Star.
London, England, 1801-02-10 00:00:00

HULL, FEBRUARY 6.

Yefterday the Mips for Lithon and Oporto, that
were to have failed from hence the 3oth ult. went
into Whitebooth roads, there to join the convoy
for Spithead, the place of rendezvous for all chips
failing for thole ports and the Mediterranean.—
The Voltigeur French lugger privateer, of t 6 guns,
with red tides, and a (mall black fchooner, of to
guns, both belonging to Dunkirk, were, on the
24th ult. to fail from Norway, where they had re•
paired, to cruize between Teigiunouth Cattle and
Flambro' Head.

The Pomona, At.sxasoza, from Gibraltar to
Minorca, is loft at Mahon ; cargo Paved.
The John, Wens, from Jamaica to Liverpool,
is taken br a privateer of 24 guns and 200 men.
The Triton, Smelt, from London, is loft in
the Wefer t crew raved.
The Zealous, Dossow, from Copenhagen to
London, is loft near Copenhagen; moil of the,
cargo Paved.
Notice has been fent by quick failing veirels to
all our foreign Rations of the efcape of -a fquadron
of the enemy's Phi ps from Breit. The Instorra.
LIT{ frigate was difpatched from the Channel fleet
with the intelligence to Lord KIST!! ; and the PIN-1
omit armed (hap has been fent out to India.
The Purfer and Gunner of the CORMORANT are
arrived in the CHILDIRS, after being fhipwreckedl
on a shoal near Rofetta. They were marched a
diftante of boo miles from that place—through
Damietta, Alexandria, and Gaza, to Cairo. The
Officers "ere treated with great refpee by General
KLISIR, and Captain Bort! dined with him the
day before he was affaffinated.
Letters from the Hague, of the 28th January,
Rate, that the French Admiral BR oix had arrived
there to accelerate the naval preparations in the
Dutch ports. The Dutch navy confifts of 16 fail
of the line, fix frigates, and 93 gun-boats.
CAPTURES ST THU Faamcm.—.The cruifer My
Uncle Thomas, of Rochelle, fitted out by Citizen
&MARRY; has entered the river of Bourdeaux,
with an Englifh prize, the Leander, of 600 toss,
from Jamaica, laden with coffee, fugar, and in-
digo, and valued at t,c00,000 francs. This prize
carried a 6 carronades of 18 pounders, and made
lan obilinate refiftance. The Englifh Captain was
dangeroufly wounded. He had all poffible affid-
ance.—Two Englifh prizes have been carried into
Brehat, one by the Bougainville, a privateer, of
St. Malo ; the other, by the Hero., of the fame
port, Capt. Roue. The former, mounting fix
guns, and pierced for 14, was on its voyage from
London to Dublin, laden with fugar, rum, &c. it
is called the Richmond ; the fecund, called the
Dolphin, of Poole, was coming from Newfound.
land, laden with dry and freffi cod, and fills oil,
&c. An Englifh fmuggler has been taken, and
carried into Boulogne, by the privateer Vißoire,
of dust port. It was laden with brandy and gin.
The galliot the Three Sifters, of Poole, from New.
faundland. laden with cod and oil, prize to the
Hems privateer of St. Malo, was carried into
L'Orient on the 18th of January. Alfo the lug-
ger Lottery, from Jerky, mounting (lx guns,
taken above the Idle-de.Groix by the Arriege,l
Captain Heiler. The Hope, of Liverriol, from
London, with a cargo of agar, tallow, iron, falt-
pew, Ste. was fent into Calais on the aotk of Jan.
,by tlv Bouloanais privateer, Capt. DILOQUAIIT.

LiflV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 7.

Mr. BOND. file Wed caufe againft a rule obtained
by Mr. ERSKINE, calling upon the James for
Somerfetfhire, to audit the accounts of the Con-
fervators of the river Tone. It appearing that
the Bithop of Bath and Wells was a material
party in this audit, and that the AEI of t o 111.
did not require them to examine Th.: accounts at
the fetlions, tho rule was difcharged.
Mr. GARROW obfcrved, that in the cafe of the
King, v. Nicholl, which was an information for
a libel, in having put up the effigy of a Gentle.
man who was in the medical profeflion, the De-
fendant had, as a preliminary Itep towards accom-
modating the bufinefs, written 'to the Profecutor,
Rating, that he was concerned that he fhould have
taken the effigy as intended for him, and affured
him that it was placed there only to frighten the
birds. He mentioned this to the Court to thew
the difpofition of his client to do what was =d-
iary towards reconciling the offended party.
Mr. ERSKINE laid, there could be no mifiake
refpeßing the Libel, as there were gallipots hung
round the neck of the effigy.
Mr. DALLAS (hewed Caufe againft a Rule ob•
tained by Mr. Easatas, to file a Criminal Infor-
mation againft Mr. Price, a Magiftrate for Corn-
wall, who had illegally convieted a perfun of the
name of Rowe, for having in his poffeffion a grey-
hound, not being duly licenfed. After Mr. DAL-
LAS had proceeded at Tome length, It was agreed
to be referred to the Matter to fettle all matters in
difpute.
• Robert Fergrion was brought up in cuftody of
the Keeper of Morpeth Gaol, to receive thsjudg-
ment of the Court, for obltrating an Excite Of
ficer in the execution of his duty. Mr. Parke laid,
that he had already been confined for Thirteen
months in the gaol of Morpeth, and that during
the time he had been there, he had lx hived with
the greateft good cOndutt ; and that he had fpo-
ken to the Attorney-General on the fubjea, who
did not with to profs !the Court for any further
punithment, if they were inclined to take his own
recognizance for his appearance when called upon.
The Court took his own recognizance in The (urn
of one hundred pounds, and he was difchargcd.

