Star.
London, England, 1802-09-30 00:00:00

COMMBRCE..

, Having Peen a letter di:eQ from Marfeilles,
through the medium of our commercial Corre•
fpondents, fluting that that port is now free, and
that the merchants there are permitted to deal in
Britifh ma'tufaetures of every•defcriptinn with the
fame advantages as the neighbouring ports of
Genoa and Leghorn, we drink it ncceffary to give
publicity to the following decree of the French
Government, which may not, perhaps, have been
attended to by the intereft concerned :

DECREE OF TUB CONSULS OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

DATED JUNE to, 1802.

Art. 1. An meltels, either French or foreign, arriving
in the port of Martellles, Iliad be under the ininiadvate hi-
fpedttoo of the board of euttoms: in esnfequence of which
all Captains or Matters mall, within twenty-four hours after
their arrival, prAmt to the board of euftoms a manifcit figned
by them, expreffin every individual article contained in their
cargoes.
11. Whenever fuch eargoeslhallcontain produce, goods, or
ftaple articles of any !:ind that are prohibited at Ellis prefent
moment, or th.lt 15rM irresfter he tubjcet to the eutrepot, the
unloading of theft itAli he effeeted in a p.ctiliar Circuit fixed
upon by the director of the cuftoms.

Thai place or circuit deained foe the entrepot shall flint
with two keys.
111. At the time of unloading fuch goods, produce, or
staple tommodities, pointed nut in the preceding article, hey
!hall be examined, weighed, and numbered, and fubjed to
ftoragt duty. At the epoeha of their re-expostation, they !hall
be liable to a regilter duty (g/ivit ifearegOrescaV
IV. Wines, brandies, huffs of all deferiptioni, cotton yarn,
iron Reel, falt fills of all Jefcriptions; indigoes, and oils. com-
ing from foreign countries, may, at the moment of the it ar-
rival in the port of Marfeilles. be delivered to the ennfignee,
and enjoy a pry forma or fiditious entrepot, provided always
that in cafe of thole articles not being re-exported within twelve
months after their delivery, fuel' eonfignee Dull be bound to
pay the dutietto which fucb articles' are liable.
Y. All produce, Rai& commodities, and goods coming
firs bn foreign countries, not liable to the real er fiditious en-
trepot, u before Rated, may enter the port of ALufeilles, and
be ex,orted again, free of all duties and charges.
VI. All the abov:!-mentioned produce, It :pie commodi-
ties, and goads exported from Marfeilles, by land or fea, for
the' interior of the Republic, !hall pay the duties eltablilhed
by laws, at the Slit 'eaftott-boufe where they wall be et -
tend.

VII. Merchants exporting into foreign countries foips ma-
nufadured in France (hall be te titled to a bounty.
This bounty (hall be of four francs per quintal. The re
gulations relative to manufaettwing of foap, the mode of ve-
rification to v•hich foap to be exported (hall be fubjed, the
manner in which the bounty of exportation (hall be receiv-
ed, are to be determined by peculiar ftatutes of public admf-
niaration.

VIII. The mialfter of the interior and finmces are entrnft-
ed, every onein what concerns them, with the executim of the
preSent decree.

•

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DAY.-WIND N. E.

•RRIVID•
I Hamburgh
• Waterford
• French

PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 23.

DUIL

Arrived the PETTEREL, 10 gnus, Capt. LAM.
mutt, from a cruise ; Retreat, SHAw, from Ja-
maica ; and the Escogr, gun brig of 22 guns,
Lieutenant Neg.—Sailed the Dv cent!, of 36 guns,
Captain RAJ rHatroaD, for Spithead.
Came into harbour the TEM FRAME of 98 guns,
Capt. EvLEs, and the AUDACIOUS of 74 guns,
Capt. PEARD.-••••Rear Admiral CAMPBELL has
[truck his flag.
Le TIGRE of 74 guns, Capt. AURY, and the
DELIGHT of If guns, Hon. Capt. AYLMER, have
been paid off, and laid up in ordinary.
On Monday laft, a court-martial was held on
board the CENTAUR, on three mutineers, lately
belonging to the Amisetsg, Capt. RICHARD
GRINDALL, Prefident. Two were acquitted, and
the other was fcntenced to receive 300 lathes, for
not atlliling his officers to fupprefs the mutiny.
Remain in the Sound, the AMELIA of 4o guns,
GLIINMORE of 36, VOISEAU of 36, GALATEA of
32, and PETTERS,. of 16.
In Stonehoufe Pool, la VENTURER of 54 guns,
Pic lELE of so, and the Escort. of 12.

