Star.
London, England, 1805-12-20 00:00:00

:fURORA TRANSPO*)'t.

• . • TO THE EDI MR OP •THE, STAR.
Detl, December 4.
I with you to infert in your kipei, the following
particulars concerning.the Anroratranfiort: as this
fetter is mart to relieve the anxiety of individuals.
you can therefor: Make any ufe of it you pleale.
I am, Sir, your Obedient Sirvant,
A. W. WAranouss, Captsin 26th Font.

Captzin *Lam", of his Majefiy's floop Cygnet,
on Monday the uth init. tiff the Goodwin Sends,.
piz!:ed up feveral chefs, belonging to Officers of
the 16th regiment of font, and fow beams and dig
ferent parts of the Anroi-atranfpart, having onboard
the Commanding OfSeer, Staff, and about aso men
of the 26th regiment of foot.
Fran eiery ciretimflance, Capt. M'Lson is firmly
pf opiniiin that every foul on board the Airora tranf:
port, mtift have perithed, by being wrecked on the
Goodwin Sandy. The Officers names are as follow:
Major DAVIDSON.
CaptainsH9 c Giant and Citatcaots.
pentetnint Dnowati.
•
yagn D
%art" MAN.: Glenna..
(tiurter Mager ReitaarwiM.
LIVIISVNADI and Adjutant HOPKINS..
Surgeon D 7VA L.

Great fear; are entertained for the Maria tranfport,
wiih about 200 men of the 26th foot on board ; a
veal exaOl anfwering 'her defcription was Peen
mailed off the Texel—it is hoped that the may haws
got fare into Come Dutch port. The officers onboard
her were Captains CARDIN and Josas ; Lieutenants
CAM LLLLL and MAISHMAn Enfigns Cuaaraonms
and Meru Isom, and Affittant Surgeon Atalerraomet•
The Aurora we fear is certainly gone; but fouls
faint hopes are entertained that the Maria may yet be
fafe.—The remainder of the 26th foot are Cafe in
the Dowis.

LAW lATELLIGENCIi.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC.:7.

