Star.
London, England, 1807-12-01 00:00:00

iIOirEMBEI 14;

Yenerday at one o'clock the mail coaches from
Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford, had not
arrived. From the Rate of the roads all the mails
were difpatched on Saturday on horfeback.

La(' night the greatett number of the mail coachis
fet out with fix hotfes.
SMITHS& PARTICULARS of THC LAT, TREMENDOUS

SNOW STORM.

We again turn our attention to one of the mon
aiding and tremendous events which this, or per
haps any other country has to record, the fatal norm
of Thurfelay night. The entire of Sunday was oc-
cupied in taking the bodies of the vitaims from the
Rochdale tranfport. They are, for the moll part,
in a dreadful (late of mutilation ; there is fcarce a
body that has not received more or Ids injut y. The
fituation of the (hip is moll fingular—the niceft pilo-
tage could not have laid her more wetly alone-We
of the rock on which the Martell() tower Rands, to
which the lies fo dofe, that a twelve foot plank ex-
tends front the (bore to her quarter, and there can be
little doubt that if the unfortunate (offerers had known
their fituation, the greaten part of them had been
Paved. Indeed the fame may be remarked of the
Prince of Wales, from which a boat and a number
of perfons did efcape ; but the fad war, that neither
the perfons on board of her, or the Rochdale, knew
where they were, as they bad not teen land from the
preceding day. The former veffel lies about zoo
yards from the fhore' not at Dualeary Point, but
nearly oppofite Rock Town. Part of her upper
works were vifible on Sunday at high water. The
(offerers are all on board, and immediate meafures
are about to be adopted to get them out.
A report has been circulated that the hatches of
this veffel were (aliened down when the funk : the
Coroner went along fide on Sunday, and afcertained
that the hatches were all open. The wife of the
Steward of the Prince of Wales, and her infant child
were among thofe faved in the boat : the aliens that
the officers on board manifetted the greaten ref ilu
Lion, and that on a propofal being made to take to
the boat, they, one and all, raid they would flick to
the fhip to the loft moment. A confiderable pro
petty is on board this veffel, one officer is faid to have
had fool. another a quantity of gold. A number of
bodies were on Sunday taken from the Rock, on the
Commiffatiat cars, which have been ordered to affin
in their temoval.

A Field Officer's guard oft to men is Rationed at
SeApoint Houle, and centineli are thickly potted to
prevent all acccfs to the wreck.
The fympathy which this dittreffing event has ex-
cited, particularly among thole rending near the
melancholy fcene, is as honourable to individual feel.
ling, as it jtAs been ferviceable in granting every fa
cility for ihtefligation and enquiry. The Refidents
at Scapoint Houk, particularly, have extended every
atfigance which the locality of their fituati.in enabled
them to offer. Among thofe we take pleafure in re
cording the name of Mr. Cony, of the Linen Hall,
who was one of the firft perfons on Friday morning
who difeovered the wreck—finding the country peo-
ple likely to turn their attention to objects of plunder,
he offered a guinea for each body they might convey
to the thore.

Sir Charles Argil' has been indefatigable in his
exertions un this melancholy occafion, and the highea
praife is due to Mr. Jones, the proprietor of Seapoint
Houle, for the ready accommodation which he has
chearfully afforded, and for his unwearied attention
to facilitate thole exertions which this molt dreadful
cataftrophe have rendered neccifary. Colonel Lyon,
of the 97th Regiment, had muff fortunately not
embarked, and is now fafe at Black Rock.

