Star.
London, England, 1802-06-09 00:00:00

EAST-INDIA SHIPPING.

Yefterday a Court of Dirators was held at the
Eaft India Heufe, for the purpofc of opening the
numerous packets received from Bombay by the
fix Slips we yefterday had the pleafure of Rating
to have been parted with by the FRIENDSHIP off
St. Helena.

la addition to the (hips already mentioned to be at St. He-
lm, are the Admiral Gardner and Windham, from China.
The Ganges, from Bombay, had arrived in China.
The Royal Admiral, from Botany Bay and China, was left
by the China (hips (arrived at St.Helens) on the 26th of March,
going to the Cape of Good Hope.
The following Paffengers are arrived from India
on board the undermentioned (hips, viz.
Per MILT CAITLZ—Mrs. 'Labelle Nafh, Lieutenant Co-
lonel Cumine, of his Majefty's yste regiment ; Mr. Laplain ;
Mrs. Elisabeth Laplain ; Matter John Laplain ; I .leutenant B.
W. Ferrabee, of his Majefty's 84th regiment; Lieutenant J.
C. Brownrigg, of the 86th ditto ; Mr. Julius Naib ; and Malice
Reins.
Per LORD HAWIR3IIVRT....MiI. COtkrall, Mr. Party, Philip
Duna*, Efq. James Smith, Efq. Philip Bewick, Ell. and Lieu-
teuant Alexander Forbes.
Per FORT WlLLlAm.—Robett Taylor, Efq. of the Civil Ser-
vice • Celine! J. Champagne, of his Majefty Both regiment;
Caftln M. W. Can, ditto; Colonel John Little (died the 18th
March), Mrs. Jane Taylor, Mils Cordclla Savilc, Matter
Thomas Carnac, Matter Adamfon, Matter Taylor, Matter
A. Taylor, and Matter Drummond.
Per Peon tax.—Mrs. Wren and Child, Lieutetiant Morfe,
Mr. H. S. Pearfon, Mr. A. H. Yanfittart, Lieutenant Smith ;
Captain Macrae, of the Both regiment ; Mr. F. W. Elliot, Mrs.
Sartorius and two children. _ _ _

Per Woaccrrsit.—WllEam Page, Efq. Mr.. Page and fix
children, Colonel Mignan, Mrs. Mignan and three children,
Colonel Romney, Captain William Room, Mrs. Allen, and
Matter George Brown.
Per ROCRINCHIAILLieII tenant Colonel Marthal and Lady;
Colonel Wilton.° ; Majors Grant and Larnittan ; Captains
Stephenton, and lohnfon ; Lieutenant Dyfai, Mrs. Bil-
lamore, and Mrs. Wardnigton.

The Non* Zellatta, from the Streigths, for Amfterdam, has
been brought Into the Downs by the Deal boatmen, after being
on (bore on the Goodwin Sands.

The Rhoda, Seidman, from Nevreaftle for Wlfmar, is on
more on the coal of Jutland.
The Aurora, Hum, from Jamaica, arrived, in the River,
(poke, en the 28th of May, in lat. 46. long. 27. the Lady Ho-
bart Packet, bound to America.

The Ocorge, Appleby, is loft on the coaft of Lincolnfhire.
The Irel4, Starre, from Malaga to Stockholm, has been ran
foul of at tie back of the Inc of Wight, and fince put on more at
Cowes.

The Aftrea, of /3ofton, bound to the Weft Indies, is loft on
Cape Codd.

The Well India merchants, after feveral inter-
views with. the Minifier, have declined prcffing for
a diminution of the duty upon raw fugar, (nice it
would have become neceffary to have adopted, as
a flibilitute, a heal)), excite upon the refined article.
Extra& of a letter from an Officer, dated Si-
mond's Town, Cape of Good Hope, March 20.--
'• I take the advantage of the Friendlhip faiiing
from this Bay, to inform you of the following
extraordinary dircorery recently made by Dr. So.
m Eavit.i.s and Mr. DAN tau. There Gentlemen,
after travelling about 300 hours from the Cape,
or, as we fuppofe, about Soo Englifh miles, in a
nearly N. E. ditalion, which wuuld bring them
vtithin about two degrees of the Tropic, came to
the capital of the Baitz'tanas, containing about
tgoo houfes and 7oo.:, inhabitants; the name of
this city is Liketow. Betides a variety,- or, per-
haps, a new fpecies of Rhinoceros, no lefs than
four animils of the Antelope and Bovine genus,
hitherto undefcribed, have been difcovered; among.
which, one is (fated to be allied to the Gnos, and
another, in fome degree, to the Hartebutt I
a We are all here in anxious expeaation of the
arrival of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, the Pre-
liminaries of which had been figned before the
gurydice left England ; it is probable the troops
will fail from hence to-the Eatt

COURT MARTIAL.

