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Ettract of a Letter from the Agent to LLovn's at
;rat:2r, dated the Bth instant :--•• Passed the Serails
ti,e Eastward, the Algerine squadron, and was
1.. j by ete Algetine brig lying near the River
!rnnnis."
Ple Barbara, of Gardenston, from Sligo to Clas-
w, w•as totally wrecked at Ballinaby on the 11 th
„It, and went to splinters. Her cargo, by the
•u!est, consisted of 5+5 casks of• butter, .550 bar.

of pr)fiiioe oats. With great exertion and trouble
~ed 140 casks of butter, the cast' s shattered ; the
..fnors and cables, and some of the spars broken.
FALMOU Ili, NOVEMBER LT..
Vim! from N. to W.—Arrived Om-Princess Char-
:l: part, with a Mail from Malta and Gibraltar,
:welve days from the latter. &lied the Osborne
~ with a Mail for the Leeward Islands; and
arab, EDWARDS, for Bengal.
PLYMOU fH, NOVEMBER 24.
Wind N W.—Arrived the Eliza, LUCK, from
irbec ; and the N. S. de la Consolation, GOECON-
1, hem frindon for Corunna.
PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 95.
Wind N.W.—Arrived his Majesty's ships fleet
Twee, from a cru;ze; the Tullocli Castle. and
:solution, from the Downs ; and the Mai tha, from
ntistiana for Southampton.
DEAL. NOVEMBER IS. •
Came down from the River the Perceval for Cie-
; Wilhatts, for Tobago; Ossian, for Jamaica ;
,titmy.for Trieste ; and Triune, for Sr. Domingo.
lived and passed the back of the Goodwin Sands
Persevtianoe, G 111.0 N, from St. Thomas's, for
nreldam.—Arrived the Jack Tar, from Newcastle
Jamaica ; Margaret, SIMPS.IIII,. from BataviA for
'twerp; New Biggin, WILLIS, from Quebec; Jo.
1, STEWART, IT= Lynn for Jamaica; Monarch,
-C.LAS, and Montreal, Haute, from Quebec for
nd(m.—..Sailed the Fort William. Lord Wellington,
J several others, outward-bound—particulars tan-
awn.—The Margaret spoke, on the 17th October,
lat. 9. W. N. long. 21. W. the Blucher packet,
at a mail for the Brazils; and on the 19th October
trice the Charles Southseamaa, of London.—
North West.
MARGATE, NOVEMBER CS.
The cutter Samuel, SOPER, from London for Pen-
-e, was on shore on the Main near the Reculver,
was got off with assistance, and brought into bar-
e, with loss of anchdrs and cables.
DOVER, NOVEMBEIt 25.
Arrived the Lord Nelson, BLACK, from Newcastle'
;r Guernsey, with the loss of sails, and leaky.
CUSTOM HOUSE. NOVEMBER 25.
tz•rrato Isovemss.—'l he •Delme and Gerard, Singe,
at Bremen ; Albion, Pawn; and Man Davison, from Me-1
Henry, Gibson; John. Ward; Old Maid, Seeton ; and
r,Birkett, front Peter:burgh; Juliana. Ogilvie, from Cal-
ate 'Trial, Barchani ; Morning Field, Pine; and William,•
rkergill, from Rip ; Hero, Stroud, ltom Lanzarottc; Jane,
-•.ten Leghorn; Hebe. Wells, from 'l'rieste; Eddystone;
An, from Hudsop's Bay; Aurora, Feel, from Calaiso
meal's. Meyer, front Uttar) Neptune, i
;11; urgent, Aitkin, from Stettin; Britannia; Bully sod
'root Seville; Robert and Mary, AttwAod, from Resij
Seven, Atkinson, from Harlingen; Scarborough, Shan,
; and Ranger, Murray, from Dantre.
OVIWARDS'IIIe Active. Roberts. for Dublin ; Falth,Quelck,
Madeira and St. Christopher's; Hannah. Moor, for -Hans.
h; Hibernia. Thomas, for Waterford; and Royal Sovereign,
‘.lr Rotterdam.
ABERDEEN, NOVEMBER t 9.
On Saturday night, between ten and eleven o'clock,
- Fame, of Arbroath, laden with flax and
; and the schooner James and Miry, of Suo-
, laden with timber, from the Spey, broke
from their moorings in the harbour, owing to
.at fresh in the river Dee, and were both car.
net to sea, and stranded opposite to the battery.
Mate of the Fame fell overboard; in endeavour
to let go the anchor, and was unfortunately
med. The Fame Went so pieces in a few hours.
.at part of the cargo and rigging are saved.
,amen and Mary is likely to be got off, but with
able damage. Great praise is due to Mr.
ltson, shipbuilder, for his exertions in saving
aws and cargoes. Such a flood .in the river Dee
not been witnessed for several years. We have
informed that it ran, between the piers, at one
at the rate Of ten miles an hour. Gaming every
, befcre it, and sweeping the bar. The damage
le interior of the harbour has also been consider-
by vessels going adrift, and running fool of
to the injury of their masts, rigging, &c.
ner Industry ran foul of the brig Minerva,
she carried away both her masts—the lat-
_ ito damage. The sloop William and
of Sunderland, Pavia Baowe Master, during
gale on the 14th, went on shore can the rocks near
baths of Peterhead, and has since gone to pieces.
• was saved. She was bound for Sunder.
in ballast.—The schooner John, of Greenock,
tr Dimension Master, from South Shieldi for

