Star.
London, England, 1802-12-27 00:00:00

BANKRUPT IN IRELAND.

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hlichael Dosoughoe, of Atby, county of Kildare, linen and
WOOlieal draper, to (offender the ift and 3d Jan. and zit Fcb.

LAW INTELLIGENCI.

ADMIRALTY INSTANCE COURT.
DOCTORS' COMMONS, DEC. 23.
The Honor, Stringer matter.—ln this cafe an
anion was brought by lime of the crew againli
the. Mailer of the [hip, which was bound on a voy-
age from Jamaica, with a very valuable cargo,
deftined to the port of London, for wages ailed&
ed to be due on account'of the voyage.
On the part of the Matter and Owners, two
grounds of defence were fet up; the one was, that
this was a very unfounded and unrighteous de-
mand, inafmuch, as fifty guineas had been advanc-
ed to every able feaman, and a fmaller fum to
every ordinary feaman, before the vetrel quitted
Jamaica, under the term of run-money : the other
mratthat the crew had del-cited the fhip before the
arrived at her moorings.
On the part of the feamen it was contended,
there was no proof before the Court that any fuch
payment was made to there men in Jamaica, and
farther that they did not attempt to leave the (hip
until the was (aliened to a tier of colliers in the
River Thames.
The Court, after exprefting its indignation at
the length of time this caufe had been depending,
was of opinion, that the crew had mitionduned
theaufelera in quitting the, fjsip,in the manner
Anted, ae it never could be fuppofed or maintain-
ed for *raiment, that a (hip fattened to a tier .of
solliersOsmiting fur the tide in order to coMO to
her particular place of cletlination, could be deem-
- ~.rd an as ival at her moorings ; and therefore pro:.
--ssounced, that their wages in this cafe were become
*elicited.
. Comprr, WHITEKALL, DEC.;.
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&fin the Moll Noble and Right Him the
Lords Ommoittoners of Appeals in Priie
Fortuna, Hanfon Goldner, matier.—(An
. peal from Gibraltar.) This was a further proof-
cafe with refpen to the cargo, confining of wine,
200 caks of capers, and other articles (Spani(h
produce) which was captured in the profecution
of the voyage from Barcelona, as afrerted, to Ham-

burgh.
On the part of the captors it was contended,
that the real deftination was to Amfterdam, and
as fuch was liable to condemnation, it being a
voyage from one enemy's port to another,
Their Lordfhips, after hearing the Counfel on
ibe part of- the claimants) diteiled Rill further
proof to be made of the property.
. The brig Kate, ---- malter.—Their. Lord.
Gips, in this cafe, being &tidied with the proofs
produced, reftored the flip and cargo, together
with the private adventures.
The Eagle, Meyers mafter.—This was alfo a
farther proof with refpedt to the cargo; but
their Lordllips being of opinion that the proofs
produced on the part of the claimants were infilf-
ficient, condemned the fame as good arillawful
prize to the captors.
DrCEMSER 16.
:The Nancy, -- Joy mafter.—( An Appeal
from the High Court of Admiralty of England.)
This was an American fhip, which was taken and
• felted whilft in the profecution of her voyage from
Surinam to Altona, on the 7th of November, 1796,
by his Majefty's private fhip of war, Thetis,
Richard Hart Commander, and brought to Sheer-
nefs. It appeared that the cargo of this fhip was
very valuable, confining of Agar, coffee, and
ootton, which was claimed as American property.
Theii Lordthips, after hearing the Counfel on both
fides., affirmed the fentence of the Court below.
The Nancy, Benjamin wafter.—(An ap-
peal fiorn Grenada) This was alfo an American
verel and cargo, confining of and coffee,
which were taken and felted on the 7th April,
1796, whilft in the profecution of her voyage from
Effequibo to Hamburgh, by the private armed
fchooner Cecile, Edward Nicholls, Commander,
and carried to Grenada, where the urea' proceed.
• -lasi were commenced. Their Lordfhips, _in this
cafe, affirmed as frateace of th, Court below..

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toteMlllll 17.
The Anselia, Boffin mailer.—(An-appeal from
Jamaica.) It appeared that this caufe came, on
for hearing on the 18th of May, tlioa, when their
Lordthips admitted the claim, but direlled farther
proof to be 'made of the cargo, and the nature
of the Trade to the Spanith Colonies, within three
months. _ _ _

Their Lordfhips, after hearing the Counfel on
both fides, at confiderable length,.dirOted [fill far-
ther proof to be made within the.ufual time.
Concordia, Chtlitianfen mafter.—(An appeal
from Martiniqiie.) This was alto a farther proof
cafe, with refpeet to the chip, which was claimed,
as belonging to a houfe at Altona.
It was contended, on the part of the captors,
that this was a colourable tranfaetion on the part
of the claimants, in order to cover Dutch property.
Their Lordfhips, after hearing the Counfel on
behalf of the claimants, condemned the chip as
good and lawful prize to the captors.

