Star.
London, England, 1812-03-09 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF FRIZE-MONEY.

The aservax sloop of war, Captain ALEXANDER
FRAZER, arrived on Friday at 'Portsmouth, frock
Halifax and Bermuda ; left the former place on the
20th of December, and the latter on the 10th salt.
Admiral SAWYER, with the Armee, 64, Capt. BAP"
TA RD ; RELVibItItAk Captain Bvitox ; JuLta, Hon.
VAL. GARDINER ; PUMPER, JUNIPEE, and Curren
schooners, were at Bermuda. The JULIA had lately
returned from the West Indies. The MORGIANA
sloop had been launched at Bermuda, and commis.
sioned by Captain Scorr, late Flag-officer to Ad-
miral SAWYER. The SeLen was nearly ready, and
Lieutenant REDDIE is to command her. The Enure,
Lord JANES Tows/man, was the only ship left at Ha.
The RICHMOND gun-brig, Lieutenant BA RTIIOLO- ilifax. The Conte, Captain Brao, was appointed
maw, lately captured in the Mediterranean L'lntre- to bring home the first convoy for the season from
pid French privateer, after a gallant action ; but the New Brunswick. The GUEERIIRE, Captain DACRIS,
prize, which was very valuable, and greatly superior and /Eoeus, are likewise under orders to return to
in point of strength to the RICHMOND, caught fire i England. The INDIAN, Captain JANE, had taken a
and blew up before being taken possession of, the ' valuable prize, laden with slaves, gold dust, and
men having previously escaped on shore. 1 ivory, which she took into New Providence, and there
, condemned. The dock-yard which is constructing
Bonaparte has granted six licenses to the merchants
at Bermuda, was rapidly proceeding with. • The port
of Bourdeaux, and thirty•six others for the accom-
modation of Amsterdam, Hamburgh, and other •of Halifax had been again opened to the Americans,
commercial cities. We understand they vary in their under certain restrictions. The naval promotions
conditions. One of them runs thus : 1 which have taken place on the station, have all Lean •
• i.e. The vessel must first take in her cargo at ........., to con- 'under the sanction of the Admiralty.;
silt of wines of the first qaality, and of silk goods of French Monday last, Joke Sicken was tried before the
manufacture, to the value of 25,000 f. High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, for bein 241. The said vessel, on her return, will hr allowed to import g
raw sugars, concerned in the shocking ontrages whieh este tom.
indigo, coffee, dry hides, en the following propor- 1 ; mitted in that City on the night of the 31st December
d ews—for one ton of wine (four hogsheads) may he Imported
SO lit. 01 raw sugars, or 20 cwt. of toffre, or 150 lb. of indigo, last. The prisoner was found guilty, and was Wit•
4.01110 lb. of dry hides. The wine to b.. previously exported. i tenced to be executed on the 19th of April next.
in g
s/ laid vessel may import drugs, the impartation of which 1 The
nod charm-
consequence of his former jury,
Itmee be balanced by the previous exportation of an equal value 1
,_...
of wines of the first quality—the said 'Cue to be fixed by the . LCI-9 unanimously recommended him to mercy....
atamber of Litigation. It is also to be understood that the yes. 1 Hugh M.lntosb, Neil Sutherland, Hugh M'Do.
ssi cannot sail for any ports than those mentioned, nor export nor staid, (who went by the nickname of beetreveiit) Geo.
Dort any other goods than those specified. Napier, John Grotto, and James Johnstone, six of