with a cargo of whitening, grind-stones,
glass, went on shore on the coast of Croden, the
same dab about eight o'clock, P.ll. The crew saved
vtemserves with difficulty, by getting upon the rocks.
Front the heavy sea, which ha. continued,to break
over her, it was found impossible to save any part of
the materials; and she has become a complete wreck, 1
hewing begun to part on SunrlAy. With the excep-
lion ef the empty crates, not a vestige of the cargo
to be seen. The crew escaped merely with the
Clothes they had on, and have exerted themselves in
removing the wreck, as it floated ashore.

Yesterday the Right Honourable the Lone MAYOR
proceeded in the accustomed state from the Mansion
House to Guildhall, to hold his first Court of Alder-
"ens when the same, shortly after being formed,
broke up.
Yesterday the Lottery commenced Drawing, when
the only NuMber Drawn a Prize aboire 4160, was
6"Isl by Huy, in Eleven Shares, at his Offices, No. 4.
C, ()mini], and 9, Charing Cross, where Undrawn
:s'ickets and Shares are now Selling.—The Second
}347 will be FRIDAY, the sth lileczmasa, when every
ickee Drawn will bri Prize of Money Coosolsror
to be ite4rawn.

Lori TTPLL;CENCE..

COURT Or CHANCERY, isiOVCWIER 2s.