The Lark, for whole fafety confiderable anxiety
has for the lag three days prevailed, is We at Holy-
head. The following tranfports are alto in fafety at
the fame place ; the Lively, the Young, the James,
the Britannia, and the George and Anne. The Lark
and Shaw were feen four leagues to the leeward of
Holyhead, fince the gale of Thurfday.
We are happy to Rate that Major and Mrs. O'Gor-
Mogan are not loft, as rumoured yefterday ; the er-
ror arofe in confeqoence of a trunk of the Major's
being found in the wreck of the Rochdale.
An inqueft was held at an early hour on Saturday
laft, at Seapoint, by Arthur B. Mofs, Efq. Coroner
of the county Dublin, at the inftance of Lieutenant
General Sir Charles Argil!, and fevers' refpeitable
inhabitants of the neighbourhood, on the bodies of
73 perfons, moßly fiddlers. The Verdkl announced
that the faid perfons (unknown) being on board a
certain veffel called the Rochdale, the faid veffel was
wrecked and filled with water, and by means there-
of they were fuffocated and drowned, and thus ac-
cidentally, calually, and by misfortune, came by
their deaths. The Coroner then proceeded upon a
further enqui ry concerning the deaths of feveral per-
fons drowned in the Prince of Wales Packet, and
after the examination of fevcral witneffes adjourned
to neat day for further inquiry.
We have great pleafure in informing our Readers,
that a molt nefarious and diabolical fyftem of plun-
der and robbery, in cafes of flipwreck, has been
brought to light through the exertions of the Rath-
down Affociation. It appears that one of the boat-
men of Dunleary was drowned on Saturday night,
in confequence of a party proceeding from thence to
plunder the wrecks now in the Bay ; this caufed a
fulpicion, and information having been given to the
Affociation, feveral of the Magittrates proceeded on
Sunday to Dunleary to inveiligate the fad ; they held
an inqueft on the body of a deceafed feaman, and
in the courfe of examining witneffes, it appeared that
a molt abominable fyfiern of plunder has been carried
on along the coati, and that at the prefent moment
large quantities of the tackle and cargo of thofe
unfortunate fhips are now fecreted on fltore. The
Affiaciation have very properly taken up the Winds
warmly, and have offered rewards for the convillion
of the offenders, and we underhand fix of them have
been committed to gilmainham gaol.
The following is as accurate a lift as we can at
prefent fuinifh of the Officers and Soldiers drowned
in the late fhipwrecks of the Dublin packets
Lieutenant Maclean.of the t Stla Foot, with his party sod 6r Vo-
lunteers from the South Mayo... Total loft but two
Privates.

Captain Gregory, 32el Foot, and 3 foldiers, his whole party.
Lieutenant Foley, 38th Font, and party, with II Volunteers far
the 67th Regiment.--l'otal t 3.
A Scrjeant and 7 of the sith Regiment —Total S.

Of the follnwing there are very Vender hopes :
Lieutenant Killikelly, 32d Foot.-4 his Gentleman le (aid value
g.,ne to Holyhead.

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EnGgn Evan, loth Foot, And party.Tutal c.
Enfign Bigght, 8 t th Foot, and prty..6-Total 3.
ionfign Kidd, Bsth Foot, and party.—Total 4. .
Lieutenant Wafey,g4 Font, and pirty.--Total S.
Lieutenant Brown, did Foot, and party.—Total
Tile whole military lois is fuppoled to be about
120 Officers and Privates. •

The whole of the Regimental Plate of the 97th; er
Q2cen's Germans, was unfortunately on board the
Rochdale trader, lately wrecked near Black Rock,
Dublin.

The Juno, from Dublin for Lohtlonderry, was totally loft
on the t9th lift. near Sanda —Crew laved.
The Duke of Athol,---, from Liverpool for the Me of Mao,
is on Ihure at Newry.
The Mervin. James, from &MA for Surinam, is loft in Youg-
hal Say.
The Mary, Madly, from Chepitow for Ircland, is ftrandcd
Crew faxed.

The Sunnifide, Whitten, of Sunderland, was ;captured on the
asth init. off Whitby.
The Mary, Robinfon, of Newcafte, it wrecked near Hartlepool.
The Alert, Mack, from Malta for Leith, is on more on the
Hurdfand.

The Jupiter, —, of Arbroath, from the Baltic, is captured off
Elfinore.

The Duke of Kent, —, from Newfoundland for Portugal,
was captured on the 2... th of Odohcr, reta►en the fame day by
the Melpomene frigate, and again taken the tit of November.

Sailed on Thnrfday, from Leith Roads, the AMA•
RANTH (loop of war, with a convoy for Gottenborgh
—alto, the CHILDFRA (loop of war, with the Rolelle
and Calliope, Welt Indiatnen, for the Southward.

