Star.
London, England, 1805-05-27 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OP PRIV, MONEY.

The Hoop of war Gannett, will be paid for the capture of the
French brig la Dame Adelaide, at Falmouth, cveq Tuefday and
Friday for three years.
The gun veffel Infolent, for the capture of the French brig le
Ctllllllffe, May at, 1803, will he paid at Mr. Lockyces, at Ply-
mouth, and recalled for three years.
The Hoop Spitfire, for the following captures:—Commerce,
July it, dot ; le St. Efprit and a limp, Auguft. 1, 1801•' and
Haley, September a, iBoi, will be paid on V.'ixinefday the 29th
infkant, at No. 2, Cloak-lane, and recalled every Monday for three
years.

The Lapwing, f,r the capture of the Commerce, July tt, "Mot;
and le St Efprit, and a (loop, Anglia 1, 18oi, will be paid the
fame day at the fame place, and recalled retry Monday for three
years.

To the late flap Stag, a final payment for the Alliance, Dutch
frigate, will be made at No. 13, Bernard-Inn, Holborn, on Thurf-
day the 6th June, and recalled for three months.
To the Spitfire, a firft diftzibution for the Prince Hendlieh,
captured April 24,1801, will be made at Nn. 19,Red-lion court,
Watling ftreet, on the 28th of June, and recalled every Tue(day
and Friday for three years.
The Niobe for the recapture of the Ann, February at, 1805,
will be paid at Plymouth the 3511 iultant, and recalled at William
Pledge Smith's, Efq. Plymouth-Dock. for three years.
The gun brig Mariner, for the Juffrow Catherine fmuggling
cutter, detained December 8, 1803, will be paid at No. 23, Sur-
rey-ftreet, Strand, every Tuefday and Saturday for three years.
The Renown, Gibraltar, Dragon, Alexander, Stately, Haer-
lem, Ploranina, C.amellon, and the Turkiiii ihip Zephyr. for the
capture of the St. Antonio de Padua, June 29, 5801, will be paid
at No. 23, Surrey-ftreet, on Wedoefday the 26th of June, and re-
adied every Tuefday and Saturday for three years.
The Renown, Dragon, Gibrahar, Harrill-a, Alexander, Athe.
nlan, Mercury, and Salaminc, for the capture of la Courageux,
will by paid on Monday the 24th of June at the fame place, and
recalled min Toefday and Saturday for three years.
The Renown, Dragon, Gibraltar, h Minerve, Phabe, and
Phoenix, for the capture of the Grasli flertiftutl: will be paid On
Saturday the 29th of June at the fame place, and recalled every
Tneklay and Satorday for three years
The Phabe, for the capture of the Fortuna, February 53,1805,
will be paid at the fame time and place, and recalled every Tod.
day and Saturday for three years.
The Renown, Dragon, Gibraltar, la Minerve, Phoebe. Phoenix,
Bonne Citoynne, and Calpe, for the capture of the Catherine
Chrifliana, will be paid on Friday the 28th of June at the fans:
place, and reealkd every Tuefday and Saturday for three years.
The Renown, Gibraltar, Alexander, Genereux, Stately. and
Vincejo, for the capture of the St. Nichols, lieptember t t, 2801,
will be paid no Thurfday the 27th June at the lame place, and re-
called every 'lnertia), and Saturday for three years. •
The Renown, Dragon, Gibraltar, and Incerphary, for the re-
taking of the Kangaroo, Janua7 as, 1804 will bepald on Tref-
day the 25th of j...!.e at the k:ace,aad recalled cuiT Tiact4iy
and Saturdayfor t bite rears.

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L Air INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP KING's BENCH, MAY 25.