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HELD AT THE ROYAL It OLLEOE OF CHELSEA, UPOI
LIEUTENANT GENERAL HARRY ;NNE', OF HIS MA-
JESTY'SCHATHAM DIVISION OF MARINES. •
FIRST DAY—SATURDAY, jut:B*s.
There were two ddtitict ehtrei s The firft went
to accufe the General of filfe mutters; the next was for dit-
charging Serjant Wm. Penn, of th:: Chatham Divifion of Ma..
rives from his Majelty's Service, without the previous permit'. '
fun of the Lords Crumniffioners of the Atlntiraky, at whore
initance this prof.eution was ingituted.
In rapport of the first charge, thepropaofileerwho bald the
check book, the Adjutant of tha Divitioa, and others, were
called, whd proved that all crrtor, either wilful or othersel;e, • •
appeared upon the face ni the mutter books, and that thereby
time very hnall gums of money had been charged to the ac-
count of the Public. which ought nut to have beer. fo charged.
But no the crufs-exarninatiun of there feveral r_rfoos, it didnot
arpear that theelefendant could denve any advantage therefrom,
and that the ac'eounts were merely prefented to him pro forma,
a; Commanding OBleer, to lign than in the common enorfe
and hurry of bufinefs ; and that Lives* Waal and cuftomary fur
talkers of his rank and Ration to depend for the 3c:wavy of the
mutter,. wholly upon thole Individuals whofu mere immediate
duty it was to akertain that they were cowed.
In fupport of the fecund charge, St rjear.t Penn himfelf yeas
called, who Rated, that he was difcharged from the fee vice, as
mentioned in the fecund charge. On his ernfretainination he
laid it was by Lis own earncft wllh he was fo difcharged, hay.
ing ferved the King 24 years, wanting one month ; and that be
was &Emus of returning to private fife, and potting the line
of bu finefs he was originally intended for; and, farally,that be
gave neither fee or reward, silre,ft.lfor indirectly, tc, any patou
vinatfoever, much lefs to Genet?l inne!,l4 his Mange.
The evidence on the part of the Foil-mutton being finiftard,
,be General addrelfed the Court, requelltuglime to be prepared
with his defence, adding, that as he had lived tinfulited; to he
wcedd die, he t tufted, preferving his honour without repro -4.14
and I is innocence manifeft to the world.

The Court wa. here ordered to be cleared, and 'her fame
time deliberating the defendant was ordered in and informed, •
thlt th: Court would hear him in his defence on :rudder. •
sECnND PAY.—TIVESDAYrjUNI 8.
At cleven.o'clock this day ;he Court affembled, and the Cher
rtzral, from. a written paper, read his defence; the purport
whereof was, That he had (erred his Maj:fty a, a faithful Of-
fi:cr, forty-(even years; that if, during that long period, fir
had achieved nothing of magnitude, or of fOrmdour, yet he
executtd every truft, and performed every defy committed
t ) him, in all refpedts as became a 13:itifla Oth.er. Hr lament-
e I, af:er fueh alit-vice, that, at hi. time of iite, h • fhou;d be
br light t.) a Court Martial, and that too upon the 4cci, Cajon of
G urge Jevrfir, a man who eloped from the ferviee with
of ,he m. n.y of the Chatham Divilion of Marines in polleition,
w.rh an intent of gang to America with it, when he was pre-
vented by being apprehended at Liverpoo I,je ft at the moment he
wa about to embark, tried for the off, nee, and fentincel to re
ceive Soo lathes, and brilruntmed out of the Service. He re.
timed sso lathes of his pnniftunent, and the Lords of the Ad-
m'ea:ty having interpofed as to the remainder, be, the General,
expr.ffe,l a content that the reit, except the ignominious part,
might be difpenfed with, and be was accordingly drummedent
of ~.:hatham, and the three towns, with a halter about his neck.
" This was the man," fad the General, " who Iltygefted the
information againft mc." And as to the firft part of the charge
he denied all intention of wronging the Public ;.and declared,
as was Rated by one of the witneffes, that he could not derive
the ftualleft advantage by loch co dolt. Hefurther obfervcd,
in his defence to the fecond charge, that 3erfeant Win. Penn
was a molt defervinm Officer, bad ferved nearly 24 years, v 7
cminently ferviecabre in quelling the mutiny in 5797,1nd upon
that occafion rectivA a reward of 6cl. from the Gentlemen at
Lloyd's, and the approbation of the Admiralty. He concluded
an animated appeal to the Court with laying, that his honour,
dearer than his life, lay in their hands, and he felt confiknt in
their julllee and judgenian.--He caU d Earl St. Vincent to ftste
a convcrfation that happened at the enairalty in Odober left,
between the General and him, refpcdting the difchatge of W.
Penn, part of which his Lordfhip only could remember, but
he recolleffied that he approved of every thing done in behal
of any perfon who had taken an salve part to quell mutiny,
and fa far generally he might have iacluded,'without being able
to fay he ranctnbered the name of Penn being particularly
mentioned.