Letters from Madeira, of the 28th of ()Sober,
Rate, that on the ifith and 2 tfi of that month, two
Portuguefe packets arrived there from Li(bon, with
difpatchcs for the Governor, and failed again imme-
diately. Their farther denination was unknown.
The nature of the difpatches was kept a profound
fecret ; but little doubt was entertained that they
related to the defence of the ifland, as, immediately
on the departure of the veffels, the Governor gave
orders for the repair of the fortifications ; and all
perfons, capable of bearing arms, were called upon
to learn the ufe of them.

The perfon lately mentioned to have failed from
Marazion with pretended difpatehes for Sir SIDNEY
SMITH, and who was fufpeeled of being a fpy or a
!windier, has been apprehended at Paciltow, in conic
quence of the dercription gave f Lim. He had been
driven into Padflow by the florm, and was fitting in
a mixed company at Mr. BA2 E LY'S tavern, on Satur-
day fennight, when a Neu•lpaper was introduced,
and upon reading the 131 agraph in which he
was defcribed, the company fecured him. He has
been in culiody ever (ince, waiting fur the perfons
whom he is fuppofed to have defrauded, to come for-
ward and identify him. He is fufpeOed to be a great
fwindicr, but nut a fpy.
The Adjutant General has addrcfred a circular
letter to the Commander in Chief of the Portfmouth
difiriet, requeiling " that a flop may be put to the
Infpellion of the Volunteer Corps until the ifl of
Match next ; alfo to reduce the number of Infpeetions
in each year to four ; which are to take place between
the di of March and the as of November." This
regulation is tilt to interfere with the number of
days esercife for which pay is allowed within the
year,

Da URIMAN ETR FATR s.--We could be almoll con I
tented that thisTheatre fhould never produce a new
Comedy, it performs an old one fo happily. Satur-
day was revived FA RouHAR'S Inconflant, a play which
pofrefies all that gaiety, hnmonr, wit, and intrigue,
which its author lo richly could invent, and which
loch Performers as Mr. ELLISTON, Mr. DOWTON,
Mr. BANN'S rER, and Mss. JORDAN can fo agreeably
put in motion. The Houle was crowdeal in every
part. The acting of this Play will be loon criticifed ;
for praife is not half fo profufe of words as cenfure.
No Bifarre in the world could be more whimtical
than Mrs. JORDAN'S performance of that chars ter:
we are kept on the wonder during the whole of it
what extravagance the will commit next. We know
not which to admire' more, her fcenes with Mr.
BANNISTER, or that with Mr. Ectisvots, in which
the Gentleman and Lady affect a contempt for each
other, the one by reading Virgil aloud, inflead of
attending to his interlocutor; and the other by per-
fitting in talking, notwithltandiug this difregard
perhaps we had better call Mrs. JORDAN'S fcenes with
Mr. BArtirisre II in this play the perfettion of farce,
and that with Mr.EtusroN the perfeltion of comedy.
LONDIVITY.—The u1d,41 man now living in Scot.
land is fuppofed to be a Highlander of the name of
ALEXANDER MACRAE. He was born in the parith of
Kintail, in the year 1697, and is now of courfe jnf
120 years old. In the year 1719 he fought under
I Lord Seaforth at the battle of Glenfbeal, and in
1724 he entitled as a private in the Scots brigade,
ferving in Holland, where he continued (even years,
the lati two of which were (pent in a prifon in fome
town of France. the name of which he does not re-
member. Ir. :731 he returned to his farm, and mar-
ried a fecond wits, who died a few years after. In
1765 he fell into fuch low circumßances, that he
was forced to procure a fubliftence by going ahbut
the country from !mule to houfe, reciting Offian's
poems in Gaelic. In 1773 he married his prefent
' wife, by whom he had three children, the LIR of them
was born when he was aged 96. About t 2 years ago,
when fill very flout, he was deprived of the ufe of
Ibis limbs by a violent fever, and ever fence has been
unable to walk. He is now bedrid, deaf, and blind,
but his memory is fill very corral. His general
amufement is tinging, and repeating Ofian's poems
in Gaelic; but he repea-sfo fall, that it is impoffible
to wsite them down ; and if interrupted, mull again
return to the beginning of the poem. He appears
to have been a flout made middle fixed man, and MU
looks uncommonly well.