°ate v. WILIEINSON.•••WHALR FISHERY.
Mr.Scarcirro; GENERAL faid this was an adion
of mover, to recover tire value of a whale, a harpoon.
a line, and a boat. The coellion wore out of the
Whale tilhery. The plaintiff was :Avner of a Green.
land thip called the Neptune. and the defendant was ,
owner of the Experiment, another. lip in the farie
trade. One morning, in the year 184, the
two (hips' boats were fithing near-the North P01e...-
The Neptune's boat was looking out near a rail field
of ice, about thirty miles in breadth, when the crew
perceived a whale. The harpooner of the Neptune
infiantly artick the fifh, which plunged, and carried
with her above one thoufand two hundred yards
of line.- The crew were determined not to lufe
her, and therefore kept the line fifi lo the boat,
and fuffesed the whale to draw it under the ice.—
The' crew themfelves got upon the ice, and erederi a
flag. as a lignal to the Neptune, that they had firuck
a fifh. They knew the whale mutt return in a certain
t'me, to get air. The Neptune's people obeyed the
fignal, and fent off five boats to Aid. They arrived
before any of the boats of the Experiment, which
were Ming at a dillance, and which alfoscame to
the f?ot in confequence of a fignal from that fhip.—
It happened that the whale arofe with her head to-
wards the Experiment's boats, and their harpoons
ftruuk her. She was flruck five or fix times, and was
at lair killed. The Captain of the Neptune expoftu-
lated with the Captain I.fthe Experiment, °blaring
that it was inrpoffible the latter Arnold difpnze his
title, as his harpoon, which lint firuck had an
;ding remained fixed to the'boat. He faid, that it
was evident be had never left the purfuit of the Eh ;
on the contrary, inflead of cutting the line with a
hatchet, to fare the lives of the crew, he had given
the whale the boat, in order that when it rote again
it might appear like a buoy crying out, this is the
filitof the Neptune.' He added that the boats of the
Neptune were at hand to affifl-i-furaly, then, be
would no, pretend to have any right to keep the
whale. Aye, marry, do I,' replied the other, 6 and
I claim your harpoon, line, and boat too, and by
Goo's providence I will have them.' This phrafe
was not without its meaning ; for the people of
Greenland, not the moll cultivated and polifhed place
in the world, had a notion that every thing they found
afloat GOD'S providence fent, and fo they kept it.—
The Captain of the Neptune did not think proper to
decide the difference by force of arms, but laid be
Mould refer k to the laws of this country. Upon
his return, he was anxious to avoid litigation, and
applied for his line and boat ; but the defendant faid,
I When you get your fill), you than have your line
alit' boat, but not before.' The Learned. Counfel
fubmitted, that the principle on which this CaUfC
ought to be decided was this. It was not becaufe a
particalar perfon ftruck a fifh, and
.his harpoon re-
stained hther, that the was his property ; it molt
appear that be was in purfuit of her, and of that fad
Tome evident fign was requited. If .a boat's crew
found that a fifh was too Ikon for them, they had
always an hatchet wady to cut the line • and when
they preferred their.ows.fafety to the filh; any con
might afterwateisporlite.lt but if. they meant to
retain the occupancy, they kept the line fixed to the
boat. •The 400 craw of she Neptune had done, the
latter; they had never quitted the line, but had,
at the peril of their liver', given the whale the boat,
in order that they might not be faid to have aban-
doned.their right.
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William Ken, the harpooner; difiinaly proved the
fads Rated by Mr.. Solicitor General. He faid the
whale, as loon as he (truck hero -an out five .lines,
amounting to 650 fathom, or tam yards; the lines
were fattened to the boat,and they gave the boat for
the fafirty of the fitli ; they got upon the ice, and
made.the ufual Cignal. The boats of both (hips came
up, and in about three quarters of an hour the whale
tore, and the Experiment's boats (truck her. On his
eras examination he faid, it was not for the crew to
remain in the boat; if they had, the whale would
have given Theo a journey under the lea.
Lord EttEssoutouort obferved, that the queftion
was reduced ro the mere tide to the boat. As to the
whale, the occupancy was gone. The crew of the
Neptune's limit had ceafed to hold the fifh, and they
c auld not be faid to hold it more becaufe the boat was
attached to the line, than if any other weight had been
affixed twit. He was of opinion, that the harpoon
and other things, ufed as inttruments of chace,might
be cal) away in the adventure. A man who wounded
a bird, which another afterwards killed, might as well
claim the float.

Mr. Es sit IN (aid, that after what had fallen from
his Lordihip, it wastiot neceffary for him to enter
fully into the fable& ; he was perfuaded his Lordihip
would not (offer a cam to be violated, which had
been over anctover again etlablifhed, more efpecially
after it had been obferved by a Learned judge (Bul-
ler) that as the fubjces of all nations were engaged
in the Snail in thefe feas, itiwould be highly inconve-
nient for the Courts of one nation to alter the general
cußom eflablifhed by all. The doarinc bad even gone
the length of fa Mg, that after a whale had been killed,'
brought alonglide a fhip, and the operation of flinch-
ing, or cutting 0% the blubber, had commenced, if a
fea came and miffed her gray, fite.became what was
called a .100fe.4111, and any Vella might take her.—
He referred to the Crim. Con. caufe tried fonakyeapi
asr, in which he had elucidated the fulled itirdifeuf:
flon, by comparing Mts. E- to a loefe.fiA.wtiorn
any one had aright-Re fertie;.... that vire ,Mr. E..
to hdband, had oiiginally harpoontd the lady j
wheraffound fhe tau out too much
line, he left her to plunge into the fea otfully and ttif-
fipation by herfelf, dragging Ofe'reeight of her mar•
rage vow alottraiittt her: -But he dick la the left
abandon hpn, becaufe fhe was flamed to his boat.—
When Istrvsifised,tt. recover her, or damages- for her
lofs, it bras faicb hatiigirtn Tier tip—he had
rft herro her fate ; and as another had Earpooned
her; he had a right .n retain her. He admitted that
the S licitOr Getletabliad put this cafe very fairly,
when he laid that the boat was placedlike a buoy, to
cry out this is the filh of the Neptune." If filch an
Argument cotes:l-prevail, it would only be neceffAry to
tie a buoy to a line, and it might cry !linking fifhjong
any one would be at the trouldeof fav-
attached to it. He concluded by ex-

