Star.
London, England, 1810-03-19 00:00:00

ItiPAL pezurenta

FALMOUTH, MARCH te.
Sailed l'Esraroce gun-brig for the west Indies.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17.
The launch of the Islisue and MENELAUS
has been postptitied, on account of the unfavourable
state of the weather : that of the grst will take place
the 3d of April, the latter the 17th.
Four cartels sailed yesterday front this port for
Morlaix, with French prisoners. In one of-themi a
Colonel, taken prisoner at Guadaloupe, went passen-
ger ; he came here in the HAZARD, and is the bearer
of a copy of the Articles of Capitulation, for his Go-
vernment.
The ETNA, TRUNDER, and DEVASTATION bombs,
(whose arrival here I noticed in my last) are come to
take in stores, and will accompany the secret Expe-
d;tion under Sir SIDNEY 6141T11. Rumour has assigned
to it two destinations—the Meditertunean and South
America.
It has blown a strong easterly gale the lasts four
days, and still continues, which precludes the receipt
of any news at this place from Cadiz or Lisbon. ; it
is, however, as fair as it can blow for the ships• and
transports now on their way to those places.
The following are ordered to be fitted for the Baltic
service \rith all possible dispatch ;
.1 be forn!d,ble, 98; Vanguard, 74; Dictator and Africa, 64;
Tartar and l'Aimable frigates; Prometheus, Leveret, Lynx, and
artarus 'loops, and Swan cutter.
The FAVOURITE sloop has come into harbour to be
repaired. Put bark the Porcher East In iam an, being
unable to get up Channel. Arrived the Aid transport
from Deptford ; and the HOUND bomb vessel from
the eastward, to accompany the three already men-
tioaed, on the expedition. Came up harbour the
RATTLESNAKE Sloop Of war.

POR ESMOUTH, MARCH 17.
Sailed the DAPPER and ROYALIST on a cruize ;
FORT MAHON, with a convoy for Guernsey ; and the
&Pau with a convoy for Cork. Arrived the Gums-
HOPPER and HORATIA with a French prize. Went out
of harbour the VICTORY and BELLONA men of war.
MARCH 18.—Sailed the NIOBE frigate on a cruize ;
and the ALERT sloop cf war with a fleet for New-
foundland, among them are the Hope, Friends, Hero,
and Turk.

DEAL, MARCH 18.

Came down from the River the Grand 'Durk, for
New York ; and the Lusitanil) for Rio Janeiro.—
Wind tri.E.
YARMOUTH, MARCH Is.
Arrived the CHANTICLEER, Captain SPEARS, and

bas captured the t melia (formerly the Favourite, of
this port) from Rotterdam, bound to Dieppe, in bal-
last. Sailed on a cruize the Acura gun-brig, and
PA NMI A sloop. .
On the 12th inst. the Dennenberg, 800 tons, from
Norway, Captain HERPLOO, with a car'o of deal
taught fire at sea, off Comer, the crevr about thirty
in number took to their boats, and were saved, except
two, who were supposed suffocated below—the vessel
Boated on to Happisburgh Sand, where she burst to
the waters' edge.

The following have been sent in by the cruizevein
the North Sea, viz.—Anne Mette Catherina, Atilt
Jtilonsos: master, from Norway, with rye; Iris? W.
Ttassn, with general cargo; and thfs ccitordist, c.
BASICS, from North Bergen, with iron and ash.

FROM LLOYD'S LWT.

Gkaersemn, Malice 18 -s-Arrived the Diana, Polly, from
Malaga; and the Eliza, Williams, from New Providence.—Sailed
the Sir Williant Bensley, Hooper, for India ; Pelham, Hunter,
tar Lisl)on; and Ann) Thompson, for Bermuda.

