Star.
London, England, 1807-08-19 00:00:00

THE SNIP JAMS..

This was a capture, made under the order of COllll-
- dated the 7th of January lag, commanding the
capture of all neutral (hips trading between the
enemy's ports ; which order was in eanfwer to the
celebrated decree of Bonaparte, declaring this king.
dom in a Rate of blockade, as above alluded to.
The owners of the !Lip in queftion were merchants,
at Emden, and it appeared, upon the depations be-
fore the Court, that the failed from the port of Vigo,
in Spain, on the loth of February laft, bound for tie
port of Chita Vecchia, in Italy, and laden with a
cargo of Sardinias. From the proteß of the mailer
it appeared, that about the 15th or 16th of March,
meeting with fume heavy gales of wind, and the thip
being much damaged, he was obliged to make for
the neareß port, and put into Barcelona, where he
repaired the (hip, difpoted of his cargo, and took in
a cargo of wines, and was proceeding on his voyage
to his •siellined port, when he was captured.
On the part of the captors, Dodors Lawaasca
and Ss ws er. contended, that this was a fraudulent
profecution of a voyage from one of the enemy's
ports to another, in violation of the above Order of
Council, and therefore the captors were entitled to
the judgment of the Court. They argued from. the
(hip's journal and other documents on board, come
pared with the protell of the Captain, and otber
circumitancei, that the Owners and Captain (a part
owner), had full knqwledge of Each Order,"and
ailed in dirett violation thereof, and that the (hip's/
real dctUnation at the time of her failing from

Vigo, was not Civita Vecchia (then tonfidered al tt
neutral port), but Barcelona dire& ; and this they
adduced from the (hip's journal, which, although it
noticed heavy gales of wind about the isth and 16th
of March, did not mention any particular damage
done to the Chip at that time, lo as to oblige her to
put into the neorell port ; befides, if .there as that
neceflity, the was at that time about three hundred
leagues from Bai Mona, and within a much leis
lance of other ports, where the could have put in
and refitted ; her cargo alio being of a retithable
nature, and not calculated for fo Icing a voyage, ail
by a letter from the Owners to the Captain. diredling
him in cafe nfneceffity, to make fora Barcelona. the
Learned Advocate contended, that this letter,- if not
intended as a fraud-upon the Captain. was at kart
an anticipation' of the .bad weather that Called, and
clearly thewed that the parties, had full knowledge •
at the time of thellsWis (ant frOm Visa,. of the
Order pf Council WOO an bad pore-
mated a fraudulenlifiyage with a Vie* to elude fuch
Order. . .

The Learned Advocates, Doilori_ltgainva and
nuarmsr, nn behalf of the oWhers, on the other
fide contended, that there was nothing id the porta
ineongria-us with the journal and 'tither docu-
ments ; that it appeared that the (hip's WOW
nation was Civita Vecchia ; that fhe met tuid wea-
ther, and was much damaged in malts, Mill, and
rigging, and was obliged, for there 'colons, to put
into Barcelona, whence having refitted, the was about
to profecute her voyage to her dellined port, when,
upon examining her cargo, it was found necellary to
dirpofe of it, and take in another. The Learned
Advocates all, argued upon the probability of the
Mailer nut being ininnainted with the Order of Conn-
cil at the time of failing from Vigo, from the delay
which needfully attends the failing of the Liflson
packet, by which the knowledge of it was to be con.
veyed, the difficulty of communicatiln, the obfcurity
of the port of Vigo itfelf, and the fhort time which
had elapfed between ifTuing the Order and the pe-
riod at which the flip failed from that port.
After a reply of tome length by Dr. Lamaism
the Learned Judge, Sir WILLIAM Scorr, obferved,
that as the Order in queilion was a mater of extreme
notoriety, and mull be of great importance with re-
fped to the commercial relations of this country with
the Continent, there could be little doubt of its being
well known in almoll every trad;ng port on the Con-
tinent before the failing of this flip from Vigo. Had
Ike, therefore, failed from any of the principal com-
mercial ports on the Continent, he lhould not hell-
tate to fay, that the mull, of neceffity, have failed
with full knowledge of fuch Order, and confequeptly
in violation of it ; but Vigo being a very ',Wore
place, little known in the commercial world, and the
decree of the French Government, prohibiting the
conveyance of any correfpondence between this
kingdom and the Contioent,rendering the communi-
cation of fuch Order very difficult at that time, he
thought there was a probability that the Captain or
Mailer of this Ibip might have failed from Vigo in
total ignorance of its exiflence ; and therefore he
wifhed, before he finally derided the caufe, to have
more evidence upon this part of the cafe, and direc-
ted that the Captain fhould be further examined to it.
With refped to the veffel goiog to Barcelona, inilead
of profecuting her voyage direct to Civita Vecchia,
he did not think that altered the cafe at all ; for whe-
ther the went to one port or the other, he fhould con-
fider her equally within the operation of the Order
of Council of the 7th of January la&
Judgment deferred.

