Star.
London, England, 1804-04-28 00:00:00

AUTIC IL IPITELLICEIVCS.

MAILS THIS DAY.--Wlnd South.
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Waterford g i Llfbon

FALMOUTH, APRIL 25. •-• Arrived this day the
Wallin ham packet, Roofers, in :3 days from Lit
bon : file brings the melancholy account of the 101 l
of his Majefty's Thip Aroxi.o, of 38 guns.Captaift
DixoN, and about 4o fail of the outward bnond Welk
India fleet, which left Cork on the 26th March Wt.
and they were loft on the morning of the zd inftant,
near Figuera : the whole fleet confifled of about 7o
fail, under convoy of the ApoA.o and Caarstorr
frigates ; the latter, with the heavy fhips anent. were
fortunate enough to cake in time, and to 'land off,
by which they efcaped. We are forry to add that
Captain Duos, with the greateft part of the-crews
of the other vefTels, have perilhed ; Come of their car-
goes it is expeCted will be Paved, but the greater rut
will, it is fuppofed, be loft. It is much feared that
the Lord Charles Spencer packet, COATSBWORTH,
with Mails from the Leeward Iflands, has fallen into
the hands of the enemy, as fine has been due there
three weeks paft. We learn that among the weals
loft were the fcllowing : 22 belonging to Greenock;
the Ark, Perfeverance, Hanover Planter/ Neptune,
Brian', Friendfhip, and Nancy of Briffol ; and the
Ship Atlantic, and Peggy brig. Wind S. W.
PLYMOUTH, Areit 26.—Letters from the fqua-
dron off the Black Rock nate, that the bliceinestur,
of 74 guns, lately wrecked on a funken rock, fell off
that Rock, and had only eleven feet water on it at
high water, and funk upon Come other funken rocks
only (even feet under water ; the went all to pieces.
and the whole coati round there is covered with the
floating remains of the pieces of her hull, mafls,yards,
and rigging. The enemy have luckily made no ad-
vantage of her (totes, &c.

PoatSMOUTH, APRIL. 2 7.—Sailed the Faccon
venue cutter, with the Eatt Indiamen, South Sea-
' men, &c. under convoy for the Downs. The MI.
NORCA cotter, with fevcn fail of armed tranfports
which failed hence, have pin into Cowes, where they
yet remain. His Majedy's (hip ALstoti is appointed
convoy for Guernfey. Attired the Kona Grottos
cutter, with difpatches from the Commanding Officer
off Havre, dating the efcape of fevcral gun veffels
which go along (bore with impunity, their being no
fmall veffels either on that flition or at Cherbourg to
intercept them. Wind &. W.

YARMOUTH, APRIL 27.—This morning arrived
the Imsrscroa floop of war, with a large Swedifts
veiTel, laden with merchandize from Riga, bound
to Spain.—Sailed the Canso& gun brig, and Farms.
airs cutter, on a cruize. The [hips of war here are
the STATELY, Admiral Russ's. ; Rats
captain MALCOLM , RATLII and INSPECTOR Hoops.
and ALIRT and HUNTER cutters.

The prefs is very (harp in there roads, and 2 num-
ber of ufeful hands have been added to the Navy.
Wind S. W. firong breeze.

FROM LLOYD'a LIST.

DEAL, APRIL al—Came down from Sheernefs the Crean!
frigate • alto from Woolsack', the Lucifer bomb, and tannin in
the Downs with the Monarch, Utrecht, Williams, Trufty. Ve-
teran, Ardent, and the Regulus men of war; l'immortalito.
Champion, Leda, Junaica, Squirrel. Euryalus. la Chtffonne, and
la Virginie frigates; Dart, Harpy, Oreftes, and the Wafp floope
of war; Tartarus, Fury. Difeovery, Sulphur, Vefuvius' and
Perfeus bombs ; Jackal, Archer, Mariner, Load!, and Starling
ps.brip; fermi tuggers; one armed Revenue cutter; Wal-
thamftow Ea !Warman, and a large Beet of outward•bound
veffels.

Oaavracito, Aram 27,—Sailed the Lubec paeket,Wiekbam,
for Mriea ; Ann, Fenwick, for Barhadoet ; William Pitt, Aber.
cromhie, for Tobago ; Hope, Gray, Mr Luncrick ; Ambulate.
Otthell,fiu Elfuxur • Twe Gebroders, Swart, for Catwyek ; Han.
mony, Bryd; aid Aurora, }Corr, for Varra.
. .

