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London, England, 1811-08-07 00:00:00

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FALMOUTH, AUGUST 4. :-
Arrived the Windsor Castle packet, frciiit Mika saA
bibtaltar, 21 days from the latter.—Wind W.
PLYMOUTH; AUGUST S. •
Arrived the INTELLIGENT gun-brig from Liverpool,
SEMIRAMIS frigate, and FoxitouND sloop of war, from
a cruize.
DEAL., AUGUST 6.
Came down from the River the Hector, RICHARDS,
for the South Seas.—Wind S.W. thick weather.
LEITH, AUGUST 3.
Arrived yesterday in Leith Roads, the Erns sloop of war,
and this morning, the Strenuous gun brig, from rs,pective cruia es.
A ship, supposed to be the Veuu, frigate,. from a cruize off the
North Capr, is in sight. Thursday sailed the Coquette sloop of
I war, with a convoy of three sail, to Gottenburgli.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.
Medusa, for the Pomona and Recovery, will be paid on board,
and recallwl at No. 35, Craven-street.
Leopard, for l'Esperauce, on board, on Tuesday; recalled at
No. 12, Clement's Ins.
Arladite, for the Provestin. Anna Catherina, Restitution, and
and lialislend, this day, at No. 15, Throgmortun-street ; recalled
I Wednesdays and Fridays.
4 Newt PRQUOTION3I.--Rgar-Admiral Hargood to be Rear-
! Admiral of the White. Casiti D'Auvergnei of the Albicore, and
Capt. Haut, of the Tracian, to to Post Captains. I.ieut.
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of the Tigre, and Lieut. 3outhey, of the Elephant, to be Coal..
Ma.ders.

Areas N T td tor s.—Lieut. Strong, to the Tisiphone, I .ieut. Gor-
don, to the Vestal, I.ieut. Smarr, to the Cleopatra. Mr. Pedlar
to be Master of the Zealous; I.ieut. French, of the Bellotia, to
the Basilisk; Lieut. G. Bulky, to the Poictiers; and Mr. J. G.
:Williams, to be Surgeon of ditto; Mr. B J • go, Purser of the
Crown prison-ship,to the Barham; Mr. W.C.Grout Purser of the
.IBarliano,to the Crown; Mr. Young to he Surgeon oft he Crocodile;
Capt. Prescott, to the Alfred. Captain P. Malcolm to the Royal
Oak, vice Lord A. Beauclerk, promoted to a (lag, Lieut: Whale,
to the Frolic. Captains *ridge and Graham Moore to the Royal
Sovereign and William and Mary yachts, at Deptford, in the
t room of Captains Martin and Fraser, promoted to the rank of
Admirals. Mr. Bishop, acting in the Tigre, to he Purser of the
Wolf sloop. building at Woolwich; Mr. Jewell, Purser of the
basis Pared, to the Tigre.
In consequence of the decease of W.Gooldard, EN. storekeeper
of the Dock-yard, at Sheerness, W. E. Jessep, Log. is appoint.
ed hls successor; Mr. W. Mauly, to succeed !lie latter, as Clerk
of the Cheque of Deptford Victualling Yard, and Mr. Brady, to
the situation of Storekeeper of the SUM* place, on the removal
of Mr. Manly.
1 'lle homeward-bound China fleet experienced a
• most dreadful Tyr oonc* in the Chinese Seas, on their
: way out. There is but too much reason to tear that
the Ocean went to the bottom on Thal occasion. The
Elphinstone had a most miraculous escape, as will
• appear from the following narrative:
4. We sailed from Pulo-Pennang, Sept. 4, 1810, and
found our ship much stiffer than when we arrived
there, having landed 380 casks of King's provisions,
which were stowed upon the upper aiid.gun.decks,
and of course a great weight alott. The Ocean lett
Pennang a few days before our arrival, drawing 2.5
feet 6 inches water.