Jungfer Charlotta, Otma mailer—Jafon, Simon-
fln nialter.—Thefe vetrels were under Pappenburgh
colours, laden with cargoes of falt and other articles.
In tbefe cafes the falt was condemned, and the quef.
tion refpeaing the (hips waa direlied to Hand over
for further intormation.

Vrouw Cathatina, Bug mater.—This was a
Kniphaufen veffel, laden with a cargo of tale, on a
voyage from Litbon to Amiterdarn. Ship and cargo
reftored on the payment of the captor's expences.
J/nge San, Oebricks matter—Commerce, Jonkes
matter.—There two •etfels were failing under the
kniphaufen flag. Ships and cargoes rettored.

REGATTA ATWINDIRIERRI LAE a.—The principal
prize was won, on Thurfday laft, by a boat belonging
to John Bolton. Efq. of Storrs.—The gentleman was
alfo the faccefsful competitor laR year.
Captain WOODBRIDGE, of the PSYCHE frigate,
arrived yefterday morning at the Admiralty with
difpatches from Admiral Sir E. Pattrw, dated on
board the Citfloden, in Madras Roads, the sails of
February.

The CONCORDE frigate, from the Eat Indies, but
Taft from St. Helena, whither the bad convoyed a
fleet of homeward bound Eaft lndiamen of eleven
or twelve fail, is arrived at Plymouth. The Com-
, CORDS failed from St. Helena on the 27th of June ;
, the convoy had left it two days before under the pro-
teetion of the A MTELOPII. of 5o guns.
The CONCORDS was informed by a tranfport, bound
from the river Plate to England, which the fell in
with on the [mirage, that Admiral Minium and Ge.
neral CRAUruto, with the troops, had arrived at
Monte Video early in June, and that an attack upon
Buenos Ayres was immediately intended.
We regret to Hate, that the Ganges, one of the
convoy, foundered off the Cape of Good Hope, in a
gale of wind. The crew and paffengers were fortu-
nately Paved ; the cargo, confining principally of
teas, was all loft. The Ganges was one of the larkeft
[hips in the Company's fervice.

The lateft letters from Trinidad, received by the
Packet on Monday, are dated 13th June, and it is
with much concern we announce, that the affairs of
the Settlement were then in a very alarming fituation,
produced by a difference of opinion in relpea to the
propriety of adminiftering the laws. The Governor,
it teems, had iffued a preclamatit.n, by which thte
future government of the Ifland was to be regulated
by the fame code of laws which governed the other
Weft India Colonies; but this, was firenuougy and
violently oppofed by the Spanifh fettlers. Theßritifh
Attorney General there Wiling that the Alcade,
(the Spanifh Judge) had no jutifdielion out of the
town of Port Spain ; a contrary do&rine was broach.
ed and infifted upon by the Alcade. Each party had
its adherents, and on ihis account the Ifland is re-
ported to be in a date of the moll Manning coefu•

EPILOGUE
WO THE NEW CO " ERRORS EXCEPTED."
Written by Mr. Litchfield, and Spokt n by Mr.. Litchfield.