NAVAL APP mammas.
Captain Wirt, to the San.
Captain H. E. lit. BA ILI, to the Ulysses*.
Captain Stant DOtfaLAS, to the Afrkts.
Captain Gnats, to the Orpheus, 'lee Tketyn, deceased.
Captain G. DAtIS, to the Phliouiel, vice Crawley, deceased.
Captain Parr:l42o*, at the Star, to the liompes.
Captain V.V. BALLA**, to the Statira, vice Boys, deceased.
Captain Pstrros, of the Asp, to the Blonde.
Lieutenant 111‘CoLLouttn, to command the ,Asp.

lieutenant Hon. I. Gone, to command the Scorpion.
Captain ANzLLIALD, tb the Wanderer.
Captain Faun, to the Savage.

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Lieutenant FLTXX, to command the Pultusk.

Captain LAIVION, to the Thracian.
Chin Harrow, to the Pert Mahon.

rice-Adniral Sir JOHN THOMAS Ducasvonm, K.B.
is appointed Commander•in-Chief at Newfoundland.

The EXCELLENT, of 74 guns, Captain GRIFYITIT,
which arrived at Portsmouth, on Wednesday, in '26
days from Minorca, was released from quarantine on
Friday. Lord CoLuNowoon was cruising off Barce-
lona. His Lordship, as formely stated, had been
clang:Touslt ill, 'but he was getting better.
SIT CHARLES COTTON is going out imme-
tli.nely to the Mediterranean., as Commander in Chief
cn that station, in the room of Lord' COLLINGWOOD,
whose ill state of health alone compells his return to
Engtand. JOHN Dix, Esq. will go our with Sit
CHARLES COTTON as iris Secretary
; and will be sue-
ceecl2d in his situation of Secretary to the Port-Admi.
rill at Plymouth, by T. COLE, Esq. of Plymouth.. •
The STANDARD, 64, Capt. HOLLES ; and the RosE,
car: MANSELL, are among the ships fitting for the
hut. Sir JA?4ES SAuMAREZ is expected to re-hoist
his
~flag shortly.
The BONNECITOYENNE, Captain O'CONNOR, is ap-
P6/ted convoy at Portsmouth, for Bermuda and
Halifax.

The^AtalATEl, of 14 guns, has been wrecked in the
west Indies; the officers and crew were savei.
c Vie ere concerned to state that Major-General Lord
"'um; Captain PATRICK ToNYN, of his Majesty's
1..° Oenum; and Captain JOus SiAottrLAND, who
late 7 so bravely dafcnded his Majesty's frigate Juno,
Teertoss to leer capture and sinking, died at Barbadoes.

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ativArinhiAiir OP it PIIHILVE.
Saturday, being the anniversary of Stc Patrick, ii
great number of the Nobility and Gedtry ditied at the
New London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, the Earl of
MO RA in the Chair. There were upwards of 300
persons present.--When the Earl of Moira, President,
attended by the Stewards, entered the room, the
Duke of Kent's Band played the national air of, Pa-
trick': Day. He was followed by the Marquis of
DoWnshire, Lord George Grenville' Lord 'Henry
Moore, Mr. Sheridan, lVir. Parnell, dr. Henry Grat-
tan, jun. and several other persons of distinction.—
When the cloth was removed, Non Noinr, Doting, was
• • MI Spra• T- Webbe,

sung by ..dessrs. Dignum, _ arlor,
and Master Buggins.
The following toasts were given trenn the Chair,
with three times'three--
The Xing—The Queen and Royal Family—The Navy and Army.
The health of the Prince of Wales was drank

amidst the loudest acclamations.

The children supported by the Society then entered
the room, to the heartfelt satisfaction of all present:
Theyjappeared in perfect health, and their eyes glowed
with gratitude to their benefactors. When they with-
, drew, and the collection was over, his Royal High.;
ness the Duke of Kent's health was drunk, as the
Patron of the Society.
The Treasurer, Mr. BAINBRIDGIti then read the
subscriptions, amongst others were his Royal High-
' ness the Prince of Wales a€loo, the Marquis of Down-
shire £lOO, the Right Honourable Richard B. She-
ridan £2l, &c.
The. Marquis of Dowrantaz then proposed the
health of Lod Moira, which vras.drankwith enthu-

