Star.
London, England, 1807-09-29 00:00:00

AMERICAN STATES.

We have received letters and papers from America
to the rft

A letter from an Officer belonging to the fleet off
Halifax, (late. that, On the 3til ult. 'BURIN RAT
roan, ene of the defcrters taken cut of the chefa-
peak, and who went by the name of W,Lsns while
on board the latter (hip, was executed on board the
Halifax. The trial, of which we are womifed a
copy, was highly interelling. He was clearly proved
to be a B►itifh feamap and a deferrer, and it was air()
proved that there were many others on board the
Chefapeak. Inked, tome of the Americans frankly
own the fait.

.On this fubjea Purse of,the American journalsnow
cps* out with a franknefs apd brawny highly cre.
ditable to their e.harailer, and which ferves to Mew
that pinch of the acrimony that appears in other
jour** fbould ,be arm ibed to Arenc,h in,fluance, or
mere patty fpirit. See the extraas ip a preceding
column. We gull give other extralts to-morrow.

THE ARMY.

The joy was great and general, on that fine an d
favourite leader General Monis taking the chief com.
mand of the Army in Sicily. Sir Jolla Smear is
likewife going out to this Army. There are not two
men more popular with the foldiers. It is erpefted
that naive operations will foon take place in that
quarter.
We are forry to learn that the health of Genet
Fox his not, within there few days, been lb good as
it was during the Tom, though a tedious 0ne....
The General and l is foxily are at Itycle, In the lie
of Wight.
None of the General Staff hive mew home with

the General.
The arrivals from the tderlfwesuean ate—.
The Hem General Ran. Loth rent.
lieutenant Gene& A. Vllleuee, Malts Regiment%
The Hon. Idrlgsdler General Meade.
.t-r--r—r""'""ra•-r*--‘"-Itereson.
Colonel Weyste, 4asseso4 s rat many slims.
jt wars *spotted that, along with General Fos, the
`Commander in chief, the beads of the Stag were
coming home,
Major Gam* Oakes, Ike quarter Maker General;
Brigadier General Campbell, Adjutant OWN:
1.4E1d Colonel bunbary, Deputy Adjutant Cowell sad
Dr. Priablbe, Deputy lofpei:Lor of liefpltala
kat not one of them ate here. The Ws of fuch men
as Generals OAILEP and CAMPBELL would he foretell
felt in that quarter,
4 reinforcement of two regiments, 4 which the
?In, (or Scotch rozileers) Colonel ADAM, was one,
were lately fent to Egypt.this was abfolutely me-
ceffary. The ad battalion 78th, (or Rofsthire High-
landers,) which the gallant I..ient. Colonel M'Lsoa
led; was not only cur, but abfolutely annihilated—
there is hardly a remnant left.of this fpirited young
corps.
The ill battalion 42d, (rr 13.0yal Highlanders)
with come other corps, goes from Gibraltar to Sicily.
If Lord Howl-Lir had gone to Egypt, he would
have taken the 42d with him.
General Fox's regiment, the loth Foot, had left
Gibtaltar for Sicily, having beep releafed by the CU
Foot, taco dropg. •
Soon after our difaflers in Egypt, that very able
officer, General Suestaaouxc, was fent thither from
the army in Sicily.

pifpatches acre yetterday received from Coma
hagen, and from St. Peterfburgh.
Difpatches were aVo received from Vice A.dtnirat
Decals, at Jamaica, announcing the capture of (e-
-yelet of the enemy's privateers, in theWel Indies.
Initruetions, we undergend, have been fent out to
India, to impofe an additional duty of ro per cent.
on Neutral %tetras tradirg to all parts of that country
within Britifh jurifdiaiun. -
The number of letters received yeflerday at 14
General Pull Office, wals greater than bp ever been
known. The mere pofiege solopmettio 40001.
The Lrurn Mayne had yellerday a Inrginterviillt
with Lord Mus.ottaira, at the Admiralty relative
to the River Tencibles volunteering their (ervices lr
Copenhagen. •
Sunday morning, about( rgo df the River Pen,.
eibles (Volunteers) embevited en briar& a verel at
Horfelvdown, attended by &bend of mu/ie, to fail to
Copenhagen, to siEtt in !winging to Anglend the
Dana!' fleet.
On Wsdnefday lan, Morteen !vivifies of the Weft'
York Mi'irias trho had' volunteered to the s;d Regis
menr, now lying in Shressibury, Starched into that
town.
Sir RICH&ID STRAe KAN well Wen town Wine&
rely, for the usopofe of rafuming itis carnii!and
is
the Channel