THE RING V. THE REV. It. TATTERSALL.
This was a mandamus, calling upon the De-
fendant, Vicar of Harewood, to nominate one of
two perfons returned to fill the office of Church-
warden of that parifh. In return to this manda-
mus, Mr. Tatterfall certified that they were not
duly nominated and returned accordin to ancient
cuitom from time immemorial, and for this rea-
fon he could not appoint one of them. An iffue
was direCted to try the quellion at tht next aiEzes,
in an aftion for a falfe return.

MONDAY, TESIATARY 9.
The Rule for a new trial in Eyre o. Dunsford,
was difcharged.
The cafe of Johnßon v. Sheddon, refpeaing the
mode of calculating an average lofs on a Policy of
Infuranee, is enlarged till the next Term.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
Mr. Gnus, on behalf of Mr. Burton, obtained
a Rule to (hew caufe why a Criminal Information
fhould not be filed againft Mr. Hitchins, for the
publication of a very grofs libel, totally void of
all foundation. Hitchins, who is a tradcfman,
living at Penzance, wrote a letter to the Admi-
ralty, timing, that two privateers in that neigh-
bourhood, had captured a number of valuable
merchantmen, defcribing himfelf as being in com-
pany with them, and that Mr. Burton, who was
the commander of a gun-boat, gave himfelf no
concern to prevent thole captures, and that his
conca& had proceeded from fomething worfe than
negligence. That letter was figned Thomas
Jones.' Thcre was no (itch perfon in that part of
the country. But it was proved that this letter
was the hand-writing of Hitchins. Mr. Nepcan
fent a copy of it to Mr. Burton, which excited his
furprize, and which he anfwered in a way that
was molt fatisfaCtory to the Admiralty, who had
furnilbed him with the letter itfelf for the purpofe
of profecating.
NORM ISQ:. V. ALLEN, KRQz.
This was an adion for Criminal Converfation,
which was tried at the Sittings after latt Term
for Weliminfter, before the LORD CHIRP JUSTICI
and a Special Jury, who, under his Lordfhip's
diredions, found a Verdi& for the Defendant.
Mr. ERSKINE, on the part of the Plaintiff, in
the courfe of the prefent Term, obtained a Rule
to Phew caufe why there (hould not be a new trial,
which came on to be argued to-day.
After the LORD Osier Jusvica had reported
the evidence given at the trial, he obferved, that
he Rated to the Jury that as in his opinion the
Plaintiff, Mr. Hoare, had been acceffary in gene-
ral
to the injury he had fullained, he could not
maintain that adion. He thought, as the huf-
band had contented to let his lady go from his
houfe at a moment when nothing better could be
expetted, and no friend est confidential fervant to
attend her ; his Lordllip thought he had delivered
her over to the adulterer.
The Counfel on both fides dtfplayed great abi-
lities in arguing this cafe; their arguments were
chiefly confined to the two grounds on which Mr.
ERSKINE obtained his Rule to (hew caufe why
there should not be a new trial. The &It of there
grounds was, that the LORD CHIRP Jusvics had
rejeded Como evidence, which, by the rules of
Law, he was bound to receive, and which, if he
had received, would have had a great efed on
the Jury ; and, fecondly, ftippoling the evidence
to be as it was, whatever effeet it might have on
the quaarear of the Damages, it did not juftify a
Verdi& for the Defendant.
After the arguments at the Bar were clofed,
the Court were of opinion, that as it did not apear
from the report of the Noble and Learned Judge
what precite evidence was tendered at the trial,
on that ground, and that ground only, it ought
to go on to a new trial. cl'he evidence of Major
COOK, who is fusee dead, is to be read on the new
trial from his Lordlhip's notes.]
When Mr. Easels' was contending that there I
was no evidence is this cafe to (hew that Mr. I

Hoare had delivered over his wife criminally to
the Adulterer,
Lord KENYON—" I think both fides wi(hed it
not to be In underftood, and both parties were
diffatisficd with the Verdict. I have no difficulty
in !living, for a hundred reafons, both parties
walled the Verdia to be otherwife."_ _

Mr. ERSKINE.—" I know no rcafon why the
Defendant fhould have willied the Verdia to be
otherwifc. The Plaintiff muft with it had been
otherwifc, hccaufe it loads Lila n ith dilhonour and
difgrace."—ltule abfolute.

WINDHAM, ESQ D. LORD WYCOMBE.
Mr GAKROW Hated that the trial of this caul*
had been already poltponed on account of the ab.
fence of a material witnefs on behalf of the De.
fendant, and which witnefs then relided in Paris—.
He was under the neceffity of moving thaiLit bet
further delayed on the fame reafon, for they had
not been able, hitherto, to get at that witnefs, al.
though they were not deficient in diligence; con.
fiderable difficulties arofe on the account of fomo
pat ports which were neccilary to be obtained in
this cafe.

Lord Kanyon faid, Mr. Garrow might take a
Rule to thew caufe; but he could not conceive
how the defendant was not ready, if ho had ufedl
proper diligence.