Star.
London, England, 1801-09-15 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

We have the pleafure to date, that the undo!.
mentioned Eaft India 'hips have arrived in fafety
in Macao Roads, under convoy of his Majeßy'd
1h p Bsisulpatiz they left En 'land on the arts'
of May, tBOO, and came to their moorings at
Macao on the t 9th and at R of February ; viz.

The Neptdne, in charge of Mr. Reddk, the thiertifiedi
(Captain Spens being lett indifportd at St Hrima); the Bee:
bay Calle, Captain John Hamilton; the lierfetilthe. Captain'
John listanfden ; the Couto, Captain Robert 'feria; tad the
Exeter, Captain Henry Mahon. The above Blips were en.
peeked to leave China, for England, oii the *ft of May.—. The
Dorfetildre parted with thoConepany'ilhip Britaneta, captain
Thomas Barrow, on the zath of January, off Bawd. • t
The Wlndhilm, Captain Theitnas 'Graham, and the Lord
Duncan, Captain George Saltwell, the two ftpre-chips, arrived
at the !Band of*. Hdena, with fupplia from England, on the
zoth of June.
The IMP Ceramic, Captain Horatio laver, was at St. Het:
lona on the sth of May hit, on which day be was expedited to
leave the Wand for Bencoolen and China, having delivered als
the Rasa cosigned to St. Helena.
The following outward-bound Eall India, (hips
were left by the WINDNAM and LORD DUNCAN, oil
the 27th of May, in lat. so. 30. 'South, and long,
sy. Area, proceeding on their refpedtive voyages;

Pot COAST AND BAT.The. Calends, Captain William
Ma:wen,- the Dover Cale, Captain Peter Sampfon; the Sir
Stephen Luihington, Captain George Gooch; the Chariton.
Captain John Alth4m Cumberiege ; the Afia, Captain Rik.
bcrt Wardlaw ; the Walpole, Captain James Sandliands; and tits
Duke of Montrofe, Captain Patrick Burt
FOR COAST AND Cntwa.—The True Briton, Captll.
WUBam Stanley Clarke ; the Hlndoftan, Captain George Mel.
lett ; the Hope, Captain James Homeaftle ; the Boddam, Cap..
tan John Jones; and the Admiral Gardner, Captain Edward
C. Bradford.

Foa Beta aar.—The Woreefter, Captain Seariet Wood;
the Fort William, Capt. ofeph Boulderfon ; the Lord Hawkef.
bury, Captain ; and the Airly Caitle, Cap.
min Alezander Math.

The above Mips were very fuccefsful in having
croffed the Equator without being becalmed, which
brought them into freth South-Eaft trade winds.
We are lorry to hear that the Taus Basropi is
very Italy, having 92 feamen and foldiers on the
Dotor's 141: they have been obliged to covert
their long-boat into a temporary hofpital.--Mids
the exception of this Blip and the Doss or Mow-
taoss, the Fleet is remarkably healthy.

The Amphitrite, LILIA, from Briftol to Lif-
bon, is taken by a Spanifh privateer, and carried
into Viana.

The George (late WH ITIHE•a), from Akio
drove on ihom in a gale of wind,at New Prov; '
Four more gun-velfels are now ilationed
Blackwater and Burnham rivers, on the
coati.

A letter from Halifax, dated July 7, fa;
rived his Majelly's armed brig Palace's Ai
Capt. Mower, from Sydney, Cape Breton;
gets, Capt. ALves, and a party of the 6th
meet, who were thipwrecked near the entrain
Span& river, alfo Lieut. Di seat% Aid-de-Cami
to Lint. Gcacral Datr•ao.

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-CL.ERKEMPELL SESSIONS, SEPT. 14.
•

