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London, England, 1816-01-19 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE SESSIONS, JANUARY 10.

ItEFRACTEMY SEAMEN. •
Jam Dale and Rc&ert Grant were indicted for pre-
venting the sailing of the ship Joseph.
Mr. HULDOCK informed the Jury, that these men
were indicted on an Act passed in the 33d Geo. 111.
for preventing the obstruction or navigation of any
ship, keel, &c. which enacts. se That if, after the
21st of June, 1793, any seamen, keelmen, or others,
shall obstruct the sailing or navigating of any ship or
vessel, such men should, on conviction, be impri-
soned twelve months, and not less than six." This
case arose out of the disgraceful scenes which for so
long a time inevailed in this and the adjoining county.
On the 2.1 of October last, the ship Joseph was
ready fur sea, but was, forcibly boarded and pre-
vented from sailing by the prisoners, in company with
a great many more.—(The Learned Counsel here
gave a detail of the proceedings, which will appear
in the evidence.)
Wm. Coppin stated, that the ship Joseph lielonged
to himself and his brother Edmund, who went mas-
ter of her ; that on the 2.1 of October last, she was
lying a little above the Custom-house Quay, North
Shields, laden with coals for London ; that she had
all the necessary documents on board, and had cleared
at the Ctrtorn-house ; they had seven apprentices of
their own, and two belonging to the tip Rodney.
The men he had engaged durst not coat on board
for the seamen. Witness sent his brother for a paot,
and at low water .the ship was unmoored and her
stern ropes taken in; he went on board with three
masters of ships, and Mr. Elliott, a Writ Indian
Captain, who promised him four young men to take
to London. At this time the boats with seamen were
plying on the river, and one of them, with Dale in
it, came alongside, when the following conversation
took place :

Dale—Where are you going with the ship ?
Coppin—You have no business with that.
Dale--You have a good birth, and had better
not leave it. lam determined she shall not go to lea.
Coppin-1 have no hands on board (meaning sea-
men.) and will go. [At this time the boats were nu-
merous round the vessel, and the seamen very cla-
morous.]
Dale—We are coming to board the ship.
Coppin—l will mark the first man who comes on
board.

Dale—We can play at that elute as well as you;
that is the worst word you have said this day.
A musket was given to Mr. Coppin, who pointed
it at the sailors ; at this , time the boats were pressing
round the ship, and Grant, from another boat,called
to Mr. Coppiu, and asked him if be had any loaded
fire-arms on board ? on being ant voted in the nega-
tive, he instantly came on beard, when Mr. C. took
hold of him by the jacket; on which the deck in a
inGmet.t was covcred with men, who rescued Grant
from him. Some of .them cried out, “ throw the
musket," and others, 41 throw him overboard." Mr.
Coppin then west to Grant; and asked his name,

which he told Mm. At this timrsome of the people
were ill•treating one of his boys, who was " singing
out ;t' and they forced him away in a boat. The
pilot left her when th sailors got on bard. They
let go the cable*, and prevented the vessel from going
to sea ; the wind was fair, and the Nymph got to sea
the same tide. Witness is very certain the Joseph
might have got to sea also, had she not been pre-
vetted by the seamen.
Cron-examined .6y Mr. Coo KSON.

Said he was part oviner,-and not put in master.
Q. Is it not cheaper for vessels to go to sea without
than with hands.? • •
(Mr. BULLOCK objected to this mode of cross-
examination.)
Witness said, the ship had been eight days in the
harbour,
.five of which she was loaden • she cart ied
213 tons, .and had twelve hands, •viz. sven appren-
tices, four hands, and the master.—Three of the ap-
prentices were upwards of 20, the others 14, 15, 16,
and a parish apprentice 12 years of ape ; these he
thought sufficient to man her. The Captains who
were on board only intended going out of the har-
bour, but he would have gone to London with her.
On the boats first coming near, the anchor was not
up, but the sails were loose, and the stern ropes were
coiled below. Dale was in the first boat, and came
within twenty yards of the ship ; he did not know
Dale before, and there were seven or eight men along
with him in the boar; at this time there was nothing
riotous among them. On being asked why he wisLed
to go to sea at that time ? he said, the temptation was
great at the other end. He would have given the
wages, but ( Mr. litteeocK objected to this.)—
Grant came op in about a quarter of an hour ; talked
little to witness. if I told him I would mark him."
Grant was the first man on ho.ird ;he said, Here
goes," and he immediately leapt on board. Some
of them said, they would lose their lives sooner than
she should go to sea ; but be could not swear whether
Dale was on board or not.

