warm !
But ail the Bard, where is he led?
Like common tonne of tra,pr clay; ,
The indeed night are Mod him,fpread,
The Bard 114 liv'd, and loafs'd away.
And him, who thuswillimatehlebilit;
To Mak gave the Poet's:rhyme;
Toech'd with new clegantiee heart,
And wak'd td melody fahlime.
How vainly*Mthl my eytir require.
And feel *WM the mints army;
For like the ?defter of the lyre,
He too his red and par 'd away !
evlid Scoruis andenry suss naked.
There notes Como unknown Min4zel Arlie
Yet, where...to Mem heath refign'd,
Reis now the form the Mufo infplrat
Ho wit* points, to rapture warm;
TO grateful awe, thn faerat eint ;
4lhis ! vihik lives the Song to 4404
All but the Sons has Fared rani •

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In this cotiffite Science Tome inteselting
meats have' )itely been. brought forward, which
very 11111$011 mitt the attention, of Pltiforophem
and promaiie• to lead to reislts that may prove of
intalculable hone& in a medical point of view.—
Tit% following particulars, extradted from the Yht-
lolliphical Magazine for laft month, will put oar
-Readers in poffefflori of the Welt details that have
been given on this fubjea.i.A.-
eket.iinic cricievy, PARK.
The fitting of the Galvanic Society at. ore Ora.
tone, on the i4th of OCtoher, was remarkabk, ,
both on account of the patience of the leankeidl
men and diftinguifited philofophers who compofe it,
and of the nature of the experiments made on cold.
blooded and warm•blooded
C. AhLni condu&ed thefe experiment* with a
arrest deal of method. The principal ones Were as
folio*
ft . Several frogs recently &laced exhibited in
fuccefflion the phienpitatnoa of a very Terifible con-
traction *Minot the interpofitien of any metallic
fubftancet and by the mere coma& of the netwie
of each with the mulch:. •
ad. The animal. arc was kveral times obtaimedi
and rendered feafible by the fame dill:dukes as to

the preceding experiatent.
• 3d. The phenomenon of Illiasnibistousmufenlar
contrailioa, in three frog‘ recently prepared; and.
placed at the fide of math other in the fame direc-
hoe, was produced --at.irft by the aid of Laver
.alone. Bat C. Aldini, being defirous to prove
that the fluid ',lath alai on there animals was
not metallic ericity, changed the pofition of
the intermediate hog, by placing the fuperior
. extremity of the trunk of the latter parallel
to the inferior extremities of the other two.—
A centtasftion being then otifervql in the frrft and
lea, without producing any aid on that placed
ii the middle, C. Aldini concluded, that, as the
fluid did sok purfne the fhotteft way of communi-
catioo, it could not be the elearic fluid of metals,
one of the geaeral laws of which does not allow it
to deviate from the fhorteft route. '
In another (cries of experiments the fame phi.
lot piper exhibited the phenomena of the greateft
excitability *fishing from the application of the
Oalvenic coadnitor, O. Towards the medulla
oblongata of the head of a warm-blooded animal,
recently feparated from the trunk. , 2d. On the
trunk itfelf. 3d. On the healand think, at the
fame time, making the anus °Welt °ethane!. and
the earon the other, communicate with the Gal-
vanic battery. A (mall quantity of •bloodfcattered
over the table contributed, no doubt, to the moo,
' of this fimulteneous goner-allots of the two pails
placed at a remarkable diftanee from each other:
4th. On a portion of the males detachedfrosu
the body of the fame animal.
sth. The crural nerve of a frog, brought into
contaa with one .of the mnfeles of the uarm
cc/ animal, .etthibited'eticlant (weasel contra Mon.
&h. The heart of the fame • wit' ou-blhodedwaiotal
placed let a veftel aid fubjeaed- to thcirapriAfiesn.'
of** galvanic battery, gave no firs of excitabi-
lity. 'lips, indeed, is oat of thole (vegans which
&et forme* decoinpored after the death of the
iad'tw ii 1.
The members of the Society paid-the utatofialt,
teation to all there experimette I and thePreftdeinV
C. Nauche, congratulated in their name C.
on the manner m whkh he had condoeted theta,
ant the seal he had thorn to foppot, b? new &elk'
the theory of his illithriott uncle Galvesniy
Noce &de falls it kern% to red% t-11,- TIM
the animal fluid' 'Wks the place. in analogaii
experiments of the ric fluid- propagated by
useialay ally, Thai dila animal fluid hit no need
of rats odes condullee than -the organised ptitts.
34 Tbset,WlWYgreeatid tile-lufole. are thaftwefi
coadullors of this field audi conitquistiy, that
tried either ofillte:neiesee pleat qr

funaions than that of favouring, more or lets,
the propagation of this univocal fluid, which
penetrates eafily, and in preference to all others,
the nervous and saufcular parts of organited bo.
TOURLIET.