MONTHLY AGRICULTUR.II. REPORT for November.
Wheat lowing is nearly Snifbed in moil fitaations ; and the
favourable rains which fell in the early part of the preceding
month, made the !irons tads' and clover leys work well.
The winter grain already up, covers the ground well with an
healthy ftrong blade.
The ;dung and (tore cattle continue to do men in the after
maths and paitures, arid by keeping out of the yards live much
fodder. Such feeding beafts as were not liniftred at gni., have
been takes to the Italic and put to turnips, ground corn, hay end
oil cake, or fuck provender the farmer can procure. Sheep have
alto been put to turnips, and, in the feu commies colefeed ; and
thrive and do well. On wet commons and low wet paftures, many
rotten Sleep have bees found.
There is out little v...riation in the prices of lean Rock, which
are in great abundance in jobber's hands. Stores and parking
pip fell well.

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LAST

MATMAS fIOVIRRNMENT GAZETTE. jur y 21. 13:-.
Ettratft n' a tatter from captain George Bell, commanding Ns
Marfty% flunl Vidor, to nett Admiral Sir Edward Pdlew,
Dart; &c &c dated Prinie of Wales's Mandl May 2$
Your Ercellency has before now received one of
My letter! terpe6ting the capture of 4 prizes out of
Batavia Itoadt.
Off Cheribon (a little to the tafforard f Bata*ia)
on the 15th April, we chaced and brought to three
prows tinder Dtrtch colodrs, at 5 P.M.; on its falling
calm, anchored our boats, and Cent them armed to
bring the prows alongfide ; two were brought on the
larboard fide, the other hung on the quarter; got the
prifoners out of the two alongfide (amounting to near
ao) and placed a firong guard over them, under she
diretlion of Lieutenant Wernyfs, as I intended fend-
ing them away after overhauling their cargoes.
Lieutenant Parfons had been on board the prow
on the quarter, but returned with his people, on find-
ing it impraaicable to get the crew from below. I
intiantly oriered her to be hauled dole up under the
quarter, fired acarronade into her and mufketry, which
they returned by throwirg (pears and firing piilols,
&c.; grt a gun out of the den ports and fired into
her, the (parks of wl:ich moll onformately reached
fome powder, which mull hare been carelefsly handed
our of fome of the prows, abaft, and blew the after
part of the (hip up; at this alarming moment. the
guard over the prifoners dtopt their arms, and ran
to extinguifli the fire.
The prifonersinflantly feized their arms and picked
up feveral (pears and knives w!,icla had been thrown
on hoard, and attacked the (hip ; by this rime, S P. M.
the fire, moll providentially, by great exertions of
officers and men, was got under, prow cut adrift,
and the attention (-Sall hands dire led to the defence
of the (hip, which was admirably performed, for in
little more than half an hour So r‘f them lay dead in
a moll mangled (late, the tell driven overboard ; but
forry am I to add, not without a fevere lola on our
fide, including thole blown overboard, arid thofe who
have fence died of their wounds, a lift of which I
herewith inclnfe for your Excellency's fstibfaelion :
among the killed is Lieutenant Blazon, who had had
a (pear through him, accompanying me in the waiff ;
he died moftgallantly.

LIST OT ItILLtD ANC N't't UNOTD
1-I. Marton, Lieutenant ; and c
Wool,: to—Captain George Bell; Thomas Coulth.-rd, Gunner;
t Serjeant of Marines, t Private dtro, 21 Seam. n.
_ _ _ _

Scrjeani of Maine*, and 8 Seamen, fume dead of their wound:.

MARQUIS WELLESLEY.

NUMBER XVI.