MIDDLESEX ELECTION. •
Three of the perfons indufted for polling fiaitious
votes for Sir Francis Burdett, at the late Middlefex
Ele&ion, were on Saturday brought up for judgmenr,
which was pronounced by Mr. Juflice GROSE in the
following manner :
Thomas Price, otherwife gobs Wright, you are to
receive the fentence of this gobs
by a Jury
of your country on an indiament, which charges
that you claimed to be admitted to poll for one of the
Reprefentatives to ferve in this preterit parliament for
the county of Middlefex ; and that for the purport
of perverting the due and legal courfe of eleCtion
and to caufe and procure Sir Francis Burdett to he
wrongfully eluted one of the Knights of the county
of Middlefex, you falfely, wickedly, and corruptly
(wore that you were a freeholder of that county, and
that your freehold crintified of a houfe in the occu-
pation of youtfelf, flowed at N.B, Bell-court, Gray's-
inn-lane, and that the place of your abode was at
No. 8, Bell-court, Gray's-inn-lane. Upon that in-
diament you have been tried and conviaed on evi-
(km; which, I believe, leaves no dsu!t in the mind of
any one perfon who has heard it, or has read the
trial, that you la ere guilty of the foul crime of per-
jury. IVhen we recollect the popular confufion at
the eledion of a Reprefentative of a large and pa
pulous county, by the arts of tome afferting to be
freeholders, having no freehold, and others voting in
the names of pertons who have already voted, and
others attempting to vote a fecond time, by fuch
frauds violating the rights of the freeholders, delay-
ing the election, and ponibly procuring a falfe and
injurious return, sc e do not wonder the Legiflature,
feeling the pernicious confequences of loch delays
and inconvenieacies, fhould, by a very wife law, have
framed an oath, which it is in the power of the Can-
didates to compel every Eleaor to take, that every
fuch perfon has a freehold, and to fpecify the nature
of it, and the names of the poffeffors of it. To you,
claiming to ezercife the rights of a freeholder, for the
wife purpofes of the nature, this oath was adrninif-
tered, and by you taken ; and by which it appears
that you, under the affumed name of jobs Wright,
(wore you were a Freeholder of the county of Mid-
dlefex, and that your freehold confined of a houfe in
the occupation of yourfelf, at No. 8, Bell-court,
Gray's-inn-lane; and by the fame evidence, it equal-
, ly clearly appears, you had not any fuch freehold,
nor any other ; and that by the oath you took, you
committed a Ind nadcorrupt pedury. I ore there words,
becaufe by the evidence it appeals, what was done by
you was dyne in confequence of a great and exiesfi've
J.Vem, to procure thole who were wicked enough to
yield to the temptation far money, to go either in
their own nameo or in the names of others, to fwear
they were {cited of freeholds that did not belong to
them, and, if pofiible, to procure the return of the
candidate. That this was fo proved by one witnefs,
who (wore that you raid you had done the trick for
Sir Francis Burdett, and that you would go and do
it again ; and by another, who lys, that atter you re-
ceived eighteen thiilings you grumbled at having fo
little ; and the reafen of your grumbling is explained
in a former part of the evidence, from which it ap-
pears, that when you mentioned it to a man of the
name of Taylor, he raid he did not care how often
you voted, you fhould have a pound note every time.
The guilt of him who authorizes the bribe, of him
who gives it, and of him who receives it, is, in mon
carer, nearly equal : and this your offence, as laid in
the indiament, is completeryproved, the law broken, and
the chic& of the Legiflature to fecure the rights of
the Freeholders, wholly defeated. The aggravation
of your offence is great, becaufe you committed it in
combination with others, and for a bribe ; and if you
had been entitled to vote, it would have been equally
illegal and corrupt. By whom this fyllem of perjury
and bribery was invented, does not appear, although
the names of fame are mentioned, who teem to have
taken an adive part in carrying it into execution.—
But whoever invented it, it is a fyfiem planned to
infringe the tights of the legal eleaors, in contami-
nation of the purity required by the law, and in vio-
lation of the conflitution. Thole alone fhould vote
for the eleaion of Knights of the Shire, who have
attained the age of twenty-one years. who have been
in polreffion of the rents and profits of their freeholds
for twelve calendar months, and who are not cor-
rupted by bribes. Thnfe who are rids, and have been
able to encourage, and have encouraged fo baneful a
fyflem, by corrupting the young, the ignorant, and
didrefred, whole wants were not able to withfland
the temptation, have much to answer for. How
much of our rights and liber tiu., and how much of our
property, and what is of fig! more importance to us,
how much our reputation does depend on the due
obfervance of an oath ? The mind (tarts with hor •
tor at the daily repeated negle& of that obfervance,
and laments that this aa of the Legiflature lhould
have been Co frunrated. For this evil the Legiflature
in their wifdom, have pi efcribcd the punilhment, and
it is our duty on this occafion, to follow it up, in
order to prevent the commiCtion of fimilar offences in
future ; and therefore this Court, for this offence
which you have committed, loth order and adjudge,
that you be iroprifoned in his Majefly's gaol of New-
gate, for the Ipace of one calendar month ; and at
the expiration of that tin.e that you be tranfported to
loch place or places beyond the feas, as his Majefty,
with the advice of his Privy Council, !hall think fit
to direet and appoint, for the term of 7 years."
A fimilar featence was pronounced on the other
prifoners.

THE ZINC M. WILLIAM Ur.
This perfon, found guilty of having naval fibres in
his poifeffion, was fentenccd to two years imprifon-
ment in Maiditone jail. The ju fge again remarked
on the midaken views by which criminals of this def.
cription obtained an univerfal good charader, fo that
it teemed to be expedient, by tome exemplary pu.
nithment, to convince the public that the violation of
law mull ever b.: preceded by depravity of mind.

THI RING V. !DUMAN LkVI AND JOlll,l JUPITER.
When we noticed the trial of there perfons, we
took the opportunity of correeling a mifapprehenfion,
very generally prevailing, that in the City it is necef-
fary to have a warrant from the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don. for the fzizure of prohibited goods. There was
no arrelt of lodgment in this cate on that ground.
and the queflion may now be confidered for ever at
refl. Bob thefe Defendants were fentenced to fis
months'imforifonnaint in Ntwgatc.