Star.
London, England, 1807-01-30 00:00:00

A DENMARK MAIL

Arrived this morning. Many of the details it brings
are very contradiOnry, but we have great pleafure in
adding, that there now feems to be ilrong evidence
of the French having actually fuftained a fevere de.
feat in Poland. They are evidently employing every
means to prevent the news from being known, and
the very anxiety they thew on this point furnilhes
thong, and, we hope, a corral prefumption, that

THE RUSSIANS
HAVE OBTAINED AN IMPORTANT AND
DECISIVE VICTORY !

The following are the accounts that have reached us:

PRIVATE LETTER.

HAMMON, JAN. so.

Letters have been received here from Koning (berg,
Warfaw, and Riga, all of which concur in the Rate-
rnent of the Ruffians having gained a deci(ive vitiory
over the French fmce their lace defeats, in Poland.—
It was confidently reported on 'Change here )•eßer.
day, that Napoleon, in confequence of this revere
check, had propofed an armillice toißuffia and Pruf-
fla ; one of the Riga letters particularly mentions
that many wounded French officers had atrived in
that city, as prifoners.

The Edi:or of a periodical publication, printed in
French, at Altona, alio received a letter, containing
the full retails of the defeat of the French, and having
(hewn the fame to the French Minifter here, he in-
filled upon its being fuppreffed as a falfehood. Field
Marfhal KAMUISKOY, by a mafterly manceuvre with
the centre and left wing of the Ruffian army, is Paid
to have turned and furrounded three corps of the
French army, namely, thole of Devours., Nay, and
Sour.? ; to have killed upwards of forty thoufand,
and taken twenty thoufand prifoners—among the
latter is laid to be DAvousr himfelf—the French,
in confequence, fell back to Warfaw ; and, had
the Ruffians been able to purfue them, their head
quarters would not have continued in that city, but
would by this time have been at Polen ; the purfuit,
however, was impra4licable, as neither army had
provilions left fufficient to enable them to wait for
ire& fupplics, and as the whole country between the
Viftula, Bug, and Narew, where their armies have
been Rationed, is an entire defart. All the letters
which have reached this city from Warfaw, Form,
Roninglberg, &c, are without date or Signature, as
whoever circulates falfe political news is punifhed
with death, as well as thole who fpeak or write again(
the tyranny of the French.

On the 4th inftant, the ftudents of Jena having,
on the authority of letters from Pro& and Poland,
intimated in public places, that the French had been
beaten, the French Commandant immediately put up
the following Proclamation : " Inhabitants of Jena,
falfe reports are in circulation: it is every where ru-
moured with confidence that the French A►my has
been defeated on the banks of the Viftula: truft not
thefe rumours, the authors of them are your enemies.
I declare, that I Ihall order every perfon convilted t f
circulating them to be arrefted and delivered over to
a military commiffion ; do you not know that Napo-
leon is there with his invincibles ? (Signed)

.4 FOCH/MO

FROM THE HAMBUROH CORRESPONDENT OF THE
TWENTY-FIRST JANUARY.

BERLIN, JAN. 17.—..(Frem tie Telegrefr6.l
Every one knows, that at the moment of the battle
of Jena a report was circulated, with a view of ani•
mating the Pruffian Troopsithat their army had made

top= Freflehriconers of war. There ineonfidetate
perfons carried this Nice news even to Bet lin, and re.
prefented it as a brilliant vieory. If we would cre-
dit the authors of siaorious news cf this kind, who
exert themfelves to publifb, two or three d..)3 after
they have been received, the Gazettes from Dantzic.
and Koningfberg, as well as letters from thole two ci-
ties, we thould be compelled to believe 'h.,: the F. eneh
had been beaten, although it 4 certain, as we have
already announced, that they have obtained brilliant
advantages over the Ruffians at Golynim and Pul-
tufk ; and at Neidenburgh and Wirtemberg over the
!Canty remains of the Pruflian army, commanded by
General Leflocq ; but whether theft Gazettes may
have publifked accounts or not that the French were
beaten ; whether their pretended defeat may have
been celebrated at Koningfbe'g and Dint zic, i is
ieverthelefs a laft that the French have triu-nphed
in every action which has taken place

The Ruffian army has been obliged to a • Jon
Ofirolenika to the French, and to re fighti ‘0 ;
the lesion has compelled the latter to go into s
quarters, and the Emperor has returt.ed to Warfamr
ever fume the tfl init. f►um whence intelligence i•
daily received at Berlin even 1.. late as yellerday
Since the entry of the F.enth into Oilrolersfita. r •
thing remarkable has occurred. We cannot •cr %e
every day from Warfaw details of intereiiin,{ ever ts,
on account of there events not taking plAce.