PORTSMOWTH, SEPTEMBER 29.
Sailed for Shields his Majefty's late hired tranf-
port MONARCH, Capzain JOHN JOSEPH HALL.
Came into harbour his Majefty's Chips Taws,
and la DECADE.

Arrived the George, Captain Roattisox ; Peace,
Rots las ; and Cumberland, StAczslt, from Memel.
The following (hips with troops will fail early
tomorrow, if the wind remains, as it now is, South
Southwea, Ark, Jane, and Henry, with the 92d
Regiment, for Leith.
Several colliers for the North failed this evening..

SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER 28.
Arrived his Majetly': chips ',ATOLL and Wm-
Liam, with the JACKALL, gun brig.

FROM LLOVD'S LIST.

MAL, Sart. 29.—Arrived the Abundance ikon alp, front
Plymouth, and failed for Sheernefs. Wind N. N. E.

GRAVISEND, Szrr. a9.—Palled by, the Halewood, —;
Spring, Barron ; and New Hope, —, from Peterfburgh ;
Felicity, . from Dantsic ; Echo, Peak, from Stettin;
iiiitnott Cock, Watfou, from Stockholm; Concordia, Ward;
and Blandford, from Archangel.—Sailed the Jonah,
Prager, for Jamaica; Juliana, Rooth; and Elizabeth, M•Ghte,
for Leghorn; Jonge Alkia, Prank, far Rotterdam; Vrow
Hermina,•—••—; and Geode Verwagting,—, forAmiterdain.

ARRIVED
In the Creels.—The Olive, Norman, from Baltimore ; and
the Ann, Human, from CMta Vecchia.
At Filuoutb—itierth Woodward, Bina Chartafton.
At. Beiltoh-Briutania, Bell; from St. Vim:dee s.
At Cark.Roth, Hayman, from Quebec.
. Off Dower--Panm. Reid, from Grenada.

.At Falmouth-41r Andrew Hammond, Thompfoe, from
Jamaica.
At Llverpool-.Llbarrf, Sands, from New Providence; and
Charlotte, IVlackle, from Oporto.
At Olbnikan-*Ainy, Mack; and ,Ranger, from
London.

At Cadiz—William, —, from Liverpool ; Mary, —,
treat Philadelphia ; and Harmony, Warm, from SoothNppton.
At Dublin—Severn, Maddox, from Andy's ;. Thomas and
Nancy, bap, from Gibraltar; Friends, Jona ; and }loge, Tho-
ntat. front London.
In thogibe--Ocvant, Dryden, from Loads"

EAST INDIA SHIPING. • ,
Yeterday a Court of Dire tors of the Eaft In-
dia Company vas held at the India Houfc, twhen
the following Commanders attended, And took
their final leaVe of the Conrt, previous to their
receiving their difpatches, viz :

For the Cape of Good Hope, Madras, Bombay and China,
the Oet:ao, Capt. Andrew Patton; and the Henry Addington,
Cap!. John Kirkpatrick.
For the Cape of Goad Hope, Madras, and Bengal, the
Cdtle &tut, Capt. A:dander Cumin;, and the Lord DAncau,
Capt. Anthony Murray.

The above are the lira !tips of this feafon, and
he dilpatched about the m►ddle of next
month. •

