Star.
London, England, 1807-10-20 00:00:00

COURT MARTIAL AT HALIFAX.

The Trial of is N at N RATFORD, which we ?aid before our Readers
in the STAR of Friday, was given from the Copy printed at
Halifax. We now lay before our Readers the following Re
marks which were fubjoiued to the printed copy:

HALIFAX, SFPfEII4I3ER 5, 0107.

While the American newfpapers have, for two
months part, echoed and re-echoed the affair of the
Leopard and Chefapeak—while Town lk.leetiogs has e
been affembled throughout the Union, and firings
Refolutions framed, in which each have endeavoured
to out-do the others in violence and invective againtl
the Britith Navy and Government ;—the Prefident
of the United States, inffead of dildnfing the real
(late of fails, which was in his poireffinn, and the
difclofure of which would have furnifhed the public
mind with a j•ill ground of thinking and aEtini,,, has,
by the Proclamation he iffued (though couched in
terms of infidious moderation) milled the public
mind ; increafed the ferment occ:.fioned by the par.
tial knowledge of the facts which led to the tranfac-
tion complained of, and, to isle his favourite philofo-
phical expreflon, fet all parties afl )at on " the tern.
elixirs Sea of Liberty."
As the violence of the (lorm has in tome meafure
rubfided, the Refolntions, Orations, and Toafts, gone
liarmlefsiy by, it is highly probable, that plain, un-
difguifed fads may now be lillened to ; and that the
minds of men, which have been excited to indignant
exprelßons, by &Ile Ilaiements of fads, may feel the
deception that has been praaifed on them, and turn
with no lets indignation on their deceivers. If this
fometimes takes place in countries where the will of
the people is not the fupreme law, it is much more
likely to happen in a country, where all power ema-
nates from the people; and where liberty is indulged
to the extreme of licenlioufnefs.

In the Precl4mati.n ifrued by Mr. Jefferfon, he
Rates—" that this enormity was not only without
provocation or tutiifiahle caufe, but was committed
for the avowed purrore cf taking by force, from a
ail) of war of the United States, a part of her crew ;
and that no circumilance might be wanting to mark
its charaßer, it had been previoufly afcertained that
the feamen demanded were native Citizens of the
United States."

Would not any person fuppofe, from this flatement
of the Prclident, that the contelt between the Len
paid and Chtfapeak, was fulely occafinned by the
demand of two or three feamen, whn beb.re the fail-
ing of the Chtfo2eak, had been dearly afcertained
to be Citizens of the United States ?

Would it be ruppored, for a moment, that the fol.
towin7 order of the Hon. Vice Admiral Berkeley, a
copy of which was delivered to Commodore Barron,
could hate been in his pa-Orton ? Or, can it be
imagined that Commodore Btrtro, in making his
Report to the of this t6ui Ptould have
omitted to mike that Order a part of his Report ?
By the. Hon:oral-1e GtORCE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, Vice-Ad-
miral of the White, and Commander in Chiet of hls Majefiy's
Ships and Verels employed in the Riv, r St. Lawrence, along
the Coait of Nova Scotia, the lOands of St. John and Cape Bre-
ton, the Bay of Fundy , ar.d at and about the Bland of Bermuda,
cr Somers' Mauls.

Whereas many feamen, fubjedts of his Britannic Majefty, and
(crying in his 1\1,,j; fty's fhips and veffels, as per margin•, while at
anchor in the Chefapeak, defected and entered on board the United
States frigate the Chefapeak, and openly paraded the ftreets of
Norfolk, in fight of their Officers, under the Imerican liar, pro-
idled by the Magiftrates of the town, and the recruiting-officer
belonging to the above-mentioned American frigate ; which Ma-
pirates and Naval Officer refufcd giving them up, although dc-
sanded by his Britannic Majefty's Conful, as well as the Captains of
the (hips from which the Paid men bad defected—The Captains and
Commanders of his Majefty's Ships and Veffels under my corn•
aland,are therefore hereby required and dire Red, in cafe of meet •
Jag with the American frigate Chefapeak, at Sea, and without the
limits of the United States, to thew to the Captain of her this
Order, and to require to fearcli his (hip for the dfcrters from the
befors•mantioncd (hips. and to proceed and fearch for the fame;
and if a fimilar demand should be made by the American, he is to
be permitted to fearch for any &fetters from their fervice, accord-
ing to the cuftoms and ufage cf ciWlized Nations, on terms of
peace and amity wi h each other.
Given under my hand at Halfaz, Nova Scotia, the eft day
June, 1807. (Signed) O. C. CERKELCY.
To tile refpczkive Captains and Commanders of his Majefty's
Ships and Vsffelt on the North American Station.

