Star.
London, England, 1806-08-11 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL. AUGUST 7.

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The Rebell, (late Muttion) arrived here nn
Gal Africa and Charlefkae, after a pillage of
fin week!. Two hours and a loaf after failing the fell
in with a French privateer, of 8 guns and too men,
whom lie engslysti for four hours. and on the fol.
lowing daLtbe again engaged her fot Gx hours, and
beat her off : left there the flibernia, PLATT f cargo
half fold. The Two Brothers, Guts:, from Amaer-
darn, for Bolton, arrived here on Friday
detained
by the Eliza privateer, of this port. Captain RIID,
of the Mars, arrived here from New York, paged the
Olivet Fifworth, 1111111111 T. of New York, the 18th
of July, on the Banks of Newfnundlaod ; !'poke the
American Blip Tams, Lotto. from hence tor Dalti
wore, 6 days nob in long. 16} with a fine wind.
EIISTRIIKITION OP PRIZE-MONEY.
The tralak, fee the reessore of the Mary. or oreenceb, Sep.
~„1„, 9, ,sei, we be rid en board, at Plymouth, on Wc*lnef•
ay Dew, and waned at MV. WP. Smith'', Plymouth-Duck, tur
gree years.
Thc Nimble, for the ear sea at la Made .nd la Sophie. June
2,454 2, 1805, will be pad OA beard, at Plymouth, on Wand•
air wie. and walled at Mr. W. P. Smith's, Plymouth-Dock, for
three month&
The Ftilz, tar the capture or nta label. alias IA YiEtoria, Ge-
Jeer 2204°4, will be paid at bet,rival im Plymouth, and recalled
ivory Tease swisotorday to three years, at No. 269, StrantL
The Unity. Captain Davits FOWLII, arrived at
Leith, on Saturday fe'unight, from Riga, with a cargo
ej hemp and Thiefenhaufen flax, for Meffi a...jambs
uLtatts and Co.
Arrived at Leith from Davis's Straits, on 4th init.
the William and Ann, Captain BVlllt ISA Lyons, with
eight Mb ; and the North Star, Captain ALCIAPIDki.
Yeasts, with fix Mk. The Royal Bounty is the
only Leith veffel not arrived.

K. B. Admisidesdestesemin Chief of hie idsielity's Fleet
eitigiosell le the Cheasid.Smasilsge, Ste. to William blarfiliee.
14 dwell en herd his hielisay• Ship the Hibiersia, oil
Ulimmit, de it\ Imam"
liiri.-.1 Mee peat pltafore ht trafinitting the aseenspanythg let.
ter from Captain lems, with its isciekre frets Captain il. D.
Oliver, of hit Maisay's Stip the Men. Ade perfewerasee and
Judgment enabled him to captive a Owe .Fratett frigate is the
face of her three comforts of equal force I am. Ike.
(311pei) . Cr VINCIN/.
Superb, Acesa., sloth
[ My Lord--I lave the hem to amide your Lordibm a letter
aim 'Captain Oliver, of the Man, fisting his chats, from the
iggemllion, and minim ef le antis, a Sae rime frigate, on the
I gab sit, with which he 'spit retained; sod I hiessit exceedbgly
, dot the Mars could set be kept tight el the sight of the "sib,
as it would, desbdefs, have tad to mere Nevadan (week I have
the hamar ts be, Son (Signed) a. a. 114141.
Ken. at See, July 29, ISA ha. es deg. 9 min. N.
beg 4 deg. so min. at anon.
Sir—l big leave to acquaint you, that I continued
in purfoit of tour of the enemy's frigates the night
of the 37th lollant ; although I loft fight of them, as
alto of the fquadron tender your command f: on after
it was dark, except the Aretca, which we taw until
about e'even o'clock, on the lee quarter, when the
was obferved to barn tome falfe fires. We Owed
about a point free the whole night, with a light in
the Rens, handing to the Southward, and carried a
prefs of fail ; I was itiduced fo to du from obferving
the coin* the enemy's fquadrun was fleeting *hen
[ AA teen, and judging chit it would inert& their
difficulty of getting to lettered of os ; it had that
effelt moil folly. for at daylight yenerday morning
they were difrovered precifely on the fame bear-
jog as as the previous evening, though at &greater
dibace, except their Octoroon Ship, which we ap.
peered to •be gaining oo ; di; induced the:French
Commodore to tack with his three headmof °tips
and j. .a her, and formed in lied f battle on the lai:
board tack, I thought. and hoped, with a determina-
tion:to try the fortune of war which was what every
one on board the Mass mod anxioufly willed ; bat
after making tome fignals. about three in the after
noon he made of with three frigates, the other eon•
tinned her cootie under an extraordinary pref.' of
ciil, and finding chat the was the only line we hag
gained on during a citue of one hundred and Shy
miles; md the day far (pent, I hill.kept after her
till fix o'clock, when in the anent of a violent fqoall
of wind and bail we were ranging upon hence queer.
ter ; after the firil th ,t the Itruck her colours jult at
the moment our liroarldde war about to open on her.
