Star.
London, England, 1802-06-19 00:00:00

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AMERICAN PAPERS,

Yefierday we received American Papers up to
the- isah of May.
A Treaty between the United States of Ame•
rica, and the Chickafaw Nation of Indian. was
concluded and figned by the Commilliontrs of
both Nations on the 24th of lag Odober. It was
ratified by the Prefident of the United States on
the tit day of May laR.
The following is an extra& of the letter from
Mr. JEFFERSON, Prefident of the United States,
to THOMAS Pam k, about which fo much has been
laid :

"You mpreffed a with in your letter to return to America
by amational fhip ; Mr. Dawfon, who brings over the treaty
and who will preterit you this letter; is charged with orders to
the Captain of the Maryland to receive and accommodate you
bade, it you can be ready to depart at fuch a fb-rt warning
You will in general find us returned to fentimmts worthy of
former tunes ; in there it will be your glory to have Readily la
bourne, and with as such circa as any man Using. That yo.:
may live long to continue your ufeful labours, and reap the re-
warl in the Ciankfuln.fs of nations, is my fineere prayer. Ac-
cept the affurances of my high efteem and affcdtionate Brach-
Malt. " THONIACJC FFFFF ON."

A letter from New York, dated May is, lays—
! The brig Hope arrived at this port felt evening,
in i 3 days from Cape Francois, after being de-
uilied there by the Government, upwards of three
months, having experienced every fpecies of in
junice and ill treatment that French ingenuit)
could deyife. From a Gentleman palfenger in
the Hope, we received the following intelligence :
" Two days before he left the Cape, an inter-
view had taken place at HAW du Cap (a village
about 'twee miles froth the Cape), between the
Commander in Chief LECLERC, and General
Cl 4 Rlrrorm a ; but the refult had not officially been
made known; however, the mon pleating conch'
lions had been made on the • fubjeft ; and there
fcarce remained a doubt hut that CH It I STOF H E had
negotiated terms for himftlf and his army, as he
was to be at the Cape on the day the Hope failed.
Preparations were making to receive him by Gen.
HARDY (General of divifion of the North) with
wh m CH RISTOVN I was that day to dine. Various
Ipeculations were abroad, whether Toussatay
was not a party in CH It Is roP H F'S arrangements—
the bell informed, and thofe mon acquainted with
Cmitterripites chat-after, were of opinion, that
he woul,l not conclude any agreement in which
his old chief was not a party, and interefled in.—
From the' publicity and form of the audience at
Haut du Cap, little doubt can be entertained on
this fuhjed. Gen. CHRISTorKs would not come
within the French lines until an officer of equal
rank was fent over as an hollage, and then be en-
tered with every military pomp and parade; the
meeting did not appear like that of a traitor flealing
an opportunity to betray his true. Thefe circum-
fiances diffufed a general joy throughout the Cape
Town; the unfortunate inhabitants of that ill fated
city looked up to them as the harbingers of peace,
and at length began to indulge the hope that the
period of their perfecutions and troubles wasdraw-
ing to a clofe. No matetial progrefs had been
made in rebuilding the town as yet, nor bad any
change for the better taken pace in the treatment
the Americans receive from the various departments
of the Government through which they were ne-
ceffitated to do their bulinefs; every delay and
procraffination 1. as pradtiled, nor was k poffible
to eff.:Et the lean difpatch but by means of a bribe;
not a bill had kilted for the provifions, &c. that
Government had taken from our cargoes, but
what was fi a paid for in a proportionate ratio to
the fubaltern clerks and officers. Government had
difcontinued to put in requifition every article of
provifion that hail lately arrived, as hut fey/ were
wanted at that moment, though fubjeft to their
own prices and conditions.
" An additional duty often per cent. had been
put on all defcriptions of dry goods,making in the
whole twenty per cent. not the manufatturc cf
France, or not imported in French bottoms. Cap
tains Roo ERS and DAVIDSON am remained in clofe
confinement in a dark dungeon, on the common
gaol allowance. The fhip Ann, of New York, was
publicly condemned, by beat of drum, on the 7th
April,on the moil g roundlefs and &ire accufai Lim"
By Letters from New York, dated the inth ult.
we are informed that the Batavian fleet, confining
of three (hips of the line and a brig, viz. the
Brutus, Neptune, and Jean de Witt, and brig
Ajax, tinder command of Admiral HARTSINCK,
arrived in Hampton road the loth, from Cape
Francois. It is fitid part of the fquadron will go
to Baltimore to refit.