This day the adjourned Quarter Sellions of the
Peace for the county of Middlelex, was holden at
th_eSeffion-houte onClerkenwell-green.WILLIAIS
MAINWAIR Efq. Chairman.
Efitaba6 Ifodsfole, a feltool.mißrefs. in GoTwell.
erect, was initiated for affaulting and beating So.
phi it Cherry, a child of nine_ years of age. By the
evidence of the child, it appeared that the parents
had placed tier with the defendant to receive her
education, and that the defendant had, for a tri-
fling fault, beat the child with a large bamboo
Lane, and, as the (hated, cut a piece out of her
neck, and bruited her arm violently. The child's
fitter and mother were called to confirm her tel.
timony, and alto another witnefs s they were only
able to prove that a tniall bit of fkin had been
(truck off by the violence of the blow, and it was
not finind neceltary to call in the aid of a furgeon.
The defendant's Counsel faid, that it was evident
the prefent profecution originated in malice, as the
child had not received any injury. He, therefore,
declined calling witneffes, and faid, that he had
feveral of her (choler' who could contradia the
fiatement, and prove that the is a woman of a hu-
mane and feeling difpolition, and not likely to in-
flia unmerited punahment. H had no doubt
the Jury would find the defen Not Guilty.
The Chairman laid, the cafe might have been
of much public importance, if ft had been proved,
and would have called down the feoerett penalties
of the law, had the defendant been found guilty.
It was found necettary, in order to induce fume
children, who were of an untraOable difpofition,
to putfue their learning, to India tome flight pu-
ttithment, and by that method to enforce difcipline.
No ferious injury had been received; grid if the
Jury were of the fame opinion with him, they
would acquit the defendant. At the fame time
he witted to obi-erre, that perfons who undertook
to infirm@ children (honld not nfe harth meafures,
hut endeavour, by mild and gentle methods, to
enforce a aria attention to the precepts and in-
*ruffian which it was their bounden duty to in-
culcate. The Jury immediately found the defen.
dant—Nat Colby.
Samoa, &Oat was indiEted for affaulting a Mr.
Taylor, habertlalher, in Wigniore-greet. Caren-
-diflitquere. It appeared, that the wife of the de-
fendant had dealings to a confiderable amount
with Mr. Taylor In the courfe of the year; and.
that fome difpute occurring with regard to the
charge of a trifling article in the bill, the defen-
dant called Mr. Taylor, a fcoundrel ; upon which
he took hold of the defendant by the Ihoulder,
in order, as he faid, to all him what he meant
by that fort of ;41pgyagd the latter immediately
firuck him a violent blow, and a fcufile en-
Coed • the combatants were at length parted, and
the defendant went home, Coon after which a con-
!table took him to the watch-houfe. " This," faid
the Connie!, for the defendant, " was very ill
torage ;" " but," laid the profecutor, " he had a
,ttei for as I was going to the Public Office the
serf day, he canted me to be arrefted for the ba-
lance of a bill." The defendant not being in a
&nation to contradia the ftatement with refpea
to the ad-atilt, the Jury found him guilty, and
the Court fined him fol.
pm Gower was indiaed for affaulting Thomas
Parfonl. The defendant is a coachmaker, the
profecutor was his journeyman. The latter Rated,
chat he went into the counting-honfe to receive his
wages. whet fome difagreement took place re.
fpating an advance, when the defendant (truck
bm, and knocked him down. He called a wit-
Ats to corroborate his teftimony, who was at that
lime in the defendant's fervice. This man was
sot in the counting-houfe, but raid, he heard all
that paffed, and beard the blows rives by the drfreo
Oat, the profecutor begging of him not to alike
him.
The Counfel for the defendant made a very in-
geHlious and able defence. He faid, that the pro-
fecator had behaved in a very infolent manner to-
wards the defendant, and had infifted on an in-
create of wages, threatening that if his demand
was not complied with, he would leave his fervice;
that in confequence of this ill condua of his fer-
vent, he had puttied him oat of the counting-houfe,
find which he was joftified in cluing, as this man
was acing in an illegal manner by refitting to
work unlefs his demand was complied with. He
trufted the Jury would by their verdift find th: de-
fendant Nat Guilty, and thereby read a whole-
fome Won to men aaing like the protection, and
entering into unlawial combinations.—The Jury,
however, found the defendant Guilty, and he was
ordered to pay a fine of Tex raos&.
Lawrence Neale was indiaed for affaulting Na.
thaniel Gorman. The defer.dant is a matter- ,
lilhterrnan, and was mooring tome craft near
Irongate Wharf, when he requefled the affiftance
of the profecutor, who is a fervent to another
lighterman ; be refuted to affill him, and at the
fame time gave him fuch very abufive language,
that the Defendant, in the moment of irritation,
gave him a violent kick in the mouth. The Jury
found him Gaily, and the Court ordered him to
pay a fine of tol.
.Neph Stapler was inctifted for alfaulting Jofeph
Baxter, a Conftable, in the execution of his duty.
It appeared that, about twelve o'clock at night. a
riot had takezi place in Old-ftreet Road, when the
_Profecutor was atfaulted by leveret perfons, but
was unable to identify any of the parties. He could
not fwcar pofitively to the perfon of the Defen-
dant ; who called the mitt:els of the public honk
where he lodged, and feveral perfons, who poil-
tively-fitreating that he went to bed at ten o'clock
on the evening in quelllon. and did not (lir out,
the Jury, muter the direltion of the Chairman,
who faid there was no teafon to doubt the truth
of what the witneffes fir the defendant had (worn,
acquitted him.