WARSAW, JANUARY R

Worms is the rendezvous of feveral diploms iva ;
the Außrian General, Vincent, is arrived, and the
Pruflian General, M. de Zaflrow, is expelled ; it is
laid that negotiations for peace are going to be re.
newed ; the Emperor Napoleon has been here fonts
days.

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BANKS OF THE ELBE, JAN. 19.
It is raid that fence the events which have taken
place on the Theatre of War, an armillice has been
concluded between the French and Ruffian armies.

VIENNA, JAN. 7.

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The Ruffian Amhatrador at our Court, M. Ravi-
mot: fig, has received intelligence of the Ruffians
having taken the ifland of Curzola in the Adriatic,
near the Coaff of Dalmatia, and placed a ffrong gar-
t iron in it. The college of war has alto received the
unexpected news that the Servian infurgents have
taken poffeffion of an ifland near Semlin, called
Kiugs Infel (Nile de la Guerre). Orders have al-
ready been given to drive the Servians from the laid
ifland, unlefs they quit it voluntarily ; it is thought
that the Se: vians only occupied is in order to approach
with more advantage the fortrefs of Belgrade.
On the sth inflant, at mid day, a courier arrived
here from the French head quarters, on his way to
Conftantinople. He brought to General Andreoiry
fome verbal intelligence of a bloody affair at Oar; •
kofka, on the a6th December.

STUTOARD, JAN. zo.
Breflau has at lafl furrendered. The capitulation
is publilhed at length in our Gazette—it capitolved
on the sth init. and 3000 prifoners, t 3 pieces of can-
non, and about t zoo horfes, and one Ilandard, fell
into the bands of the allied Bavarian and Wirtembe s
troops.

FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN, JAN. 13.
An official account from Pultufk, of the 3oth of
December, lays, Martha! Lafnes commanded in the
battle of Paw& 18.000 men. He had so,ooo
Ruffians oppofed to him. He defeated them—twelve
thoufand were killed, and 3000 taken prifoners and
wounded. blarffial Augereau commanded at Go—
lynim. He had a horfe killed under him. The refult
was alma equally fplendid.
CONS TANTINOPLE, DECEMBER zo.
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On the 15th of November a courier from the
French bead quarters at Pofen brought the Grand
Signior the agreeable affurance that the Emperor and
King, Napoleon, was determined to defend with his
whole power the independence and integrity of the
Porte. The French Ambaffador, Sebaniani, is treated
here with the greatell diainaion, on every occafion.

Yaasioorm, Jaw. 29.—Yellerday failed the Fan*
alma gun brig, with the Psocars, a new built Hoop
of war for the Nore. The ORESTIS loop of war has
brought in a lugger privateer, taken by the Cava ER;
the fell in with the privateer N. N. W. off Orford-
, nefs, and after a long dace, the Frenchmen ran her
on Blankenberg beach, where her Captain and
part of the crew got on fhore when taken poffeflion
of by the boats of the CRUIZER the had only
twenty-five men on board, was pierced for fourteen
guns, but bad only two mounted, and feveral chells
of (mall arms. The ORESTES has retaken the Ant of
Newcafile, laden with (laves, hides,&c. bound toLon.
don. The Carrier cutter recaptured two veffels,one
which, laden with hemp, the was obliged to let fire
to; the other is the Courier, of and for Hull, with
linfeed ; they were part of convoy, which was
feparated in a gale tof wind, and taken by the
Revanche privateer (even miles of Flambro' Head.
Arrived the ERN esr gun brig.
CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, JANUARY 300—
Wheat is here to-day in conliderable lupplies,and pre•
fuming on a further reduelioa in price very few fates
are effeeted, and thole at fonsewhat lets price!.
The fupplies of Bailey are very abundant ; fecund
and inferior qualities are cheaper—Malt at lefs, and
ate falling articles—The few White Peas continue
dear—Beans, of each fort, are rather lower—Theta
art many frefh arrivals of Oats, and this trade is
quoted cheaper.—FlJur is very heavy in fate at the
patent prices.

Elm Flow 6st to 70* Sam& 6a to 6.0 per Cod,.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 17.