She proved to be la Rhin, a very fuss French frigate
of aa guns, eighteen podnders en the main deck. and
jig men ; only four years old.commeaded hy Capt.
Co ; the fquadron was coMemoded is Moo.
Goer I. LAN atu.sata, In abe seiga
the Hernias., in I Meals frigates es their re: ern
from Porto Rico. Soon after die *Ms had forret.
Eared, on the (quail clearing away. the other three
frigates wits fees handing to the forth call ; and I
:Vet that the weather, which has yet prevented ow
• ro ?vs than one third of the prifoneri,
it • • ' for me to•purfue them further. I
ossioi coododi without expreifing my admiration
of thromd i! of every officer and man in this Ship
during • dbace of echoers, against fo fupetior a
form. with very bad weather, and incelfant rain .
'—
Small dear fells were Wit, and replaced with ala.
Ott i alrilr is lbw, bad the threalader of the French
Setradros waited our , from the great lad
nesaifidted by terry pc:fastest 41 . I have no doubtappraiser
list our &Its would garsatowned with com•.
Piste heeds is their deltroffical. I have the honour
Ito Se. etc. (Signed) toe: OVOLIT OLIVIA.
P. 8. The Rhin honorer board in the thee/ fix
r bet 4tiarter deck lootioreeolile guns, aid a bower

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On Walt' ettning left, while the carriage and
.knantsnt Knowitan were travelling on their
way t. liesdaid, on the road between Bugden and
Biggielfanakillis large trunks which were (trapped on
behind the carriage, containing the whole of the town
wardrobe of his Lordtbip and another Nobleman, the
,fervants being on the dicky box of the carriage, were
tribe& away by Come unknown perfonst the robbery
was not &covered till they arrived at Bigglefwade.
Saturday evening, about (even o'clock,. as Mr.
MITTS 1 F LLD, k
Stoe -broker, with a LOT, a relation
of his own, was driving his gig towards Maidenhead,
the both took fright; and running on a bank, the
Lady was thrown out and i:gled on the (pot.
An iaquell was held on Friday at the Antigalfferi
Coffee.houfe, on the body of Mr. Openbeim, of able
Jewiib perfnallon, who on Wednefilay evening ailed
for a glafs of brandy and water, and a few maiming
after dropped from his feat in a fit. Medical AK
tance was called, but to no effect, for he expired at
half pail eleiten o'clock.—Verdie, Died by an api•
plettic fit.
TILOTTiNG AGAINST TIIII.—.A wager has been
held between Melts. Fat ITN and Caicos, two gen-
tlemen of (porting celebrity in the vicinity of Bit-
, neinghathi thar the latter, " did not find a both or
ware that nould trot 36 miles in three flicatreve
hours." Mr. .C. feletled a mare belonging to a
kited in Birmingham, who trotted the required dif-
team, with cafe, in two hour*, forty.fix minutes and
in half. She carried is !lone 81b,
BOX ING.—A pugiliaie conteft, for a wager of too
guineas, took place on Thurfdsy. on the Middle Heath,
near Hounfiov, between Gardiner, a coachman, and
Sowden,a navigator. The match was made a weeljfinee
by the t.oachman'smafter, a Gentleman of property in
the neighbourhood of Highfield. Hams; and the navi-
gator, who was confideted as the fink ruffian is the
country where he was known. was backed by himfelf
and his brethren. The combatants were athletic
men, about five feet ten in nature t but the navigator
was rather the favourite. The contest was one which
could afford but little gratification to thole who bad
been accuftomed to theta fort of exhibitions about
town, as afcientific man in the art would have had
many points in his favour. The competitors were
untaught, and the iffue of the eonteft depended on
fuperior Itrength. They flood to one another, and
hit round, until one was fairly knocked down. when
they commenced the next round, without allowing
any time. The eonteft was alternately in favour 41
each of the combatants for about half an hour, which
was equal to a foist Ifght amongii firfi raters, of art.
hour and a halt. Atter that time the Coachman was
unable to (land above one hit in the round, and in
three more rounds the navigator was declared the
vigor. They were both carried off the ground.