Silt—lt is an ondotibted fad! that II e mutiny
which broke nut at Vellnre had been long planned
by the Muffulmen, or Followers of tslahnmed, at the
inffigation of the partizans of the et Nabob, and
the Eons of the late Tippon Sultaun ; yet Ilill fothe
oflenfible caufe was wanting to induce the Hiadno
officers and f ildiers to participate in the confpiracy ;
when unfortunately, the order iffuel by Sir John
Craddock, refpefling a few alterations in chefs,
.and
general appearance of the Native troops was pt omul-
gated. which in an inliant gained over every officer
and foldier to the cattle of tke Muffulmen. They
were informed, that ahhough Marquis Wecessuir
had pofitively prohibited the Bengal Volunteer Se-
poys from attending the church, as was ordered by
General Wemyfs at Ceylon ; yet, from the innova-
tion attempted to be introduced, which was pecu-
liarly repugnant to eflablifhed prejudices, the Native
troops attached to the Madras eflablifhment were in-
duced to believe that coercion would even be ufed to
compel them to become Chriffians.
The inttodufli,.n of the Bengal judicial regulations
throughout the provinces fabjeft to the Madras Go-
Ivernment, was alto Rated by the dila/freed to be
principally for the purpofe of affifting the views of
the miffionaries, though totally irrelevant to the fub•
jett. It muff be, however, confelfed, that in fo far
as refpefled the appointment of perfuns to diaribute
juffice, who were nit acquainted with the languages
of the country, the inhabitants had ca ufe to complain.
This deficiency in the knowledge of the country
languages by the fcnior civil fervants in the Madras
ii lablilhments, is particularly noticed in the 27th,
28th, and 29th paragraphs of the able minute of
Marquis WILLESIAY, refpedling the College at Cal-
cutta, an inffitution, whereof the good elfefts are al-
ready vifible, by the laudable arteuiti 'n of the junior
civil fervants at the three Prefidencies, in going
through this courfe. of Rudy, to prepare therolelves
for appointments, where filch knowledge is indifpen-
fably requifitc. The litigious difpohtion of the na-
tives generally being fo great, that in the Court be-
longing folely to one &hitt no lets than 22,000
wiles were on the regitier to be tried.
When the Provoll of the College at Calcutta fug-
gelled to Marquis WELLFSLIY, as patron of the In-
ttitution, a propofed Thefis on the different Reli-
gions of Aria, as compared with the Chriffian Reli-
gion, the adoption for the Rodents was nut deemed
expedient. The greatly injured fuLjee of there let-
ters having in every instance paid the molt minute
!attention to the teligious prejudices of the people
! over whom he was appointed to govern—as may be
teen on reference to the numerous orders terpeßing
i the famous temple at Jaggernaut, and other religious
j ellabliffiments.

Similar attention was paid to the religious preju•
dices of the natives by my Lnrd Powis, when Go-
verner of Madras, as the following extraft from a
General Order, by his Lnrdfhip, %Hider date the 26th
May, iBOO, clearly evinces:

"The Right Honourable the Governor in Council has deemed
himfelf fortunate in dilcovering the near connexions of Comman-
dant Seyd Ibrahim, who have furrived the long captivi y and death
of that faithful, honourable, and diftiroguifhed officer.
" In order to perpetuate his Lordfhip's fcnfe of the Feyd's truth
and attachment to the Company's fer vice, the Governor in Cot.ri-
eil has ordered a tomb to be ereeted to his memory at Cowley
Droog, with an efisblifhnitot of two (amt s, and a Fakir, for the
fervice of the tomb, accordirg to the rites of his religion."
At the present critical pet iod, it certainly might be
advifable for each individual Diteetor, Member of
the Board of Controul, and every perfon defirous cf
being acquainted with, or meddling with the affairs
of India, to keep in remembrance the well known
prediaion of Warren Hollings:
" Let me red. nor let my words be tittered in vain, that when..
ever the fatal blow fluff be (truck, or from whatever band It &all
proceed, Its effeets will be not a gradual decay, b, I t inflantaneous
ruin—fot your eziftence hangs on the threa ; of Oprnion, which
the touch of Chance nay break ; and ever, tb'r force, which
ought to flow with the principles of its duration, will. if produc-
tive of the fame deleterious flreame which hive 1 Itely been fern
to Mit from it, prove the caufc of Its diffolution."

PLAIN 'ACTS.

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COURT OF KINO S BENCH, NOV. 25.
THR RING 9. CuL,INkL DI:APF.R.