The eleventh reprefentation of the charming
fpeetacle of William Tell, the Hero of Switzerland,
was loft night honoured with the pretence of a
numerous and diainguilbed audience ; and while
the Royal Amphitheatre continues to reprefent with
this admirable produEtion,fuch a Pantomime as the
Seven Charairioru, or Harltgain Si. George, and other
amufementa, fo long will the tide of public efli-
mation and applaufe, flow into the Theatre in•
quetilon.
Mr. HUGHES, the afting Proprietor of Sadler's-
Wclls, is determined to fupport the credit of his
new Theatre by all that Novelty or Variety can
do. Agreeable to this determination, the Italians,
though Inch favourites with the Public, are, after
this evening, to be withdrawn, for tome other
Novelty on Monday : the R;021 Tar: alfo are to
fhare the farm fate, and to he fucceeded by another
new Piece from the pen of Mr. C. Dtanns, junr.
called ?he elmorour :train.. St. George, the fa-
ferio Comic-Pantomime by the fame Au-
thor, encreares in popularity. Something of the
Poney Race kind is going (portly to be brought
forward there.

The (kill on horfehack of Mifs SAUNDERS, finer
to the celebrated Mailer SAUNDERS' and her per-
formance on the flack wire, at the Royal Circus,
with the wonderful eqUeftrian feats of Mailer
iaumocts, which he exhibited before their MA-
irbTIES at the late Fete at Frngmore, together
with the Poney Races, which afford Inch univer-
Cal pleafore, and the Fatal l'redi3ion or Midnight
iffagn, with the Enchanted Harp, are attraetions fo
I,owerfol, as not to leave a vacant fpot through.
•ow- that Theatre—fo great is the andietice which
ed4mbles time every evening to bihold them.

LAW INTRLI4GENCE.

. COURT OF KlNG's BENCH, JUNE 18. • •

This being the fir(l• day of Term, the Jodget
came down in the anal prnceffion.
The report of tht employment, Il:►te, and beha-
viour of the Conviets on board the Hulks at Wool.
wich, was read. 1, •appeared from thence, that
their behaviour had been orderly and regular.

Mr. ERSKINE moved for leave to exhibit Are cies
of the Peace in a cafe which, from its very 113(1lit,
6 extremely-important to the public, and partici'.
larly to young ladies of property and their parcrts
and conneetions. Mr. Erskine laid, the Court had
fornetimes hinted that applications for the extra,
ordinary interposition of the Court, ()multi always
be made when the facts to which qley relate are
recent ; in this cafe the Lady, who applied to ex.
hibit articles of the peace againft her hufband, had
not been married fix weeks.

The Lady was then called into Court, and the
articles being exhibited,were read by the Clerk of
the Crown, and of which the following is the tub-
fiance:—

Articles of the peace exhibited by !lobelia
Bird, wife of William Bird. otherwife William
Betts Bird, late of North Shields, in the parilh of
Tynemoutb, in the county a Northumberland,
but now, or late, of Fore-Greet, London, Gentle-
man, againft her Paid hufband, through fear of
death, or receiving fume great bodily harm.