ClittN. CON, AND atormy„
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Aucosr 9.—E/sarror u7.,,iprd *Si 1
Mdieted for that the at Geetna, in Scotland, inter
married with John Whitford on the 16th of Novern-
ber, tflot, and afterwards. at the parith of Sr. Mary
Lambeth. in the county of Surrey, on the rgth.of
May, tBo6, felonif,ufly intermarried with grshert
Jacques James, her forrperitufband being ill! alive.
This was a cafe which excited a conliderable de-
gees of intereft, as it was underflood to involve the
legality of a Gretna Greco Marriage. The defen-
dant was a young lady of hanelfome perfon and elegant
manners, and her appearance at the Bar excited
eortfiderablh fympathy on her behalf, among the fpee ij
-
causes of the Court.
After the was arraigned, and had faintly uttered
her plea of !' Not Guilty,"
Mr. Cutwooo rnfe to addrefs the Jury. He begin
by timing, that the melancholy. duty devolved liven
him, which he *fared the Jury he executed with
molt painful fenfations' to conduit the profecuti •rt
againft the prifoner at the bar, for a crime which, if
fubtiantiated againft her, degraded her from her rank •
in life, which the law had declared a felony, and
which might labial her to be tranfpotted from her
pative country, an afineiate of the vileft and molt pro-
fligate of mankind. The cafe which he had to lay
betore the Jury was of a moll extraordinary nature,
and difered very Far from that clafs of cafes. which
afoolly prefeoted theinfelves for thi confederation of
a jury. In general thole who were arraigned 'for
this Mem were of the fovea orders of, fosiety, who
hiEsto knowledge of the extent of their moral do-
• ties, pc of the confequenees of deviating from them.
Not filch was the cafe of the prifoner at thebar ; de
had been well educated, and ought to have been re-
fined to a better fenfe of her &ties, and impeded
with the importance of their obfervance. She was
the daughter of a man of refpedrabdity, and atonic
inaportanhe in the tern of Bafingfiolre, and in the
year AO; the was addreffed by her outband, oho& •
licked her hand in marriage. For what realm, the
Learned C.ounfel (aid, he was not informed, but her
Wpm m that time was averfe to the match, and re
futed his content ; but the addre.fes of the yoong
TAD were not difagreeable to her mother, and other
members of the lades family but it beign found that
no intreaty would (often the cbd•tracy of her father,
the young couple eloped to ScotlAnd, and were there I
married according to the forms and ceremonies °tate
&MU& law. Upon their return they were memo I
cried to her father, and the hufbind commenced bo-
fines as • limn sl-aper it §nothanainon at that
time be was about twenty-five years of age, and the
pauses fcarcely eighteen. They continued at South- I
ampton until the year 18os, when Airliners not rue•
ceediag, he ,vas obliged to relinquith his fituation. I
and come to London. Here be certainly was obliged
to live on a reduced kale. He obtained a flotation 1
as managing man at a wholefale linen warehoufe in
the City, and took a (mall houfe fur his wife at Ken I
ningtoo. They refided together in apparent comfort
and happioefs. he going out early to his bufinefs in i
the morning and returning home about eight in, the
evening. They continued this courfe till about
March lag, when one evening, returning as dual,
he found that another bed was putting up in a (pare
room, and, upon inquiry, his wife told him that the
had let this room to a molt refpulfahle old gentleman,
who had token the mom to lodge with them. In the
etching_ the new lodger made his appearance; he
(heated above 6o years of age.an d of mott gentlemanly
manners, and Was therefore gladly received by the
hatband. as a welcome initiate. From loch a man
he could futpea no injury, aid none but the nu&
fufpicious could have thought his wife in danger in
fush fociety. However; fo it was, that after a very
thou time, he found his wife hrangely altered is
her behaviour towards him. She appeared &ignited
with him, and miferable in hufelf. He inereated
her to reveal the cede of her °mattock, and then, no
doubt, to conceal her own guilt; the affeeted to fay,
that his behaviour was unkind, and that fie had rea-
fon to furpeft his fidelity. He endeavoured, by every
foothiog attention, and by increafed kindnefs, to con-
vince her of her forming an erroneous opinion, and
