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London, England, 1804-04-17 00:00:00

NAUTICAL ntrauxuarcs

PLTMOIITI.APILILISIIOC AC•lll%•friebessoust Weel.4o
wan down the harbour yeft:rday lOW the • Ilse ineta
thirty 24-pounders on her main do*. fourteen ilimm;•4B".° her
quarter clerk, and fix 6-pounders on bee fotenaltk; the bad h
orders, and failed no a cruife to the Wefhvaad iatinvey•-r.
Seib d alto the Pt •,vr PI, of tif guns, for the protedtios of towas
I.aftevening the COL4I3US, 14 guns, Captain SITINEMIL j led
MAILS rie, 74, Lord A. BICAUCLPKCX, having taken on Want
twenty hAocks each, and vegetables for the fleet, warped ant
to the fining ruoorings, in the bite of Cawfand Bay, and this
Liltd to join the Best, thong\ the wind was fault at
N. N. W.

PORTSbIOUTR. AARTL VS.—Arrived the FLIRT MUM, Wilt
the Prince's Royal, Whitby, Tartar, and Ellen frontons under
convoy from the Wenward. Went out of harbour the Loudon
tranfrorr —Sailed the HYDRA frigate on a cruise. Arrived yeftet,
day evening the Hanuab of Bengal,—, from the Downs,bosud
to the Eaft Indies.

SHEERNESS. APRIL t6.--.Arrhred his Majcfty's 'hip Ba•witt•
The TRUSTY and Cauir.ca have failed. The Se olt 1.1011 ha& gout
out of har:-.our to the Nore, and will (all tomorrow. The Rt.
nu tu s Captain Boys, has come down to Long Reach from
Chula:in. The Atalante brig, prize to the &venom and B
is tote fitted for lea with all poffible dlfpateh.
The Officers and men of the doet-yard were this day paid their
wares for Chtiftmas quarter, 18u3.

DEAL APRIL t6.—Arrived the Fly-by-Night Imre keen a
entire, and remain, in the Down. with the MONA a eu. Utazenx,
and VITZIAN men of war, Ia VIROIWit and Is NIFIOIII4I
gain, VISOVIUS and PllisaVil bombs, and Is ex a za. and But-
Lege min-brigs.—Wind N. E. blows hard. with rain.
thieve sun, AralL z6.—Paired by the Cesium. ---,frond
Nanny ; and Twee Gebrodaa, Hacker, from Rotterdam.—
Sailed the Vele Schwifters, for EtabdaL; Hibernia, webm.
fan, for Peterihurgh ; Logan, MoCoiell. for Dublin; Odavia,
Stout, far Madeira; Nile, Prirgle, fox Halifax; Quebec, Balky;
and the Pluto, Ingraham, for f.ebec.
SQUADRON OFF BOULOGNE, SATURDAY, APRII44.
His Makity's nip Immortalise, with the Roue mlpa, bombe
and cutters, under the orders of Captain Owen, failed from Duto'
genefs on the morning of Thurfday, the tzth LA. and whaled
of Boulogne before the daft of day. On their arrival, Commo-
dore Morris made the Signal (or tLe boats of the blockading Neu
dor; (viz. Leopard, Eurytilul, Leda, Mae, Chiffoene, Autumn,
Lark and Harpy.) to airemble on board the Leopard, at p P. M.
manned and armed. There had been a moderate breeze front
E. N. E. all the day, but, u the evening apprasehed, k gredeally
died away, and at midnight it fell calm : nothing, therefeett, could
be avempted—the kips which had got ender weigh were obliged
to anchor, and the boats returned on board. Had the brows
continued, every thing would hav teemed as favourable far the
Expedition as its Proj odors could have dared. The *fog We
was at its height about one o'clock—the water emmek, do not
aztremcly darik, and only ten of the cnemy's gun boats were with-
out the harbour; but the Bangs:sic were &Adds MT •ffelsed
of what was going.on, and well prepared for rearmost, as we ob.
reeved lights at their numerous battenc; long after midnight, end
the neat morning we difeuvered that they bedew out an addldseell
force of ten brigs, and forty-two Wares, making in al latrurte
Lail, which were moored unto the mouth of the harbour la the
Broiledft pardon for its defence.
The enemy's emit exhibits a molt interefting rune cif beide end
elution. They have now toy velf.Loot of Bovines, and dose
3o more lying off Vimmorcaux : 25 of the former are bri; a, yet
the fared of malts in the harbour does not appear to be Ignited In
the Icel. The Calm continued the whole of yederdry, and as
attempt to Ink the flossoildps mutt now at all evens be ddleeld
till We next (ming sides ; if net altogether abastiossed.
The mouth of the Harbour of Boulogne is perfectly dry at WM
water, and the foundation is fo hard tint we often diem carte
and waggons paling to and fro, and people walking ac-Ors it at a
confiderab,e diftance from the Pier Heads ; of work, Should the
bony mares be placed there, (the wooden care of the Sipe hir-
rounds. them being burnt, as Is intended.) they would lie capered
for fosse hours of the day and night, and could be esti hissed
by gen-powder aad removed piece by place, re as malt aduskably
to edit in the repair of the Pier Head, and Ia the owitredise
• formidable battery bard-by at low water, at which the Mid
arc at thls moment very bully employed.
Should the bone (hips take the 7round more rasa' how der
entrance of the harbour, It is the opinion of many, dm lbw
would yet he ample (pace for the (mail daft Of ve&k, wile! doss
tun enter this port, to find a wady padage at the peeper OW el
tide as ;dui, sod that aril/dal rocks would not oceans than the
leak hinderance or annoyance.