Saturday a Clerk in the Inland Department of.
the Poll-Office, was examined at the filanfio n.
honfe, on a charge of having ftcden a ,sl. bank.
note from a letter. The piiioner, wbo is not
enure than 14 years of age, is-as committed to the
Pilaitry-Compter for bertha eusniaatip&

kARTH.e,UA ite.t.

EDINBURGH, sEPTEMBER zo: ,

On Monday morning jail, about Itts o'clock,
many of the inhabitants of this city and neigh-
bourhood were alarmed by a fmart (hock of an
earthqtydre, which continued two nr three feconds,
and was preceded by a rumbling, milting, hollow
noife from the ground. It had a tremulous, um'
dulasing motion, fomething refembling the motion I
of the waves of the fez. Beds, tables, chairs, &e:
in fome houfes were obferved to (hake, refembling
the rocking of a cradle. Some perfons who felt it
a very difagreeable fenfation, attended with
a beadach. We have heard of no damage being
done by it in this city. It would appear it ex-
tended along the Forth to the weftward, as far as
Stirling, where fume little damage was done
amongft the crockery ware.—The morning was
gloomy, warm, and. calm; the barometer high,
and the thermometer about go. The preceding
day, Sunday, there was a good deal of rain. A
parrot in a gentleman's houfe in the fouth fide of
the town, fcreeched feveral times during the (hock,
in the fame manner thefe birds do in the Well In-
dies, during an earthquake ; and in, one houfe the
bells were fet a ringing. It would teens that this
(hock has been pretty general, as ive have had ac-
counts of it from feveral miles diftance, both in
the weft and earl diredion. _ _ _

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We have the following account from Dunferm-
line t - _

A flight (hock of an earthquake was felt here
this morning, exactly at fiz o clock. Its duration
it is fuppofcd, was only two feconds. People who
were in high limeys, and confequently had the bell
opportunities of obfervauon, thought they felt two
fmall (hocks, and in their fituations, things that
were hanging on the walls were evidently moved
from their places, occafioning tome wife. Macy
people were wakened from their deep by the mo-
-I„tion which they felt in their beds, which they ge-
nerally defcribe by the rocking of a cradle, or as
if a perfon had lifted up one fide of the bed from
the floor, to which a tremulous motion fucoeeded
for a fbort (pace. No noire, as far as I can learn,
has beets heard, either in the air, or from the
bowels of the earth, nor has it been accompanied
with any fulphurous Mull. I underhand the (hock
to have been generally felt on the fide of the'Forth.
—On the Welt, it was obferved at Torryburn,
Culrofs, Kincardine, and Alloa :—on the Nc:th,
At Mavis, Dollar, and Fofravray ;—and on the
Eaft at Aberdour, Kinghorn and Kirkaldy.
" In Aberdour Tome windows are Paid to have
'been broken, but I have not heard of any damage
any where cite. There was no previous appear-
ance in the atmorphere to portend any convulfion;
a good deal of rain had fallen yellerday, and
through the night; the barometer was about 88. 5.
"for Tome time before, and at the time it happened
the thermometer was at Su. It has been followed
by a fine warm day, and a clear ferene Iky. Talc-
ipg all thefe cireumfiances, it is not unlikely that
Tome violent convullion may have happened on
the Continent; which I am the more inclined to
(ape& from the /hock being fo extended.",
From Granitmouth we learn. that over all that
neighbtantood, two pretty fevere !hocks were felt,
one at four, and the other at fix in the morning—
Some people in Edinburgh alto think they felt a
(mall (hock about four in the morning. It was'
diftinetly felt at Glifgow at fix fame morning.
Same morning, the gable of a barn, a few miles
to the weftward'oT this city, where force (bearers
were fleeping, fell in, whether from the inhability
of the building, or the concullion of the earth-
quake, is uncertain ; but the unfortunate tenants
were completely buried in the rubbilh. When the
accident was difcovered, and thefe poor people
dug out. two women were found dead, and ano-
ther
very much bruited, who was immediately
brought td the Royal Infirmary here. The others,
eight or ten in number, were not much hurt.
That morning alto, the large tenement in Pa-
terfbn's Court, adjacent to the foundation now
digging for etching the new building for the bank
of Scotland, funk fo confiderably, that it was
thought to be dangerous to the inhabitants to con-
; tinue to live in it. It has been accordingly con-
demned by the Dean of Guild Court as infulfi.
cient) and the inhabitants have removed from it.