Mr. Nrpean was interrogated chiefly by the Court, andmore
especially by General Coyne, (who put leading queft",ons),
as to the profecution Veit; when he Rated, that inforlitafion
being fent to the Admiralty of Life multers, flgned by George
Jcwfon, they were r,f.rrecl to the then Attorney and Solicitor
Gmcral, and to, the Counfel for the Admiralty, who gave it as
their opinion, that a profecution ihould be inftituted agalnft
Colonel Berkeley, and that the prefent trial proceeded from
t'ie minutes taken on Colonel Berkeley's trial. Mr. Nepean
Rated other matter, which went fully to eitablifts the Gene-
ral's good concludt and charadter, and the high opinion the Ad-
Infiniti entertained of him, But that the profecution wan M-
it/tined from the paramount claim of public utility, and an equal
and confcientious difcharge of that duty which the Public had
called LIPOII them to p,:riorm, and front no difrefpedt to the
General hiinfelf.
Mr. C. Bricknell, in a manner that did him equal credit,
gave a BlM:at tdtimony ; and the evidence for the defence, a,
well as for the Profecution, being doled, the Court ohs cleared,
that the members Wain determine on their verdiet.
The Sentence, though agreed upon, cannot be as yet known.
It mutt first be fent to the Admiralty, and afterwards truant:-
ted to the Sovereign for his fandion. It cannot be pubiloy
known in left than three or four days.

The Counters of GALLOWAY'S Rout on Monday
night was very numeroutly attended. Among the
company were
The Ducheffes of Beaufort, Manchefter, Montrore. and two
Rutlands; Marchioneffes of Exeter, Bath, and Heatifort
Counteffes of Malmcibury, Beicrley, Albemarle, M.:aborough,
Macclesfield, Sutherland, C-arlille, Dyfart, Uxbridge, Rothe,; .
and Ladies Carrington, M. Duncan, Suffield, Spencer, Somers,
Down, L. Manners, Dundas, Dorchcfter, S. Ryder, S. Percy,
C. Forrefter, Hamilton, E. Talbot, three Thynnes, Cranle7,
Deering, Clements Milbank, Sinclair, Crofton, Auckland, C. .
Bligh, F. Somerfet;Tankerville, C. Harris, two Afhburuhatus,
Madame Requiter, &c. &e.

DILLETANTI TH EAtßE.—Laft night there was
an elegant Ball, preceded by two entertaining Pro-
verbs, called Le l'enf, and L'Enragi. Mr. SH
it MAN'S beautiful Monody on the' Death of GAR-
RICK was alfo delivered; and Mailer CURITr eK-
ercifed his admired abilities on the piano•forte with
the happiea effe6.
A party of French Ladies and Gentlemen of
dillinetion have engaged the DilletantiTheaire, and
are to perform, on Wednefday next, a French
Comedy, add the charming Opera of Camille.
The Officers of the Guards who performed with
fo much applaufe at Chatham, will, on the t zth
inn. ad You tic's celchrated Tragedy of The Re-
venge, with the ..eVrehliee.
The above Societies are wholly detached fiorn
the At-Nicz.

The Levee on the Ktac's Birth• Day at Dublin
Cattle, was very numeroufly attended, the amia.
ble chara6ter and jult popularity of their Excellen-
cies, combining with the annual occalion. to in-
♦ite the complimentary tribute of all who unite to
a love of their Sovereign an anxiety for the public

Amongft the other entertainments intone= of
his ESEY'S Birth-dAy, in Dublin; there was a,
Perform:we at the Theatte, to the Boxes of which;
With that 'gallantry fe,r which the Irith tharatier
has ever been remarkable, the Ladies were admit-
ted ratit. The play was The Heir a Law—with
The Prise; both of which were our at to o'clock.

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