:LLIAAIN V. ART AND °THEM, enNIIIIS3bNEitS

• rnn TIII: HALF. OF VIE LANti
This case, which is involved in legal intri-
cacy, came oh to be tried yesterday. It apre ireto
the form of a demurrer to a bull that hut 'iten filA
by the plaintiff, to compel the derendants to the per.
Unmoor:: of a specific engagement. The substance
of the case was as follows. The Commissioners it id
given public.notice of their purpose to sell a certa;h
portion of the Land Tax, in the borough and
hourhood of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Mr.
Stewart, one of the Commissioners, sent in a proposal
for purchasing, and, conformably to the Act of Par-
liament, cum.:id a copy of his proposal to be exhibited
on the doi.rr of the church at Melcombe Regis. Mr.
Williams also sent a proposal to purchase, w:lich, as
the Act.required, was sealed and sent in wi.hin the
prescribed time of fourteen days, and his otter ex-
ceeded that of Mr. Stewart, to the anumiit of Of per
cent. Subsequently to those offea s, Mr. Isted sent in
a sealed proposal, of an extraordinary kind. He
offered, without naming any specific sum for the tax,
one per cent. more than any other person should
agree to give. The latter proposal the Commis-
sioners chose to accept, and the Law ClEcers, whom
they had previously consulted, were of opinion, that
the oiler. notwithstanding the extraordinary form
of it. was a legal offer, and that being the highest
presented, the Commissioners were bound to fulfil
(their contract in favour of Mr. hued. The offer
was, notwithstanding, regarded bp the plaintiff as
incompatible with the Act of Parliament, since the
objet( of the Legislature in prescribing that the
proposals should be sent in seal- d up, and that their
contents should not be disclosed until Alier fourteen
doysio any of the bidders, would, by admitting of
Mr. sled's mode, be wholly defeated. Upon that
grounul he filed a bill to compel the Commissioners
to a fulfilment of the contract.

It was contended by the SOLICITOR GENERAL, With
respect to the demurrer, that toe opinion delivered by
them to the Commissioners was stilliciently sustained
by the Act ut Parliament; that the Commissioners
being holy the agents for the Crown, ought not to
be brought before the Court witlu•ut the principal;
and that the cause itself did not come properly before
that Court, but belonged rather to the jurisdiction of
the Court of Exchequer.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, for the plaintiff, entered at
great length into the question, citing various Acts of
Parliament, and especially that by which the Com-
inissioner's were appointed and authorised to dispose
of the Land Tax, from which he argued, that the
opinion delivered .by the Law Officers was unfound.'
ed. The Commissioners he regarded, not so much
as agents for the Crown, as trustees fur the Public.
because upon the Public would fall the weight of '
any loss that might be sustained in the course of the''
proceedings. It, indeed. •it were simply a question
of revenue, he admitted that it would properly be-
long to the Court of Exchequer ; hut the case at
present was an application foe' equitable relief almie,
and as such it came with perfect propriety before his.
Lordship.
The further proceedings were interrupted by the
rising of the LORD CHANCELLOR yesterday, at two
o'clock, and they were resumed to-day, when Mr.
litwest and Mr. Taowta followed Sir SAMUEL. Ro.
HILLY on the same side, and the SOLICITOR-GENERAL
spoke at great length in reply.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took an extensive and
minute survey of the case, and of the various appli.
cations of the arguments of the Learned Counsel on
both sides. The object, he said, of the Legislature,
in directing and applying the machinery of taxation
when they contemplated and determined on the ex-
pedient of rendering the Land Tax perpetual, was
to make it saleable; but it did not appear that such
sale, or any mode of arranging or distributing the
collection of the tax, defeated or altered the inherent
and original right which belonged to the Crown.—
With respect to the several claims of Mr. Williams
and Mr. Isted, they certainly admitted of conside-
rable douht and contention. " The Act of Parliament
by which the Commissioners were authorised to pro.
teed, din precisely and specifically state, that the tax
was---tó be sold to the highest bidder, and it might
reasonably be inferred that the framers of the Act
did expect that a bidder, any bidder and every bidder
would set down the specific rate and value of his
!bidding: and howsoever clearly the meaning of Mr.
Isted might be understood, when he said he could
give one per cent. 'more than might be found by the
Commissioners, to be the previous bidding of any
other person, his proposal was not marked with the
specific character which might be expected on such
an occasion. His Lordship, after many learned ob-
servations, said, he should carefully examine the Act
of Parliament in all its real and probable bearings in
the present question, and after a thorough considera-
,
Wm of the case, should deliver his judgment upon it
Oa Thursday next.

COURT GE KING'S BENCH. NOVEMBER J.
TUE KING O. JAMILS WILLIAMS!