" We were fortunate in making a very good pas.
sage through the Straits of Malacca, in company with
our fleet, who were joined by the Woodford and Al-
fred, and had every expectation of making a sate pas-
sage to China ; but on the 26th and 27th September
the weather indicated an approaching gale, and we
prepared accordingly by striking our top-gallant yards
and masts, and otherwise making the ship snug by
spun-lashing booms, &c. ; the gale rather increased
than otherwise, all the night of the 26th. During
the night of the 27th per log, the wind very strong
and shifting. Fleet all lying.to under storm stay-
sails ; at half-past three A. M. the gale came from
the N. E. round to S.W. when we scudded fur two
hours and a half, and at 6 A. M. from S.W. to S.E. '
in violent puffs, when we brought-to again under our
stay-sails. At day-light, three ships in sight only,
supposed to be the Commodore's shin, the Winchei-
sea, Arnistone, and Alfred, all lying-to under storm
stay-sails. Our ship laboured a good deal, but made i
very little water.
" At nine A. M. the wind being somewhat more
moderate, it was proposed to bear up and scud for Kt
which was done, and we went right before the wind
I and sea about ten knots per hour, with nothing set
but the fore stay-sail, a hen, unfortunately for us, the
fore-stay-sail halliards broke, and the ship instantly
broached-to in a tremendous manner, and the high
sea that had been following us, frightfully broke com-
pletely over us, and at once nearly filled the gun-
deck ; when the well was sounded, the quantity of,
water could not be ascertained, but it must be morel
than tire feet. Our situation became now truly alar-
ming, as the sea broke completely over us ; and when?
we had partly succeeded in breaking up the move-
ables on the gun-deck, which were all afloat to and
tro as the ship rolled, dreadful to relate I the large
pumps would not work ; fifteen tons of block tin
stowed in the pump-well had, by the violent motion
of the ship, fetched way, and forced the tubes out of
their places. For me to attempt describing the feel-
ings
of us all at this melancholy crisis, is impossible;
the honor of momentary perdition may %se conceived,
but language cannot paint our agony of mind—nor i
had we scarce time to reflect on our situation—sent !
the carptanus down to see what could be done. By
this time all was near a conclusion ; the ship had ceas-
ed rolling, the starboard lower yardarms under water,
and the upper deck, as high as our booms, completely
covered ; the ship was water-logged, and evidently
settling fast in the water ; no time was now to be lost,
and but one remedy presented a hope of saving the
ship and ourselves. We then hove the five star-
board quarter-deck guns overboard,loosed the weather !
yard arm of the tore sail, which blew away directly,
and cut away the inizen mast, but she lay completely !
quiet, %Oren, as the last effort, we cut away the main
mast, and in twenty minates succeeded in clearing the I
wreck with receiving no further damage than knock-
ing away the lower starboard quarter gallery, when
she wore and righted a little. By this time our pumps i
were at work, but the water from the hold was not
pumped out of the ship, our leather hoses being use-'
less on account of the body of water on the gun deck,
which was over the guns. We then set to at two
o'clock in the afternoon, September 28, 1810, with
every thing,we could get, and baled without a mo-
ment's intermission at all our hatchways, and the
pumps going until one o'clock the following day, be-
ing 23 hours without any refreshment, but bird W-
in,' and pumping, and very thankful we all were to
see the morning's light, for that night's scene will
never be forgotten by any of us.
a Our draft of water was 24. feet 9 inches.
" Four days after the gale we saw thi land of
China and sense of our fleet, but as they lay.to all the
time, we were the only unfortnntte sufferers."
t • nerd air thaz Oak. ly ghat.


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-dp the statement to the Jury, they brought in'ti eel 1
.. diet of guilty against Ann !Prick, the rnother-in44,,,
HERTFORD, AUGUST s:, and sh was sentenced to a year'. imprisinunait, the
FOX-HUNTING.--JOHNSON V. oLDACItE. lest fortnight of which in a editary cell.]