The above order of the Admiral, under which
Captain Humphreys aaed, clearly thews, that it was
not two or three men he wai in (weft of, but defer.
ters from his Msjelly's (hips Belle;fle, B.:Ilona, Tri.
umph, Ch!cl,e(ter, Halifax, and Zenobia (cutter.)
The faCts developed in the intereaing trial of
Jeokin Raiford, 'hew, beyond all controverfy, that
defertirms from his Majeay's (hips in the Chefipeak,
have been molt fhamefully encouraged, and that the
conduft of the American officers employed in their
recruiting fervice, has been fuch; that they have not
only inlilied our men under the very eye of their of-
Leers, but when applied to for the delivery of them,
their anfwets have been uniformly evafive and preva•
heating.
The Prefident alert', " that this enormity was
vithout provocation or juftifiable caufe," and adds,
" that hofptality under fuch circumflances ceafes to be
+duty."
Thefe affertions we will examine feparately :—and
in order completely to refute the firlt we (hall merely
Hate the- treatment which Captain Stopford, of his
Majelly's (hip Chichefter, received :
. Early in February, the Commandant of the Ame•
bean Fort Nelfon, accompanied by a file of men,
called at Captain Stopford's lodgings, and informed
/um that three men had deferted from the Fort, and
were on board his (hip, and requetted they might be 1
delivered up. Captain Stopford infiantly complied
with the requea of the American Commandant—
fent an order to fearch the (hip, and on its being re•
Ported to him that the men could not be found, he
went on board hirnfelf, had his crew mullered, and
the Ihip fo effectually infpeEled, that two of the men
were found concealed on board, and the other in a
tote houfe contiguous. They were immediately de-
livered up to their officer, and taken to the Fort:—
And, what renders this tranfasion mote deferving
if notice, is, that of the men delivered up, one Was
as Iranian, and another a native of Manchelter.—
Mr. Brooks, mid(bipman, Rating to Captain Saun- 1
dens that he thought it wrong to deliver up thefe men
al the Americans would not deliver up Britifh defer
lets, was immediately put under an eft by Captain
St ePford,who was determined not to be prevented
by the mirconduft of others, from doing what he
thought was proper and gentlemanly.
) Let us now minutely attend to the condo& of Cap-
tain Stopford on this occafion : Did be enter into a
.Belkiflt. &Hone 3 Triumph, Cllcllefter, Halifax, and Za-)
"hu, (Mar).

nice difeuMon of the right he had to retain thefe
American deferters ? Did he go with Mr. Maddifon,
into all the windings and turnings, contained in his
nonfeofical jargon of inflruCtionu tranfmitted on this
fuhje& to Mr. Monroe ? Or, did he urge a reafon,
which he might with more propriety have offered,
That the men in queflion were born in his Majefly's
dominions ?—Na : hi had recourfe to none of thefe
fubterfuges. He felt as an officer ought to feel on
fuch an occafion : he honourably did as he would
with to be done by—and as far as refpeEted the right
there men might have to hi• proteCtion as Britifh Cub
jeEts, he juftly confidered them as Renegadnes, who
deferred neither the confidence or protection of either
country.
We will now contrail the conduel of Captain Stop.
ford, with the fhameful treatment he afterwards re-
ceived from the American Government :

Wnen the Chicheßer left the Welk Indies, four
men—two belonging to the Royal Artillery, one to
the 15th regiment, and cne to the 37th, who had
been unwell, but were getting into a Rate of eon-
valefcence, were fent on board her, that in a voyage
to the States, their recovery might be perfetted.—
Thefe men deferted from the Chiehelter, and, with
their &kith uniforms on, entered into the American
fet vice. They were feen on fhore after they had en-
tered, by the Sejeant of Marines of the Chichester,
and one I,f them had the impudence to offer to {hake
hands with him, but he rejeded h;rs offer with be•
coming contempt.
There men .were applied for by Capt. Douglas,
the Commanding Officer of the fquadron in the
Chefapeak, and the anfwer he received was, if any
fuch men had enliaed, they were gone up the coun-
try with a detachment.