siasm.
Lord Moms, after expressing his sense of the ho-
nour conferred upon him, by so numerous and so
respectable an assembly of his countrymen,_ said
that he did not then address them in a state of ordi-
' nary feeling, nor merely with those sentiments of
gratitude such a distinguished favour was calculated
to excite. They had drank his health, but in such a
way as made the honou- itself almost less valuable
than the manner in which it had been conferred.—
(Applaures.) It was not the cold observance of a
formal courtesy ; it was not the mere ceremonial of
any studied complaisance, but a spontaneous effusion
i of their good will, in which he recognised all the cha-
racteristic cordiality and generosity of his country-
! men. Such a tribute no man could feel more sensi-
bly than he did, for no man could appreciate it more
highly. (Applause:.) But high as such an honour
was, and grateful as he felt for it, it was not to that
merely that he attributed the emotions with which he
was then affected. They sprung from a more en-
larged source than any thing referring merely to hirn-
self, or any other individual. He did not allude to
the institution itself, or its invaluable benefits. He did
not allude to the interesting spectacle they had just
witnessed. He dial not want to expatiate upon the
permanent good they had just been doing, of the
children educated by their country's bounty in the
love and veneration of their native soil. He would
'not attempt to add stimulus to their benevolence
for he should be sorry to be capable of thinking that
it ever wanted any. (ifm/auser) He knew them too
well to resort to any such misplaced artifice. He un-
derstood the nature of Irish sensibility too well, to
handle it so rudely. (Applause:.) But it was im-
possible for them to witness the procession of national
charity that had just passed by them, and blessed
them as they passed. It was impossible to look upon
those children of their benevolence—lt was im-
possible for them to look upon that noble specta-
cle without bringing home to themselves such -a
portion of self-applause, as must make them exult
in the consciousness of existence, by realising the
noblest purposes of their being ! (Applause:.) Each
Of these children had been taken out of a state of
friendless wretchedness, and put in the fair progress
of honest industry to honourable competence; and
what must be the sensations of those who had contri-
buted to that great and good work, when those very
children, becoming the future men and women of Ire-
land, shall, in their subsequent conduct, reflect back
upon their benefactors all that light and warmth of
national virtue in which they had been cherished from
their infancy ? (Applause:.) But the leading and pre-
eminent character of that institution was the irresist-
ible tendency it had to promote and extend the growth
of the love of country in the heart—the benefactors,
and those benefited, coming together, and in the
mutual interchange of benevolence and gratitude,
forming .a noble communion of patriotism, by a ge-
nerous rivalry in the love of our one common parent
—our native soil. (Loud applauses.) The love of
country was a passion the noblest, perhaps, of which
our nature was capable. It was not to be traced to
secondary principles, by the cold and measured ad-
vances of reasoning ; it was an instinct of au higher
order, and of so much a grander range of operation, as
the country itself is more than the individual; it was
not so much a separable quality as an inherent essence
that distinguished the species, and exalted it by such
distinction. (Applause:.) It was, perhaps, the only thing
that could not be carried to an extreme. It worked it-
self purer by its own violence—(AMlasues)—its virtu-
ous vehemence was productive of only firer transports
(Am/auses) ; it was planted in our nature by the hand
of the Divinity, and asserted its origin in its uniform
and lofty negligence of every selfish consideration—
(Applause:). Trace the history of any people, an-
cient or modern. and they would find that their
brightest annals were then when the love of country
was most predominant. It was a passion that gene-
rously seduced the human heart from every petty in-
terest, every narrow notion, every paltry consideration
which would otherwise close and chill it ; it was a
passion that redeemed-man from the miserable poverty
of selfishness, and made him rich in the cultivation of
all the greater virtues. Amongst all the dispensations
of PROVIDENCI4 none was more uniform than that
which visited upon man the consequences of his own
vicious selfishness ; in proportion as a people stooped
to grovel in the mire of sordid objects, in the same
proportion did they detract from their strength as a
nation. The ALMIGHTY seemed to have decreed that
there could be no other correction for such a vice
than the iron rod of the conqueror ; for invariably
whenever that great passion had become extinguished,
in whatever nation that holy fire of patriotism had
gone out, the darkness of foreign subjugation inevi-
tably succeeded. (Applause:.? When self was every
thing, and country „nothing, then did they invite the
yoke, then did they Low the neck tobe trampled to