Times appo;lted for the following chips taken
up for the S;:ati:n, /802 :.-
o:ean, 2:00 tons, Capt. Andrew Patton: Henry Addington,
z zoo tons, Capt. John Kirkpatrick, for Madras, Bombay,
and China, to be ...float 28t:i Auguft, to fail to Gravefend
tth September, to flay there 23 days, and to be in the
Downs 7th October.
Cattle Eden, 813 tons, Capt. Alexander Coming; Lord
Duncan, 830 tons, Capt. Anthony Murray, for Bengal; to
be.afloat 28th Auguft, to fail to Gravelend 11th September,
to Ray there ao days, to be in the Downs 7th October.
Bombay Cattle, z2oo tons, Cap:. John Hamilton, for Bom-
bay and China ; to be afloat 26th Oetobcr, to fail to Grave-
fend 9th November, to thy there 3o days, to be in the Downs
zsth December..
Hindottan, 1248 tons, Capt. George Millett, for Ceraft and
China ; to be afloat 9th November, to fail to Gravefend
25th November, to flay there 30 uys, to be in the Downs
3tft December.
City of London, 820 tons, Capt. Abraham Green, for St. He-
lena and Bengal; to be afloat 25th November, to fail to
Gravefend 9th December, to stay there so days, to be in the
Downs r4•:h January, 184;3.
A ::octal Gardner, 8.3 tons, Capt. Edward C. Bradford ; Sir
Stephett Lufhingtoo, 608 tons, Capt. George Gooch, for
Coda and Bay; to be afloat 25th November, to fail to Grave-
fend 9th December; to Itay there 30 days, to be in the
Downs 14th January.
Windham, 820 tons,=Thomas Graham; Walpole, 820
tons, Capt. James ds, for Madras; to be afloat 9th
December, to fail for Gravefend 22d December, to ftay there
30 days, to be in the Downs 27th January.
Hugh Inglis, 820 tors, Capt. William Fairfax ; Calcutta, 819
tons, Capt. William Maxwell, for PO3 ft and Bay; to be
afloat 9th January, to fall to Graveretd 23d January, to Ray
there 30 days, to be in the Downs 28th February.
Charlton 818 tons, Capt. John Altham for
Bengal; to be afloat 23d January, to fail to Gravefend 6th
Feb. uary, to flay there 30 days, to be in the Dawns 14th
March.
Exeter, 120 tons, Capt. Henry Meriton ; Dorfetlhire, 1200
tons, Capt. John Ramfden • Coutts, raw tons, Capt. Ro-
bert Twin, for China ; to be afloat 6th February, to fail to
Gravefend 23 ft February, to
.ftay there 30 days, to be in
the Downs 29th March.
Earl Spencer, 645 tons, Capt. Charles Raitt; Prefton, 671
tons, Capt. Thomas G. Murray, for Bengal ; to he afloat
21ft February, to fent* Gravefend 7th March, to hay there
30 days, to be in the Downs zath April
Hope, 1200 tons, Capt. James Horncaftle, for China; to be
afloat 21ft February, to fail to Gravefend 7th March, to
flay there 3o days, to be in the Downs 12th April. •

The firft Saint Helena (tore fhip to fail this tea-
fon is the new fhip the Royal George, Capt. Joint
Fut.; Timms, to be in the Downs on the 15th
December ; the next !hips for the faid Ifland are
the City of London, and a new (hip of Soo tons,
to be in the Downs on the 14th January, 1803 ;
and the laR (lore (hip is a new fhip of Soo tons,
Capt. WILLIAM GI Lsrott, to be difpatched on, or
before the 29th March, making in all four (Lore
!hips this featcn.

The Company's (hip the Dover Cagle, Captain
PETER SAMPSON, which arrived off Lintin Mind,
China, on the 29th March laft, received on board
from his Majefly's (hip Argonaut, Capt: OSBORN,
a detachment of his Majefly's 78th regiment, and
a proportion of Bengal European Artillery to aa
on board as marines and gunners; the Sepoys from
the Dover Cattle were received on board the Ad-
miral Rainier tranfport. The Telegraph packet,
Capt. HENRY MORSE SAMSON, which failed lalt
October for China, with the news of Peace, has,
no doubt, arrived at Canton with the above ac-
ceptable intelligence.

Mr. SHARPE, late Surgeon of the Cornwallis,
(fates his having difcovered an ifland. He lays,
4, On board the fhip Hope, from Port Jackfon to
China, I di:covered an ifland, on Tuefday, Dec.
22, 1801, in latitude, by obfervation, 7.8 miles S.
and longitude, by account, 163 degrees Ea(l. I
took the appearance of the illand at different bear.
ings and difiances, and in honour of Captain
SHANK, of the Royal Navy, I named it Shank's
Hand. It is hilly, but the afcents are gradual,
and it is covered with trees, among which might
be diflingui(hed many of the cocoa nut. As I did
not go on Chore, I cannot fay what may be the
nature of the foil, nor furnilh you with any details
on the fubjea. It is from North to South five or
fix leagues; from Eall to Weft not quite fo
much. I thould have obferved, that the latitude
and longitude are computed from the centre of the
ifland."

The (hip Elizabeth, BENNAH, from St. Vincent
to Liverpool, in 14114, having fprung a leak,
making three feet water per hour, the night after
leaving St. Vincent, and not being able to make
Marttntque, was obliged to hear away for Jamaica,
where (he arrived on the zd of Augull, and run
on tLore at Port Maria, where file bilgedl and was
full of water.