On re-examination, he said he only pointed the gun
to frighten them from coming on board ; it was not
loaded. They were perfectly ready fur sea, and in
his belief would have gone ; the pilot was on board,
and willing to take charge of the vessel. They were
heaving the anchor, and the ship had moved towards
it when the sailors had boarded them.

Edmund Coppin, the brother of the last witness,
and Master of the ship )pseph, confirmed the trsti-
many of W. Coppin, and in addition "stated, that
Dale, when he came near the boat said, gi D—n my
eyes, sooner than she shall go to sea, I'll lose my
right hand ; and after I have lost that, I can do more
with my left than any long tog b—r among you on
shore."—Witness endeavoured to keep them off by
threats ; but, on three cheers Ining given from the
South-side of the river, and which was returned by
all the men in the boats around the ship, they in-
stantly boarded her and rook possession of the wind-
lass, and bore a little of the cable away. When they
left the ship, the tide was too far gone for the vessel
to proceed to sea. Saw Dale among the seamen who
were on board.

Captains Scott and Richardson, who were both on
board the Joseph, proved the forcible detentioa of the
vessel, and that both the defendants were on board.
Mr. CootcsoN, for defendants, contended, that there
was no proof of a riot before the vessel was bearded,
and he would call one witness to prove that Dale
never was no hoard the:irisrph.

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.I,ihn Derrick, a scullerman, stated, that he had
known Dale many years; and on the day in ques-
tion he saw him in a boat with three men coming
from the Sand-end, and remain about twelve yards
from the Joseph, at the time the deck of that vessel
was covered with men. Dale never left the boat, but
rowed over to the South-side of the river.
On his cross-examination, he said he saw nobody
with Dal!—saw a great many men on board the ship
—heard Dale say, ,4 Mr. Coppin was no gentleman,
to take up fire-arms to men who did not even carry
a switch." Oa being asked what prevented the J.
seph from going to sea, iie replied, 44 I take it, it
was the mea on b0.a;.1."

Several persons were called to Dale's character,
who spoke. will of him—one of them had sailed
with him when in capacity of a man belore the mast.
Mr. Hum.ecx briefly replied, that 'tor the prose-
cution die facts were irresistible, and the Jury could
not, consistently with their oaths, return any other
verdict than guilty.
The REcottriEtt summed up the evidence to the
Jury, who returned a verdict of Guilty, when the
Prisoners were sentenced to be confined and kept to
hard labour in the House of Correction 12 months.

The refractory seamen at Durham were admitted
to bail, and their trials were postponed.

The Counte de LABARDE, the Secretary for the So-
ciety of Elementary Instruction, established at Paris
on the Bell and Lancaster plan, has lately delivered a
Report full of sensible observations and interesting
facts. I:_e dwelt with much earnestness on the efforts
of the London Society, and mentioned, with particu-
lar satisfaction, the vote.of thanks which had been
transmitted by thelkleeting, over which the Duke of
KENT presided in November last. He quoted with
praise the passage of the Duke of KENT'S speech, in
which his Royal Highness expressed a wish that the
Mutual efforts of Frenchmen and Englishmen, in the
'cause of moral education, might be the prelude.to
feelings of concord and good understanding between
the. two countries, and prevent for ever the return of
war, so pernicious to both. ,He justly observed, that
these words were worthy of the non of an estimable
King, and fit for the adoption of the subjects of an
enlightened Government. It-appears, from his Re-
port, that, besides the Duchess De Duras, the Duke
of Ragusa, and the Count Semonville have established
Lancasterian Schools on theierespective estates. The
' Report then proceeded to calculate the expense which
attended a school of 500 boys, educated on this plan.
It would not amount to more than 4 fr. each (3s. 4d.)
per annum ; and if the school consisted of one thou-
sand boys, this would diminish the expense to 2 fr.
( Is. $l.) M. Laborde stated, that at present the
education of a boy cost generally, in France, from 18
to SO fr. annually, which sum was in fact doubled by
the imperfect mode of teaching, and the time that‘was
lost. He stated, that there were in Paris sixty thou-
sand children, whose parents were unable to procure
them education. Of these, ten thousand were edu-
cated In 120 free schools, at the expense of the Hos-
pitals of Paris, and cost annually 180,000 fr. or 18 Ir.
per head.