PREROGATIVE COURT, DUCTOas' COMIONs,Dze. 3.
CH•PLIN V. PHILLIPS.
This was a queftion reiptaidg the laft will and
teftament of Mrs. Margaret Richardfon, deceafed.
It appeared that there were two papers before the
Court, the one bearing date the 24th of January
iBOO, which was propounded on behalf of Wm.
Phillips, the fon-in-law of the deceafed, and the
other bearing date the 3oth of March tBot, was
propounded by Ann Chaplin, one of the executors
therein named.

On behalf of the party who oppofed the will of
the 3oth of March 18ot, it was contended, that at
the time This will bears date, and for many months
before, it was clearly proved by the evidence pro-
duced, that the deceafed's memory was extremely
defeetive ; that her mental faculties were in a very
confiderable degree decayed (being of the age of
76), and that the was merely a machine in the
hands of thofe about her.

The Court, aftei hearing the Cotinfel in fupport
of the will of the 3oth of March I Sol, was per-
fatly fatisfied (particularly from the evidebce of
the attorney and his clerk, who drew and prepared
the will), that it did appear it was the entire adt
of the decleafed, at a time when fhe had a volition
of her own, and as fuch was of opinion there was
legal proof of the will in quenion, and, therefore,
pronounced for the fame.
GOODMAN W. MGRGAN AND PRICY. •
This was a queftion refpeeting the validity .of a i
paper, dated the 27th of May 1797, purporting to
be the left will and tenement of Lavinia Vaughan
Goodman' widow, deceafed. This paper was op-
poled by the next of kin of the tenatrix. It ap•
peered that the deceafed had, for a confiderable
time, laboured under a confumptive diforder, and
that for four or five weeks before the date of this
inftrument, *as attended with an oceafional deli-
rium. It was contended, on the part of the next of
kin, that the deceafed had not fufficient capacity
to do a rational aft at the time the execution of
this paper took place. On the other fide it was
fubrnitted to the Court, that it was manifen from
the teftimony of the apothecary who attended the
deceafed, that this delirium had ceafed three houll
before the execution of the paper in queftion, and
did not occur again during the whole of the night;
and there was alfo another corroborating circum.
fiance, that of the deceafed informing her finer
where the key was that belonged to the drawer in
which the paper was depofited, and ready for exe-
cution five months before.

The Learned Judge was clearly ofopinion, that
there was fuScient evidence as to the capacity of
the .teftatrix.at the . time of the execution of the
will,likeitife of her recolleaion and r...vition of
it afterwards to one of the witneles, by declaring
De had fettled her affairs ; and, therefore, pro.
flounced for it accordingly.

ICAVDLIR V. CONNOLLY.

This'eras elf* a quenion refpeaing the len will
and tenement of W. Higgins of Air-itreet, in the
as of St. James, Wectminiter, *Erg. deceafed.
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oppofition being withdrawn to this paper, the
Court, after heaping the depofitions of the wit-
neffes read, granted a probate of the fame.

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POLICE, &c.

MANSION HODAL—Triday yobs Dunloar WAS
fully commiticifor.trial by the LOAD MAYOR, on
a charge exhibited againft him by Henry George,
of Realing one al. and one 11. bank note,: his pro-
perty.. The profecutor and prifoner lodged toge-
ther in the fame room, and in confequence of miff:
ing his notes, the profccutor was induced to fufpea
the prifoner, who, on being taken into cuftody,
was found to have concealed a 21. note in his neck-
cloth. A butcher alfo (wore to his having chang-
ed a 11. note at his 'hop, in payment for fome meat.
HATTON GARDSII.—On Friday evening a man
of the name of Pak was examined a fecond time,
on fufpicion of being a common haler of dogs,
feveral being found in his polfeffion, but no profe-
cutor appearing he was difcharged.
Three fufpicious perfons were examined on fur-
picion of having committed daring robberies, by
plundering waggons, &c. and parlicularly a burg.
lary in a houfe in Charles•fireet, Hatton Garden.
They were committed for re-examination.
A young tradefman was brought to the Offiee
in a Rate of intoxication, charged with grofsly af-
faulting a young woman in the ftreets ; his con.
duft before the Magiftrates being extremely rude,
he was ordered to prifon for want of fureties.
A man who has committed numerous robberies
in the neightourhood of Brooke, in Norfolk, was
Come days fine. apprehended ; but obtaining per.
miffion from the Officers to. go up (lairs for his
coat, he effetled his efeapii out of the chamber
window, and has not been retaken.