On Saturday fe'nnight the Rochdale canal was
opened into Hopwood ; on which occalivn the
Travis pitch, attended by crowds of neighbour-
ing people, paired through the newly finithed
lock to Lome fide, (diftant about eight miles
from Mancheiter), where a warehoufe is build-
ing. All the cutting and mafoning between
Lome-fide and Failfworth is let, and now execut-
ing ; and from the fpirited exertions that arc made
by the condudlors of it,we may fairly prefume that
the period is not far ditlant, whenthe public will
receive the benefit of a complete communication
between Mancheiter and Hull, by means of the
Rochdale canal.

Laft Tuefday morning a new brig, belonging
to Hull, going down the top of the tide, ran
aground on the bill, at Globe.ilairs, Rotherhit
She heeled off in the night, by the bank breaking
way to the ballail-hold, whereby fhe bilged, while
the people were in the cabin afleep, when they
were awakened by the water coming in to them.
They arefe with great conflernation. and made
their efcape to the (Imre as tali as pvflible, v.hicn
they no fooner reached than the ..pf:t, and fuuk
bottom upwards. 14.

i POtIC 1.% &c.

A Los T t tx. it r STOP, -•-• A poor man, who
ls..ad a tit:_ fem.llc fo:tor yea:, cold, aoltn
from hint ...houz l'even ago, actcr in vain
making evtny cnquity after her, and dcfpairing
ever to fee her again, oa?rator, through Covent
Gorden on Nlonday evening, taw a child wrapped
in a blanket, hi the arms boTt;ar-wrontan,
winclo Le drought reo,:mblcti his own, hut much
site7.-.3: however h.: et led oatt--,, ti:at Sally 1"
wh:!tl-.:r it w is his child; .Irtit the
i.,:ont Icre:lrric.l non—" De:J.i.o.l tae:: me!
-;::1" It i,e.,tlnmil nceulcis to add, the child
0/./-yr•, and the bt.gzar-wo.man in Tothid-fields
for trial.