preffing his firm conviction that the law was With the'
Defendant.
Lord ELLF N et:monism faid.he could not help mak-
ing a dill:tr.', inn as to the boat which the men quitted,i
in eider to fave themfelves. With regard to the har-1
poor. and line, the 6th, when it made off with them,
acqdired, if he might ufe the phrafe, a kind of property
in.them, and any body who afterwards took the Hz,
had a rieht to the harpoon in it. The Defendant un-
dertook to return the boat,. and the Jury gave a vet-
did for the Plaintiff—Damages la.—Coils 4.05.
DECIMNER :8.
DE LA TORR! V. BARRER AND OTHERS.
The Plaintiff is a. Spanifh merchant; the Defen-
dants are affignees of Mao Vallerie, a bankrupt.—
This was an iffue direaed, from the Court of Chan.
eery, to try two quelsotts: 11, Whether the Plain.
tiff. by himfelf, or agent, on the Sth of January,
1805, had poffeflion of fortykalesof goods, marked
L. F. by virtue of bills \of lading, or otherwife.-...
zdly, Whether the Plaintiff, on the sth of January,
1805, had a right to detain fuch bales, on the ground
of money advanced by him to Ifaac Vallerie, or of
acceptances to bills of exchange.
Mr. ERSKINE, for the Plaintiff faid, that his Client
had been long in a courfe of dealing with Mr. Val-
lerie, who was in the habit of exporting goods to
Spain ; but having no funds for the conduit of his
.bufinefs, the Plaintiff advanced to him, in the courfe
of two years, fums of money to the amount of near-
ly too,oool. In 1804, Mr. Vallerie became a bank-
rupt, being then indebted to Mr. De La Torre
r 2,000. Before this event took place, fecurities were
given for the debt, and bills of lading, of the cargoes
of various veffels, were depofited with the Plaintiff.
Among thefe, was that of the fhip St. Juan Baptilte,
the loading of which were the forty bales, the fob-
jell of the prefent action ; and therefore the Plaintiff,
being polfeffed of the bills of lading, as fecurity for
the money advanced by him to the bankrupt Valletie,
was legally entitled to the cargo of the veffel.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL, for the Defendants, ar-
gued, that the poffeffion of the bills of lading was no
proof of the Plaintiff's right to the cargo ; but his
Lordfhip not concurring in that opinion, the Jury
founds Verdi& for the Plaintiff on both idues.
AMIN AND OTHERS y. THOMLINSON.
This was an *lion brought by the Plaintiffs,
afEgnees of Paley, againft the Defendant, a farmer
at Iffaltoo, upon fix bills of exchange, amounting
together to a 5061. r is.
-Mr. Easels: s, for the Plaintiffs, Rated, that Mr.
Paley had been largely concerned with Meffrs. Mal-
lis, Walker, and Co, of Hall. In March, 18oz,
Mallis and Co. applied to Mr. Paley to make an ex-
change of bills ; but the propofal was refufed, unlefs
Thomlinfon, the Defendant, would sndorfe the bills
which fhould be given by Millis and Co. and thus
guarantee the payment. On the Defendant's con-
knting to do fo, Mr; Paley, in return for the bills
which were received from Malik and Co. gave them
paper to the fame amount. At the time the bills
accepted by Mr. Paley became due, they were regu.
lady honoured, but thole of Mallis and Co. were
not difcharged. Under thefe circumltances, Mr.
Thomlinfon, as the indorfer, was liable for payment.
The Learned Coanfel lamented, that a perfon of fuch
refpeitability and fortune as Mr. Paley, connected with
-‘a Reverend Clergyman, whole name would be ever
recollected with admiration, fhonld have fallen into
mfulvent circumffances, fince this unfortunate 'rani.-
Mftion.
John Peter Larroder was then called, who fob•
flantiated the fails ftated in the opening of the Coun-
fel for the Plaintiff, and added, that the trade in
which Mr. Vallerie was concerned was contraband by
the laws of Spain.
Mr. Easettre then called Mr. Paley to prove the
fails flitted in his opening.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL, in reply to the cafe of
the Plaintiff, contended, that the Defendant could
not be liable, inafmuch as he had received no regu-
lar notice of the difhonour of the bills. The Learned
Counfcl cited to his Lordfhip the cafe of Nicholfon
v. Doughty, in H. Blacic, 104, with a view to this
point.
Lord Ecasnaoaouc H thought, that the Jury could
have no doubt, that the Defendant was confcious of
the infolvency of Mallis and Co. and of the difho.
nour of the bills; but if they had, the Solicitor Ge-
neral might proceed.
The Jury fignifying, that they were pet kill), clear
upon the point, a Verdia was found for the Plaintiffs
—Damages :5061. :Is.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC iS.
BARGEE'S V. SMITH.