ACADEMY 01 lICIRNCR3f TURIN.
The Galvanic Committee of this Acadeinyscoft-
fitting of profeffors Giulio, Vaffalli-Eandi, and
Roffi, continue their experiments with great fuc-
cefs.
C. Giulio will foon prefent to the academy two
reports on this fobjee. In the firli, after reclining
to the experiments which he Made in !792, 1793,
and 179+, on feveral plants, in order to thew how
far they were fenfible to the Galvanic influence by
the fimple medium of arminig and of metallic arcs,
he gives an account of new experiments made
lately, in conjunaion with Vaffalli-Eaudi, on
the different fpecies of fenfitive plantsefuch as the
mistofa pudica, the miwtojafiVtiva, the iosimofa afpro•
to, and the calla fen iva, which prove that the
mufcles of their leaves are fenfible to the influence
of the Galvanic agent called forth by the Voltaic
pile. t •
In the fecond he gives an account of the refults
obtained by experiments made on a man decapi
tated, September tSth, in one of the hagtof the
national College: The principal of thefe refults
were as follow :
I ft. By making one extremity of the pile corn-
mtinicate with the interior of one ear tiorifitned
with a folution of muriate of ammonia,• and
the other extrettlity of the pile with the other ear,
very ilrong contraaions were produced in the
mufcles of the face : but the contraCtions of the
temporal mufcles, the pterygoid, and maieter,
were particularly, flTriking, for they elevated and
a 'tided the loirar jaw with fo much force, that
:
e gnathing4 the teeth was diitinitly heard at ft
e diftanct tri feveral feet.
ad. By eftablifhing a communication between the
final marrow and the large nervi fympatheqci and
vagi armed., and'between different regions of the
breali moiflened with the fame folution, and the
other extremity of the pile—before the cavitie•
were opened very ftrong tetanic (hocks were tit*
tamed throughout the whole body 1 filch violent
palpitations of the heart, that the hand applied on
the region of the fifteand -filth ribs *as ftrangly
fttruck by them ; inititationt and expirations, with
a hitting noife talk ► ,accompanied, the entrance
and efcape of the air.
3d. After opening the breaft the palpitations of
the heart Rill continued, and could be diftinSly
perceived: when they had ceafed, they Wert re-
newed by eftabliihing a communication between
the heart and the pile, the large nervi fympathe-
tici and. vagi and the pile.
4th. By arming the abdominal aorta and thel
plexus coiliacus, and then making them commtr-
nicate with the pile by mons of two "refpedive
arcs. eowatia wen produced in the abdominal
aorta. ' ' •
There experiments, added to others announced
in a report made to the academy on the t3th of
1 Augul laft, leave no doubt in raped to the it
' ratable macular contntitility of the arteries, and
of the infifiente Which the nerves have in their
"Ohm.
r sth. By arming the anterior nervous branches 1
,of the laft durfal nerves and of the thoracic con- i
dui(, and Ad:bilking a comirunication between
r that conduit and an extremity of the pile, and the
armed aeries and the other extremity, evident
contraBions were produced in the thoracic canal.
*P41101604, know what difputes have taken place
for and againtt the irritable cuntra&ility of this
caw,. The experiments of the Galvanic commit-
tee of Turin remove all doubts• on the fubjelt : in
a decline manner it prefents, for the firft time, as
irrefragable proof of the irritability of the canna
of the chyle, and of the exiftence of mufcular
fibres in the tiffuo of that canal.
6th. One of the eyes was plucked from its orbit,
and laid on a plate of glafs armed with a plate of
lead, fo that the poiterror part of the ball of the
eye, the trunk of the optic nerve, and the nervous
branches of the lenticular ganglion, were in con-
tact with the plate 01 lead : a communication was
then formed between the plate of lead and one ex-
tremity of the pile and the klerotica, and between
the tranfparent cornea and the other extremity of
the fame pile, II means of exciting arcs.
The fpeCiators were greatly aftondhed to fee the
pipit infiantly contraa. An incifion was made
in the covneu; and a fine fold wire being brought
into immediate contael with the iris and the laft
filaments of the ciliary nerves, a movement was
obrerved in the iris, and a greater contra&ion in
the pupih There are irritable fibres then in the
iris, nortekhaanding what many authors have faid
tothetenitrary. But what is the direCtion of there
fib/telt The profeffors propofe to make this a fu._
tutre.objeat of refearch.'
Ith. , By introducing an arming of lead into the
anusi 'and making if communicate with life pile,
`while another communication *is eftablithed beL•
!tweentht, flame of the inteßinel and ~the other
‘,..ty of 'the pile,- evident contrattions were
prodoeed•ht the mtifeular tunic of the inteffinew 1
!lefpieitOlr when uncovetled by' the **trades of the
'extetior membranous tank, a continuation of thel
Alitoututo.

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' 1141 i. Ai long pertion of.the•right anterior made
ofebb4et Wig extended on algate of stals armed
ithl two Mats of lead; the two extremities oft
difele • whtin tor.ched,by the. tiro-ends of the at*:
itlicioClthe• intervention of the rile, approached',
tiieli other;, and the Ileeie- ittimediately becatner,
,lkortetted One half, Thee' Motions took plati'
'env when! the :wining *als *Moved:
'theft:experiments were inikto io the prerene oli
dm Commiffary-General ortlib ?bike, feitilit:
Profefihrs•of the Athentetirtif the Members of the',
1 t*/ Academy, a a veal nugnisey ;of other enlighten,
ed Citizen
It mar lie gratiTyhti toil* .Ribidera to be'
formed; dim ,Mti-A4dltlf- -the vigoliew of hi Oid,
- - -Now in leondon,:indo
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