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Asa re eo—At Liverpool,the Forbes,Tumbull ; and theCwen.
Forbes, from Demarara, loft from Scilly—la I.filtitebooth Roads,
Pon Mary, —. from Zante—At Cork, Alidia, Silva, from St.
Übe's; and the Prince Frederick, from Dratn—At Clyde.
George, Panic, from Charieflown ; and the Mercury, Eddingtan.
from New York—At Honduras, Sprightly Hooper, front Jamaica.
and the Barbara, Leigh, from Philadelphia—.At the Hand of Do-
folation, Bellona, Munro, from Loodun—At Bengal, Windham,
Graham, from Madras—At Hull, Jonge Norman, Porten, from
Charente—At Cork, Honor, Chriarnas. from London.
One of the Newfoundland convoy, taken by the Blonde, is re-
taken by a Gormley privateer, and carried into Oporto.
The Snterprize, /Anion, from Newbevy Port to the Well In-
dies, was loft the ad of March.

"111- Chip Virgiina, Dickfon, of Baltimore, has been rowed into
Bermuda.

The Laurel, Blacket, from Bengal, is on bore, and hilted, at
the entrance of Salem harbour.
The VrAv Gertrude, Gnra, failed front Gravefend tbe Toth of
Novemtcr laft, for Roftock, ai.d has no: finer been heard of

1 he Curitent, Watko, tram Charleston to Jamaica, hat bcen
taktn, retaken, andearried into 1221.11C3.
Ti.e Lark, Swan, from VUaiiia to Jamaica, was WA MY He-
neaie the tiSth of February.

The Tkomac., Cobb, from Virgil.% to Jamaica, was chafcd on
fhore on flencage the cth of F6Drulre.

.
I he Tnuomit-
, Joh nitorte, biew Ilrunfw ick, was burnt in Ja-
nuary La.. at King ion, Jarna,ca.
xtraet of a letter tram Captain Brown. of the ittar;etfhire Fait
Inti.aman,d d C..nton. Sept. 19 wre overt..ken lap a
t vphon in the Chico fras ; tb: COUtti airmard ; the
W.rh. y h.lt her rhiz.. n mart ; lad IL i, I,IU cd the lit.wg:,tutt, cowl.
tr) l.. 1„ La. fout,l..tel-

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1 be I! rer tl, r,.Cr.tbam, from C,wk. for the Weft Indies,
which , rto toL.I uf off I .1.1111 uth by al: Chrtitt,Lus, 11 4
la-fertt d by hcr Lrrw, h.. heti, found •,flC,c N!Att.

Lzyr alum, St lb y It um Q.lj,llcc, fur Jamaica, las beca
:atcn, rctalccn, and arrirci A London.

A letter received by the J.tmAica mail afTerts that
we f4tlcd in the attempt on Cur.tc.,.4. The following
la An extract Irons the letter, which is timed the t a tti
l'qa:ch, from Kungiton
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of l.n Illudri ms Uock, c-mr,lr LI from his film
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 27.

DBARIN V. ItiLtY.