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The Hortarrainvih list, nodvttriotgfioreilthiew,a.ofetneeimp4,..onbaioa,tirdiviibledblagtruchfd*ent.t'4o(tir4tioteclo4o:t,
44hsvinha44hau.d,t1111trit
IcotrAillinialteee coRAIG
untered
tth, ibe "Pak
Scilly. . ,
When the disis of tha, affair between the
.1.P1N",„
and Chefapeak reached Antigua, 9 istlfaccliale.l7
vo'e a dollar and a half per barrel'.., . ; '
In the harbour of Flufhing there is,' 4411 004
(even line of haul: fisip , c mpletely ready fus fes,
and only in want of men In navigate them.
Saturday the rema,n. of R ar Admiral J. Roma•
sow were interred in St. Cle,i,ent's church. fhe body'
was f...ll.Aved by two fon. of the deceafed, and fit
Naval Captains.
On the t7th tilt. Lucia* BOIIItAITI arrived at
Rome from auffinella, in ,•rder to attend the fent"l
of one cf his Cons, who hat died about a week befote-
The Italian and German J tarsals mention
I him as the Senator Lucius.
Lord Lavisorate. title being mind by the de•
ceafe of that Nobleman in the Well Indies, bis Ma.
Jerry, by the Articles of Union, will of courk create
* new Peer of Ireland.
Saturday fennight the annual Sailing. Match
for the encouragement of the Mermen, given by
Gaoaoa Hearty Ross, Efq. Member for South-
ampton. (=Armed, as wield, a mit concoutfe
frqm the country, who formed parties on the water
to witnefs the exertions of (kill and dexterity of the
conteflors. The fiat prise was obtaintd with diffi-
culty by T. Lawns', of the Role in June ; and the
weather proving ferene, and the little wind fsvour•
able, the company departed highly gratified.
Tufaver, Omar G•ansm.—A y, ung lady, of
the name of BAMFIELD, made her hilt appearance
lag night in the charafter of Rofina, in the Operatics!
Afterpiece fo intitled. She is an intereuing figure,
apparently not more than twenty you r.f age, but
little Tierra in theatrical bufinets, though tolerably
, confident as a debutante. Her voice is mellow and
flexible, but not, it lisould teem, of gety ptenlire
cM" inifsPlttroth, inwahserfarveocioirnadblperrteocrernivAt nansrogl' am'lfo
. in the play of Cynkline, which preceded.

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Yetlerday being the Eve of St. Michael, Claim,
ifthit SMITH, Efq. and RICHARD PHILLIPS, Efq. the
Pew Sheriffs for the year enfuing, were (worn into
their office, at Guildhall, with the ufth:l Ra►e. •

The Rate carriage of Mr. Sheriff SMITH is a mag-
nificently mounted gilt chariot, and his liveries are
white, with gold lace.
That of Mr. Sheriff PHILLIPS IS undoubtedly the
molt elegant Rate carriage that has ever been feen
in the city. It is from the manufaCtory of Me(Trs.
Groomes. and Go. of Luny Acre, and the combination
of elegance, with magnificence, difplayed in this fu-
perb vehicle, refleds the highett degree of credit on
the taße of the artifts employed.
The body is a rich maroon relieved with a border
of white and gold. The pannels of the carriage are
entirely of plate glafs, and the novelty of the appear-
ance attrads univetfal admiration. The hammer
cloth, orange coloured, ornamented with rich drape-
ties of crimfon velvet, on which are embroidered the
City Arms in gold,apiece of moll excellent wrnkm.t..-
11np. The effect (it the whole is light, yet fuperb--
Mr. PHILLIPS'S liveries are orange trimmed with rich
(liver lace, and are every where correlpondent to the
carriage.
After partaking nf a c collation at Drapers'Hall,
the Sheriffs went frcm thence in praceffiln to Guild-
hall, where the anal oaths were adruinißered, arid
the Sheriffs were invellud with their gold chains, the
infignia of their offi:e. They then proceeded to the
Court of Common Pleas, where the cultumary cerei
loony of delivering over prifoners from the old to the
pew Sheriffs toik place ; and a circrimllance then
occurred which we are happy to record, as it tends to ,
lbew, that the pageantry 'Suffice is nut the only ohjed
which occupies the attention of the prefent Sheriffs.
Mier the delivery of the keys, &c. of Newgate, Laid
gate, and the two Compters, Mr. PHILUPS, whofe
humanity, activity, and intelligence, is lo well known
in the circle of his acquaintance, on this occailon
arofe, and in the name of his colleague and himfelf,
begged to be informed, whether the keepers of any
other prifons attended ? and being atifwered in the
tegative, he addreffed himfelf to Sir Jamts BKANS
costs as the ShetifF, to afk pro forma, whether there
vete not any other perfons in cuflody in the county
of Middlefex, who were limply under confinement for
the purpnfe of lafe cullnd y, previous to trial,and whore
mantes did not appear among the priconcrs now 'rant