' The firft Article Rates " rhat Cie became ecqueintcd with
the laid William Bird about four mom Its ago, and intermarried
with hint on the arh of April tali, at the Parini church of
Tynemouth, in which parifh her parents retitle, and her father
is a fhip.ovrner. That about two months antecedent to their
m Triage, William Bird went to Shields under pretence aril*.
hlifhhar a Bank there, and rcprefented himfelf to he the fon 4.f
Joust Bird, Efq. of Fintbury.fquare, London, and the nephew
its '
of Mr.l horn Bird, a diftiller at Linnhoue, both of wlmm
the fail William Bird alledged to be perfona of great property.
That on the t 3th of May Taft, fie, the Fxhibitant, together
with the laid William Bird, let off from Shields for London,
and arrived at the White Hare Inn, Fetter-lane, London. on
the itth of May. That the condudt and behaviour of the laid
William Bird towards his wile duriug their journey to I.ondon,
was inattentive and unaffedlionate, and very 411f:rent from
what it had been previoufly to their departure from Shields,
and that on the t 6th of !Slay, being the day after tit. it arrival
Gr London, upon the Exhibitant expreffing her furprife to the
fah 1 William Bird, that none of his relaiion, or friends hadbeen
to vifit them at the lnb where they then remained, the laid
William Bird feized her by the hair of her head, pulled it with
great violence, and laid, that the was a little devil—that he wi $
tired of her, and would loon be the end of her."
The (mond Article Rates, `t That on or about the WI of
May Left, the Paid William Bird Paid to the I.xl,ibitant, that he
had no money, and did not know where to get any; that Ike
mull procure for him 40 or to guineas, either Irons her father's
factors refident in I.ondon, or hy drawing a Bill upon her father.
She then told him that be had already got from her all the mo-
ney which the bad brought from home with her, except a feve
Reining', and that fhe dust not either take up money from her
father's factor, or draw upon her father for any; upon which
the (aid William Bird immediately &w into a great p.. Mon, and
threatened with horrid imprecations, to blow her brains out if
au would not cotlfent to procure money for him, it the Suns
time holding her by the hair of her head, and pulling it with
gnat force and violence."
The third article Rates, 4. That the Said William Bird had
feveral times got out of bed in the middle of the night, and on
fuck occalions threatened to make away with himfelf and with
her. That he had frequently fazed her by the hilt of her
heal, and threatened to knock her down ; and that in conic-
goatee of his violent, cruel, and outrageous treatment of bee,
at other different timmand Other occafions, and his repeated
threats to beat and deftroy her, the became and was in fear of .
her life whenever the was alone with hint; and that for the
mere purpofe of avoiding the cru-I y of the raid %Valiant Bird,
and preferving her life, which (he was' almoft in conftant ap-
prehenfion for whillt the continued to live with him, the was .
obliged to leave the lodging of the laid William Bird without
his knowledge, and is now, from the fame motives, obliged to
live concealed from him."

" That the does not make this complaint againft the
fsid William Bird, otherwife William Betts Bird, her'hutband,
through malice, hatred, or towards him, but fold!
for the prefervation of her life and perfon from bodily harm
and danger, which the apprehends from his threats, who, the
belivegs, is now endeavouring to find out where the is; te.c."
The Court received the complaint, and-ordefed
the Defendant to find Comics to keep the peace.—
Mrs. Bird does not appear to be above 19 years of
age. She is extremely beautiful, teemed very.
deeply affected during this diarelling ceremony,
and wakattended by her mother, under whole care
the was.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

Mr. Gamma, moved for a rule to (hew can% •
why a criminal information fhould not be granted
againft Peter Thorne, Thomas Kentith, and Ri-
chard Waters, overfeers of the poor of the parith
of Ealing, in Middlefea, for inhumanly remov-
ing from their pari(h a pauper, who is at times
a lunatic, but was then in fuch a Rate of difeafe,
that it mull have been ezpeited that his removal
would occafion his death: the pauper's fettle-
ment was at Dunmow, in Urea; and although
his brother earnellly intreated all thole who ap-
peared to have the management of the parilh con-
cerns of Ealing, not to move him till his health
was fo recovered, that the removal Ihould not en-
danger his life, or if they were determined to move
him, to indulge him with a cart which was at their
command, hung upon fprings, and confequently
caller vehicle than a common cart; Rill they unfeel-
ingly anfwered, that the Dodlor raid he might be
moved, and move he fhould. When he was arrived
at the parilh of Weflham, in Elk:, he was unable
to hand, but the Parah.officers humanely pro-
vided every necellary medical, and other affißance;.
till he was fo well recovered as to bear removing.
Another circumllance fomewhat extraordinary in
this removal occurred. When the pauper was lek
1 at Weltham, the driver of the cart laid he mull go
into Dunnvow. He was anted why fo ? He re-
plied, to get 191. Bs. for expences. When it was
obferved, that this was a very high charge, he
anfwered, we could have eafily made it more if we
chofe, but it Was neceffary to keep it down under
act. or otherwife an appeal would lie to the fefflons.
The fubßance of the affidavit being Rated, and
its being obferved that this was an uncommon cafe,
timilar to that which took place at Greenwich
lane years ago, in which the Court fined the pa-
rillies about Tool. Etc.
Lord ELLEnsoaotroit obferved, that although
the coi:dition of the off•.:nding party was not con-
tiLlerable in life, a point which the Court generally
looked to in applications of this fort, yet the enor.
miry of the offence charged was Each as required
this extraordinary interference of the Court.
A Rule to Ihew came granted.