On Saturday fe'nnight one of the prifoners in
Chefler gaol, who was nutter confinement for ut•
tering bad money. effeled his efcape, leaving his
dikonfolatc partner in bed, ,

A woman-kit week effebed her efcape from the
Houle of Correaion at Wirkfworth; and what is
noticed by the keeper as tztraordinary, her hufband
is fufpeaed of brrink hclped her out.
The Turk's Head Public Houfe in Eaa-areett
Red Lion4quare, wat broke into and' robbed of a

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cafe, containing a nuttibii of Pipers belonging to'
the Wyndham Eat} Indiamau, and other articles,
on Tuefday laft ; and as no other articles were
taken, it is fuppofed this was a planned bteinefs:
The Son of Mr. WI LTSH IR It in the Haymarket,
was robbed in Smithfield on Monday. The thieves
were detested, and ate fully committed for trial..
' The dwelling-houfe of Wm. Speneys, Embden
court, Pearl-row, St. George's Fields, was broke
open on Monday night lag, and among other ar-
ticles, three gowns of various patterns, and a black
filk cloak with narrow lace golen.

Friday fe'nnight, in the village of Kirkconnel,
as fome children were handling a loaded gun, it
unfortunately went off, and lodged the contents in
the body of a girl of twelve years of age, who im-
mediately expired.
A Coroner's Inqueft was held on Wednefday,
on the body of Ann Trevett, who died in the
watch-houfe. The deceafed was a woman of the
town, and ufually was fen in the Strand. About
one o'clock on Wednefday morning, the Conftable
of the night defired her td go home ; ihe ha,. not
walked many yards before the fell, to appearance
in a fit k the Conftable fuppofing her to be in li-
quor, had her locked up in the hole belonging to
the watch-houfe, and gave direction to the patrole
to let her.out when he went off Ms duty. OR
going to her for that purpofe, about four o'clock,
he found her lying in the fame (late as when lock-
ed-up; but dead. Verdi&—Died by the Vifitation
of Goa.
The following is an extraordinary and melan-
choly inftance of the fragility of human hope :
A young Lady, of Dover, had been fome years
engaged to an Officer belonging to the TIGRE,
and who went out under the patronage of the gal
lant defender of Acre ; he returned home lately in
that (hip, and the meeting between thefe young-
people was fuch as might be expeded in two at-
tached and amiable charaders. The day before
he arrived, a fmall pimple appeared on the note
of Mils 0—; whether the furprife had any im-
mediate effe& on the fyfteni, or not, muff be left
to medical conjature, but the inflammation fud-
denly extended itfelf round the part fo nightly
affeded, and encreafed fo rapidly, that on the
fecond day the loft her. fight, and, on the third,
the affedion reaching her brain, the expired, va-
nifhing from the high-railed expedations.of Nth-
ful attachment, as-quickly as a flower, which wi-
thers before our eyes, even while we ftoop to ga-
• they it, and which would not feem more wonderful
than the death of the young Lady to all who knew
the commencement of her dines.

A Turkifh chebec was lately wrecked off the
coaft of Tufcany. Ninety-two of the crew,
including the Rais, or Captain, were Paved, and
carried to the Lazaretto of Leghorn.
A man of the name of Plimer, at Chatham, for
the trifling wager of a new hat, drank, on 'Fuel-
day night, eighteen large glaffes of brandy. He
dropped down while taking the Taft, and remained
feveral hours in a !late of almoft hopelefs infenfi-
bility, but by very ftrong and ftimulating applica-
tions he at length recovered.
Some workmen have been for feveral weeks
employed in finking.a well at Cambridge, for the
ufe of the prifoners in the county gaol ; and on
Monday, having excavited to the great depth of
t4o.feet, they came to a very fine fpring, which
role, in a short time, upwards of 130 feet.
A fingular circumilance occurred a few days
fince at the with church of Louth:—Two couple
were united in the holy bands of wedlock : the
joint ages of the firft were only thirty:fix, while thofe
of the fecond amounted to ow hundred out thirty
years !