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COURT 07 CHANCERY, NOV. zB.
Mr. I N BLANcut 64 returned his arguments this day.
the t the Opera Floinfe, and he was W-
A .wed by t‘l,. Ric HA stns. Atter a pond deal of dif-
cafilon. the I.nNn •tiAPi C& LL‘,ll declined interfering,
and re'elred the parties to arbitration. His Lord.
fh:p afitired them. that befne the expiration of four.
teen days, they would both feel gratified at his de.
termination. •

The defendant was brought up, in purfuance of
the order of the Court, to receive judgment ; when
Mr. Junice Gime, after fpeaking at length on the
nature and tendency of die libel, proceeded as follows:
In mitigation of punifament it had been fiv ,rn that
the defendant would not have written or publifhed
any thing which he did not believe to be true ; but
~.hen the Court confidered the circumftances of the
C dre, apd the total improbability or impoffibility of the
coulter ation between Dr. Lynch and Mr.Sullivan,the
netendant Would have paufed before he ailed upon
tuch information, and ought to have informed Moat
by every means in his power of the truth, even by appli-
cation to the Profecutor. Thirwas the lean the defen•
dant owed to the Noble Secretary, the Under Secre
tart', and to himfelt If be had done Id, be would
have learnt that Mr. Sullivan never did, either di-
rally or indirectly, inform Dr. Lynch, or others,
that General Piton would be ordered to return in fut
months, or that Colonel Tullarton was appointed to
invefligate his conduct ; but, on the contrary, that
the convertition (groin to by Dr. Lynch did not aan-
ally pats. In thou, if the defendant had availed
himfelf of the means it was his duty to retort to, it
foemed impf.ffible that he could have publiffied the
libel in queltion. It now remained for the Learned
Judge to pars the lenience of the Court. The diffi-
culty the Court felt was to invent any punilhment to
be inffiPed upon a perfon whofe charaaer had been
fo highly attelled,and w ho had can fo moth obloquy
upon the pure name of the trofecutor. When the
folemn hour of reflation fhould arrive, the publica-
tion :nun WM upon the mind of the defendant a
wound much more revere than the lenience of the
Court. But it was abfolutely neceflary that an ex.
ample Would be fet to others, and the Court mull
convince the world that crimes of this kind were not
to b: pal Ted over in Mem. Taking all the circum-
fiances into confiderdtion, it was adjudged that the
defendant fhould pay a fine to the King of tool. be
impauned, in the cullody of the Marfhal of the
King's Bench, fur three months, and at the expira
tion of that time, Mould give fecutity for his good
behaviour, himfelf in soot and two fufficient futeties
in no!. each.

mAiNsmo, iiIIDERSON AND CO. O. TN! eommissioms
TOD COMPINKATION !INDIA TN! WEST INDIA DOCK
ACT.

Lord ELLassozooon pronounced the judgment
of the Court in this cafe. His Lordthip Paid, that
this was a motion for a new trial, on the ground of
a mildireftion by the Recorder of London, in an
aaion upon 39 Geo. 111. e. 69. The application was
made upon the ;alit lation of that Statute. His
Lordthip was of epini•.n, that the words of the Aa
itfelf dccidod the quellion, whether the compenfati..n
was to be calculated at the time of palling the Aft,
or at the period when the compenfation was tegoired.
It retied entirely upon the fame foundation as the
claims of Chrift's H4pital ; and there was so reafon
to fuppore that the remuneration was not to be cal-
culated in a limilar mode. However great might
have been the increafe [ince the year 1799, or how-
ever the profit might deereafe, fill it could make no
difference in the compenfati t 3 be made, as the
Statute had fixed the period when it was to be al-
mated. It appeared to the Court, therefore, that
the diration given to the Jury by the Recorder was
according to law, and that no new trial fhould be
granted.—New trial retraced.
TH6 KING V. DODD.

It will be remembered that a criminal information
was filed by the Attorney General againft Mr. Dodift
the engineer, for publithing a profpe&us of a public
Dittillery Company, cord :try to the flatute of Geo.
I. The queilion to he decided in the safe is, Whe-
ther the many public companies lately eitablifned are
legal? And the Ar TOM' E Y GENERAL. was about to
proceed in arguments in behalf of the profecution,
when Mr. GA 'mow, on the other fide, fignified that
he was not prepared with fufficient information in
fupport of the I) •fendants. The Cc•urt therefore or-
dered the cafe to (land over till neat Term. •