The ArroitsaY-G turaaat. prayed the judgment of
the-Court on this defendant, who had sulfaed judg-
ment to go by default, on two informations tied
Against him for printing and publishing two profane
and scandalous libels.
The defendant having taken his station on the floor
of the Court, Mr. DEALTRY proceesied to read the
first information, which set` forth that Tones
Wll-
- late of Purists, in the county of Southampton,
printer, intending to excite inwiety and irreligion in
the minds of his Majesty's liege subjects, and to bring
into ridicule and contempt a certain part of the pub-
lic service of the Church of England, called ‘, The
Litany," on the 15th of February, in the 57th yea!
of George 111. did publish a wicked and profane
libel. being a parody on the said Litany.
. The defendant pat in vidious Affidavits in mitiga-
tion of punishment. In his own AffiJavit, he .re-
posed that he had carried on the business of a plater,
at Fortsea, for 15 years, and had never been subject
to any action at law for any thing published by loin.
In the month .of February last, he was applied to by
mierson who vends books about the country, to prini
250 copies of the Parody on The Litany, and 19 0 VI
the Parody on the Athanasian Creed. Two months
before any information was •filed *seism him, he
learned, from the public. newspapers, that tbey wrrel
dangerOor prodectiong. and he, easeeady .desisted

irash puitiishing tbetti. the deponent nevrir.trls, iR
any way, boneerned *Mt the original publi'st,er or
publishers of those Peri:dies.

George Pit linger, deposed that he had lived up-
wards of tette years wit!) the defendant as apprentice
ald jorita.; min -.-and recollected pet tectly that when
the defendant discovered tam the l'ari3Jo:s wcf •
iile-
gal. he delisted from publishing theni, and sa.dered
the types to be disttibuttd.
Farr Agidaiits, surstrn by respectable inhabitants
of Portsea, described the defendant as a good and
loyal subject.
The ArroaNrY-CENERAL said, he found it his
ditty to file this information against the defendant,
who, from his Affidavit, appeared to have been the
distributor as well as the printer, of a publication
which was properly designated, on the recerd, as a
profane and scandalous libel—tending to bring into
ridicule and contempt a part of the Divine Service of
the Church of England. Their Lordships knew, that
the form of public worship in the Church linglind
was sancti,,ned by law. The Lkany w •ts particularly
men'ioned in a Statute passel in the reign of Chat Its
11. for the purpose of establishing a particular system
of public worship. As tar, therefore, as related to
the mode of performing public worth'p, it was sup.
ported by the law of the land—but it derived the
sacredness of its character from a much higLcr ssturce,
from the Christian Religion itself—and he thought
nothing was more fit for a criminal prosecution, than,
any attempt to ridicule or bring into disgrace any of
those sublime players, which form a part of our tali-
-I;ious worship. A more solemn, he might say, a
more sublime collection of supplicatory prayers to
the' Dart to avert from us every pos.ible evil, to
protect us in the hour of deathl3nd even after death,
than were comprised in the Litany, could not be
penned by man. It was one of the most sublime ser-
' vices of the Choral), and it was impo.sible that a
publication of this sort, which was meant to ridicule
it, could be disseminated amongst the lower ranks of
society, er amongst the rising generation, no matter
what their situation in life was, without necessarily
weakening that reverential awe which every persou
aught so tech towards his Cacayou.