The following extract of a letter from Captain 4.. the persons accused or/Ring concerned in the above
DAWSON, of the American brig Hannah, dated Ply- . riots, have been indicted to stand trial for the murder
mouth, March 3, affords an admirable ttractkal con-I of Dugald Campbell, police officer, and aho for ten
Imo on the Duke of Cadore's °icier/ notation of the
, various acts of robbery, committed on the same night.
repeal of the Berlin a,.d Milan Decrees:--"t I sailed I —John White, baker, Margaret, his wife, and Alex.
from Savannah on the Ist of February, and yebter- : ander Macdonald, her son, by a first marriage, and
day arrived abreast of the Start Paint, at two P.M. 1 Robert Gann, a painter, have been committed by the
and perceived a, sail coming up fast. At three was . Magistrates, for trial, also accused of being co seem.
hailed, and on answering from Savannah, bound to i ed in the above riots, and for reset.ing stolen goods.
Portsmouth, and that I was an American brig, he Conte.ntexer, Manx-emne—sThis day the fresh
ran up alongside, and kept up a fire of musquetry for' arrivals of Wheat make a middling supy • sales
eight or ten minutes, which has done us considerable readily effected, at an increase In price of about Ss.
damage. He afterwards boarded us with twenty or per quarter. Barley likewise in tolerable supply, and
thirty men; hove the Mate overboard, wounded mr,st fully maintains last prices. Malt and White Peas at
of the crew, myself they beat out of the cabin into , little variation. Beans of bath kinds rather dearer.
the forecastle, and then back into the cabin ; took the j We have several arrivals of Otts, but from a demand
hat off my head, broke open all my chests and trunks, :in this trade, sales are quoted somewhat highest and plundered them of every thing that was valuable; Flour inclinerupwards.
took my papers, writing desk, and all the cabin stores; ! CORRINT IMICItS AS SYNDER : , • •
took myself and all the crew on board their vessel, •
Beans 531. 595. ".. -1... t•
1250.1305.
Wheat, ere toss ans.
which proved to be a French privateer, but her name , Fine ditto, Tick ditto (new) rOs.Sre. .
they would not tell; and steered to the southward, for Rye 522. 58s Ditto (fine Old) Is. Vfs
ight
Bliley. 585.
the first port in France. In the morning, about e Malt, , SOs
84s. 22i. mt. Oats, 319. 37. sea
Poland ditto, 40s. 418. Or nine o'clock, we perceived a brig of war in chase; White Peas, (Boilers) 70P(N . s2s. - ame ditto, sits 41s. 114. •
they bore up for the Hannah, took out all their men, i Cher ditto,
line 57.... hour, 951. toOte-nSeeends, POs co ear.
March 11. ' 644' Rape Seed. sf 60-.2611.
put myself and crew into the boat, and cast us off to li
the mercy of the waves, with a small beat, all stove ' Beef
Ss lid to Os Id Veal 7s Od to Ile 44
to pieces. I waved a handkerchief to the brig of wars Mutton es 2d to Is 4d Pork Is Oda 71 44 .
Iwhich they perceived from the mast-head, tacked, a BAD OF camas TOM DAT. • . i
picked us up, then run up to my vessel, took charge Beasts, abo"ut 2240—Shoop and Lambe, 12010. 1.-:1 4 .
lif her, and steered for Plymouth."—The brig of war . Calves, SO—Pigs, 25a. .4
..,.:
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN SIVIITHFIRLI3.•' ' 4 ' • 4
Was the PERSIAN, Captain Bserame, which went in
chase of the privateer. Hay 41 4s to 51 Is New Clover SI 5s to 61 Slitio, ..:
.New Hay 01 as to 01 os Straw II 21 to el ea . '