Ladies one/ Gentlemen,

Fee oft' heard fay,
An Author's like a Merchant, and las Nay
The bark in whico b lodg"i hi: precious Rom,
Frejyh•cd and dettin'd for lonic diktat there.
At.thor's wirers !mall, and light his cargo,
And what be dreads the moft is your embargo.
Jett now; behind the feenes, the poor man prefed me,
And laid, all trembling, that if I addrefed ye,
He would engage, however " tempeft tott,"
His agitated bark Osould not be " loft
I brad of courfe, and told the flattering rogue,
I knew not how to !peak an Epilogue.—
Bat here I am on deck, and thus before ye,
I'll try, in Sailor's language, to implore ye:
For though I never Merl a foot from those,
I've learnt Tome leffons from the Caronekee.
So u a Convoy, though no man of war,
Let me look our, and lee how matters are.
And firft I'll try my Poundings in the Pit,
Lurks there no rock on which oar brig may flit!
No quickfliBl, thoals, or flats, nor no lee &are,
Where many a vetrel has been wreck'd before.
In yonder quarter (flyer end of the Pa) lo! a fturm teems brewing
That threatens to involve us all in ruin.
A flop prepares for adtion—ha! beware,
An enemy has ta'cn his Ration there—
His name is Critic—'tis, I fee him now,
1 know him by the Gorgon at his prow;
A heavy fader, but his fire is galling,
And no one ventures near without a mauling;
His bead all makes--no wonder that the that
Sent front his cannon comes Co hiffing hot;
See how he lowers his jib—nay, do not frown,
Nor cut our rigging up—nor run us down.
(To the front Boat:) That in the offing there, is call'd the Rover,
Who never fights but when he's half feat over;
And is well known on our dramatic ocean;
By his rough failing, and unsteady motion.
He has but juft left port, fur well 1 wot
His upper-works are damaged by grape-plot.
Two other figns he has, howeer he got 'em,
A head well braztn'd, and a copper bottom (psiss;s: to the heels.)
(To the Gallery) But you, my honeft friends, Row'd in the Ihrunds,
Who fpvak in thunder from your birth, the clouds;
You, like true labors, never hardly prels
When you behold a veiled in diftrefs,
For well you know, who rule the fulijeet wave,
When it is time to punifh, when to fave—
Eager the haughty open foe to bend.
As to ebonite a neutral hollow fricid.
If our fhip's crazy, take her into tow,
Safely fail under your weatha-bow ;
For should Lhe prove. alas! a caR-away,
Our Bard's tined night will be a Banyan Day.
(T. tb. Alma ) Ladies between decks, if your favouring gales
You lend to fill the Foet's trembling fads,
His Summer voyage won't tarn out a dream,
His boat fails freely both with wind and ftrelee;"
Lanky the Critic Seas the's waited. o'er
And gains triumphantly the wili'd-for ()sore.
I'll to the Author, and difpel his fear,
And fay, his goods have found a market here ;
I'll fay. toe, for I think I guefs
Here you will rendezvous to-morrow sight.

with proportionate quantities of bread and ale, to all
who chofe to partake of them. At the chief inns of
that ancient borough, numerous companies, confif
ding of the principal inhabitants, and many of the
neighbouring Gentry, fat down to elegant dinners;
whillt forty additional houfes were opened upon the
occafion for the fubtlantial regalement of all the
other friends of the Houfe of Trentham. One
thoufand voices united in the warm expreiEon
of
their wishes for the long life and happinefs of the
Heir ; and the convivial day paired in uninterrupted
harmony.
At Hanley, a fat ox, with many lsogtheads of ale,
were given by Lord Granville Levefon Gower to
the perfons employed in his Lordthip's colleries, to.
getiier with a concourfe of others ; and the miners
of the Marquis of Stafford, at the fouthern extre-
mity of the Potteries, were treated with fimilar Jibe-
, rality.
There were killed for the occafion, including Lil.
Milan and Hanley, nine oxen, •42 (beep, five brace
of bucks, three calves, one hundred couple of fowls,
twenty of ducks, twenty of geefe, and fix hares ; and
that were alto drank on this memorable occafion,
forty dozen of wine.
There were 35 lacks of flour seed upon the occa-
fion, at Trentham only. There was a large bonfire
on the Hill, in his Lordllip's Park, containing 20
tons of coals, exclutive of a large quantity of wood ;
at which place (Lillellsall and Hanley included),
there were upwards of 2,835 gallons of ale diffributed
among the populace.—Ansongft the wafts given at
dinner, were—
The Ring.
The been, and Royal Family.
Our fair Countrywomen.
The Hoak of Trentham.
Earl Gower, and long life to him.
The Members for the County, Ike.
SIGNALS.