This was an action of trespass, for breaking arid 66 Gentlemen, if the statement contained in what I - ;
entering the plaintiff's ground. The defendant, who have just read to Tins be true, this was a case of nue.-
was huntsman of the Berkeley Hunt, pleaded as a der, and the prisoner otight to have been indicted tore
justification, that he was the servant of one Wood, for it; for though the law allows parents and tieuters
i Esq. who was a qualified man ; that they had star. to inflict moderate correction on their children alai
1 ted a fox in hunting, which ran over the ground of the servants, it does not countenance cruelty and opptea ;
plaintiff. and that they followed it, as the only means sion : and I have brought the case before you, ti, a '
of killing a noxious animal:. The replication stated, you may enquire into the ciiciimstatices of it ; and it
that the defendant pursued the fox for the sport of hun. you shall find them as there stated, it will be your
ting, and not for the purpose of destroying the fox as duty to return a bill of wilful murder against the in.:
a noxious animal: fending party ; for no trial and coileiction at a Quit..
' Mr. S rjeant SHEPHaRD observed, that it now be- ter Sessions for aft inferior offence can abate, or do
came a question, whether any person within reach of o aw.ty a charge of warder. Ind .ed, if this was trio'
the Berkeley Hunt was to have the full enjoyment of 'case, the most enormods crimes might escape an Ade-
his estate or not ? He took it to be clear law, that the I game punishment. The law does not giee to a pro.
occupier of an estate had absolute dominion over h, ! secutor the option whether a party shall be priisvcu:ed
subject to such right in others as the law acknow. , for an assault or for murder, and of sheltering a cri.
ledged, such as rights of way, &c. ; but no person maral from the latter by only indicting him tor the
had a right to enter the lands of another for his own ' former. If on die inquiry and ativestigati.n into the
recreation.. And although this action was defended circumstances of this case, it shall appear to you that
by a stock.purse, he hoped the Jury would give such the death of this child was occasioned by cruel and
damages that.even the subscription purse of a hunting general ill-treatment of its parents, or either of them,
club would find it to be most to their interest not to you must make such presentment to the Coon. If
violate the lands of others. The defendant had plea- the evidence should not satisfy you th it this was
ded, that he committed the trespass for the purpose the case, the matter must rest where a iss and the
of destroyhg a nosious animal called a fox. Could party must suffer the punishment 'adjudged by the
the Jury realty believe that th;s was the motive of the. Quarter Sessions.
Berkeley Hunting Club ? Were they associated as a '6 The other circumstance to which I wish to call
body of vermin-catchers, who had met together and your attention, is the case of a chimney sweeper at
United for the patriotic purpose of destroying noxious Wakefield, where death was occasioned by his being
animals, and to improve the husbandry of the coup. severely burnt, in consequence of a fire having been
try ? Indeed, in some respects they did resemble made in a chimney communicating with that he wise
them. He had frequently seen a rat.catcher, or a employed to sweep; and the reason I mention this
mole.catrher, walk about with the emblems of his cage for your consideration is, because the Coroner's
trade bedecking his person, viz. abroad-belt orna- Jury who investigated it have not drawn any inference .
mented with brazen rats, horse-shoes, and moles. So or conclusion from the facts laid before them. They
these Gentlemen of the'Berkeley Hunt Wore the liver); have not stated whether the fire was made malicious-
of their profession—they mounted scarlet coats, with ly, with intent to injure or destroy the child, which
foxes embroidered on the collars ; hut yet he could would be murder; or negligently, without paying
not believe they meant by this to signify that they due attention to the sierty of the boy, which would be
were a club of vermin-de*royers, which they must be, manslaughter; °a by mete accident, which last I hope
to make out the justification they had pleaded. For will prove to be the case ; and if the Coroner's Jury
instance, if a Reverend Divine should be of the party, had stated this to be their opinion, I should not have
and he should have seen him pursuing the fox, lie troubled you with the mention of this case."
should - naturally ejaculate, " Why, that Reverend His Lordship read the verdict of the C.oroner'sJury.