had apparently fucceeded, for on the morning of the,
113th of April, when he left home, they parted w:th
marks of more than ufual kindnefs ; hut it In hap-
pened, that being taken ill that day, he returned home
much earlier than was cuflomary. He found his
wife from home, and on the mantle-piece was a let-
ter. adireffed to him, in her hand writing, to the
, following purport :
0 Sir. I hive taken my own name of Mir. Howard. and mall
0 ever after difown that of Whitford, which I am now fully ladr
lloctl never vim cutakd to. I thank God fur it, f,r I hold it In
" utter abhorrence."_

Paid the Learned Counfel, no doubt the then
held it in utter abhorrence. While the was pure and
uncontaminated' the held it not in abhorrence ; but
when the had deviated from the path of virtue. the no
doubt abhorred the name of the man whom the had
wounded with the 1- cruel of all injuries. She
did not return how : tb.t ; but the next morn-
. in her hulband rect.ve...l a outrage that the was at
a neighbour's houfe, and defired to fee him. He
accordingly atter ded, and then the exhibited a gleam
of remorfe for her mircondua. When the taw her
butband, the exclaimed—" Whitford, you cannot,
will not forgive me !"—At that time he did not know
the extent ofhis injury, but the immediately confeffed
that the had cline- noured his bed, and complained that
James, their lodger. had feduced her from her duty.
All the requefted was, that her hufband would rettore
her to her parents; which. notwithltanding his in-
juries, he promifed he would do. Of thort duration,
however, were her better retolves; and fo true was
it, that when the bounds of virtue were once tract-
grelled. and the mind became familiarifed with guilt,
that it aAcd without remorfe what in its pure (late it
could not contemplate without horror ; for in a few
weeks after this event the publicly married h:r ho try
feducer ; and for that alt the now flood arraigned as
a criminal at the bar ofjuftice, t r antwer for the crime.
With refpeß to the nature of the crime, and ii devil ten-
dency, the Learned Counlel faid he tr oiled he reed not
enlarge upon, alibi,' in the mixed companies of life
marriage was a frequent fubjed of ridicule with the
gay and thotightlel., vet our morals were 11;11 fo on.
contaminated, that it was never mentioned in our
Court. of Jolliet but with the relintil and reverence
it merited. I: was the molt important of all civil
coat:arils, and guarded by the moil facred of nap

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rooarßies n3r- nature: •Anyluti.whish,of
r by its inftience, hr rite down thi, boundary. me.
died the fever ett punishment of the low. and when it
we.; conlidcred how much the parity of women mixed
'War in:lhe fecnsity of this. Itate, their morals conld
not be too Itridly guarded. It was not in this corm.
try or in thefe timer. only, that thefe fentiments pr•
vailed, for a Leered writer had declared," that a vir-
! tunas woman was the ornament of her hull:raid, and
her price was far above rubies." Such once was the
value of the prifoner at the ba., while irutocence was .
hr her heart; now the was &anted, polluted, and
degraded. an ohjulik of contempt and difori. The
Jury might perhaps feel pity for her pretent fitna.
lion; her appearance might work upon the fofter
emotions of their hearts ; but let them remtmber the
ttuatiun of another perfon, let them remember the
agonized feelings of the injured husband, whole
!hopes and happinefs were all defttnyed by her dread-
ful mifeunduet. Indeed, no wretchedned could be
More complete than a Man fa injured. I. other ca..
lamities we received fume cenfnlation in the pity of
I mankind ; but fo perverfely was the mind of MAO
stonlie need on this occa(ion, that the injury to whisk
11nalluded not only made a roan wretched bet elie
ilitlimpleus. So complete was his mifery, that we
thilimbrtal cntontryman. who was faid en be dared
read in human nature and the human ptltisas. had
mule a usaa in a like ameries deelerm dirt " he
maid rather he a toad and Ire upon the vapour at s
retentive. than be as aloe of hub (corn P• Tb
Limmed Caused easehided by Rating, that he liemid
Mg. b. ofeeelfte b pave his rain The milk-
MON, Vie min famed guilty, would he
leg Rites* of his Leiddhipae Inc lP
yet die similedos far the eellepleteast:
tie her. thee the u a use tried beim
tmemseedjudpemet with )reny.
