Star.
London, England, 1801-10-28 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH, 0 CT6BER zb.

Came in the CHAPMAN, of 24 guns, Captain
BROWN, from the weftward; the Ann, Capt. STMT.
TING, and Bellona, Capt. ZIELFSCH, from Rib;
Amphitrite, Capt. GROW, Hardys, Capt. HARDY,
and Aurora, Capt. MYN Eits,from Dantzick; Abra-
ham, Capt. HANSEN, and Four Brothers, Capt.
WIN TEN, from Longfound ; and the Serpent,
—; from Archangel; all laden with naval stores
for this Port.

HULL, OCTOBER 26.
On Friday a fleet from the Baltic arrived at this
port, under convoy of the P&IN ce WILLIAM armed
flip.
A fleet for the Baltic is now lying at Shields,
waiting for the convoy, which was appointed for
the t4th infant, but which has not arrived. They
are expedted to fail in a few days without one.

The Either, Captain DALE, of this port, belong.
ing to Mr. Collinfon, after a fevere wage from
Archangel of about eight weeks, is loft on the Sand
Hale, at the mouth of the Humber. The crew
are all arrived at Hull, but it is feafed that very
little of either fhip or cargo will be laved.

DISTRIEUTIOM or Pat za-MovEr.—To the COI-
, MORANT, a difiribution of the following prizes,
viz :—La Vrai Decide, Elizabeth Jane, and El
Batidor, will be made at No. 17, Cecil-ftreet, on
Friday the 3oth inftant.
Advices received this morning from Lord
CARDNER, at Cork, (late, that the Weft India
convoy under protedion of the TARTAR got fafe
out of Cork harbour on the loth inftant, with a
Very fair wind.
The report of the lofs of his Majefty's fhip tbc
MELAMPVS, 0E36 guns, Capt. GPORGE MOORP, 011
the Weft-India Ration, as mentioned in the Papers
of yefterday, is, we are happy to learn, unfound-
ed. Capt. Mooas has got leave to come to Eng-
land on account of his' bad Ilate of heall.l ; but
he left the MELAMPUS fafe, and the cre‘s all well
and in high fpirits.
Lan winter, when Upper Canada was covered
with fnow, a veil of So tons burden, completely
maned and rigged, was drawn by land from Chip.
paws to Queens town, being the diflance of ten
miles I

The convoy under the INSPECTOR (loop of war
arrived at Eltineur on the I 7th in(t.
All the (hips for the Baltic, that had arrived at
Elfineur, previous to the 17th int. had proceed-
ed ; thole for England were detained there wind-
bound.
The Hums, and PRINCE WILLIAM are to'take
the convoy from Ellineur for England, as loon
as the wind is fair.

The Variable, Boss, from Malaga to Ham-
burgh, with wine and oil, is fent into Yarmouth
by his Majefty's fhip 6Q/testi..

The greater part of the cargo of the Dairy-
Maid, SauHotas, wrecked in the Baltic, is laved.

The juftina, KNIGHT, from Clyde to Tortola,
was (poke with on the 17111 init. in lat. 49. 25 N.
long. 20 W. all well, by the Bernie, arrived in
the Downs.

The Diligent, MARSHALL, and Eolus, WALKER,
from Liverpool for Africa, were well in company
on the sth of Auguft, lat. 40. 30.

The Otter, HACK/try, and Beaver, BREW, were
wzll at Princes, lath July, bound for the Well-
Indies.

The Be!lona, Skaife, and Patty, Roa►wsow, for
Liverpool, which put back to Jamaica, are con-
demned. _ _ _ _ _

....
The Eliza, EVANS, from Minorca to Gibraltar,
is captured and carried into Majorca, where the
Largo is condemned,
The Carlifle, Rtarse from London to St.
Vincent's, is taken near Martinique, and carried
into Magaretta.
_ _ _

The brig Eagle, M.103..Eg and Polly, Borst,
both belonging to-Naffau, are captured by a French
privateer.
The Eliza, BELL, captured by a French priva-
teer, has been retaken by his Majefty's Chip Leas,
and is arrived at Jamaica.
The Endraught, Ear c KS, from Alicant to Ham-
burgh, with fait ; and the Concordia, Jetts, from
Hamburgh for Lifbon, with barley, are put into
Harwich, to repair fome damages received at fear
the former is put under quarantine.
The 6t. John, W. ()tram. from Newcaftle to
Peterfburgh, is reported to be on fhore on the
Ifland of Hogland.
The Difpatch, WALLAC it, of Workington, with
iron and hemp, from Peterfburgh, is on lhore at
Elfineur, and will be loft ; the cargo will proba-
bly be faVed, but with damage, as the hemp will
be wet.
The Refolution, Ettisorr, of London, from
Memel, is loft near Pratt° ; materials and cargo
expelled to be Caved.
The Orwell, Watt se, has p*t into Arundel to
repair, having (truck on a rock.
The Stephen, Pacer, from Peterfburgh, with
tallpw and mon, is loft on the the coaft of Norway , •
part of the cargo, it is hoped, will be laved.
The Hermit, SMIrK, of Liverpool, with fait, is
loft on Hogland in the Gulph of Finland.
The Carolina, URMSON, of Liverpool, from
Pernau, has been on fhore on Gothland, but was
got off and arrived at Elfinehr.
The Amiable Adele, CLEAS Lay, from London
to New York, foundered on the aoth of Septem-
ber, in long. 1 a ; crew Caved in the Sarah, Gear,
of Bolton.
The Tycho De Brache, —, from Dantzick
to Liverpool, is on fhore at Kirkwall.
The brig Dorothea Wilhelmina, Remelts, from
Hamburgh toCharlefton, it totally loft near Kirk-
wall; the Captain drowned.
The Kent, —, from London to the Cape of
Good Hope, is reported to be put into Rio Janeiro,
difmafted.
The George, Swim from Smyrna to London,
having touched ground, and had from eight to
ten feet water in the hold, is put back to Smyrna,
where the cargo is landed with codsderable
damage.

