Star.
London, England, 1801-01-23 00:00:00

PROM LLOYD'S LIST.

The King Pepple, PHILLIPS, from Ali ica to the
Weft Indies, is condemned at Cape Coaft.
The Betfey, —, from Barbadocs to Ifle Ma-
dame, is taken and carried into Guadaloupe.
The Fifher, PAYNE, from Africa to the Weft
Indies, is taken and carried into Cayenne.
The Hardwickc, Nobs.; and Mary Ann, —,
from Yarmouth to Liverpool, have been taken by
a privateer ; the former is retaken, and arrived at
Ramfgate.

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DEAL, JAWVARY 22.
Arrived and failed for the River, the ATALANTA,
CUNNING 3, from --. Wind W.

0 SSSSS CND. JANUAtY 32.

Paired by the Wow Crenate. —, from Calais
and Leonora, from South Carolina.—
Sailed the Jonge, jon;for Calais.

HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THESEUS._

The accounts of the explofion on board this flip,
which have hitherto appeared, being extremely
imperfell, a Correfpondent has favoured us with
the following official particulars of that event.—
They are extrafted from the letter of the Com-
inanding Officer to Sir Smear Serra, dated in
Syria Bay, the tyth of May:
" It is with extreme concern I have to acquaint
you, that yellerday morning, at half pall nine
o'clock, twenty 36-pound (hells, and fifty 18-pound
(hells, had been got up and prepared ready for
fervice, by Captain Meese's order, the (hip then
alone off Cefaria : when in an inflant, owing to
an accident that we have not been able to difeover,
the whole was on fire, and a molt dreadful explo-
fion took place ; the (hip was immediately in
flames in the main rigging and mizen-top, in the
cock-pit, the tires, feveral places about the main-
deck, and various parts of the (hip; the danger
was very imminent, and required an uncommon
exertion of every one to get under fo collected a
body of fire as made its appearance, and I have
the happinefs to add, that our exertions were
crowned with (needs, the fire got under, and the
(hip molt miraculoufly preferved : and I here feel
myfelf called upon to declare how much obliged
I am to all the officers and flip's company; but
more particularly to Lieutenant Sunsuits, Mr.
ATKINSON, Mailer, and the officers and men,
whol salience on this oceafion was truly great,
and enabled us to get the better of to groat a-
' lamity. Our leis from the explofion, I to
fay. has been very great ; and Captain Meese. I
am furry to add, is of the number killed, which
amounts to a 6, drowned to, and 45 wounded.—
The whole of the poop and after part of the quar-
ter-deck is entire y to pieces, and all the
beams do eyed; eight of the soak-deck beam -

In fbme American newfpapers it is Rated, that
without South Carolina, there were juft fixty-
five votes on each fide for Mee,. ADAMS and
JErrranni.
We Tome time ago inferted the fpeech of the Pre.
fident of the United States, on the opening of
Congrefs. The anfwer of the Houfe of Repreien.
tatives Rated their readineft to direa their atten-
tion to the various objets mentioned by the Pre&
dent. The reply of the latter contains the follow-
ing pafrage
" Compelled by the habits of a long life, as well
as by all the principles of fociety and government,
which I could ever underftand and believe, to
confider the great body of the people as the fource
of all legitimate authority, no left than of all effi-
cient power ; it is impoffible for me to receive this
addrefs from the immediate Reprefentatives of the
American people, at this time and in this place,
without emotions which it would be improper to
etprefs, if any language could convey them.—
May the fpirit, whichanimated the great founder
of this city, defcend to future generations; and
may the wifdous, magnanimity, and fieadinefs,
winch marked the events of his public life, be insi-
taut its an facceediag ages !" •
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COAL TRADE.