David ihr Gretna Gem Rae*" weir!
enned. He that be performed the einem"
over the Prifoner and her hulbarid in his way I dog
war, he read nothing ; bat he laid foseethietre ME dist
tongue, and anthortfed them. tosoishis
The LORD CH ill &MON fild lin emmild entiorde
this as a marriage. Ha sliced him him he mar
He replied, a talonetail 1 His Leedtilp oldeeinib
that a fellow or two, like the mitosis, did awhile*
of things ; but both hi Pelf and the parties were NIP
ble to ptiniflimeat.
Mr. Caimans feel the marriage was ie.:easier:l
but that did acoe vitiate it, though it Ilehjetted the
parties to pooillinest. He smierllsood, by dm
Scotch law, there were two tureens of marriages.
Loan Cats, Beena--" I masa take your under.
(landing of the law of Scotland; I men have it am
titled by the Lord Advocate, toe me ado" Judp at
the Court. There is. no doubt a valid marriage in
Scotland, or in China, is valid may where i but the
hw of every foreign country mull be cerii6ed. If
you have any Advocate of Cheraw 1 will Madre
his teftinv.ny."
Coua er L....." Will your Lordfliip permit the v it.
eels to give evidence of the law ?"
Loma Cater Banos.—" No, certainly not. I
will notreesive the lawn( Scotland from a Afro 't"
The prilutta was accordingly atintiattifor SSW of
evidence.
Gtonceller }lnure is to be entirely modernifed. Se
many &thin:table and talleful alterations ate making,
that it is ex potted the expellee will amount to between
3 and 40001.
ELOPIMINT.—.O. Sunday fe'nnight, the Baugh.
ter of a tell:tea-Mk Baronet in Liverpool, eloped
from her father's bon& on a trip to Gretna Germ
with Lieutenant R. an Officer in the South Devon
Militia, now quartered there. So very anexpeeed
was this event to the family, that not the Imalleft
fofpicion teems to have exifted of the young lady's
intention. The gentleman was fees loitetiog near
her father's houfe at a late hour oa Sunday night,
and as loon as the family had retired to bed, the
happy pair found means to take their departure, tin-
; petceived, in a chaife and four.
ANOTHI. Faux Pas.—On Friday evening, the
daughter ota wealthy draper, in Orford-llreet, eloped
from Kenfington, where the was on a vifit, with a
akithing Lieutenant 9f Dragoon". and bus not yet been
heard of. The young lady, who is under ax years of
age, had fpent the day os aiSfeity piety, confiding of
feveral female anglers, accompanied by two gentle-
men, one of whom was the gallant. and who was but
a (lender acquaintance. The ladies returned home
in the evening to Kenfington ; and, after taking tea.
a walk was propofid by the Lieutenant, who took
Mils under his arm. The party waited (upper lime
time, but the loving couple took clindefline leave of
their friends, and, as we have obferved, have not yet
been traced.
Flat.—A fite, attended with fame very diftralling
circumdances, broke out between eleven and twelve
o'clock on Saturday morning, at one rf the wooden
kooks in the New Cut, near the end of Great Char-
lotte-fir:et, Blackfriaresread. The houfe was of large
dimeniionr, but, with the exception of two flacks of
chimnie., wholly of timber. It had been recently
condrufted in a very neat ['Tie. and belonged to Mr.
Cowell, the brewer, but was let to a mar, who 'this
bited a camera °Volta. It teems that he was heating
Conic varnifh, which fuddenly boiled over. He had
his coat and waitteoct off, and attempting to emir,.
gnifh the flames. his fhirt caught 6re. His pretence
of mind forlook him, and he could not open the door.
He would have peeiffied, had not the neighbou•s
laurit the dour open. He then ran out, a dreadful
objeft. His flirt was reduced to tinder, and the
tcorched flat of his arms and lhoulders appear,J to
he hang.ng down, and 'opening the mulches. There
were two children in the houte, who were with di&
culty fared. The whole was inftantly a general con-
flagration, and as there was no brick-work, the heat
was fo intenfe, that not an article c,ruld he preferved
from the devouring element. All the adjacent final'
houfes were Mama!), pulled to pieces. to prevent the
flame from spreading. In leis than half an hour, and
before the arrival or an engine. the building was le-
•vellcd to the
.ground. It was mainlined, and the
poor tenant, in addition to his perfrnotl misfortune,
has shoe fudJenly been deprived of all he poiretred in
the world. The children were taken care of by the
miglibours. It was Rated 'Outlay morning, that
the man was dead.

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