Star.
London, England, 1805-06-10 00:00:00

DIVIDENI3S.

June 22. Jahn Dumas, of Catherine-court, TOIMT Hill, Loudon,
(hip broer, dealer and chapman, at twelve, at Guildhall.
June as. Chiba Farmer Sadler, of Morella, mercer, at ten, at
the King's Head Inn. Mueller.
Jane 29. Menne= Marlton, of Walbrook, London, merchant,
at tea, at G
June 29. William Barrett, of Broad-ftrect, Laotian, merchant. at
one, at Guildhall.
jou as. William Tate the elder, and William Tate the younger
botb of Findon, Suffer, thriberaterchants and copartners, at tcn
at Guildhall, I.ontloo.
June as. Thomas Luton, of Packwood, Warfricklkire, mercer,
• at deven at the Black Swan luo,Watwkk.
June 24. JiCepb Bra.dby, late of Wilton, Wilts, timber-merehaot
at one, u the Red Lion lea. New Sarum
June as. William Selma, late of Chriftopher-ftreet. Pinfbury.
Nast; Middlefer, marabou and Outer, deafer and eluipmas,
Pt 2021. as Guildhall
June 29. John Laurie. of Brentwood) Era, draper, dealer and
alarm, at tan, at Gu'idiall.

Slit HOME PopRAM:

FIRST REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE, RELATING
l'O Slit HOME POPHAM, Re.
The 5e1.39. Commitlee to whom the feveral Papers prefented to
this Houle, radii% to the repairs of his Majefty's Rips the
Romney and Scadsle, while under the command of Sir Home
Popham, are referred, to examine into the fevetal matters con-
tained therein relative to the fad repairs, and to tho proceed-
ings of the Admiralty and Navy Baanls and of the Commif-
finners of Naval Enquiry thereupon; and alfo to enquire into
the circuniftance• attending the publication of the Report of
the Navy Board, dated the tcth February, IEO4, and into the
lofs of certain vouchers and documents on which that Report
was founded; and alto into the eircumllonce attending the im-
preffing of Mr. David Ewen Butholontew; and to report the
fame, together with thoir proceedings and obfervations there-
upon, from time to time, to the Houle; and who were em-
powered to examine inm the expenditure and purchafe of all
lions fur the de of the laid Os'pt.; here, purfuant to the raid
Order of the Houle, examined accordingly; and hart: agreed to
the following Rt ;ort
Your Committee havingtaken into coafideration that
part of the refertence which relates to the repairs and
Mores of the Romney and Sent%le, find, front the
papers referred to them, and the evideme they have
received, that there does not appear any ground
whatever to impute to Sir Home Popham any fraud,
or connivance at any fraudulent or corrupopradice
v:hatfoever.
With refpeet to the Senfible, your Committee oh-
ferve, that Sir Home Popham appears to hare or-
dered that (hip to proceed to Calcutta from the Red
Sea (inltead of finding her to be repaired at Bom-
bay), for the purpofe of fun:jibing a convoy to feve-
ral tranfports and merchantmen bound to Bengal ;
that he gave to her Commanding Officer, Captain
Saufe, at Calcutta, orders, dated the t tth of Odo-
ber, 18ot, " to ufe his utmott exertions to repair the
faid flip," and " to complete her with fix months
!Lewes;" and that Captain Saufe having never re-
joined him after the execution of thofe orders, Sir
Home Popham cannot be confidered anfwerable for
the manner in which they were executed. Your
Committee du not mean, by this remark, to impute
any blame to Captain Saute, not having confidered
.any tranfadion relating to the Senfible, as the fob-
jed of the reference made to them, further than as
fuch tranfaelion could be connected with the conduet
of Sir Home Popham.
Your Committee obferve, that Sir Home Pop.,
ham appears to have gone on fhore, from the Rom. '
ney, a few days after her arrival in the river Hughly,
in Augull t Sot, and before her arrival at Maya-
pour ; and to have proceeded up the country, in
compliance with the defires of Marquis Wide),
(with whom he was fpecially directed by his inftruc-
tions to communicate) for the purpofe of conferring
with his Lordfhip concerning certain great objects
then in contemplation, in which Marquis Wellefley
required his advice and of:finance ; that he left that
fhip under the command of the Firn Lieutenant; Mr.
Davies, an officer in whole integrity and knowledge
of the fervice, he Rates himfelf to have had the ut-
molt confidence; and that he diJ not return on board
the Romney, till after that fhip had failed from May-
, apour ; it appears, therefore, to your Committee,
that if the fail, iv-A dotes of the Romney, lent on
fhore at Calcutta, were not regularly Purveyed before
they were condemned (a point which your Commit
tee, owing to the circumftances of the thip having no
Matter, and the Boatfwain being fick at the time, of
Mr. Davies, the Firft Lieuteoant, • being now abfent
from England, are not able correctly to affertain),
the blame of fuch irregularity is nut to be imputed
to Sir Home Popham ; and in fupport of this obfer-
vation, your Committee beg leave particularly to re-
fer to the evidence of Captain Bowen.
Your Committee find, that the quantity of Roma
demanded by Sir Horne Popham, while the Romney
was under repair, and fupplied by Mr. Louis, who
had been previoufly appointed, by Admiral Rainier,
his Majelly's Deputy Naval Officer at Calcutta, ex-
ceeded the quantity allowed for a twelvemonth's ex-'
penditure, ettimating that quantity according to the
calculation made in his Majeny's Dock-yards and
mentioned in the Report of the Navy Board Of the
zoth of February 1804, but that Sir Home Popham
has accounted for this citcumtlance, by Rating that
he did not confine his demand to a provifion of ft ores
for any particular period, but took on board aslarge
a (apply as the fhip could conveniently carry,having
a view in demanding fuch Roma to the probable est-
gencies of the fervice upon which he expelled to be
employed.
Your Committee find, that Sir Home Popham in
addition to the faits which were allowed by the Ont..
blilhment of tin navy, ordered feveral to be made
and fupplied for the ufe of the Romney, which were
not authorifed'by the arid totes of the fervice ; but*
it appears to your Committee, from the concurrent
teflimony of feveral perfons examined cn the fubjed,
and particularly from that of Captain Mafon, who
fpeaks from experiments made under his own obfer-
vation, that thole extra fails were highly advantage-
ous in the India Seas.
Your Committee have not thought proper to Rate
in this Report Tome other in itances in which Sir Home
Popham appears to have deviated from the ftrie rules
of the fervice, by directing the Naval Officers to
ftspply him with articles, for the ufe of the Romney,
which are defcribed in the evidence, and were rot
conformable to the ofages of the navy ; fuel: irregu-
larities appearing to your Committee to be wholly
unworthy of Parliamentary attention, or of any
other notice but that which of courfe they ought to
have received, according to the cultoms of the fer-
vice, in the confederation of Sir Home Popham's ac-
counts, when any extra charge would be difallowed,
unlefs deemed to have been expedient under the cir-
cumliances of each particular cafe.
The Committee, however, think themfelves called
upon, in Itrid jutlice to Sir Home Popham, diftind-
ly to Rate, that they have not met with any inflance,
in effeNing the repaits, or in the fupply or expendi-
ture of Rores, which has been attended with any
perfonal advantage or emolument to himfelf; nor
have your Commatee the leaft reafon to fafpeet, from
the evidence before them, that his conduit, upon
any occafron, in which the rules of the Navy have
not been rigidly obferved, was influenced by any
private conlideration ; but' on the contrary, your
Committee feel it to be their duty to obferve, that
Sir Home Popham appears to have been actuated by
no other motive, but that of an ardent zeal for the
public fervice.
Your Committee do not think it neceffary to Rate
their obfervatious, in detail, upon all the points men-
tioned in the Report of the Navy Board of the arth