LAW. IN7 FL I.7GE ATE.

RICH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, DOCTOLS COMMOSS.

Yeflerday the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM Scorr
proceeded to the adjudication of the following flifps:
FREDERICK, Graham mafter.—This was
the cafe of an American (hip laden with a sargo of
pot-alb, tobacco, and various other articles, bound
on a voyage from New York to Dieppe, but at the
time of the feizure was (leering towards the port
of Havre, that port being in a (late of blockade ;
and the quellion was, whether there was an inten-
tion to violate the blockade of Havre ?

it was fubmitted on the part of the captors, that
notwithftanding the papers found on board the 'hip
held out Dieppe as the final deftination, that they
were falfe and colourable, and that Havre was the
intended port of dellination.
It was fubmittcd on the part of the claimants,
that although the bills of lading and invoices Rated
the deftinanon to be.the port of Dieppe, yet there
were inftruetions given to the mailer to inquire of
the Britifh cruiaers whether Havre was in Rate of
blockade ?

The Court raid, =fleeting all the circumflanees
together, and looking at the conebta of the parties,
it was clearly of opinion that there was a fraudu-
lent intention from beginning to end, and therefore
condemned both (hip and cargo.
EAGLCI - Perfevell molten—This was alto
a cafe of breach of blockade, but the Court not
being fatisfied with the evidence produced, ordered
further proof.

CLERKENWELL SESSIONS, OCTOBER 27.
BEFORE WILLIAMMAINWARING, ESOL

Henry Dutton, Wit Fenn, and others, were ih-
diaed for wickedly confpiring to rail'e the price of
fith, and with that view coming to London within
a thort distance of the Fills Market, with a fhip
load of eels, and difpofing of a part of the fame,
and carrying the remainder to fea, againti the
form of the statute.

This is an offence, founded on an old aft of Par-
liament, which fubjefts a (hip to forfeiture if the
Mailer brings a cargo to London, and, in order
to enhance the price, makes only a partial fale.

. . . -
The principal evidence to fupport the profecu•
tion was Butterfield, the informer.

Mr. ALLEY, on the part of the profecution,
Rated, that the offence kith which the Defendants
were charged, was one of a very ferious nature,
and for which, if it could be brought home to
them, they defervedthc utmoh punithmcnt which
the law could inert& It was no lefs an offence than
that of combining'to prevent the public from being
fupplied with the necefftties of life, in defiance of
a pofitive Aft of Parliament : and that at a time
when the labouring and induffrious poor wt:e
hardly able, by the utmoil exertion of .r in-
duftry, to fupply themfelves with the cc•:umone(l
food : there was, he Paid, an Aft of l'arliament,
which provided, that all flax brow-I.: to the Lon-
don market, should be fold in • '4. market, and
not fent away again unfold. was intlntaed t..
(late, that the two Defendar...s had, on a certain
day, caufed a Dutch veffel laden with eels, to he
fent away from Billingf, ate, and that in conic-
quence of their diratior. the veffel proceeded to
lea again. He was a--are of the difficulties at-
tending this profecutior., on account of the objet•
tion that might be made to the witneffese hut al-
though they were common informers, he infitled
they were not only entitled to credit, but that they
were ufeful people ; becaufe without them many
falutary laws could not be carried into effeft. Mr.
Alley then called Butterfield.
Mr. Serjeant BEST laid, that before this witnefs
was examined, he hoped he Ihould be able to (hew,
that he was wholly unworthy of credit, and that
in point of law, his evidence could not be admit-
ted. The learned Serjeant then produced a Re-
cord, and other evidence, by which it appeared
that feveral years ago, this Butterfield had been
tried at Lewes for receiving money under falfe.
pretences, found guilty, and fentenced to three
years confinement in the houfe of correftion.—
This convietion he thought was fufficient in point
of law, to render his evidence inadmillihle ever
after.