Did the Gentlemanly condo& rf Captain Stopford
deferve fuch a return as this ? Will Mr. Jefferfon
pretend that fuch treatment did net furniffi jult caufe
of offence an.: provocation ? If he can reconcile fo
bafe a tranfa6tion to modern maxims of philofophy,
we ought to be thankful that the plain common fenfe
of the country we inhabit, is not yet fo perverted, and
that the terms right and wrong, hindinfr and unkindnefi,
(till retain their priper and appropriate meanings.
We will now notice the cafe of the Halifax :—A
Kdfhipman and five men are fent from that (hip to
weigh the kedge anchor. Thole men fuddenly take
poffeffinn of the boat, feize upon their officer, whom
they threaten to kill, and reach the American More.
Though the circumliances attending their defertion
are peculiarly aggravating, yet they are no fooner
landed, than they are vilified by the American re
cruising officer, Lieutenant Sinclair ; Lord Townf.
bend comes on (bore, fees his men parading the
ftreets of Isllrfolk, with the American flag—makes
application to the authority there, through the Bii.
tilt Conful, for the &livery of them, with3ut tad.
One of the men would willingly have returned with
him, had he not been prevented by the unfortunate
man, who on Mond.ty last fuffered for his crime.—
He finally applies to Lieutenant Sinclair, and offers,
if permitt.xl to go into the rendezvous, to point out
the men, but obtains no fistisfaelion, and receives the
evafive, prevaricating aniwer, that he knew of no
men who had entered, of the names his Lord(hip
mentioned.

The American (loop of war, Warp, which failed
the beginning of June, with the Prelident's objedlions
to the pending treaty,as an additional proof of ft itndly
intention, carried with her three Briti(h deferters.

A number of men deferted from the refpeetive
(hips named in the Admiral's order, and in no in -
fiance have they been given up in confequence of the
application made for them, but have been encourag
ed and harblured in their defection, and the molt of
them entered into the American naval fervice.

In fort , the defertions from our fquadron in the
Chefapeak have been regularly and fyßematically
encouraged, and, in too many initances, has infult
been added to injury. And, yet, fays Mr. Jefferfon,
" this enormity was without provocation, or jullifiable eau fe."
Would the Commandant of Fort Nelfon have
thought as Mr. Jeffcrfon does, if Captain Stopford
had fel-died to have given up his deferters when he
applied for them ? Would he have been fatisfied if
Captain Stopford had told him, that no men of the
names he e:tquired for were entered for his flip, if
the very men were at the time, in defiance of him,
parading the deck of the Chicheller ? And would it
have exalted his opinion of Captain Stopford, if he
had known that the names of the men had been
c;:anged by his advice, that he might be furnifhed
with a reply fo ungentleTnanly and evafive ?
We wilh the American naval officers, among whom
are many men of honour, to anfwer thefe queflions,
and candidly acknowiedge what would have been
their feelings had the cafe been reverfed, and they
placed in the fame fituation ? Would they have
thought, as Mr. Jetferfon does, that they had no
ground of offence or provocation ? We are fatisfied
that not only they, but the feelings of all mankind,
will ant wee the quettion with becoming indignation.
Under thefe circumflances, what courfe was left
to the Commander in Chief of his Majeßy's fquadron
oa this Ration to purfue, but either to fuffer his (hips
to be difmantled in the American harbours, where
filch infidiour hoffitality was afforded them, or to take
the very Rep he did, by which he fhould not only put
an immediate flop t o the injury,but bring this yid ion
to a determinate iffue between the two Nations.