Mr Rot:mama, in an inipressive and eloquent
speech. Addressed the Court in mitigation of punish-
merit. He trusted the Court would not inflict on
the defendant that full measure of punishment with
which they might think it necessary to visit the ori-
ginal publisher of those profane and wicked libels.—
It was most unfortunate for his client, that though
he was not the first offender in order of time or cri-
minality, yet he was the first who was brought up
for judgment—and it was ever the case, that the first
blow, on such occasions, was the heaviest. The
Learned Gentleman impressed forcibly on the Court
the circumstance, that the defendant had wit acted
contumaciously. The moment he learned that the
publication was improper, he ceased to expose it to
sale. He had not thrown dosin the gauntlet of de-
fiance in the Court, and told the Attorney-General
that he would meet him when and where fie pleased,
and prove that the publication was not a libel. No!
when apprised of his error, he did every thing in his
power to atone for it.
The second information, for publishing the parody
on the Athanasian Creed, was then read.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in praying judgment,
observed, that, as had been said by the Court many
years ago, it was possible to discuss certain points
isnci doctrines Connected with our religion; in such a
manner as to steer clear of libel. But this was not
the case here. There was here no discussion on any
point of public worship. It was a parody intended
to ridicule all the docrines contaiued in the Creed of
St. Athanasius, and deserved the character which
w.is given to it in the information.

Mr. TOPPING followed on the same side.
Mr. ROBINSON said, if the AthariasiAn Creed were
to be treated argumentatively, certainly it could not
be done through the medium of a parody. Bat, he
submitted, that it was impossible fr.r any person who
read the present parody, and who was acquainted
with the original, to receive any unfavourable im-
pleision from the publication in question. It was
well known that many eminent Divines, many illus-
trious ornaments of the Bench, who were filled with
the most perfect conviction of the great truths of
Christianity, ',it wished that the form of inculcating
these truths, as exhibited in the Athanasian Creed,
had never been is existence.

Mr. Justice BATIAT, in pronouncing the sentence
of the Court, observed, that if his Majesty's Attor-
ney-General had hot filed the present informations,
he, for one, would have thought that he had fallen
short in the discharge of that duty which the public
expected at his hands. It was impossible for any
man who read those libels, and who felt any the least
reverence, for the sacred ordinances of the Church
of England, and the doctrines of Christianity, not
to feel his mind appalled at the language in which
they were couched. His Lordship • said, it was un-
necessary for him to go through those libels, and to
point out in what instances they were offensive. But
they certainly deserved this general character—that
they were calculated to raise lo.ise and light ideas in
the mind; when those ordinances, which they ridi-
culed. Were read.aw.Of one of the compositions, thus
parodied, he believed it might be said, that it was
the finest Wail; that ever proceeded from the heart or
head of man. And in what situation were the youug
and the ungetarded placed, if they were to have their
minds unsettled,. at the period when the whole of
their attention ought to be engrossed by the conside-
ration of that sacred work. It Was stated by the
counsel (Mr. Robinson) that the Athanasian Creed
had been in some degree questioned by several great
and able Members of the Church. If it were to be
questioned, this was not the mode that should be
adopted. Fair, mid sober, and temperate, and dis-
creet discussion, might be necessary to mankind—
but se long as this service was sanctioned by the
Legislature of the country, it was net to be made
the subject of ridicule. But this libel did not ins-
peacli alum the-questionable parts, it there were any,
of this sirdinance, but militated against the lunda-
meutal doctrines- of our religion, and turned them
into ridicule and contempt. Let it not be supposed,
because- the defindaat was by accident the first per-
Ison brought tgp tq answer for this offence, that there.
tete a weamie of punishment would be held out to
him, different from that which he would have re
ceived, If he bad come up at a Wet period. The
Court Measured out its puuishment as accurately as
it covid with respect to the petubmitics of each test,
I -

. .
ItS tisitalion eras not argiavated l3:'.Cnuse of EIS.
hippened tb be first. oor diminished beciuse ii pre
wnted itself at 'a liter pefiod.
ientenee of the Cotstt was; thr the derrndant
Fnr the fist libel should be imprisoned to the gaol of
Winchester fur eight cideudar mont!.s, pay a fine id
£lOO to. the King. and find. securities, himself in
83W, and two sureties in ie1.50 (sell; to be of good
b?hariour for fiie years. For the scc..nd libel. he
was sentenced to four months insprisceimeni•in Win-
cli;!,tr gaol. to be computed after the expirAtion of
ilia E. st sentence. •

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