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the ailit beileath tttx fa& of the itniiiisted
(41/1/auses.) And how was that servile spit to be
defeatadl By never suffering the love of kOtlntry tto
droop therefore did he always hail the ratittikof that
day, and of all such days. He rejoiced -al.oll'aucje
distinctidhl beiweed them and England; as race for
the common benefit of both. (Applautii.) He onto
more thanked theta for the honour they had done
him, and in dritiking their health in return, hit pride
in doing so, was not Merely that they were his coun-
trymen, not merely that they were Irishmen, but that
they were nit% aniimis to stand in the front of the
battles of -the empire, and songht • for no distinction
so earnestly as that of (when the day shall Come)
bearing the brunt of the fight..
Lord MdIRA then ave the health of Mr.SHERIDAN,
which was drank with universal applause.
Mr. SHERIDAN returned thanks in his usual elegant
manner. Alluding to Lord Moira, he described his
Lordship as theorgan of the PRINCE'S sentiments, et=
pressed for the Society that day—he who was selected
by him as his faithful counsellor, and who was the
prototype of his nature and of his heart, an ottien•
that enables us to say, that as well Ireland so• the
empire in him'has happiness in store.—( Univernit ond
reiterated aftAlaust.)—Well and truly, said that 'dis-
tinguished Nobleman, that the purposes fof which
they met were far beyond the considerations at--
tached to party, or to party matters. Thanks to
the DIVINITY, charity knows no distinction of coun-
try, and its purposes were the great object of their
pursuit, in which his Royal Highness joined with
heart and hand, as the Noble Chairman, whose ser-
vant he w is, so eloquently signified:--servant he
would say, but whose service is perfect freedom. To
concord, then, he considered the day devoted, and
to that he was resolved it should be dedicated; but he
could not sit down without exhorting his musical friend
(Mr. Dignum) to leave out of his song for thefuture,
the melancholy stanza, " that the Irish shamrock was
sheltered by the British oak." Where was no stlth prefer-
ence to the relations of the country. They were, and,
as an Irishman, he would ever contend it, united by,in-
terests reciprocally advantageous. Ireland ought to
be as dear to England as England was to that Coun-
try. With respect to the figure, he begged leave to
say, that the natural pallisado of the Irish shamrock
was the Irisb shellelah. (Shouts of applause.) After
thanking the company for the honour done him, this
sincere Representative of the Irish Nation sat down
amidst the long continued applauses of his admiring
and grateful countrymen.
The Marquis of Dowssninz was proposed as Chair-
man for the ensuing year, for which he returned
thanks.
Lord MOIRA having taken llis departure with se-
veral of his friends, Lord GEORGE GRENVILLE took
the chair, and the utmost conviviality prevailed to a
late hour.

ORATORIO.—The Oratorio at Covent-Oirden Thea-
tre was on Friday night numerously attended. It
consisted of the same Selection from the Messiah which
we have often noticed, and which was repeated with
as much effect as on the former occasion.
A tumult, which was followed by some unpleasant
consequences, took place at Chelmsford on Saturday
evening. Several soldiers, principally Irishmen, who
had celebrated the festival of St. Patrick, sallied into
the town from the Barracks, and insulted every per-
son they met. They made their way to the front of
the Shire House, where there was, as usual, a great
crowd, it being Assizes time. Considerable alarm
prevailed for some time within the Court ; but it was
calmed by the coolness and presence of mind of the
Judge (Heam) who commanded silence, and or-
dered the business to proceed. The rioters were at
length subdued, by the exertions of their Officers and
the police, but not without considerable difficulty.—
Some persons, we understand, were severely wounded.
Thursday a seaman fell from the foretop of the
Dictator, at Plymouth, and was killed on the spot.
ALARMING FlRE.—Between one and two o'clock,
this morning, an alarming fire broke out in the house
of Mr. Cookesley, the distributor of Irish stamps, in
New Boswell-court, Carey-street, Strand; which, with
the house adjoining, was in a short time burned to
the ground. The fire continued to rase with great
violence, and threatened destruction to the whole
neighbourhood, until the arrival of the Lincoln's Inn
engine, which threw an immense body of water, and
contributed materially to abate the fury of the flames.
The immediate neighbourhood presented a frightful
spectacle: men, women, and children, half naked, were
seen flying in every direction. The fire, we understand,
broke out in the lower part of Mr. Cookesley's house, 1
but we do not hear that any lives were lost. Mr.
HARTSHORN'S cow-house adjoins the court ; and this
fine dairy of cows were, for safety, driven into the
open space at St. Clement's Church, where they added
to the melancholy of the scene, by their lowing and
other demonstrations of terror and alarm. One cow
remained in the house, an uncommonly fine animal,
which remained motionless and panic-struck,; as no
force could drive her out of the house.