Gentleman, whom I heard with so much delight last His Lordship said he made these observatiots, not with
Sunday, cannot be really intent on destroying noxious an: new of prejudicing their minds against any offender
vermin with the only view to benefit the agriculture or supposed offender, but merely for the purpose of
of the country ? No, he is surely amusing himself drawing the attention of the Grand Jury to circum-
with the pleasures of the chase." Or, if he should stances which seemed to require investigation.
see among the groupe a wealthy City Banker, he The Greed Jury have found a true bill for wilful
. should naturally exclaim, 64 Why, he has not left his murder •
against Aar Wright.
counter in Lombard-street, to exerciae vermin-catch ing
as a trade ? No, no, he is enjoying the pleasures • HUNTINGDON ASSIZES.
arising from field-sports." But, said the Learned Sir JAMES MANSFIELD and Mr. Justice HiATH ar-
Serjeant,
these Gentlemen must not pursue their own rived here on Saturday, the ad inst. and proceeded to
pleasures by violating the laws, and trespassing upon Court in the evening, when the Grand Jury being
the property of others. Every man has a right to the sworn in, a very excellent charge WWI delivered to
absolute enjoyment of his own property, and it is not them by Sir JAMES MANSFIELD.
to be encroached upon by others. If he were asked, On Sunday morning Mr. Justice FlitArn attended
then, would he wholly destroy fox-hunting ? He an- ,
Divine Service at All Saints' church, where an Un-
swered no ; but let it be pursued, as it ought to be, by pressive di-course was delivered by the Rev. Mr.
Gentlemen in their own neighbourhood, where mutual CHATFIELD, the Judge's FIELD,
accommodation would h ive taken place ; and not composing part of the Grand Jury, and other Gen-
like the Berkeley Hunt, which was kept on foot ley denten, afterwards dined with the Judges at Mr.
subscription, and the neighbourhood was overwbel- ALLNUT'S house, which, since the destruction of
mud by a set of Londoner., most of whom had no Cromwell house, has been prepared for their reception.
property in the place which they chose to make the
On Monday, the sth, the Court on the Crown side,
scene of their spurts. and annoyed all the honest yeo-
i where Sir J. MANSFIELD presided, was crowded at a
manila with whom they had no feeling in common. i
early hour to witness the trial of Luke Parker.
Several witnesses proved the trespass by the defen.; very
: aged 9, and Thontaz Cave, aged 10 years, for the mor-
dant riding over the plaintiff's grounds on the 26th
of January last, in pursuit of a toes which was soon : der of Elizabeth Kirkley, at Stilton, hi t: its county.
kennelled at about three miles distant, but no previous I The Grand Jury threw out the Bill against Cave,
notice from the plaintiff had been given. as there did not appear any thing material against
Mr. Serjeant BasT, for the defendant, deprecated i him as to the murder of the unfortunate g.rl in (rtes.
this as a captious and ill natured action, brought in
1 tion, and as the affair is of b 0 recent a date and sinti-
the worst temper, to interfere with the field-sports of 1 ciently bef ire the public already, it only rests a hit tie
Gentlemen who endeavoured to give no offence, and I to state that lie was s cquitted by the Jury on a ve. y
betistudiously avoided all those persons who had given short consultation, after a clear and excellent chi, ge
notice of their dissatisfaction. He admitted that a i had been delivered to them by the Judge, stating !vet
verdict must be given against his client, but he hoped I they must take it into consideration the ex acme yo It
the. Jury would think a farthing damages most ample of the pt ironer, as also whether he had a design a
recompence.--The Jury found for the plaintiff—Da- committing murder at the time, or even kmew the gu a
metes 20s. . was loaded, as Georgians Rowell had stated in lie-.
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YORK ASSIZES. evidence (the only one examined as to the trAas.4c.
These Assizes commenced on Wednesday last, be- tion, Rebecca Sykes's having been refused ft no her
lose Mr. Baron Wonu and Mr. Justice CHASIDIM. extreme youth, being only siz years old) •tat he
• After the Grand Jury were sworn-in, Mr. Baron only meant to frighten her."