The theatre for the dcciflon of this important
queflion, was the moil appropriate that could have
been chofen—the Open Ocean—that the appeal and the
juflice of it, might not only be made to the two na•
Lions, but to the univerfe. In this Court of Honour,
no quibbling civilians were admitted. The complaint
was (imply Rated in the Admiral's Order, (which
we have .already inferted) and tranfmitted to Com-
modore Barron, with a polite note from Captain
Humphreys,
To this demand Commodore Barron replies—gl I
know of no filch men as you defcribe ; the officers
that were on the recruiting fervice f rr this fhip, were
particularly inftrueled by. the Government, through
me, not to enter deferters from his Britannic Ma-
jelly's (hips ; nor do 1 know of any being here."
The demand being made, and the reply given, the
facts were completely at Wire between the parties.—
And what was the refult ? That Jenkin Raeford, a
deferter from his Majelty's fhip Halifax, one of the
fhips named in the Admiral's Order, was found on
board the Chefapeak. And that William Ware,
Daniel Martin, and John Strachan, three deferters
from his Majeliy's Chip Melampus, (a fhip nut named
in the Admiral', Order, but coming within the

fpirit of ir) weie alio f•in.nd on board, and very .pra.
pert,' taken out by Captain Huinphreyi.
How can Commodore Barron lock linnourable
men in the face after a dildolure like this ? le was in
,
tne open view of the univerfe, puffing the feat to all the
former evalivr, prevaricating anfwers, that our Offi-
cers had received un application fur their deferters :
Nor can all the waters of Lethe blot out the 6ifgrace.
lithe American Government had, in fincerity and
good faith, iffued the order forbidding deferters from
Britifh (hips tl be coned on board the Chefapeak,
would not Mr. Jefferfon have in(antly ordered a
Court of Enquiry, to know why that order had been
difobeyed, arid to find out the culprits who had dared
by their difubedience of fo falutary a regulation, to
involve two countries in a conteft, the great mats
of the inhabitants of which lincerely with to be at
peace with each other ? Has any filch meafare been
adopted, or any difclofure of the circumaances
which led to this tranfaaion, been made by the Ame-
rican Government ? And are not many of the Ame-
rican papers lout in their complaints at the niytle-
rious fecrecy obferved on this occafi )n ? Does it not
look too much like a defign to pufh the public mind,
blind folded, to extremities ?
_ _

If doubt can (till rzmain in the mind of any per.
fon, whether Commodore Barron knew that the men
who were taken out of his !hip were Br kith deferters,
we copy the following cstraas from their own volun•
tart' confeflions :

John Strachan, after giving an account of his de.
r fertion from the Melsmpus, the ill of February, in
company with Ware, Martin, and Little, lays,
" they went to Not folk,where he, Martin, and Ware
' entered for the Chefapeak ; that he knew the faces
of feveral, Englifbmcn on board the Chefapeake, but
did not know their names—that Comma:re Barron
promifid to proteil Km."
William Ware far, " that when they came before
,Commodore Barron, at the naval yard at Wathing-
ton, he promilid to prottel them, although they were clver-
ters from an Angly6 man el war."
Jenkin Raiford, before his execution, acknowledg-
ed " that he war born in London, that he voluntarily
entered into his blajetty's fervice—that he defeited
in the jolly boat of the Halifax, in company with
George North, captain of the main top, Henry
Sauaders, boatfwain's mate, Richard Hubert, fail
maker, and another man whole name he did nut
know—that they all entered at Norfolk fur the Che-
fapeak frigate, and afterwards joined her at the Fe
deral City—that in a fhort time Richard Hobert ran
away, and was leer. at Alexandria by force ..f the
crew, about three days after , and that George
North and Henry Saunders ran away during the
time the [hip was coming down the river. That
Richard Hubert wac from Liverpo'l, and formerly
belonged to the Leander, and that Saunders was an
Irifhman. On his defence, Rat ford laid " that at
the time of their entering fir the Chefapeak, Lieute-
nant Sinclair afked them, if they had not a fecond
name ?" On this fuggertion Raiford altered his
name to Wilfun, and was fo entered on the Chefa-
peak's books. To this circurnflance it is owing, that
the names of North and Saunders were not to be
found in the inoks, and to their having deferred on
the paffage of the Chefapeak from kVathington to
Norfolk, is alt.() owing that they were not, like Rat-
ford, found hid in the coal hole of that frigate.—
What protediim Commodore Barron, after all his
promifes, afforded to there deluded; iinhappy men,
his own feelings mull long befoie this time have fug-
gelled to him.
After the preceding flatement of fads, we believe
it will be veirc difficult fcr Mr. Jefferfon to fati•l y any
man "that this enormity was without provocation or juf
table caufc."
We Nall now briefly notice his other affertion, "that
hofpitality under fuch ei,-,ualflances ceerf.7 to be a duty."
After the flatement ve have given of the treatment
our fquadron received in the Chefapeak, it will na-
turally be enquired, " What can Mr. Jefferfon mean
by hofpitality ?" It is true that our (hips were fur-
niflsed with provifions in the Chefapeak ; and as far
as this hofpitality extended, an equivalent re:urn was
conflantly made in the pundual and regular pay-
ment for thole prow: lions ; and thus this account of
hofpitality was very nearly balanced. But were thole
fupplies to be put in competition with the daily in-
jury received by the encouragement of our men to
defertion ? Would Mr. Jefferfon, if invited to a ban-
qnet, come away very much delighted with the hofpi.
talky of his holt, if he found that while he was par.
taking cf hi, viands, he had enticed from hip duty a
favourite fervant ? Urns remonttrating at the injury
he flsould be coolly told—the law will proted me in
what I have done—would he be able to contain his
refentment ? or Would he be very defirous of parta-
king again of fuck hofpitality ?
Exadly refembling t!,.ir, is the hofpitality that cur
fquadron has been excluded from by the Prelident's
proclamation.