A fingiihr accident happened on Monday Taft,
near Toot-hill, in the parifh of Stamford Rivers,
in Mx : Mr. Reed, of Waltham flow, being hunt-
ing with the foreft flag-hounds,and riding through
a field with another Gentleman and his fervant,
was met by a loofe horfe, which they had paired;
but, upon Come fudden alarm, the horfe turned
fhort round, and came with fuch violence againft
Mr. Reed, as to overfet him and his honk, by
which means his collar-bone was broken, and he
was otherwife confiderably bruifed. It appeared
afterwards, that•the horfe which had donethe mif
chief was blind.

We hope it will prove a great Wasps to the
people of the North. Eaft end of the Metropolis,
that there is A Houfe juft opened, No. 3, Shore-
ditch, oppofiteWorlhip-fireet, the fame as his other
Mute, No. 76, Long Acre ; where the poor are
attended'evtri day, by bringing a line from the
Minifter or Churchwarden. Many hundreds have
been relieved this way, are now happy in them
(elves, and ufeful members of fociety, as well as
a great load taken off the hate. This, we under-
hand, is performed by Dr. GARDNER, in.his ufual
way, who divides his time between his two houfes,
in Long Acre and Shoreditch. His Medicine expels
all kinds of Worms, and is fold by Venders in
Town and Country—Pills at as. 6d.; 4s. 6d. and
tos. 6d. and tz fmall Boxes in one for a Guinea.

Diforders that proceed either froth an impure
(late of the blood, or a relaxed (late of the nerves,
having, in innumerable inftances, fubfided by a
courfe of SPILSEURY% Antifcorbutic Drops, too
much cannot be faid in praife of that invaluable
preparation. This unparalleled fuccefs, in the
molt complicated cafes, has eltablifhed its celebrity
throughout the univerfe ; indeed, where is it poffi-
ble to obtain fuch a reftorerof the conflitution and
infallible cure of the Scurvy, Gout; Rheumatifm,
Evil, Leprofy, and a variety of other complaints,
too generally incident to human nature ? Theft'
Drops are fold in bottles of ss. and 6d. los. and
25. each, with a black 'lamp affixed to each bot
tle, by the following venders in Longing' s F. New-
hery, 45, St. Paul's ; Dicey and Sutton, Bow
Church-yard ; E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's ;
Ching and Butler, Oheaplide ; Wray, Birchin-
lane; Bolton, Royal Exchange; Evans and;Co.
Long-lane; Barclay, Fleet-market ; Bacon,. Ox-
ford-ftreet ; Ward, Holborn; Bayley, Cockfpur-
ftreet ; Sw;nney, Pall Mall ; Walfh and Cockel,
Strand; Sharp and Coe Bifhopfgate-ftreet; Clark,
No. 269. and B. Shaw, No. 74, Borough!, South-
wark; and at the DifpcnfAry, No. is, Soitoiquare.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The King has been pkafed to grant to the Rcv. J
field, D. D. the place and dignity of a C4llOll or Pre'Jer.:l4:,
His Majeity's Cathedral Church of Worcefter, void I, t
refignation of the Rev. Charles Talbot, late one of the Pt -
daries thereof.

Tuefday kit the Rev. Auguftus Beever wac itiftitutcti. to the:
Redtory of Bergh Apton, with the Medi,. ty of I lolv.Jl .11 ..1
Norfolk, alfo to the Redtory of Otley, in SAY:4k, both on .4::
prefentati6n of the Right Hon. henry Earl of Abtrmaven
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A General Bill of all the Chrilttnings and
rials, from Dec. 15, 1301, to Dec. I.}, 1802.
Chriftened in the 97 Pari(hes within the Walls 112)—
Buried 13c5.
Chriftened in the Pori[hes without thz Wails 470--
Buried 4zi9.

Chriftenid in the 23 Out Paiiflacs in Middltlex and Sur;;.;
9329—Buried 8878.

-6hriftened in the to Parifh s in the City am! Libeities of
Wefiminfter 4684—Buried 4977.
Chriltencd Males 1°564 „
in an 19,918.
Females 9354
Buried S Males • 9:3) Z 1,
Females 9490 S '.l a- 19,3"9.
Whereof have died,
Under Two Years of Age 592.5 i Fifty and Sixty . 235
Between Two and Five 2379 I Sixty and Seventy . 13,53
Five and Ten 892 Seventy and Eir,..ty
Ten and Twenty • 523 Eigh:y and Ninety . 369
Twenty and Thirty - 1199 I Ninety and a Hundred 62.
Thirty and Forty - 1781 A Hundred and Two -
Forty and Fifty - 2112 I
Increafed in the Burials this Years.