This heitm a fpecial paper day, and the let da.y
allowed by the rules of the Court for the moving fur
new trial., the Court was occupied entirely in argu-
ments upon demurrers and fpecial cafes, and motions
for new trials.

FIUME V. PEFLOE.

The Plaintiff, as indorfee, brought his aelion upon
a bill of exchange againft the defendant, as accep.
tor, on a bill for 571. igs. payable fix months after
date.

The defendant pleaded, that after the bill became
due, and before the iffuitig out t f the plaintiff's bill,
he tendered 591. t zs. 6d; which was the full amount
of the debt, with the intereft, and of the money due
upon the bill. To this the plaintiff replied, that when
the bill became due, he tendered the bill for payment,
and it was diflmoured. The defendant rejoined,
admitting the non payment on the day, but relying
'Jim the fubfequent tender of the damages. Upon
the demurrer,

Mr. Lewes for the plaintiff, endeavoured to fup•
port the plea as a plea not llrialy in bar, but merely
a bar of further damage•, and endeavoured to diflin.
guifh it from a plea of tender in ordinary cafes, and
Rated the hardfhip of being put to pay cons when
the party would have paid before the aftion all that
could legally have been recovered.
But the Court held that the plea was bad, as it was
not a good plea of tender, and that the party (honld
have applied to a Judge to have Raid proceedings,
upon payment of the debt and interefl. The Court
confiderecl it as 3n attempt to introduce a new form
el' pleading, and to extend the praCtice of paying
money into Court to cafes in which it was never
before allowed. Judgment for the plaintiff.

PITCHEN, ASSIGNEE Cr CLOSE' . BAILEY.

Clofe was a Marfhalfea Officer, and hai arrelled
the Defendant, end permitted him to go at large
without taking a bail bond, in confecoence of which
he was fixed, and paid the money ; and the prefent
plaintiff, as affignee under the late Infclvent Aft,
brought this affirm to recover the money paid, as
money paid to the ufe of the defendant. At the
trial—

Lord Ett sttsottoucti, Chief Jollice, held that it
was a breach of duty in Cl4e, upon which no anion
w3uld Tie, and nut of which no beneficial contra&
could arife to him.

Mr. PARK now armed for a Rule Nifi, to fet afide
a nonfuit, and for a new trial. He cited Morris v.
Bulkeley. Peake, 145 : Cawdron v. Lord Maffdrene,
Coram Buller, Plaice, 179 z ; and lallly, Ives v.
Fakeney, E. 3z G. 3, -...p0n the authority of which
latter cafe,

The Court confirmed the &Chine before laid
down by his Lordihip, and refuted the Rule Nih.

JAN. 28.--.-COUNTERFEIT PRUSSIAN CCIN.

Mr. GURNEY moved, that William Phillips, who
had been commuted to Warwick Gaol for a mifde-
meanor, and who at that moment attended their
Lordfhip. in cullody of the gaoler, (bould be admit
ted to bail. He Paid the party had been committed
under a fuppofition of his having coined a large quan-
tity of Prudian and other foreign coin, a bag full of
which had been found upon his premifes. Mr. Gur-
ney (fated to the Court as an inducement to his mo-
tion being granted, that Phillips was by trade a but-
ton maker, and ufed the fame implements as thole
r in coining ; that he was innocent of the charge,
and that the hag of counterfeit money had been drr,pt
in his premifes by the party who informed againft
him.

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Mr. Gaattow raid it would be laying the Court
!bine trouble, if he at once Rated that he held in his
hand an affidavit, Petting forth the abfolute infuffici.
oney of the bail tendered. The Court immediately
looked to that faa, and the man was rensauded.

REED V. D•RBY.