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Violet for the Swi:t, on her arrival; recalled at M. Marslis
and Co. Gosport.
Diligence, for thc Sprengerea, and Marea Maria, on board, on
the 29th inst.; recelled at 70, Great Russell-street.
Helscon, for la Venus, will be recalled at 18. Clernent's.inn.
l'ompee, for the Tweed and Canton, on board; recalled at 44,
George-street, Plymouth.

Snipper, for the Goede Hoop; and Cart Ludwig; and Arrow,
for the San Nicholas and VAl:inure, on the 10th, at 18, George-
street, Plymouth.

Latona, Aitrea, Cruizer, Pylades, Ranger, Busy. Courier
Speculator, Fox (No. 1), and Diligent, for several Dutch and
other vessels. will be paid on the 13th lost. viz.—the Lat.ina,
Cruiser, l'ylades. Courier, Speculator, Fox and Diligent, at
Messrs. Fisher's, Yarnriuth ; Astrea, Mesas. Cook and Hal-
ford's, London; Ranger, at Mr. S kes, ditto; and Busy, at
Messrs. Onunaney and Druce's, ditto.

S.? %4

ihr7III.I,TTON.
• • --* • - • • '1.!••••vit
MraSkaariksitifistere. le...eve:lth Lecture on Sent.-
day last., oThe ideas,of the ancients concernine the
eletriesan of matter, were founded upon sup:Tficial
eleervavon of the great forms of Nature, and were
rather poetical than philosophical ; water, air, earth
and
.fi,e were supposed to be unalterable ; principle
or matter, w is consideied as constituted by solid, .n-
-destru aable atoms, SS in the school of Epiturns, or
b) it solids, as among the Pythagorenn
phrrs. The Alchernias considered the mire re-
sults of their operations by fire, as the pr acieltis f
things ; salts, I ilk, WI gin, and sulphur. were de:
elements which they inoteieed. All tILs..: ideas ar:
xtcarded by modern Chemists, who do not pretend
t dt.fine what bodies are really unchangeable, or the
true elements in nature, and speak of compound and
simple bodies trereiy in relation to their own know-
ledge. The methods by which ch. 'skit truths are
g -fined, are anal) deal cr nthetical ; by analysis bo-
dies are resolved into simpler forms of matter ; by
syntlie. is they are composed from their constituents ;
and the test of the accuracy of the.process is thew r-
tespoulence in weight between the cemeound and its
constituents. By the application of weight and mea-
sme to chemistry, says Mr. Davy, its results are ren-
dered certain an I unchangeable, and independent of
any alterations of theory and it is placed, like astro-
ni my, within the province of the science cfnumbers
and cpsantity. Mr. Davy divided the substances not
yerdecoMpoundedit into two great classes—suppor-
ters of combustion and nlammable bodies. In the
first class, he said, there was only two substances as
yet known—oxygene and chlorine. He devoted the
remainder of the lecture to the demonstration of :he
properties of the former. 'the gas forms one-iiiTh of
the air ot the atmosphere, and is the principal neces-
sary for combustion and respirati.m. In its pnrc
form it produces a number of brilliant results, by
acting upon inflammable bodies ; the metals burn in
it brilliantly and absorb it, and it is a constituent part
of most acids and alkalies. Mr. Davy strewed• a
beautiful experiment, in which the same oxygene. by
being combined with sulphur, formed an acid, and
by being abstracted from the sulphur by potassium,
which took place with vivid combustion, formed on
alkali. Mr. Davy entered into some general views
respecting the manner in which the oxygene of the '
atmosphere, and that dissolved in waters, were reno-
vated. Oxygene is absorbed, and carbonic acid is
produced in the respirations of animals, in combus-
tion and in fermentation ; vegetables in the sunshine
absorb carbonic acid ared evolve oxygene. Mr. Davy
combated the idea that this function of vegetable life',
was not sufficient to supply oxygene equivalent to
that consumed. There is no other mode 'known in
which carbonic acid is decomposed iu the processes
of nature, and did not vegetables absorb it, it must be
constantly accumulating, which is known not to be
the case. A great part of the solid surfect of the
globe is covered with plants, and light is essential to
their healthy growth, and therefore great quantities
of oxygene are produced in countries where there is
little animal life. Fishes, he stated, will live in con-
• fined portions of water containing aquatic plants, and
the oxygene they absorb is compensated for by the
plants. which decompose the carbonic acid afforded in
their respiration. This view of the connection of
plants and animals in their action upon air, is not only
supported by many proofs, but is likewise, says Mr.
Davy, conformable to the analogy of nature ;—it
proves to us that the meanest weed, the most poison-
ous-plant, is not without its uses in the economy of
things—the different parts of the atmosphere are mil,-
gled by st Inds —the cat boric acid nil consumed by
and plants is carried into the waters, dissolved by
rain, mist,And dews—the sea is kept in ap,ita: ion by
waves and tides, and its influence upon the air con-
stantly exerted—the storm and the whirlwind assist in
this beneficent ministrati n ; and the harmony dis-
played in such diversifi.d combinations, offer a
striking instance of the wisdom and perfection of the
arrangenicntsconnected with the preservation of life
in the system of the globe. . ,

The use and library of Mr. BARFIELD, Bro:u.1-.
stairs, %Iris broke into on SaturdAy se'night, and three
round nt,tes, and a quAntity of silvtr stale.

Satiorday,-Jamrs and Charles Wheeler, and Elizabeth,
aift of the Litter, were charged 'at Hatton G.,rderi
Office, with having in their possesiini a great num.
bvr of cuunterfeit bank notes, and 3s. and is. G.I.
b .nk tokens, when Elizabeth and James ►►ere dis-
charged, and Charles was remanded.
J. Henley and Eliz. Clark were fully committee,
charged with having stolen a bundle of linen and
wearing apparel, the property of Mr. Shuttleworth,
coach-maker, in Warner-street.

Sattirday.ivening, Mr. Hilt, of St. James-street,
was attaclei by a gang of street robbers in Covent.
Garden Piazzi,and robbed of his watch and snuff box.
'rues :ay night, as the Hon. H. Lisioe was com-
ing out (lithe Opera, he was hustled and rob,- ed by
a gang cf pickpockets, of a valuable snuff-box.
The following is a Return of the Number of Persons
charged with Criminal Offences, who were committed
to the different Gaels in England and Wales, for trial,
at the Assizes and Sessions held for the several Counties
and Places therein, in the year 1811 ; and the total
for seven years, from 1805 to 1811, both inclusive—
shewing the number thereof who were convicted, and
their sentences ; the number acquitted, and the num-
ber against whom no Bills were found, and who were
not prosecuted ; also, the numberof Persons executed,
wh.o.received sentence of Death :

1811.

Total :11 the
bevin year,.

Committed for Trial—Malty
I enwies

3,V59
1,178

5.4. 244
t,t99
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33,945

5K1,147 •
.2,1528
51
23$
3,;31