This was an anion to recover a compenfatinn in
damages for breach of promife of marriage, the
Defendant having broken fuch promife by marrying
another woman.
Mr. Serjeant COMM, in his opening, Rated that
the Plaintiff, Mrs. Deakin, was a refpedable wo-
man, refiding in Birmingham, the widow of a man
who long bore an excellent charader, while employ-
ed as a guard to the Shrewfbnry mail-coach. The
Defendant carried on the hufinefs of a cabinet.
maker and upholfterer in the fame place, and fre-
quently suited at Mrs. Deakin's houfe after the death
of her hufband. In the courfe of Inch vifits he pre-
tended to feel an attachment, and propofed marriage.
Mrs. Deakin had no children, and there was hut little
difference between her age and Riley's, who was
about twenty-feven. As the polfeffed fome pro-
perty, he advifed her to add it to what he had, and
with the whole he would carry on the upholftery
tufinefs to their mutual advantage. Mrs. Deakin,
who took frame time to confider of his offer, faid (be
had no nbjedion to comply, and if he really was
ferious, (he would make application to her trnftee
to regulate and difpofe of her property, fo that they
might at together. An agreement being made to
that draft, they commenced living together as man
and wife; her goods were fold, the money was
given to the defendant, and the marriage ceremony
was only pretreated in confentienee of his afferting
that a temporary inconvenience prevented him from
immediately making the affair known to his family.
It was neceffary (the Learned Counfel obferved) to
pence, as this part of the Plaintiff's character would
Ito cenfured by the Counfel concluding the defence ;
if, however, fhe was blameable in too eafily fob.
slitting to live with the Defendant, her character.
before the became conflated with him, was as fair
as any woman's could be. After the defendant bad
lived with her fame time, the became pregnant, and
in that fiination he left her, on finding he could marry
to more advantage. The promife of marriage
would be proved by evidence ; alio that the unfor-
tunate woman's property had been fold, with other
fads, upon which the Jury could apt fan to give
their verdict for the plaintiff.
Richard Harrifon being
stalled, faid, he was a
bair.dreffer at Birmingham; he knew Mrs. Dea-
kin,s bulband—be was guard to the Shrewfbury
Stull. and bad a houfe by the Dog Inn, Binning.
ham, where Mrs. Deakin became a widow on the
tath of May,. am About the latter end of An-
sa, tit the beginning of September, in the fame
year, the defendant, Jofeph Riley, came to withers,
and eked to (peak with him, before Mrs. Deakin,
*Udine o'clock that afternoon, at her houfe; be
Ecordingly went, and Riley faid to him, in the
rtilrof Mrs. Deakin, s, Do you know I am go-
oct marry Mrs. Deakin ?" Witaefs (aid, he did
not. Racy replied, lam going to marry her. and
will marry her." Winters atked, when they would
Slurry, Riley (aid, that on account of a difference
between him and his finer, who was averfe to the
snatch, he could not marry then, but would in a
Bunt time. A converfation then took place refpee•
log Mrs. Deakin's property. She had a houfe well
furnithed ; and it was propofed to witnefs, who was
Meet of her property, that the furniture, lice. Ihonld
be immediately fold, and the money given to Riley
'to pot into trade; the goods were accordingly
(old by Mr. Smith, an auctioneer, and the money
procured in confainence amounted to 171. The
linan and china of Mrs. Deakin were all the had left,
and Riley had expreffed the greattft hurry to have
the things difpofed of. Shortly after, witnefs received
Mrs. Deakin into his houfe. She teas then with
child, and remained with him during her lying-in.—
Jitney tiled to vifit her, and the child, by his order,
nes chtillened at St. Philip's church. The nurfe
em alto paid by him till after Chrifimas, about which
time Riley was married to Mifs Jane Evans, whom
witnefs defcribed to be a rid; broker's daughter, of
Worcelter•areet, Birmingham. Mrs. Deakin being
deprived of her houfe and goods, went to live as fer-
vent with a lady named Weady, afterwards to the
Dog tavern in Spiceallftreet, where (he lived when
the defendant Int became acquainted with her, and,
finally, lodged in the honk of a married man
named Palmer, in which &nations the witnefs had
no opportuntty of ohkrving any improper behaviour
on her part. On crofs-examination, witnefs laid
the child was born in April 5803, and that Mrs.
Deakin was fituated in a profitable employment at
the Dog tavern, whtn her hufband died, in May,
s Bos.
This was the only evidence adduced.
Mr. Serjeant Beer, in behalf of the defendant,
contended, that the charader of the Plaintiff ought
to prevent the Jury from giving credit to the cafe
as made out; it was only Supported by one witnefs,
brought ssc) miles from the country. The caufe
might have been tried in Warwickfhire, if the party
bringing the action had not been afraid of being
known to the Jury a% a perfon of bad character.
The condud of the Plaintiff, in forming the con-
nation flue had &Ate, within a month after the
death of her hulhand, ought to imprefs upon the
Jury, that the was not entitlecbto bring the prefent
anion ; and, if they flinuld he inclined to give a vet.
did to the plain:iff, the damages could not be too
trivial.
witneffes were called for the Defendant.
Mr. Juflice Rolls r fu:T.nied up -the evidence, and
laid he was difpofed to exprefs a fentitnent, which
he had early imbibed, ref-pc:tiny cruces fimilar to
the prefent, namely, that the In in who inttigues for
money is guilty of an offey:e. Th^ de-
fendant had taken the plainti!l'i. pr.( petty, and there-
by prevented her from procuring her Evetilio•id in the
fame decent manner in •%.!..ch fa, lived ashen he fait
knew her. It was a deliberate and iinmimiy part, to
reduce a woman to the f.tilation in which the plain-
tiff flood. 'nitre was Ilt,titing in her condo.? to Ler
difcredit, cleept the grotinds on which the aiftion was
brought; and if the pity believed the witnt.i., who
had coadueed himfeli prrperly, and told a prtb.thic
Rory, they snuff find a verdiq I,w the Plaintiff. and
give her foch damages as they thought adequate to
the injury (he had fu gained.
k The Jury, after a (bout deliberation, found for tl.c
Plaintiff--datnagcs i;cl.