The Ditiot Nes armed dap of war, Capt. ICam, paired by Got.
tenburgb au the tit MR. for f• Mixt r. with the moray Man Lektt.
The William, Ottaway, of Nrw York, from St. Mk:had'. to
Peterlbargh, Is put into Dover harbour with the Ws el seders
and alga
The jenny, from Pon.rosenk Mathias:al' earmad
and carried into Var.

L4W INTELLIGENCE,.

COUiti' OP ZING. BENCH, AI'RTI. i 6.

THE KING a. 3TEPHENS, ESQ ASU ANOTHER..
EAST lERE• PICUL•SIOS.—Phis WAS a Criminal
Information against James Stephens, Ely. and John
Agnew, Efq. Dating, that on the ill of January,
1'94, and (or a long fpace of time then next enfo.
until the 29th of November, 1795, the (retro
e,.int Stephens held and exercifed the office of Super-
vifor of the Province of Malahar, in the EAR Indies;
and the defendant Agnew, the office of Commercial
Refident at Calicut, in the Eall Indies, under the
United Company of Merchants of England trading
to the Eaft Indies. That being fuch Britifh fubjeds,
the defendants, while they held and exercifed the
faid offices, and while they relided in the Eaft Indies,
did, before the filing this information, to wit, on the
19th November, 1795, receive from a certain perfon
in the Eaft Indies, called the Samonry, otherwife
the Zamorin Rajah, a large fum of money, namely,
100,000 rupees, of the value of 12,5001. as a gift
and precut ; whereby, and by force of the flame,
611 committed extortion, and forfeited the fum of
2,500 t There were counts for demanding and re-
ceiving other funs of the Rajah.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL Dated the cafe on the
p.m of the Crown. He expatiated opon the offence
of extortion by the fervants of Government, and its
evil tendency in territories In remote from the mo-
ther country as our Eall India poffeffions, and infer-
red the extreme difficulty of' proving its commiffien
to. the fatisfadion of a Jury. In the prefent inftance,
he entertained no doubt that the charge would be
titbdantiated againft both the defendants. He Dated
that the Sovereignty of Malabar formetly belonged
tii the late Tippuo Sultaun, atter whole deceafc it
was ceded to the Eaft India Company. who appoint-
ed perfume, fubjea to the controul of the Prefidency
of Bombay, to examine into the Date of its revenues.
At this time the province of Malabar was divided
into a' gteat number of Principalities, having cer-
tain hereditary Princes tributary to the Sovereign
power. 'list chief of theft Principalities belonged
to Ott Zamorin Family, who were Hindoos. They
bald literal valuable diftrias. and were the moll
important of the tributary Princes. Upon the ceffion
of the Malabar country, Governor Duncan deter-
Mined that the revenues fhould l collected by offi•
eeri of the Company, in conjuntiou with the native
Princes, and the whole paid into the Company's
Treafury. hem whence a part was afterwards ailed
for Ilse lupport of the Rajahs and their families, and
tlr thaintenance of their dignity. Such was the
fyllent parfued with regard to the ues at the
time the defendants were appointed to their refpec-
tive offices, but it was afterwards determined by the
Governor and Council that the Native Princes Humid
be put into polfeffion of their territories, under leafes,
fur certain rents to be paid to the Company. The
arrangement of this plan was committed to the de-
fendants, who, abufing the troll repaid in them by
die Company. extorted bribes and prefents from a
Waiter of the tributary Princes. particularly the
Acis of Paulghant, the Coolparah of Nahir. the
Rajah of Cochin, the Rajah of Coormmaed, and
from Zamorin, for putting them into pofreffion of
their countries, in purfuance cf the orders they had
lecaived from the Governor General, through the
Government of Bombay. The extortion with re-
gard to the Zamorin had-been feleßcil as the fuhjr&
df prOtcution, not only on account of the magnitude
dir ow Ann, but becaufe the fat was more eafy of
anti pion& it having been paid by Sharmnuth
Vita, the Prime Minifter, or Set-wadi Karrighur of
tfilbetill. Having Rated there circumaances, he

proceeded to prove—them.
The evidence conGfled entirely of examinations
taken in the EaR Indies, before a CommilLon ap.
pointed for the purple of enquiring into the abufes
praillifed in the name of the Company.
Mr. PLUMP' and Mr. DALLAS addrefTed the Jnry
on behalf of the defendants—they contended that
the evidence of the Rajah's agents, upon which the
chirge was founded, was not entitled to credibility;
that they were interetled in the decifion, as well As
the Rajah himfelf, who doubtlefs expeEted, upon the
cooviElion of the defendants, the fums they were fup-
pofed toltave received as prefents. They adverted
to the very excellent and very honourable charaaer
thealefendants had fullained while in ittclia, and ar-
gued the improbability et their contrasening the
laws eflablifhed for the protettien of the natives.—
' The defence was not fupported by ally evidence, ti-
ther oral or written.
The ATI-MINTY GILMIII L replied, contending
that-his propeCtion of the d.:tenclants guilt had been
ilidintlly posted, and by no means ccntradincd ;
and that the Juty had therefore to alternativ.: but
to determine in favour of the Crown.
flee jory deliberated a thou time. and returned a
terdlit of guilty against both delendants.
. This trial wasespcel.:d to have occupied nem'''. 24,
Maus, but the defendants' Counts' not calling any
wanefie., materially abltraEted from its continuance

—it onlilAtted nine in the morning till near
ele,en at night.
The delendAnts will he brought up for ju.-Igment in
the coml.: of the entuibg Term, ulna cunsmenct.
on