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FebillatY 124 = eimeeivirtg, ills/ as fat a: t
Sir Home Popham, that document appears to them
to be materially inaccurate.
Your Committee obferve, that Sit Home ropham
appears to hay: ufed his u moo ende.svours to obtain
money, for drafts on England, upon the moll fa-
vourable terms for the espences of the fquadrou under
his command.
Your Committee have thought it their duty, in
junice to the charaeler of a meritorious Officer{who,
lo far from encouraging or conniving at any public
wane, appears in evidence before your Committee,to
have effeeed very contiderable livings) to snake a
Special Report on the circumflances of his cafe; being
the fire head of their enquiry ; though the evidence„
on which their Report is founded, is fo bknded with
that which relates to the other prticulars referred
to them, that they rrlun poftpone reporting that eN
dcnce, until the other heads of enquiry are An
bt ougla to a conflation.

recustAs FICAL PROMOTIONS •
The Eid op of Lincoln hat heen pleafed to appoint the Rev. T
V. Bayley, M. A. Penow of Trinity Cambridge. anti
Lordfisip's Domeftic Chaplain, to the Hub deanery of Lincoln Ca
tiodral, vacant by tht. (Rath of the Rev. Dr. Paley.
Townly Clarkfon, M. A. Fellow of jaw% College, Cambridge
has hecn inftituted to the Vicarage of Micron, in the dioceic of
Ely, on the prefeutatlon of the Lord Chancellor.

Hilt EH.