The kindeß Rep Mr. Jefferfon could have taken,
would have been to have Hilted' this proclamation
fome months ago. A number of feamen, the greateß
part of whom are now lamenting their folly in aban•
doning their country's Rag, would have been in our
fervice, and the life of the unhappy man preferved,
whole fate we hope will be a warning to others.
While therefore it than be necelTary for our (hips
to remain in the Chefapeak, we fincerely with that
their communication with the American fly-re may
remain interdicted, and tl.at the mil-chin:pus hofpitality
fo vaunted of by the Prefident, may continue to be
Withheld from them.

In the pi-dent eventful [late of the world, the Bti-
tifh Navy, in the conrfe of Providence, forms the
only barrier between France and Univerfal Empire.
That this barrier may not be either weakened or de.
firoyed, ought not only to be the with of Great Bri.
taro, but of America alfo. Their rulers may be at
prefent fafcinated with French viaories, or they may
be deceived by French intrigues; but if they do not
more carefully look to the evils that are impending,
it is highly probable, the day is not far diflanr, when
the will feel the effeas of their blindnefs and temerity.
We will now clofe thefe remarks with a few obfer-
vations on another expretlion in the Prefident's Pro.
clamation, where he fays,--,, it had been previnufly
afcertained, (that before the failing of the Chefa-
peak) that the (carom demanded were native Citi.
zens of the United States."

This affertion we doubt, and lot the fcllovrivg rea
fon : —in looking into the official paper publifhed at
Wafhington, after fame very indelicate remarks, as
they rcfped Mr. Etfkine, the Britith Minitier, and of

the eornmonicitinns with hio...,relative to Brilifh de-
fetters, it gives the defcriptions and places of birth of
I 'William Ware, Daniel Martin, John Strachao, Jahn
Little, alias Francis, and Ambrofe Watts, as Hated
to the American Government before the failing of
the Chefapeak, by Commodore Barron, who, it is
Paid, had been directed to afcertain their ci.izenfhip.
That thefe defcriprinhs were merely taken from the
declarations of the men themfelves, and that Com-
modore Barron and the Ame:ican G,,weroment took
no further trouble in the bufinefs, be rendered
evident to all who do mot choofe to flint their eyes,
by the fenrence which immediately follows the ab 'ye
defcription, in the Wellington Official Gazette, which
Pays, " that the report is in train, (that is, Commo-
dore .Barron's report, before the failing of the Chefa•
peak) to be formally verified by a recurrence to the
forams of evidence pointed out by the feamen refpeBively."
Now, can any thing be clearer, than that this re-
port of Commodore Barron's was not verified before
the failing of the Chefapeak ? If it was, it is Purely a
work of fopererogation to go about the vet ification
of it now: the fafts, once clearly afcertainei by good
evidence, would be for ever ellablifhed. We could
drengthen thefe obfervations by the tedirnony of the
unhappy men themfelves, and prove, if any prcof
was w :ming, that Commodore Barron went through
the ceremony of afking them a few qnelli m,7, and
thus ended the I lcmn enquiry he was direCted to
make, and on this folemn enquiry alone refis Mr.
Jeffet fun's affertion, " that it had been previoely after.
t tined, they were native cititeut."
If therefore we take this alter tion of the Prefident,
and Couple it with Commodore Barron's reply to
Captain Humphreys, and the whole train of prevail.
cations and orations that have marked every flags
of this bufinefe, we (hall find in 11.-w little edimation
the peace of the two court!: its has been held by the
American Government : for the (sets we have dated
fpeak forcibly to the under flandinw t t every Irian.
One obfervation more, and we (hill at prefent
mils the fubjeet.
The men whole citizenship Mr. Jefferf n attempts
to verify, belonged to his Majefly's (hip MELAMPUS,
a (hip not named in the Admiral's order under which
Captain Humphreys anted. And this cireurnflance
totally deltroys the Aire' rion of Mr. Jefferfon, that it
was for the apprehenfion of thole 'tory men this enor-
mity was committed. The Mst.a m PUS and her men
were totally out of the queflirn at iffue between the
two (hips. It would certainly have (hewn fome de-
gree of fairnefs, if ro this report of Commodore Bar-
ron, the pedigree of John Wilfn, alias Jer.Lnßatford,
Richard Hubert, George North, and Booty Saun-
de, s had been added. Their men all jt ined the (hip
at Wafhii.gton, and failed in her from thence. It is
true their defertion prevented their being found on
board the Chefapeak, but this does not render the
condußors of this flurreful prevaricating traufaelion
leis criminal.