Virooo addressed them in the following terms : Two evidences as to Parker's character were c tiled
" GENTLESIEN of TIIE. GRAND Juin-, and examined by Mr. Serjeant Bear—Mr. Gibbs, who
:14 The Calendar, considering the populousness of keeps the Bell Inn at Stilton (with whom Parkeeti
this county, does not present any Large number of father lives as a post-boy), and a Mr. Bodger, from
aggravated cases ; nor Roes it appear to me to con- whom a tenement 4 hired at Stilton, where the fam ly
tarn any which will render it at all necessary to oc- reside : they both gave him an excellent char ct r,
cupy your time with any observations upon them. as a quiet inoffensive tractable boy, and by no means
But there are two cases not in the Calendar, which I given to mischief. •
feel it my ditty to recommend to your set ious consi. George William:, aged 30 years, was also tried at the
duration. The first 1 have only recently become same Assizes, for feloniously stealing and taking
acquainted with, by reading an article in the Dolmas. kawAyrin the night of the 13th of June, or the morn.
county.—The . —The evidence
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,ter paper, which purports to be an account of the ing of the lath, a Mare, the property of William Gil.
;,Proceedings at Beverley, Sessions, and which I will by of St. lye's, in the same y .
read to you. His Lordship here reed from a HEWS• being clear and conclusive against turn, he was found
paper the paragraph. [This was the statement of guilty, and sentence of death passed upon him.
e trial at the above Sessions, of Robert Wright, and ---,--- e
his wile, of Lockingtun, for aiarious instances of un- The Lisbon Gazettes contain official accounts of a
natural treatment and barbarity towards Elizabeth great many promotions in the Portuguese army by
Wright, a child of about nine years of age, the Marshal Bemcsrotte. Among othets, we observe that
daughter of the said Wright, by a former marriage. Lieutenant-Colonel AsitwOILTH has been appointed
Sieithen Camp deposed, that the house he lived in is
very slightly divided from Weight's, and that he had Colonel.of the Gth regiment of Portuguese infantry,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Jon` BUCHAN, Cujonel of the
heard-the child beat by the mother-in-law, four or 22d. It gives us satisfaction to observe, that a num.
five times in a day, severely, and once heard the b ap t masa& j
er o ot ug rean s a
blows inflicted shiny-eight yards from the place. T th ve reCeivedcononissions,
The Captain of an American ship at Copenhagen,
Elistskth Robson, a neighbour, deposed to the same in a letter to his owners informs them, that his vessel,
effect, particularly. on the Thursday previous to the
as well as the rest of the-Americans carried into, and
death of the child. Elizairth Roper deposed to hear-
sequestered in the ports of Denmark; had been re-
Ijug the child beat most unmet cifully up stairs, fur leased at the instance of Mr. IRVING, the accredited
having asked its father for a bit of cake ; and heard Minister of the UniLed States, who had been received
the mother-in-law threaten to knock her on the head,'
I at Copenhagen with the utmost respect and cordiality
if she ever repeated it. The gill, then brought
borne to the father's house a few weeks before. was a
very fine healthy child, but was a most pitiable oh- by the Governmeat there.
arrivals of Wheat, and nut much of remaining sup.
MARIC-LANE.—This day we have very few fresh
jest before her death ; she was kept up stairs, and for , .
five weeks was not sera by the neighbours; the above plies* causes prime samples fetch a small ad-
abich .
witness was herself threatened by the mother, fur her again inshortsapply, and fully at the
and White Peas continue to
interference. Mr.,R•bert Robinson attended the Cone last currency—Malt
vance—Barley
net's inquest, and deposed, that the body was bruised
fluctuate but little—Grey and Beans of each descrip-
grossly in all parts of it : had two large wounds be- don hardly at lest quoted prices—These arc likewise
, neath the *ales of the feet, * cut- in the knee, and abort supplies, of Gets, and this trade may be named
Imeek. of cruel treatment. to the Most -shocking de. fully at the last quotation—SA:es of Flsur at Mon-
. give. Mr. DZNNIOON. the Chairman, hiving summed Jay's advance of inns. per sack.

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