The Report of the Committee of the Houle of
Commons appointed in the lad :leition of Parlia-
ment to enquire into tiie date of the Coal Trade,
contains much !ireful information relpetting the
cautes of the high price olCoal., and the means of
future prevention. In the firit hitt:ince, the Com-
mittee exprefs their ape: ,:ti.nlimis that a power
ariling from mutual cogipa,sl, witieh ertahles the
Coal Owners to pi ovide vile:al for the interett
of the collieries, may at any time aahle them to
enhance the price of an at ticle of inch neceffity, to
the oppretlion and danger of the Public. Under
this imprieflion, and limp, rtcd by the fentitnerits
of one of the molt intel,lit witizeiti_s, that an en-
tire freedom of trade, as well in ;he North as in the
metropolis, would be the moil bencfiiial to the
Public, they fubmit the propriety of adojitiag el-
le.tal means, by additional penalties or whet wife,
of enforcing the canting laws againa all compacts
and agreements of the nature above does ribed ;
confidering it, however, as a meafttre essentially
conneCted with the corration of thole :dudes here-
in-after fitted as exiftint,ig in the metropolis.
On the at rival of the ship at the port of London,
or at Gravels:nil (and in (erne instances much
Gainer) the ship's papers are tratdmitted to one of
the Fadlors, through whom the fides of all cargoes
ate trantiCted. By hint they are taken to the Cuf-
tom-houfe, and on depofiting, or entering into a
bond for the payment of the different duties, a cer-
tificate is received from the Collator of the Cuf-
toms, and then the FaCtor is at liberty to offer the
coals for sale at the Coal Exchange. It appears
that the Coal Exchange is of late years become a
clofe market : that the Pale of coals is confined to
a room the property of individuals, where all the
bargains are concluded between the Fat:tors and a
fet of perfons known by the name of Coal Buyers,
who generally reftrain their dealings to each other.
The number of the firft is raid to be about four.
teen, of the latter feventy-five.
It has been Rated, that the craft or lighters are
at prefent infufficient for the delivery of the fhips
cargoes, even if a greater number of Meters thoulci
be appointed ; but the Committee are inclined to
afcribe this to the craft being generally at prefent
the property of the firft buyers, and entertain no
doubt, that if the market Should be opened, and the
pcifons concerned or interefted in the delivery of
the veffels become more numerous, a fofficieht
quantity would in a fhort time be fupplied. When
the Meter is appointed, a perfon under the name
of an Undertaker is applied to, to furnifh la-
bourers to difcharge the cargo, who come on
board with the Meter, for the purpofe of perform-.
ing their work under his infpeEtion. After thefe
preparations, the lighters are brought to receive
the coals, and it Teems that, in the delivery, the
Meter becomes in all refpects rubjeet to the direc-
tions of the Lighterman, who aCts as the fervant of
the Coal Buyer ; by his orders the coals are placed
in particular quantities, and in particular parts of
the lighters. This pradtice is one of the molt
ftriking means of fraud the trade, as at prefent
conduCted, affords. It occafionally happens that
the lighters pats from chip to !hip, and receive
from each a proportion of different kinds of coals
thofe of the belt quality are mixed with thole of
inferior value, and the whole is afterwards fold at
the higheft price. This praCtice, as well as that of .
mixing them afterwards, which tto Committee
have rearan to believe frequently prevails among
the Coal Merchants, Cultic& the Public to receive
coals and pay for them as the heft, which are in
great pea the direEt reverie, and defeats the whole:, '‘
purpole of that falutary provifion before-mention-
ed, which prercribes the produCtion in London of
the certificate of the price, the quality, and the
fource of each fhip load of coals that is fold in
the port—a provifion, that in the aclual condudt
of the trade, operates only as a proteetion to
the dealers ; and to the confumers, for whofe
benefit alone it was obvioufly defigned, is wholly
unprofitable. To this abufe the Committee call
the feriouc attention of the Houle, and in order
etfeanally to rear:tin it, fuggeft the propriety of
fome Legitlative meaftire, which thall compel, un-
der revere penalties, the delivery and produCtion
of Rich a certificate at each tranfit of the coals, as
may afcertain to every individual the real value
and quality of what he has purchafed. The Com-
mittee alto fubmit, that fome additional enforce..
meet thonld be provided with refpeCl to the dimen.
lion and capacity of licks ufed in the delivery of
I coals for ordinary confureption, and that each
houfekeeper or continuer receiving coals, fhould
have fome more ready method than he is at prefect
porfleffed of, of obmiaing a re.meafurement, under
a known authority eftablifhed in each parish; and
they entertain no doubt that the interference of the
Legiflature will eafily remove the prefent evils, by
adopting fome meafures of the nature they have
recommended, to be direCted particularly to en-
force the general provifions againft fraud, to pro..
hibit the renewals of the compafi in the North, and
to give publicity, °penult., and perfeCt freedom
to the market in London.