We omit many other fans which might be urged
on this occafi-n, as they will more properly he con-
reeled with the cafe of the u:ifertuna:e men who arc
)et to take their trials.

The above Ilatement of faits is given, not to irri-
tate or widen the breach between two nations,
who ought to be in amity with each other—who,
fhoold a contell enfue, might materially mar their
mutual profperity, without deriving any benefit from
that contelt : but, by Ipreading all the citcumfiances
minutely before them, to give all patties inopportu-
nity impartial:y to examine the cafe ; and we are con-
fidently perfuaded, that all candid men will at length
agree with us ; that if Mr. Maddif:,n's quibbling pro-
duelions on the Law cf Natkns, had been thrown
into the fire, a little fincerity and plain dealing fublii-
tuted in the place cf the evalions which have mat ked
every part of this tranfitflion, and the fame undif-
guited courrefy and hofpitality praftifed, which mark-
ed the conduit of Captain Sc' pford, the harmony of
the two oath ns would never have been interrupted,
and the c•mmercial profperity clbuth, gone hand in
hand with each other.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE CALAMITY AV
SADLER% WELLS.

During the time of the general confternation from the (Aft. alarm
of fire, levcral pe:.ple endeavoured by different mean‘ to grt from
the g dlcry into the pit.—fume got over the woodwork in front of
the gallery, and let themfelvcs drop down in.() the pit ; one fe.
male, whole name we have not hcard,lowered he Kell dawn front
the gallery into the pit by mrans of the chin ic liac, and rfrapel
unhurt ; lonic other., made defperate by the fright jumped
Itraight down without any he(tation. Amoaif there. tv..re Ma-
ria King, about 18 years of age, the daughter of .1 pc,rk butcher in
Somer's Town, her arms arc bruifed, her head is cut, ai,cl her hack
is fo ftverely injured that it cannot yet to.• arc...rained whe.thrr the
fpinsl bone is Hured pail recovery or not. '1 he pour young girl
was op Sunday in the molt pitithle Rate.
.....

William Baker, between t a and 1 a years old, fon of a foreman
to the New River Company, who refides in Br tai Ada ftrert, &g-
-ale-bridge, alfo jumped plump over from the gallery to the pit
Molt providentially be was caught by fume ma., in the pit, and did
not receive the fmalleft injury

Hannah Godfrey, a little 'gill about is years old, the daughter
of a poor widow, at No t, Field ftreet. Battle-bridge, alfd leaped
from the front of the gallery. A failor who was ID the pit caught
her in his arms, and the efcaped unhurt.