hilts been obferved at Leith, that the tides,
for theft three days part, have not ebbed fo much
as is ufual at this time of the moon, fo much fo,
that the workmen at the New Dock have not been
able to accom.plifh the work they ordinarily do
wile the tide is out.
'The above is what we have been able to condi
from thole who obferved this phoenomena, fo re-
markable in this country. We mull at the fame
time notice, that the far greater part of the inha-
bitants of Edinburgh, many of whom were out of
bed, and going about their ufual employments at
the time it happened, did not obferve it t while
others wko dif -erned it, defcribe it as minutely as
if they had been waiting for fuch an event.
' Yellerday and this morning, it has been remark-
ably warm. the air thick and fultry—the Thento-
meter as und.n.
&pt. to. $ ecksei A. M. Taws. iy4
P. M.
Sept., se. A.M.64
_ _ _

To the above account we have to add, that the
(hock Teems to have been lb ongettatCallander,Crielf,
and that neigliisonthood, where they have formerly
experienced fame fmaller (hocks. It appears to
have extended over all Strathearn towards Perth,
where it was Alfo felt. The following letters from
Cailander and Crieff will give a pretty clear idea
of L:at manner theft villages were/ affeEted by it.
“ allender, Sept. 7.

We have !:en greatly alarmed here this morn-
ing with the (hock of an earthquake. It happened
about flit o'clock, and awakened every one in the
houfe. It tietr.ed to continue about eight or ten
feconds, and was accompanied with a rumbling
noire like dtßant thunder. I have been informed
that it was felt at Dunblane, about to miles EAR
from this, and at Tyndrum, about 36 miles North
Weft, which makes near so miles of a dired line.
,As to the ditedion it obfetred, I am uncertain ;
but as far as I can learn, it was from the WeR and
North Weft. Every thing in the honk Dm/ via

lentiy; all the tells rung we TA bed ander
us molt diltinCtly have a waving or Undulatort,
kind of motion. I have no treadle on eartbqu ate%
by me, but I remember to have read, that in the
year t 755, %Olen the earthquake deflroyed, I think,
about one-third of L'i(bon, there were (inert Mocks
felt in different places of Scotland, with violent
agitations of Loch Nets, Loch Tay, ke. What
a raft force muff it have been that could produce
fuch an effea, whether we confider eleChicity is
here the agent, or fobterraneons fire.—Comrie,
where fhocks have been often felt fusee '789, is
about 12 miles North Eaft froth this. With re-
gard. to the weather and (late of the air it was per-
tally calm, and has been all this day.!
Cricff, September 7.

" This morning, about fix o'clock, we were
alarmed with two tremendous (hocks of an catch-
quake ; the one immediately incceeding the other.
It refembled the fudden fail of a lionfe, attended
with a rumbling noife, which continued about the
fpace of fix feconds. It appeared to go from well
to eaft. The roof over my head cracked, and ap-
peared as if it would burfl.-•-The rattling of the
dillies on the !helves, and the lode partitions,
helped to encreafe the fears of the people, who ran
to their doors."

Stfrtiptftre,SrPtember 7'
This morning, at ten minutes Wore rix, I was
furprifed with a hidden (baking of my bed, which
continued for about half a mintite. The motion
feemed to come from beneath ; but f can fay no-
thing cite concerning its U 4 /firm. It was alto felt,
and in a fimilar manner, by a young gentleman
and tome fervants in the houfe. A (errant who
fleeps in a room adjoining to my barn, was alarm-
ed by the creaking which it occafioned in the joins.
There was not a breath of wind ; and the Iky
though fomewhat cloudy was altogether calm.--
Soon after the morning became very bright and
warm ; nor was there any milt on Benlomond,
Benledy, or any of the neighbouring mountains."
At Pailley and Hamilton, it was felt in neatly
the fame manner ; at Renfrew a weaver Rending in
his work (hop felt it molt diftindly ; the li,:ddles
of his lorim were fet in motion by it, which led
him to believe that a rat had got upon his web,
when he ran for a flick to kill it ; at Renfield
houfe, in that neighbourhood, fix ladies in differ-
ent apartments felt the (hock fo feverely, as if
their bedfleads had been fhaken by tome petiOn,
and a negro in the (table had the fame impreffion
by it as had frequently experienced from a fimi-
lar caufe in the Welt Indies.