j. Mr. THOMAS BRACE takes the earliest opportu-
nity of returning his warmest acknowledgements to
his friends and those persons who so readily came to
his assistance OR the breaking out of, and during the
dreadful fire this morning, in New Boswell-court.—
He is happy to inform them, that he and his family
escaped without any personal injury ; and though the
flames were so rapid as to destroy the inside of the
house and the principal part of the furniture in a shors.
time, yet he has been fortunate enough to save the
greatest part of his books and .papers, which. have
been removed to Mr. Pnostanres, New Boswell-court,
where any letters, messages, or papers will be taken
in until he can procure another residence.
CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MARCH l9.—The
fresh supplies of Wheat coastwise to-day, are short,
but large arrivals of foreign, and sales in general at.
rather less price—Barley and Malt at little fluctua-
tion—White Peas likewise—Beans of the two kinds
vary but little—There are considerable remaining
supplies of Oats, second and ordinary samples are
named rather eheaper—Flour at late prices.
GENZRAL CURRISICT AS UNDER.
Wheat, 82s. 965. 1061. Beans, (old) 568.625.
Fine ditto, 1105. 114 s. Tick ditto (old) 465. 524.
Rye, 48s. 543. Oats 225. 265. 30s,
Barley, 355. 495. od. Poland ditto, 921. 333.0 d.
Malt 723.80•. Potatoe ditto, 39.40 d.
White Peas (boilers) 665. 745. Rape Seed, 461. 531..
Grey ditto 48s. 545.
Flue Fleur Brs. te7i—SeUsitdl 50i, 85$.