Mary Ann, ate fißer of the above, was dreadfully (queued upon
the ft:irs, but is in a fair way of 1-emery.
Elizabeth, the drighter of William Monk, a Meffinger at the
War Office, bad her arms torn, and her elicit violently bruifed, hut
is not in a danrrous Rate. Her brother, a little boy, jumped out
of a window &,(: to the gallery, that looks into the footway out-
tide of the Theatre, and molt miraculoufly elcaped with only tome
flight b-uifes.
But the molt remarkable and the molt aff...eling accident that
occurred was that which betel Mr. Chilkey, of Cattle flreet, Ox-
ford ftrect, and Sarah his wife. The wife hung rou.d the hufbancra
neck—he clafped her round the wailt. They were both thrown
down by the crowd, and fo fevercly trampled upon. that they were
taken up apparently in a lifelefs Rate. When they were taken
into the prollietor's houfe at Sadler 's Wells, a furgeon opened a
vein in the arm of the wife, but no blood followed. The prole&
fional gentleman then breathed a vein in the arm of the hufband;
a few drops of blood iffued from the fpot ; the reviving man had
a weak convulfive (hock, rouged as If from a trance, and became
completely reanimated. But the fir ft °Heel that prefented itfelf
to his weak and bewildered finks was the body of his dead wife,
Exhaufted as he was, it was impoffible for human twture entirely to
witl.ftand the fhcck. It was with the uttnoft difficulty that the
poor man was prevented from relapfing into his former flue of
infenfihility. Notwithflandlog all the efforts of the proftißanal
gentlemen that attended him, he expired ye derday evening.
It is impoffible to WWI all the different incident. that occurred
at a time of fuel) alarm and confufion as that mutt have been when
a Theatre was crowded to 0v: stowing, and a fcandaltats unfoun-
ded alarm of fire was given. But it may tend to expofe the eon•
duet of tome who were in the Theatre at the time, and perhaps
may fet the Peace Officers on the alert, and lead to the detetftion
of the mifereants, when we relate that a young Irian of the name
of Jones, a faibm, was knocked down and robbed of his watch,
about five guineas in calla, and his protedien. The bwediffi (allot
who identified the body of Caroline Terrill, was alfo robbed in the
gallery. The curtain bad dropped for the water fcene when the
riot began ; and if it had commenced ten minutes later, many of
the audience Inuit have been drowned in getting on the Rage.

SPORTING. INTALLIGEN GE.

DUMMIES, OCTOBER 13.

Tuefday, the plate of too guineas, for all ages, four mile heats,
was run for, and son by
Mr Brandllng's bay mare Fortuna - I I
My LonfdaleN grey colt Sultan - a dr
Lord Monrgomerie's bay horfe Caleb (trotetn dr
Wedoefday, a plate of
,yd for three and four years old, two
mile heats,was run for, and won by

Mr Nalton's bay cult Ranger - z s
Mr !Merton's brown colt Rofeden . 2 3
Mr Bailey's chef:ut con Streamer - 3 2
Air Lonfdale'a grey colt Sultan - dr
No horfes belonging to the gentlemen of tlic Dumfries Yeo-
manry Cavalry being booked, there was no race for the cup ad-
vertifed for them.
Thurfday, a plate of sol for all ages, four mile heats, was run
for, and won by
Mr Loofdrles grey filly Peters • 3 i r
Mr Nation's bay colt Ranger - i 2 3
Mr Brand Log's bay mare Fortuna - 2 3dr
Lord Montgomerie% bay colt Caleb QLiorem dr ,
Friday, a plate of sol for all ages, three mile beau, was tun for
and won by
Mr R. 1.. Hodgfon's bay mare Mifs De Coy
Lord Montgomcries grey colt, by Sir Charles a a
Mr. Merton's brown colt Rofeden . 3 3
Mr. George Cununines bay gelding Little Bob 4 dr
Sir J. Johatton's bay borfe Young Competitor 5 dr
Of cneral Wanyfs's brown horfc - clii.
Saturday, nose of the beaten horfes being entered,
the people were arnufed with a hack race, two foot
races, and a rack race, which afforded confiderable
fport.
The races this year were, upon the whole, very
good ones ; but that on Thurfday afforded mon ex.
selleut fport, the heats being well contened, and the
knowing ones completely taken in.
fa iday, the Dumfries and Galloway Hunt gave an
elegant ball and flipper; the latter, furnifhed by Mr.
Kt-rcurao of the King's Arms, confined of all the
delicacies of the feafon, and the wines were excellent.
- - -

I I

The public breakfails, at the Attembly Room,
during the week, were provided by Mr. James
M,CLuaa, who managed that department highly to
the fatithuftion of thete that attended.