fared ?
Mr. Sheriff Beawscomis replied, none that he had
any official cognizance of, or jurifdietion over; and
that he bad then transferred to the prefent Sheriffs the
inners contained in all the gaols, the keys of which
had been delivered to him on his entrance into office.
Mr. Sheriff PHILLIPS then Mice,' Mr. NEWMAN, the
beeper of Newgate, whether he did not receive a con
fulerable number of pet frois a few days previous to
every Seflions at the Old Baiiey, transferred from the
Houle of Correction in Cold Bath Fields ?
Mr. NEWMAN anfwered in the affirmative.
• Mr. Psit.t.rrs then, in a fhnrt neat fpeecb, expref-
led his lurprife to learn that perfons of the delcription
alluded to above were a&ually in confinement, and
yet out of the jrnifdidrion of the Sheriffs. He °bier-
ved, that by the law and conttitution of the country,
every perfon committed for trial ought to be com-
mitted only to the common gaol of the county, which
is Newgate ; and that it appeared to him to be an in•
fringement of the law and conflitirtion to commit fuch
pertons to a penitentiary prifon, whole regulations,
however good as a houfe of correeion, mutt iuttrfere
with the provifions nfthat coultitution, which deems
every man innocent until he is tr ied and found guilty,
and expreffed his determination to inveltigate the
fubjea. Our limits prevent us from doing jultice to
this important fubjeft on the prefent occation ; but I
we are happy to fee that thole in whom the Livery of
London have confided the prefervation of their rights
and franchrfes are thus jealous in the execution of
their trult. We are happy to oblerve, in the mean
time, that the praifeworthy exertions of Mr. PHILLIPS I
'and his colleague were zcalnufly and very hand.
fomely feconded by fuch of the City Officers as were
prefent on the occa fion.
Alter the conclulion of this Lafinefs, the proceffion
returned to Drapers hall, where a fumptuous enter-
tainment was provided by Mr. Sheriff SMITH, at
which were prefent a majority of the Court of Alder-
men, molt of the City Orficcrr, and many perfuns cf
The &ft official adi of the new Sheriffs, immedi-
htely after their being (worn in, was to iffire notices to
the Headboroughs and Contlables throughout the
County, of their determination to enforce the penal.
ties of the law agaihlt thofe who fhall fail to make
complete and coned lifts of the Freeholders. The
difficolties of making up furies from the prefent lift:
ire well known, and it is nearly thirty years (ince
they underwent any confiderable reformation.

. The newcpapers announce the approaching mil--
rile of the beliefs of the honk of Perth, to the Hon.
Mr. BuRRELL, eldell fon of Lord G‘l"? DI R and Lady
; WieLoucits, DE BERTIE.—Lady PERTH gave a
grand dinner on Sunday, at her houfe in Grofvennr-
fqoare, to the Countefs Dowager of ELGIN., Mifs
Mute, azd the Hon. PLita, ROBERT, abd WILLIAM
OItELL ; and this morning, at fix o'clock, Lady
?LATH and the Hon. Mils DRI., it MOND and rune, left
town for Edinburgh, where the nuptials of Mifs
Dstimmown and Mr.BtiRRELL Will be celebrated with
the gteatell fplendour. Mr. Bu MULL and fuite will
follow the Ladies to-morrow.

At the Court of Julliciary, held at InverarY on
IVednefday fall, Peter M4Dougall, l'4,l4l.aggen,
tat Duncan Robinfon, WAS eonvidted of the murder
of his wife, by throwing her into the river Etive in a
(let my night in December fait. He was fentenced
to be executed on Fiiday, the 13th of November
next, and his body to tie given to the furgeons for
ditTeEtion.
Ftiday, as Mr. KESHFLBY, the Surgeon of the
Caton Hofpital Chip, at Plymouth, was feeling the
pulfe of a patient, a Trench prifoner (landing by
Slabbed him in the lower part of his belly, but hopes
are entertained of his recovery.
Lall week
.7. Smith and P. Preece, two cnos•icls
tinder fentencc of Death in Hereford Coun;y
found means to make their efca pc through thu I.;:ion-
dary walls of the ntil n, leave not farce keen
difcoversd