NATURAL HISTORt

The inhabitants of Ed:nbnrgh have at.t.
among them a singular curiosity, a nno"l4
Alligator. We understand that the rgg
from it was hatched was brought by a sailor hob
America to I.iverpool, and that the pencil;
exhibits it, procured it when it was
could be easily held in a person's fund. N
how to treat it, he kept it without food int
months, during which pericd it most have
some nourishment from the water with vkir's,
supplied. As soon as it was advertised in 44
it attracted considerable attelition, and,
others, it was visited by an eminent naturally
suggested a different,, aiid, as it appears, a
cesstul mode of treating it. Since this pc,.
growth has been rapid, and every day man
diZerence in its size. It is thonglit that it
sib
to the size of twenty feet, and still reartia
feeds upon herrings, oysters, or genera!ly
kind of flesh, and is kept either in the water, ‘t
sort of box, with a glass LOU, near the fire,
agrees well with it. It is rematkah:ell 4,45
and it through the night it wants water, it
its couch ald make its way to the itceveip,,,
it will moan, and if by this means Ole keeye;„
awakened, it will strike him with its tail 11.4
tends to its wads. in like mi,:nn,:r, tv!on
roll from the fire goiug out, it rn ;:s way
ipnuottr'dne;l'r d;roct:re bid cl
re
dkeoeupnerb'sesbeidde,haimnd,
at present is above three feet, and it is doily
larger.

MAK..11.0.

TnZsday tennight, at 114-,:ty.14 bonne Clittrelt,Cipmi,
Baker, 14.4. to Car,d•ne, eldest daugh,er of day Kn.
Prebendary of Darbem, a. :d Cait4.l of
In Dublin, StevenAn Seaver, E.q. his 't•,csty The Ei
Netherlands C. nsul in that city, to Cie...mac, foray;
of William Atto. re l.a•t.
January 04bl:ft, the Rev. P. Ciao! rd, of KA
counry frangft•rd, to Anna Margaret, only danhare of
Smytlle Etty. of Fr. Orrick-.,rest, Duirts..

DIEU.

August 20, at Aurttnealvtds in the EJ5t 11431%,C
Syke., 9th Regiment ut Native Infantry,
Wednesday, Mn. Dring, rata ul the Rev, ham lk4
Rcckgrove.
Jan azry 12, in the 49 b year of his ace, Nicho'as tirshi
Captain on the half-pay of his Nlajebtel tits' .eg.ntur.
January 4, at Dunmanway, the Rot. In. zi4do. Ng,
with his family until eleven u'elock, w aypeenity 021
and was suddenly taken ill a.ter gou.g. Cu Led, .tp.l is
minutes.

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Jan. 4, at his house at iheepsear, near I.evds, Sir D./
Moltneux, Bart. By his decease one of the obits to
Barouetage is extinct.
Dee. 28, atter a few days illness, Captain H. Ridw•tltn
Sunday, at Canterbury, Mrs. Gregory, o' the ite
Gregory, Master of East Bridge Hos.„,itat, and itecw:
drew's and St. Mary Brcdman's, in that city.

IMPORTANT ADN'I.,

N 0.13, Bouvetle-street, Fleet•strect, N 1,1.1,
I,VHEN Men of Education and PrOieSSlOnjii
use persevering endeavours to disccver the mesa
certain method of treating a few prev.liling Vi;ta;e., deo
fit result of their experience is the best proof of stiperktit
Fitters' )cars have we devo:ed cur practice to the ai
treatment of Three Disorders, and the viniplete succru
Ei:g oar plan, gives us additional ardour to opprsea. much vi
hie the ravages of those complaints which are the must it?
of all the infirmities to which the human ecoi,omv is apai
After an a uthori,ed introduction into every branctiofki
Science, we determined on commtacing practice, to roe
dividuais from the izn:rance of uneducated men, or theta
Satwerotts preciviraticy of a general pravitloner.
a twee c3:lolr4ers, to the cure or Which we bare dime