C:1 DKAPPEn—Ain,lngthe many inftances
of atrecit: with thiLh the public feeling has
lately hen !hocked, refpt ding the Ilealing and
ill-treatment of children, the following is not the
leaf remarkable :
Laft night an interetting examination took place
at Great Marlborough-tli ea, relative to a male
child, about eight years old, charged to have
been kidnapped by the foreman of Mrs. Bridges,
a chimilev-Iweeper, in Swallow Greet.—lt was
stated by Mrs. Wilfon, of No. 5, in the fame fireet,
the' next door neighbour to Mrs. B. that on
Saturday Lift, the was dreadfully alarmed by the
v of murder, and the fcreams of the child at
Mrs. 8.'., which induced her to run into the houfe,
where the found the child !}ripped, and the per-
Toner (Mrs. B.'s foreman) unmercifully beating
him with two (witches or (mall Ricks. She re-
inonttrated with the prifoner, and demanded by !
what authority he fo cruelly ufed the child, as it I
was well known that it had been inveigled from
the Circe, and unlawfully detained by them ? The
prifoner then threatened to !bike the witnefs, who,
neverthelefs, perfiiled in taking away the child,
and did a4tually take it to the workhoufe, inform-
ing the committee there of the particulars, who,
in confequence, indieed the prifoner,
Mrs. Salmon, another neighbour., who keeps a
chandler's (hop, next fiate, that about a month
ago this child came into her phop,for a pennyworth
of bread, which he intlantly began to eat, crying
all the time. Some of Mrs. B.'s• boys then ton
the child to their honk, where he had been kept
ever fince. Immediately on his becoming an in-
mate of this houfe, and an affociate with the little
chimney-(weepers, his hair was cut off: the new
fhoei he wore taken from him ; and other means
teed completclyao difguife him. No means were
ufed by advertYement- or otherwife, to difcover
the parents of the child. She often heard the
child cry, as did mall people in the neighbourhood,
for he was frequentlr beaten unmercifully, to
compel him to go up their own chimney, to initiate
him, as it were, in the art of chimney (weeping.
The evidence of thole, two witneffes was con-
firmed by that of others; and the child itfelf told
a very artlefs and moving talc of its own fufferings.
The priffiner, it appeared, ufed to (rip him naked,
and flog him in the duft-cellar, to make him go
up the chimney, to which it teems he had an
utter averfion. When in the *chimney, he was
urged to proceed by the prifoner having a flick,
at the top of which was fattened a pin, with which
be goaded the poor infant: at other times he_
would make the child defcend into vaults, and
ufed other cruelties too (hocking for recital.
When brought to the workhoufe, the child was
welted and cleanfed ; its little elbows were very
much cut, with its endeavours to get up the chim-
ney ; and on the whole, it exhibited filch ma: ks
of cruelty, as to confirm every thing the witneffes
had Paid. It appeared that Mrs. Bridges, who
was confined to her bed by illnefs, ufed to hare
the child brought to her bed fide, where flue beat
him with a large flick. Such was the• treatment
a poor 101 l child met with from this female chirn-
ney-fweeper and her foreman!
On enquiry at the workhoufe, the child dif-
covered that its father is a fmith by trade, a poor
man, with fix children, living near Sloane-fireet,
and through illnefs had been T 4 weeks out of
employ. The child in quaint% was kill come
from Exeter, where it had been brought up by its
grandfather. Its parents had ufed every means
in their power to difcover their child, and at
length found him in the workhoufe!
The prifoncr was committed to Tothill-fields
•Bridewell; and we fuppofe that Mrs. Bridges, as
foon as The can fafely leave her bed, will alio be
brought up, to anfwer this charge.
It is greatly to be regretted, that notwithrtand-
ing the humane exertions of the late Jonas Hall-
WAY, Mrs. MONTAGU, and other chara&ers,
tinguifhed for benevolence, the poor infants, who
are fo extremely ufeful in their vocation, that of
preventing the fru that ruin many, and alarm
thoufands, fhould yet be treated with brutality and
cruelty only to be equalled among the =milers
drivers of negroes in the Weft-Indies, and the
lbamelefs panders of fedueion in this metropolis!
We Come time ago mentioned a female fwindler
having robbed tl. people with whom' the took
lodgings at Richmond, by affeetin* to be an offi-
cer's widow. A woman of the fame.defcription
has robbed her credulous hofiefs ?it Monmouth of a
gold watch, ice. by fimilar pretences. She is a
genteel-looking woman, and is, or lays that the is,
itt bid health.
The bag of !wets. for London, difpatehed• from
.the Pcd•Office in Lewes, by the Brighton mai', OTT
Friday evening! was 10a out of the: cart, on • its
'pa/Lige het weentheßlueA n for and Riddlefflown.
The body of Captain NVATIOI6, of the 'fibetp
Tradefman, who was drowned in Whitgift roads
on Friday fennight, was found on Monday la(,
very near the place where he was drowned.
A few days fir ce, as Lord 041, was going
down Glynde Reach (a branch orthe Pule) in a
boat with his fon and feveral other /jinn gentle-
men, Mailer Gage by tome accidentrelloverboard,
and was expofed to great dangerfrovn the
rapidi-
ty of the current, when the noble Lord inflantly
into the water, braved the tide, 'and ref-
____ fon from the perilous &gallon by, bearing
rafety to the fhore. • •

DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER 25.
. am••••••

On the aith in(l..their Excellencies the Earl and
Counters of HARDWICK', left the hofpitahle man-
Iton of titc Earl of BaNnem, on their route to Kil-
larney. They 'flopped for a few hours at Mount
Mofty, the feat of Mrs. O'Dos NEL, M'here they
partook of an elegant djeune, and in the evening
tilt y arrived at the Earl of KEN MAR "IS, where they
remained until Monday morning ; they then fet
out for the beautiful feat of Lord DON F AI LI, and
Tuefday lalt proceeded to the Earl of LANDA FT'S
at Thnmattown ; they are next to vifit Mount
Shannon and Limerick, and return to Dublin, by
Ballytin, the elegant mantion of the Hon. W. W.
Pot.t.

The Farming Society have taken a large houfe I
on the weft fide of St. Stephen's•green, together
with an extcnfive concern at its rear, where they
are building ranges of flails, (tables, &c. forsthe
reception of Shew Cattle, at their periodical exhibi• '
tions,&c.on a great and approved fcale, uponwhich
it is laid will be expended near ts,ood. The
front is to be a tavern and hotel. The rear build-
ing'is the firft to be completed. The Farming
Society have made an arrangement for that pur.
pofe for five year!, for which they are to pay cool.
per annum.•
The Hue and Cry of this day evinces that the
race of lryh Giants is not yet extiat : it Bates that
Patrick Kehoe, charged with flealing (beep from
R. H. Kinc, Efq. of the county of Wexford, had
efcaped from a party of the 12th dragoons, and
it defcribes him to be fx feet !even inches and a half
! It is a curious fa , and deferving exami-
nation, that in a part of the county of Wexford
,(we believe in the barony of Forth) the inhabitants.
are of a ftature greatly above the common height.

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