On Thurfday la(' came on before the Corpora.
tion of York, an inveiligation into the diforders
committed in that city on Thurfday the tf init.
by feveral of the Officers of the 18a, Dragoons ly-
ing there, when it was fully determined to apply
to the Court of King's Beach, in order to obtain
a Rule fcr a criminal information again(' the laid
officers. A Committee, confifling of the Magi!:
trates, and eleven others of the Corporation, was
Appointed to dire& the proceedings, Ere.
Yefterday the LORD MAYOR, RICORDIR, and
two Sheriffs, went in fate, as ulna', and opened
the Southwark Sellions, at St. Margaret's-hill, in
the Borough : there being no trials, after fwear.
ing in the Grand Jury and Conttables, and read.
ing the King's Proclamation, they doled the Sid:
Bon, and returned. _ _

A few n ghts ago Dr. BIRZLEY Rosissos, and
Captain GRAII•I4, of the WINDHAM Edit India-
man, were flopped in a poit-chaife, oppofite the
Packhorfe, at Turnham Green, and robbed of a
confiderable fain of money. The highwayman
appeared to be much agitated.

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IRELAND.

D117.1.5N, JANUAR': t 5.

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Monday morning Lill, in cenfequence of infor.
Machin receive I by thd Superintendant Magittrate,
Capta;a nticorr, of the Yeace.eftablifliment,
npprchended John M,Drrnell, in Jervis-Rivet, a
<Juin; oti;nder, charged with robbing, in company
with two other delPeradoes, Mrs. Lucy Ray, in
her in Cavendish-row, on Saturday loft, in
the evening. The robbery it is mentioned, was
perpetrated in the following
.manner :—The three
villains having got entrance into the houfe by arti-
fice, the fervant man, James Lee, having opened
the hall door, they entered the parlour, where Mrs.
Ray and another Gentlewoman, Mrs. Chamber-
laine, were lifting—the ruffians, two of whom, it
(ems, had their faces blackened, prefented their
pillols, audacioutly laying they had come to leek
fatisfakflion for the killing of one of their compa-
nions, who had been flint in November lilt ilt
making an attack en Mrs. Ray's houfb. They
forced thew two Ladies and the fervants down to
the hutler's pantry. where *Donnell cut the gold
watr!-. from Mrs. Ray's fide, and taking her keys,
locked the family up in the pantry, and proceeded
m plunder the bottle. After rummaging for tome
time, having got the keys of every place, they
brought Mrs. Ray from the pantry up Rairs to
Thew them her private dintvers, where the villains
faid the had fume money, and valuable property.
Te Lady obliged to comply, the ruffians poffeffed
themfelv-As (betides what they had previoufly fecur-
ed) of a quantity of filver-coin, half crownsi and
dollars. a diamond pi Lure and pin, and feveral
other articles. Being fomewhat fatisfied with this
plunder, they locked Mrs. Ray again up in the'
pantry, and then proceeded to indulge themfelves
ith wine in the cellar. The villains brought a
couple of bottles to the terrified people faftened up
in the pantry, clearing them to drink, and had the
audacity to fay, that if they would be agreeable,
we fuppofe not to make alert], they would liberate
them and permit them to earoufe in their company
all night. The defperadoes after thus indulging
themfelves for Tome trine, made their efcape.—
Mrs. Ray, we hear, has identified *Donnell, in
whole poll-alien, by the timely atlivity and vigi-
lance of the peace-officers, has been found almoll
the whole of the property of which that Lady had
been robbed.
The offender *Donnell, who has been appre-
hended for the robbing of Mrs. Ray, it feems is a
/oelamith, and the perfon charged by the crimi-
nals who were tranfported for robbing the honk of
Lord KILWARDER Tome tittle (ince, with making
the lkeleton keys, which were the inftruments of
that depredation.
Die. t7.—Tnefday night Major SIRR appre-
hended two men in Francis-ftreet, in the aek of
darting bullets. One of them calls himfelf Bryan
.Eerrly, but, it teems, affumes many other names ;
the other is James Carlini; both are from the County
Wieklow.--hey had call. above goo bullets, mott
of which had not been feparated, but were in the
Rate they were taken from the mould, all of which
the Major fecured with the offenders.
Sit other perfons, charged with the robbery at
Mrs. Ray's bottle in Cavendifh-row, have been ap-
prehended. •