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attention, comprise every species of Venereal Perlin'!"
of recent or lung duration ; idly, all kinds of Debiktral
ciet.cy, whether arising um the secret habits of setisol.kra
the indulgencies of mature age, terminating in impasses
sometimes in consumption ; and lastly, that derstigemsta
system in women,- wtdet is railed Barrenness ur
many casts originating in a similsr error.
Ntmerout diseases are the result uf icnorance or Wei
treatment of a simple Gonorthtts, and it not untrtperill
pens that the seeds of life ate poisoned, from the
of an unguarded moment. By a superior method, sock
plaints are easily cured; and even where others have irkt
trust that we may oiler antkectual restoration.

The Diseases of the Urethra, as frequently consentiti
or arising from the above complaints, have nut r.chil
attention; by an infallible ao:d improved Ilan, we arri
bled to remove ohs:Mate Glee:s and Strar..,, ',Ark
cent or of lung duration, without resertiag to cliental
dangerous use of the caustic boogie. filmy in-tool o
adUored of very inveterate cases, of st-rerzi yv.rs ow.ist
having yielded to our method in a few day •:. vet thrall
been attempted by other practitioners withau: act.
To be consulted daily by Patients of either sex, withis
delicacy, and atterition.—Letters from tlie couniry,cass
the particulars of t.e case, age, and manner of livt...g.itA
a remittance, duly attended to, and advice ace Me iced
warded to any part of the itlwrion:.
Gjt4S and Co. 1140111,0 s of the Rep' C,ollege el Swirl

A CHALLENGE.
MESSRS. CURRIE and Co. Surgeons, I
bis Majesty's Service, challenge the se:lote
prove a single instance where their medicine and t2ethod
have failed cif the d-siretl efit:rt. The pracice of masyl
this psructi!ar branch of their profession, t.as out given
one unsuccessful ense.

They continue to direct their studio to trerm,
cure of Venereal (.7otuplaints, anJ that tleraninwia of di
teat which is t,.e coaseptei,ce. of the reroicic?: and ,1
effects of a hab.t long and most uuhapp:ly p
of both stars. In the mie it wid bc to l:e Ikea&
tiource barrentics; the u:htr have its rav:ge, fetidly dot

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to them by a distressing state of tit !Wiry, %%A:C:1, 11 tar:
meshed, terminates in impotence. 'There ::rc its tent
Ultimate (Areas, while -consumption, loss: el wiistr.'.ar Pat
various nervous complaints, usu..lly
of this solitary vice. Of persons languidong adder Cle di:
incident to such a habit, their treatment ',MIA., and Ws
proved unsucccsstul in the course of &long, laburio.s, Anl
extended practice.
In thq most obstinate and complicated cases of waered
don, such as °lnstructions in the urethra, d aogy eicroce
hard tumours, callous ulcer,, ertiptiop.s, seminal weakceit,
as also Strictures, whether recent or of lung durance,
which have baffled the skill of other Practitinners,
their present improved plan of trea:etent effectna.lt and
nently cured, without the patient suffering the eirsucati
and alarming Hemorrhage which frequently foliates ths
than of the lunar caustic. In the course ut the.:r !IMO*
in tills metropolis, numerous cases of S URIC 11111Ei
and are daily under their care, the total eradication of w
fected by a safe, certain, and twilit:out mode of cite
toasty ether yet adop. ed. The weakness, nlvotiats,
Ery, prriceedsog from this comr!aint are sp-eddy rem wa,
the Patient restored to wood and si.orisus heakb.
the debility has for years existed, A proper persevere:`‘ll4o
restoritive remedies is indisper.,,aNy req'sasitv, '"
re I
bering sparks of life, and to reaninvite the con,!i:utioa.
Patients in the Ctuntry are requested to state the Pll7,
of their case, age, and getv;ral habit cf Svi ig, C. encloN.,'
mittance for advice and Metli!in es, whce sateler
or sent to any part of the Itingsixr.
To ensure that secrecy which Is sn eternal
tatting, tie pottage of letters may be aides: to the acciat
mudicants.—nth lune, IMO 9-107, Hanoi! "

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