This was an aetion on an agreement, brought to
recover 14. 16s. 6d. the half of the commiflion, for
procuration of freight due to the defendant, he hav-
ing procured the (tip.
The evidence on the part of the plaintiff went to
prove, that the defendant. who was a Slip broker and
underwriter, had, a confiderable time back, entered
into an agreement with the plaintiff, who was a fo-
reign Jew, and dealt in the (hip agency line. The
former was to procure freight, and the latter (hips,
and they were to divide between them the two and a
half per cent. received for procuring the ficight.—
Under this agreement they traded for a confiderable
time, previous to January, tBo2, when the plaintiff
procured the fbip Louifa. She was freighted by the
friends of the defendant, and failed accordingly.—•
4,QIAt fhort time Unce, the commiflion for procuring
the freight, amounting to 2191. 13s. was paid by the
merchants who freighted the (hip to the defendant,
and the plaintifithen intifled on having the half of
that Cum for his trouble. This the defendant refufed
to pay; but, to prevent a law fuit, offered to give
him fifty-four pounds,tnd have done with him.—
The plaintiff would not accept this funs, and com-
meac,ed his aitiOn•
.On .the part of the defendant, feveral witneffes
were called, who proved that, previous to the peace,
which took place in Oacber, 18ot, the plaintiff and
defendant abed under this agreement. The (hips
employed were neutral (hips, and the defendant. not
being acquainted with the German language, was
cbliged to allow the plaintiff, who was a foreign Jew,
half the profits to tran(ha the bufinefs. It was alfo
given in evidence, that, at the commencement of the
. peace, there luting no farther neceflity of employing
neutral veffels, Mr. &Sikh informed the plaintiff, that
there was an end of the agreement r and that for
any other (hips procured by bim, he was to receive,
infield of'half profits; only from one tO five guincas,