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On Thurfday laft, at Canterbury, the Lady of John Walnut*
Gatbett, Efq. of ROLL Court, llerefordfbirc, Colonel of tl.e Royal
Radnoteire Militia, of a fun and heir.

Eifir:

On Monday, at Edmonton. Charlet, Vigne, Efq. ca Old Bread•
ftrtet, to Mita Ann Blackburn, daughter of the Late John Black-
burn, Efq. of Bulb bin.
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At Doitcatter, the Rev. H. Prosvfe Jones, to Mifs Sarah Huffs"
Shatto, youngelt daughter of Sir Cuthbert Shait of baritigton-bill,

illlam Pearfon, Efl. of the Steelyard. London, to Mire Lys'.
daughter of John 1.ye.11, Etq Findtn, duff_:.
Saturday, at Sunderland, Mr. James Douglas, drum-major ea
the Nouthumbetland Militia, to Mils Dorothy Straka, atter a
itourtfhip of 25 rar,!
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:•atur:lay lilt, at Cheltenham, James Steers, Efq. of Tottenham',
Middltfca, to Mifs F Snell, of Cheltenham
Lately, at Lcwifhatn, Peter Young, Lig. o' Blackheath, to nits
Balfour, of Wiudfor.

DIED.

Friday, atWoollzanrpton Hr.ufe, Eorkl,ire, ?Arc Crewe, widow
of the late John Crewt., FIT and tiother-iu-law to Vitcouot
FAhnouth.

In May Taft, at Dover, Mrs. Frederick, the wife of Capt. Raw
ben Fret:crick, 54t.t

At Pilelllarn-is, near Omni) ks, on the >cR inR. Hugh Corti%
Ffq. of Cu!loch, W. S.
On the loth of February laR, of the yellow fever, on baud his
Majefty% 'hip the Thcfrus, on the Jamaica Ration, William Hos?.
strand, Efq.
On the sgth ult in the 7ad year of his age, Caleb Smith. Er*
of Miteheiniceih, Hamm.
About two months finec, Lieutenant Richard Ticiten. of tile
Plicebe frigate, in an attrr pt to cut out fame French gun.boatims
the coaft of &rein's. This gallant youth was the elti, It too cl this
late Richard Efq. one of his Msjefty's Commiffioners or
the Sumps.

HAVING dedicated rayfeif to the fludy, azd been
gratified by the ;Kieft confiderable pradice in that brands
which I thought }roper to fele& I truft that I have not more Intl-
employed my time thin :Lore who, in the est Jive field of the
profane, are occafionally tram:ea in :race. runty, atl cannot
always attain that foceds which is acquired Isy concentrating the
intellaitual power to tele elaZ or Warders.
! The &Imes of DBEILITY ampeallisrly dinging, for they
! being with than a traits of ecocomftartt fynarnens, and, by a do-
' preson of all vital energy, eallience Itfelf,becomes embittered-.
! Whether they ark from the prevaleue of ill example, tledabwo-
tire habits of retool-boys, cr the todulgeneci of salttuity, them.
quire the molt affiduons profelGonal ikfil ; but by the Ignorance
of uneducated men, the iymptamsare aggravated, ant the gown
union b deftroYcdt
Asa MSNLBER ot the itOYAL COL LBO of StAtOlOllM.
grzund my pretettioas on regularity of ednead.ent and policing
every privUege to pradiee, I feel myielf emitted t 3 that confidencv
with which [hay:hitherto been to lib taffy honoured.
In -the firit faifations of local weaklier', early, application will
prevent the calamity of a debilitated frame;
,but woxere the full
ferer, from a conicimineis of the umnanfinefs of vice which,
muted his misfortune, is !meat of the cantons or meow of his
family pbyfician and broods over blot Infirmity with careful con-
cealman, it mutt be fatisfadory for him to be aiiured not only of
capability of treatment but alto of the molt invtelable fecrecy.
And in reran Venereal Complaints it is polfible to prevent pea,
danger or &fires ; In the molt complicated cafes ft is the acqidos.
matt of exclufive emerience in this line to effoa a afe, eaten.
sand (needy re-eftabliihnient
I °fief the advanage u: this cannier it to thofe of either fax who
afilided with soy kind of LiFßill CY, of any fimptome ell
VENhitEAL INFECTION, and in all cafes the terms of tonna
amnion are Rated on the fad interview.

Fat:attain the country are espeded to Mcloft a Bank nom. tad
are requetted to fpetify el•_eir age ate. manner of hying.
MARTIN BREE,
Meniter of the Royal College of Surgeons in Lon4es.
No 2;, Ar.mdel ram; Stripi, neat 'restyle Bpr