Star.
London, England, 1825-05-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGEVCE.

List of Passengers per the William Miles, S. Beadle, from Lon-
don to Madras and Bengal, outward hound, and sailed from the
Downs, 17th May, 1823:—Mrs. Adeline Tattle, Mrs. W. B. Bay-
ley, Mrs. Gowan, Mrs. Hay. Miss Campbell. Miss Sneyd, /Mb
Wheatley, Miss Silk, Miss Leycester, bliss jerguson, Miss:A.
Ferguson, Henry Millet, Esq. lkngal Civil Service, Dr. Govan,
W. Woockock, Esq. writer, J. Spiels Esq. ditto ; Dr. Hay. Mr.
blaster, Cadet ; Mr. G. W. Master and Mr. R. A: Master, dittos
The Coldstream, Captain W. HALL. for Madras and Bengal,
was dispatched on Wednesday morning.
FALMOUTH, MAT 18.—Wind S.—Sailed yesterday, his Majesty's'
ship Pvt.anes, for Jamaica.
Posta-mot:TN, MAT 19.—Wind S.—Sailed his Majesty's ship
Mamma, for liehring's Straits ; and !Tea, Scrros, for Bengal.
Dear., May 19.—Wind N. E —Passed through for the River, the
Lovely Ann, CHAYLIN, from Charente. Also from the River, the
Alexander le Grand, —, for Port-au-Prince; Georgiana, WAR-.
RCS, for Berbice; George, DAVIS, for Rio Janeiro; and Viscount
Exmouth, WATT, for Gilboa.
CHATHAM, MAY 19.—Saturday will sail, his Majesty's ship RIM.
WINO, to Portsmouth, on her way to the coast of Africa.
GaAvzszNn, MAT 19.—Arrived the General Harris, —, from
China. Sailed the Betsey and Sophia, GARRAWAY ; Coldstream,
HALL; and Guildford, Jourrsou, all for India.
CORK, MAY 16.—Sailed the Launch transport, DRISCOLL, with
male convicts, for New South Wales.

WEST lER Colllll' of REQUESTS, May 19.

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CORBIN tr: PARROTT.

The plaintiff in this case approached the Commis-
sioners' table in anything but a straight line, and her mode
of speaking in opening the business explained at once the
cause of the sinuosity of her advance; there are many
terms applied to the situation she was in, but it is doubt-
less she was full half seas over, and her being so was
not likely to benefit her in a claim of seventeen shil-
lings for a month's wages, or rather in lieu of a
month's warning. She began with such tipsy volubi.
'lity that she might have changed names with the de
fendant, for her peroration was delivered in a very
parrot-like style. It would be vain to attempt anything
like an exact report of the eloquent appeal she made to
the Commissioner; about the ill usage she had r eceived,
about the victuals being locked up, (she said nothing
about the chink,) and many other matters rather irrele-
vant, but it was at length made out that Mr. Parrott
had hired her as cook, not knowing of the spark in
her throat, to say nothing of Other sparks, as tw.lve
guineas a year, and for three short days she went on
with her roasting and boiling in a middling sort of
way, but on the night of the fourth day, a circum•
stance o:curred which plainly proved that Jenny Gur-
rin was determined to rule more than the roast, fit on
'that eve;.in.tt, Mr. Parrott having been with his daugh-
ter to witness the unearthly horr, rs of Der freiSchatz,
returned, as a quiet cit:z rn would, at about half past
eleven, and called about him for his bread and cheese;
but Jenny was contumacious, as he thouet, but in
reality drunk, and he had much difficulty in getting
wherewithal to satisfy the cravings of his stomach,
after swallowing so much gunpowder smqe at the
Theatre; but when he had so done, the contumacious
cook, upon being ordered to go to bed, declared she
would do no such thing, for she had not supped, and
she would be hurried by no mail—nor woman neither,
for the matter of that. Mr. Parrott, though a mild
man in the main, did not like this, and he, therefore,
took the liberty to put out his own kitchen fire, and to
lock the larder door, drinking his jolly c ink would
then retire to I:er stump bed in the attic ; but Jenny did
no such thing, si,e stirred her stumps in a very &fret ent
way, making up a tremendous fire again in the kitchen,
and fetching the brace of moulds from the parlour,
that she might have an agreeable light ; she then " laid
her lovely length" on the rug before the fire, and calleJ
upon tit's{ Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep,"
who was not long in obeying the call, and she soon
snored soundly. Now it happened that, although Mr.
P.'s cook was drunk, the watchman on that beat was per-
fectly sober, and being surpriz,d at the great and conti-
nued light in Mr. Parrott's lower regions, he took the
liberty, at about two in the morning, to peep a little
more closely between the rails, when he beheld the
scene as above stated. Being an Irishman, he imme-
diately concluded the cook was either dead or speichless,
and, therefore, set to work with the bell and the
knocker, being half a mind all the while to cry fire,
to rouse the master of the mansion, in which he soon
succeeded, Mr. Parrott making his appearance with
one stocking on, and the other in his hand ; for having
just waked out of a dreadful dream occasioned by the
Freischutz, be was not quite cle.ir whether Z miiel him
self had not some hand in all this dreadful din. I lows
ever, became, saw, and determined that Jenny Gurrin
should not sleep another night under his roof, think ng
if she did he should be sure to lie awake himself; this
information the gentle Jane receiv• din a very surly way,
vowing all sot ts of vengeance. Mr. Parrott, however,
kept his word, and she now sought to recover her
month's wages, but the C mmisioners being abun-
dantly sstistieJ with what they bad heard and seen,
dismissed her claim altogether, as a lesson to unworthy
corks. It appeared that this woman had received a
tolerable character from her last place, and it had been
admitted, since she was sent from Mr. Parrott's, that it
was given on account of the terror she had inspired her
former mistress with, by her horrid threats of what she
would do to her in case she did not give her a good one.

By intelligence from G;braltar, we learn that the
Governor, Lord CIIATHAM. whose health has suffered
materially since his last residence in the garrison, is
corning to England, and expected to arrive in this coun-
try by the end of June.
The Dunira, a China ship, for which great fears were
entertained, and on which on Wednesday, at Lloyd's, SO
guineas per cent. was given for insurance, has Arrived at
the Lle of France, dismasted ; it will cot be necessary
to unload the cargo. The enimited value of ship and
cargo is 100,0001.