MA.RQ_UIS WELLESLEY.

(Ne. Xt.)
It his been frequently remarked as a leading trai
in our national charater, that no people in the world
are fooner deceived than the Englifh, by any im-
poftor btingiog forward, in a plaufible manner, a
tale of calumny, however improbable, particularly
, if direited agaiclt a perfon of exalted rank; and, on
the other hai.d, it has feldom occurred, that thefe
prejudices have not been removed by a plain inquiry
into faits, when, from the natural good lick and'
love of juftice inherent in the breath of my country.
men, an interelt is excited in favour of the calum-
niated, efpecially in the minds of thole who in the
Lilt infiance were impofed upon.
There is certainly one point apparently requiring
elucidation, viz. the reafon why the Court of Direc
tors, if not altogether inimical; are neverthelefs
p fed to remain neuter, while thefe horrid tales of
cruelty and oppreflidn are brought forward again('
the hitherto greatly injured Cubic& of there letters.
With the Colonial Sy(teat of Great Britain, in fo
far as refpeas the Weti Indies, moll of your Reader
are acquainted; the planters are not only not per-
mitted to difpofe of their produce to neutrals, but
compelled by the Legiflature to flip the whole to
Great Britain. If neutrals were permitted to pur-
chafe the produce as in Britith India, there would
not have exifled any neceflity for fuch an unfavour-
able report (At the prefent (late of the Well India
Viands, as was lately made public. In conk-
quence of the arrival of feveral Atherican (hips'
at Calcutta from London, laden with ballaft and
buliion, without a fiogle article of merchandi./..r,
the general fubjeft of commerce came under the
confideration of the Governor General ; when the
Noble Marquis, although fenfible of the advantage
the country under his adminiftration muff derive,
froth the importation of fuch bullion, deemed it ex-
pedient to fuggeft to the Court of Direaors the
propriety of permitting the revenge of Great Britain
to be bt.nefited by an inereafed import from Britilk
India ; and the more particularly as the rent roll of
their owu cave mull be annually increafed, by bring-
ing into cultivation an additional quantity of land to
raife fuch produce, for it may be .eftimated there is
throughout the polfefSorts, a greater track
of land lying waft, adapted to the growth of
coffee, fugar, tobacco and other articles, than is cru-
tallied in this United Kingdom, exclufive of forells,
which would fnpply more timber than would be
requifite to rebuild every (hip in the Brides navy.
Above two hundred tboufand acres of land are i
annually cultivated at prefent in Britifit India with
the indigo plant, whereby the Eaft India Company,
as Lords of the Soil, receive an annual furplus re-
venue of above thirty tboufand pounds fterling—
p,oool• beyond what they would obtain, if the fame
land was cultivated with grain, whereof the quantity
grown admits of an annual export of above one hun-
dred thoufand tons from the port of Calcutta, more
than was ever Blipped during the Adminiflration of
the late Marquis Cornwallis.
In a tolerable harveft it is not mutual in the inte-
rior part of Bengal, for the cultivators to offer rao
to t6olbs. of rice for thirty pence, or to allow it
to rot in the ground, from the value not being worth
the ex pence of reaping ; and this mull continue fo
long as the Eaft.lndia Company, in their mercantile
capacity, conceive it to be to their advantage to check
or throw every Fable impediment in the export
from their own ettate, which, as Lords of the Soil and
Sovereigns, they ought rather to encourage by every
means in their power.
The average annual value of Britifk merchandife
exported to all parts may be effirgated at flatten mil-
lions Reding. Now foppofing fome wrong beaded
Miaißer fhould attempt to monopolize the whole
.f there manufaltures, it certainly will admit of
a doubt whether the nation as merchants would not
experience a confiderable diminution of revenue by
an attempt of this nature, in comparifen with the
firms here,ofore obtained,by cuftoms, acc.,by leaving
the merchants to carry cn the trade in their own way.
FLAIII FACTS.

jkllf YUAN Haar.tA x, Eiq. is the Gentleman rccom-
trsended by the Gantt of Dirttetors of the Bank of
England, to fill up the vacancy in the Direaion,oc-
cAli,,ned by Jona Wilma:as, Effi. being appointed
Deputy Governor.