a P. M. a Grace.
2P. M. a Drawing cloth.
P. M. 7 King's health, with three times three.
7 The Houfe of Trentham, ditto.
7 Earl Gower, and long life to hind, in
the gold Cop, each with ditto.
The Rev. Mr. Butt with ditto
Mr. Lilly - - ditto
Mr. Currie ditto
•
Mr. Leake . - ditto
Mr. Owen - ditto
Mr. Chapman - • . ditto .
Mr. Hinney - ditto
Mr. Penton - - ditto
The Dameftics of the Houfe of Stafford ditto
On Monday, the loth of Augu9, 1807, upwards
of 300 of the Marquis's Labourers and Workmen
fat down to dinner, in commemoration of Earl
Gowit's arriving at the age of twenty•one, on the
Bth of Augult.
Oti Tuelday, the remains were dialibuted amonga
the neighbouring poor and their families.

The Engla in Rnffia will now, it is laid, be fub-
jet to the following hardthips : if they do not choofe
to become altogether Ruffian fubjeas, they mutt be.
come foreign guefts, in which capacity they are liable
to a heavy tax on capital ; they are amenable to the
town laws; they mutt contribute their quota of their
expences and burdens of the town in which they r:fide;
they mutt difpofe of particular articles of commerce to
particular guilds ; and they mutt, if required, fubmit
their commercial concerns to the infpeftion of the Ma-
giftrates. If they with toquitthe country they muft pay
a tax of ten per cent. on computed capital, inftead of
three years due ; and in addition to this, by an old law
of the country, which had become obfolcte, but which
is again to be enfot ced, the town magiftracy has the
power of levying a tax of ten per cent. on the amount
of capital fuppofed to be taken out of the country,
without any reference to that brought in, which tax
mutt be paid before they can be difcharged from their
burgherfhip. In cafe of death, ten per cent. is de
duffed from the property bequeathed to any relation
or friend refident in other countries, and varilus ether
vexatious taxes on wills, and on the property of per-
tons dying intettate, are impofed. \Vhilft the treaty
of commerce was in force, the Britith faaory at St.
Petet (burgh had the privilege of paying all duties on
exports and imports in Ruffian coin : they are by the
IJkafe obliged to pay in rix•dollars of Holl.tnd,
amounting to a difference of from to to 15 per cent.
to their difadvantage.
Mrs. STURT, who was once a diftinguithed charm..
ter in the falhionable circles, died lalt week at Cob-

ham, in Surrey.
A foot race was run an Saturday morning, at
Kilburn, by a Mr. FOOT, who undertook to go a
mile in four minutes and a half. The wager was for
So guineas, and the pedeftian performed his talk fo
nearly, that he had not more than a few fcconds to
fpare.
Yellerday fe'nnight, a fire broke out in a dye-work
near Partick, in the neighbourhood of Glafgow, which
entirely confumed the fame.
A few days fence Burrows, while meafuring
fume work on the top of Hackney Church, fell to
the ground, and was carried to the hofpital without
hopes of recovery.
STORMS.—About four o'clock on Wednefday
morning a violent ftorm was experienced at Stam-
ford, and generally in the neighbourhood for feveral
miles round. In the parifis of Edmonthorpe, in Lei-
cefterthire, a fire ball (truck a large tree, containing
three loads of wood, which it difperfed in all direc-
tions. To a part of the trunk, which was left Rand •
ing, the fire communicated, and burnt fo rapidly,
that it was with difficulty extingui(hed. During the
ftorm an ewe and lamb were killed, in Sewdernparilh,
by the lightning.
On Friday morning a thunder form took place
over the city of Norwich, and its neighbourhood,
accompanied by one of the heavieft falls of rain that
has ever been remembered by the inhabitants. It)
commenced between one and two o'clock, and the
darknefs occafioned by the torrents of rain that de-
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fcended from the clouds, rendered the inceffant Bathes
of lightning truly terrific. After two hours conti-
nuance the ftorm fubfided ; but at fix o'clock it be-
gan again, and lafted with nearly equal violence till
eight. The lightning, which was uncommonly vivid'
and frequent, was too diftant from the city to endan-
ger its buildings, although Come of the claps of
thunder were awfully loud ; but the rain fell fo ra-
pidly as to deluge many parts of the city ; and in St.
Stephen's in particular, confidesable damage has been
follained in confequence of the water flowing into the
cellars of the inhabitants.