The Record of the Indilment wss produced,
proved, and read. It was an indiament in the
comity of Suifex, againit the defendant, by the
name of Hedgely, alias Hedley, alias Butterfield,
alias Jones, for falfely pretending to a petfon of
the name of Holden, that he was concerned as
Attorney, or Clerk to the Attorney, carrying on
a penal aaion againft him for an infringement of
the Turnpike Al, and by fuch falfe pretence ob-
taining from him 41. to compound it. The record
then hated the conviaiou and judgment.
The Keeper of the Houle of Corration at Lewes
proved that the wieners had been imprifoned from
July to January, at which time he was removed
from his office, and that he afterwards faw the
witnefs at large. He was pc-Waive the perfon in
the box was the fame man. -
Mr. Atter contended that this charge was not
a fpecies of the cristenfay at common l.tw, on the
convielion of which the haute of Henry VIII. ren-
dered the party an incompetent w itners.
Mr. Serjeant BEST argued the contrary.
Mr. MAINWARING decided that the at of ob-
taining money by a lie, for which the party was
afterwards conviaed and punifhed, did not dcflroy
his admitlibflity as a witnefs, but only went to im-
peach the credibility of his tellimony.
The witnefs then dcpofed that he was a common
informer, and had particularly direacd his atten-
tion to the detcaion of offences againft the Fills
'Mt. The Defendant Dutton was a broker, and
the Defendant Fenn a Mb falefman. He then pro-
ceeded to Rate that the fhip in which they were
interefted came to Billingfgate with a cargo of
eels, part of which only were difpofed of, and the
ref were carried down the River, and thence to
fea ; in proof of this, he hated that he bailed her
as the patted Gravefend, and enquired what the
had got on board? and was anfwered by one of the
tailors, Only a parcel of eels."
Mr. MAINWARING was of opinion, that the mere
d2claration of a tailor, in reply to fuch a quellion,

"was not fußicient evidenee on Which to Conviet fh
m Liter of the veffel; confequently the prolecut,on
was Ropt, and the Defendants acquitted.
An attempt had been previoufly made, on the
-Part of the Profecutor, to put off the trial, on ac-
count of the abfence of material witneffes; but the
affidavit not being fufficiendy explicit, the appli-
cation was refufed.
Asset, crs.—A coachman was tried for affault-
ting two Officers belonging to an Eaft Indiaman.
It appeared that the Defendant had been tent for
to I3lackwall, to convey the Profecutors to Lon-
don, but when be came from his Rand to the Ind
where they were, the waiter privately cautioned
him againft taking their trunks, left they fhould
contain fmuggled goods ; becaufo if they did and
were difcovered his coach would be forfeited.—
Upon receiving this caution the coachman refufed
to take the Profecutors, smith they would under-
take to idemnify him for the air he was about to
run. They would not Wien to this propofal, and
he then demanded two fhillings for having his
coach called away from the Rand, and for his loft
of time ; a difpute enfued ; the Profecutors refufed
to pay and the Defendant feized each of them, and
tore the waificoat of one ; this was held to be an
affault ; for which the Jury found the Defendant
Guiky : and he was fentenced to be imprifoned for
fever; days. _ __ _ _

Robert. Hearn and his wife were indiEled for af-
faulting Mary Dolphin, who was in her turn in-
dieted for affaulting them. There being crofs
dielments, both parties were admitted to give evi-
dence againfi each other. Mrs. Dolphin Paid fhe
kept a chandler's fhop, that the went one morning
to collett fome (mall debts, and calling upon Mrs.
Hearn to afk for tome money, the was received by
her in a very uncivil manner, and ftruck violently
and pufhed out of doors by her and her huf.
band. On the other hand Mrs. Hearn fwote that
this troublefome tteighbour of hers, called at het
door in a very infolent manner, at a time when
the had hardly recovered from her lying in, that
when the faw her, the (Mrs. Dolphin) called het
a jlut, and ftruck her a violent blow in the face.
The Jury found all the parties Guilty : and they
were fentenced to pay a fine of ten pounds each.
Hannah Brabant and Maria Beckham her daugh.
ter were tried for affaulting two young women of
the name of Whiteway, the daughters of a pub-
lican who lived near them. It appeared that a
great animofity exited between all the parties ;
which at laa broke out in open violence by Mifs
Beckham throwing a quantity of flop water, to-
gether with the utenfil which contained it, at Mifs
Elizabeth Whiteway, as the happened to pafs by
the other's door ; and it etas done as if it had hap-
pened by accident. rlis pr..)cluced a battle in
which the two fill*— s un the one fide were engagti
with the mother and daughter on the other; and
after the parties had torn each others caps and
:lulled each others hair, the prefent prolecution
was commenced. The mother and daughter be.
ins the fir( affailants, were found
nsingk !I was indiCted for affaulting and
bating a worn. In with who ahe had lived. It ap.
peered he had fufrefted 1 er fidelity, and bad there-
fore pulled her out of red by the hair of her head,
and treated herkith extreme feverity.

The Court obferved, that, although h was a
difputc between w—e and rogue, the latter had no
right to affume the privilege of correBion by tiring
violence. He was fentenced to pay a fine of. I.
and find fureties for his good behaviour for twelve
months.