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klward Chimley, of Winterton, conainitteci
on the charge of rape on the body of E; Gollands,
on the 24th of December last, Was not tried on the
capital part of the indictMent (the evidence, as to the
consummation of the crime being thought defective,'
but was arraigned for a violent assault on the prose-
cutrix, with intent to violate her person; The pro.
secutrix, seventeen years of age, went with some
other females, to the Statute at Wintertoni to be hired
for service, and was engaged by the prisoner. Not-
withstanding he is a married man, and has a child, he
soon began to take libertiei which the young woman
resented, and of which she cquainted her mistress. But
otiChrismat eve, his family, except the prosecntrix,
and man-servant, being gone to Winterton, he, after
a long struggle, so far -exhausted her strength, that
she fainted, and became a victim to his lust: On her
recovery, she went to aerie. iinther mistress of what
bad happened; and then returned to the protection of
her mother.
The testimony, charactei,. and previous chastity of
the prosecutrix, attempted to be impeached by
the Counsel and evidence of the prisoner ; and Mrs
Chimley, on being asked whether he bad himself any
thing to say, made an impassioned appeal to GOD that
he was innocent. The Jury found him Guilty •
Mr. Justice BATLEY immediately, passed sentence;
in a most impressive way. Theprisoner, he observed,
so far from being the seducer even of the female,
whom, 36 a master, and the head of a family, he was
bound to protect, ought to have corrected in her any
propensity which she might have betrayed to an im-
proper intercourse. But when, in gross violation of
morality and the duties of society, he, by brutal vio-
lence, robbed her of her chastity, he became an offen-
der of so dark a rank, that good men, in their resent-
ment, would hardly think any punishment 'too severe
to be inflicted on him. He (the Learned Judge) in
verity, declared, that, considering the relation ef the
prisoner and the prosecutrix, had theformer been tried
and found guilty of the capital offence for which he
had been first indicted, he should have felt it his duty,
as a warning to society in these parts, to have left him
for execution. As it was, he sentenced him to pay a
fine of £4OO to the King, and to be imprisoned twp
years in the House of Correction, at Kirton ; and fur-
ther, be imprisoned until the fine be paid.
Nary Aistrope, single woman, lately of Hagwor.
thingham, charged by the Coroner's Inquest with the
wilful murder of a male child, of which she-delivered
herself—was acquitted. The prisoner lived' in the
service of Mrs. Holden; of Hagworthingliam, and
had so lived for five months previously to het 'delivery.
She complained of being very ill, but did not state
the cause of her illness, and was delivered without
the privity of any person. The child was sand after
found in the chimney-place of a room contigunuf to
the prisoner's bed-room,-dead. NoinetkStif violence
were discoverable upon it ; but ft professional witness
fieclered his opinion that the infant born alive,
from the circumstance of-the lungs appearing inflated,
on an anatomical investigation by him, and of their
floating in wcer.
Mr. Justice BATLEY hnmanely controverted this
conclusion, and declared that, called as his atten-
tion frequently was by his professional duties to the
subject, he had no hesitation in saying, that the opi-
nion of the most eminent meta in the faculty now was, -
that the inflation and floating of the lungs were by
no means a proof that a child was brought into the
world alive, particularly where the mother had not
had the aid of a midwife. There was a question for
the Jury, whether the prisoner had criminally con-
cealed the birth of the child ? but he thought no evi-
dence was adduced of its having been born alive.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner ; and at the in.
stance of the Judge, her late mistress agreed to re-
ceive her into her service again.
CIVIL SIDE.
ARNOLD V. NoTZLPLL:
The plaintiff is a young woman, who had lived
in the capacity of servant to the defendant, by
whom, although he is a married man, and 70 years
of age, she became pregnant. The action was for
an assault, under the following curious circum.
stances : The young woman was delivered Of a child
on the 22d of June, at the house of Catherine Lamb
of Woolsthorpe ; a fortnight and two days after her
delivery, the defendant called, and begged that she
would part with the child ; to this the girl would not
consent, for fear it should be seat to the Foundling
Hospital. Mrs. Notzell accompanied her husband to
the plaintiff's, and, after quieting her apprehensions,
by fondling and feeding the infant for a short time,
she suddenly whipped it up, and ran off with it.—
The
distressed mother attempted to follow and
rescue her child, bat the old man prevented this,
by violently holding her down fOr leirminutes ; and
Afterwards, on her getting up, he push& her down
with force, on the other side of the room. This was
the await complained of ; and Serjeant Vaughan ob-
served, that, as the old gentleman -had gratified his
passions in more ways than one, the Jury would make
him pay the piper.
Catharine Lamb, the witness who proved the facts,
on cross-examination (with a view on the part of the
defendant to prove improper treatment. of the infant
by the mother); admitted that it was not usual to let
• a child gteit fortnight and two days before it sucked ;
the child' clothes were sent after it, and the plaintiff
`Wad got the infant again. On re-examination, she said
'the girl was a tender mother, and there was no reason
r-to take the child away on that. account.
Mr. BALM(' for the defendant, said, that his client
was not an Englishman, and that such of the jury
as had happeDed to have seen the picture, by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, of the old Mercinis of Granby,
would find the very portrait of him (Mr. Notzell) in
the droll Swiss servant holding the horse at the back
of the Marquis. This silly old man of 70, who had
been 30 years married, without having a child, was
sfetonderftilly delighted with the reputation of having
got a son and heir; and, strange to tell, he had in-
fused the same kind of pleasure at the circumstance
into his wife. They had taken the child aw yto get
an apothecary for it at Grantham ; and di that he
did to the girl was merely to take her by tl e waist
and hold her down, whilst this kind theft W.:6 piac-
tised ; and, as she has got the child again, no harm
was done.
Justice BAYLKY said, in point of law, an acsiuls
had been proved, and the plaintiff was; clearly t ti led
to a verdict.".-Damages.43o,