HAVING dedicated myself to the Rudy, and beet
gratified by the mod confulerabte pr.idlee in that branch
wilkh I thought ;roper to feted, I trod that I have net mite to f
einp:oyed my time than thole who, In the extenfive field of tn,
profelion, err. occaSonally name fed In uncertainty, and rani, t
always attain that focals which is acquired iy cor.centrating t e
Intelledual power to one des of difau
The difeafes of DRIIILSIT arc peculiarly diArtfling, !Jr we,
bibs with than ate& of coacoroltant friaptoma, au I, by a d.
pprrcaw of all vital onorgy, aciftenee itfelf becomes main rcd:—
Mhslhar arab Rom the prevales.e of fft example, the:A:true.
tMahahtsd febeedileips, or the hadu/genea of maturity. tiles, ta
ipirethe undielibtene protedonal dal ; but by the iz;iioranc.
of wnodoeseed axes, the fymptomaare aggravatid, aaa a.. waft
VAIN is deltruyaL
AG. hiftlifißßß of the ROYAL COLLRGIIcf BIIROIIOWB
fiend my prat:abatis on regularity of education: amt voffiZioll
01147 privilege to practice. I feel myfer entitled to that cunadene.
oak which i have hitherto been fo itheraay bonaured.
• la the &it fenfatium of local wakes's. early applicable wiii
remit the calamity of a ikbaltated Name; but where the fa'
ferer, from a coteciauftlefs of We um:incline% of the vies vette)
Gilded his misfortune, is fearful of the contempt or confute of hi t
fatal pbyficLui. and broods Geer his inatinity with earelial cot-
aulmart. it malt be fedora:Wry for him to be aalirei not only •
capability of treaatenL but alto of the molt iavtolais a feerery.
And in recant Venereal Complaints k is Habit to prevent
danger or diftrefs ; in the mat complicated ales it is ter: acquteo
went of excluave experience In this line to tiled, fee, mall.
end ijeedy re-elebliament,
inter utea4vantage of this upstate to Wore of either flit velic
are aL.'Ncied with any kind of_DIIIRLITY, of any fyraptoms ce
ItWACTION, and in as tares the term. of mkt
ervien are fated an the raft interview. .
Vettnta in the emery are expeded to Inege a Rank note, sal
areWqttettal oat frac, their age and manner of living. •
1d..4..•-TIN BARS,
144 emNt. of the Royal Calege of Sarreem ffi Landon.
Ne. yg, azundei Arcot. Noma, wig -Tompli Zia •
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To THOS. TAYLOR, fifq. No. 9, New Bridge-Rreet, London.
SI R—l confider it but an aft of jullice due to the
merits of your LEAKE's PATENT PILLS, to communi- ,
cate to you the following Cure, which has recently been owtormett
by them :—An acquaintance of mine, Who by the breaking out
of an old V-titseal Complaint (attended by a Complication of Dif, •
orders idling therefrom), was reduetd almolt to a skeleton, and.
though he Had the belt medical advice which could t : oLtsined.
and abed a vaisty of patent medicines, nothing moul•l bt. Future/I '
which (caned to fuit his cafe, or d 0 hint any ferviee; he remained .
in a mud reduced and vi:lable fituatiou for two years, una'de to
follow his pi of :Ilion, and fearer:4 able to walk or even to nand on
his Uzi ; ti: tadt, no one who knew hint ever frppoced it panic
for him to recover. He was idvifed at lad to try your Lt.s.a
Pitts—be did fo, Itrinly adhering to the direellstis given with '
them—he had not taken more than two Bores, before be found an .
alteration for the better: this encouraged him to proceed. and by ,
taking a few ",)oz ~,s more be found his appaite and IttenLth grad... •
ally re:urn, . nd Is now as healthy and as limn as a'y stun. 1,,
know. You are w.f.:onm, Sir, to r.fer ar; perron to me for a
confirmation of the above account hi! should be doubted. •
1 am, Sir, your qb.cdicat auuable ferv..at, . .
Folkitot.,:, July ro, t Bos. • TI-tO. PtTRDY.
Prepared u:.l fold by the CAI! Proprltt c
Tuos. TAT L 0 it, Metnscr of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon
don, at his haute, No. 9, New Brills,: flrect;

Where. after a c'nftant retikienec of mere thatt 4) years, la
pradlice particularly directed to the cure of Ve c-mpla,ets
and chafe in:Mental to-the parts of rineratims in both: fetes, w'th
that inviolable fecreey which men of his proftffinn ihouid always'
obfervc he flutters lsiinftif the ak:% ice a•ad ha gratuin
admini.lcra to rrrune taking this medicine, ettecnied, hr
a difetniing puhlic, u an advantage feldam to be obtr.ined, and'
vviJ of aintilguity. . .
Alf° fol.l, by bin appointment, for the convenience of tis4t iiv
ins at. a diftance, at the Yerfurares No. 35, St. Al -3.1.1 d net,
Mall ; the Toy!hop, t 03, °aft), cl. fir.. et ; Mr. Unto wg11,7.
ilreet.bill; Mr. Baiter's, South bridge, rdinburb ; Mr. Mq.
aid's, Glafgow ; Mr. Callweirs, Dubin; Mr. . ' •
Mr. Atkinfon's, Maneheiter ; and by nee perfoa in clay cond.'
derabk town in Crt-at Britain and is hir2:l (1014 as.
each, fealed up with full and plain dircer•-ns, whereby perfors 44:
either feit-olay cure thernfelves with cafe, (recd. fesr. cy. and ftf.rn...
Every boxfold in Great Brit Lin is Aal:d up w ith a it:in:v.
on which; by favour of the Cotr tniflioners, is prini..:4l at the S: ;rot
Offiec--T. faylor.No.9,blew Bridge itrect...io imitate whit-hit
cony: and all others ars counterfeit.

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