This was an aaion of trover, to recover the font
of .;cool. the value cf a flip called the Glamorgan.
The caufe cam_ on to be tried before Lord ELLFN-
POROUOH at the Sittings after left Term, and the
plaintiff was non-fuited. Mr. GARROW mcved this
day, that the non.fuit timid be fa aide, and a ver.
tiia for the plaintiff entered. He ftated, that the
Glamorgan had met with one of thole &falters which
frecrrently happen in the Weft Indies, namely, a
Weil India condemnation ; and yet, after being
bought by Mr. Darby, (he prefently became lea-
worthy, and a4lually brought home a cargo. The
plaintiff, Mr. Reed, welcomed the return of the fhip,
and was not a little fur prifed to find her in polfeffion
of a freth owner, who, fix.ting the fats of the con•
demnation, faid he had purchafed her for fomewhera
about 4ocl. The learned Connfel faid, he meant to
contend, that the condemnation was a fraudulent
one, inafmuch as none of the requifites of Lurd
Hawketbory's MI had been complied with, and that
the plaintiff was entitled to recover back his fhip, or
the value of it. He would admit, in extreme cafes,
the Captu:n was authorized to hypothecate the fhip,
or to call a Itirvey, and have her fold outright, pro-
vided there was a neceflity eking it, and he aeled
from a bona file irtention : but even then, the fhip
muff be a wreck, or in a place where there was no'
poffibility of getting her repaired. That was not the'
cafe with the veffel in queflion,. the Captain had re-
ceived n^ inftruaions to fell her ; and the cohdonna-
eta and foblequent Cale, under the particular circum-
fiances, was not binding upon the owners.
Lord ELtr_Nnottounit raid he had a perfect recnl-
- of the cafe, and he had direeed a nonfuit,
upon the fuppofition that the plaintiff' had done
fumething that looked like a recognition of the a& of
his Captain, and that the difference between the par-
ties was Only as to the (urn given (or the (hip. It
was a cafe, however, extremely fit to be reconfidered;
arid the Learned Ceunfel might take a Rule to thew
caufe.

GENERAL CLAvERiNG V. DEAN.
Mr, OAK K.,w Applied for a rule to thew mire wb)
the inquilition which had bcen had ia this cafe (hould
not be let Aide, un the ground that the damages
awarded were exceflive. The grounds on which the
motion wa, flpportecl, were, contained in (he follow.
ing dalement. Grneral Clay ering wac paCiing throng':
cue of the arects at th. weft end of the tnwn, late at

o.ght, when he obfetkqod a Lae:meg coachman, named
Cullen, beating his %fife very violently. The Gene-
ral interfered ; when, inflead of receiving the grate-
ful thanks of the female for the relent:, The turned
rnurd to him, and making ufe of the language of the
dramatifi, Suppofe I have a mind to he heat, what
then ?" fell upon the Plaintiff, and called upon her
hufband to affift in the attack, with which he imme-
diately complied. All explana,ion proving' vair, the
General gave Cullen into the euttody of the watch,
and both parties proceeded to the watch houfe. As
loon as they arrived there, the coachman gave a
counter charge againft the Plaintiff for affaulting
him. The unfortunate Defendant, who was called
upon as an inhabitant to ferve for the fecund time
only in the charafter of Conllable of the Night, re-
ceived both complaints ; and, inflead of permitting
General Clavering to be bailed or remain by the
watch !rode fire, forced him to enter the dungeon
unlefs he would pay a fhilling for hi, bed. The next
morning the Plaintiff and Cullen aband,med their re-
fpetlive charges, and the former entered a complaint
againtk the Defendant, the Conflable of the Night.—
An affirm was commenced again(' him, he put no
juflification on the record, as inquifition was held
upon the cafe, and the jury gave the. Plaintiff tool.
damages. The Learned Counfel adverted to a cafe
which occurred at Halifax of a fimilar nature, and
milled that their Lordfhips would think the damages
awarded much too large, confidering that the Drien-
dant aeled from ignorance.
Lord ELLEssottoUGH fad that it was 22 injury to
a gentleman like General C. for which no. money
could be a compenfatinn. The amount of the da-
mages was to be affvffed, not fo much according to
the ability of the Defendant to pay, as by the- injury
done. Application fhnuld be made to the mercy of
General Clavering, and not to the jun ice of the Court,
which could not interfere without breaking through
all rules.

Mr. Juflice Lawasucr —Where is the law that the
Conflable is bound to take a charge given by a man
who himfelf is accufed of a violent breach of the
peace ? The watch can only interfere when a breach
of the peace is a/Wally committed. They have no
power to delay a man to make good his charge, be
caufe they mull interfere while the affray is palling
or recent. The evidence of a Mall accufed mull be
taken under great fufpician, and I do not know who
is to bring a charge againfl any one, if he is to do it
at the hazard of being himfelf imprifoned.
Mr. GARROW-.-I am happy to find your Lordfhip
of that opinion ; for the general notion ic, that they
are obliged to take charge fer charge. No one can
feel more for the General than I, for I was once in a
fimilar predicament myfell.—Rule refufed.