Star.
London, England, 1810-08-18 00:00:00

PALMOUTII, Auoutr i 5.
Sailed the Princess Elisabeth packet, with ttlailS
tor Lisbon,—Wind N. W.

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LYMINGTON, AUGUST 17.
Sailed the RACSHORE sloop of war, for the Cape
of Good Hope.
PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 18.
Arrived the WEAZLE, hired schooner, from Fal-
mouth, with a few coasters under convoy. Sailed,
the CECILIA tender, for Cork.
The FANCY cutter will sail either this evening or
to-morrow, for Southampton, to bring round the bag-
gage of Rear-Admiral Sir HARRY BURRARD NEALE,
who is hourly expected here— to take a command in
the Channel fleet.
Passed by 2 this port the ship Morning Star, of
London, Captain LEDGER, from Senegal, with a car-
go of gum.
Came in the GLEANER ketch from a cruixe ; and
PHEASANT sloop of war from Falmouth. Sailed the
ALGESIRAS, Spanish man of war, for Portsmouth.—
Wind N. W.

PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 17.
Sailed his Majesty's ships DIADEM and REcuLus,
for Halifax ; CoQuirrTz, NAIAD, and Rasourra, on a
cruize ; SPARTAN, for Plymouth ; ANT schooner, for
Guernsey ; ABUNDANT sloop, and the AMELIA frigate,
to the Eastward. The KITE sloop of war takes con-
, Toy to the Downs, and the RAPID schooner to the
Westward as far as Plymouth.—Wind W.
DEAL, AUGUST 17.
It is not correct that the Phceniz,Taytou, arrived in
the Downs yesterday from Jamaica ; she was not to sail
from that island until the middle of last month. Came
down from the River a few ships, and sailed with the
whole of the outward-bound under convoy of his Ma-
jesty's ships ECHO, SKYLARK, POBARGUS, and HUM-
BER. Sailed the POMPEII man of war, for Portsmouth.
Arrived the BELLEROPHON man of war from a cruize
off Flushing.
FIVE o'CLocir, m.—The greater part of the out-
ward-bound are now round the South Foreland with
a fine breeze at N. E.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
GIRAVISIND, Avousr 17.—Arrived the Argo, Atkinson, from
Grenada; Wentworth, Wales, from Berbice ; Nancy, Hunter;
Robert, Armstrong; and the Mayflower, Winn, from Quebec.—
Sailed the Avery, Harris, for Gibraltar; and the Hannah, King-
ston, for New York.
The Simon Taylor, Pocahentos, and the Pitt, which were
driven on shore at Liverpool, on onday last, have been got off
without damage.
The Damas, Cotton, of New-York, has arrived at Bristol.
The Temperance, Southcomb, from Baltimore, has been sent
into Portsmouth by the Endymion frigate.
The Venus, Drys, from Wiscasset, has arrived at Liverpool,
dismasted.
The Jane, —wk., of Lotuten, is lost on the coast of Spain.
THE BALTIC.
EXTRACT OF A LITTER FROM, AN OFFICER IN THE
SLEEVE, AUGUST 1.
ce We have cruized here four months, and have
had of course leisure to notice the trade of these seas,
the principal of which is the Baltic, now carried on
in foreign bottoms, the whole of which, with the ex-
ception of the Americans, belong to Powers under
the immediate controul of France, and are conse-
quently excellent sources to Bonaparte for manning
a navy with experienced seamen, when his immense
resources furnish him with ships, or may at some fu-
ture period of a protracted war, from the knowledge
of oar coast, provide pilcits for a flotilla (if the tran-
quil situation of the Continent; united under a per-
son of his boundless ambition, should warrant an at-
tempt on this country.)
,g There are, on a m-derate computation, 2500
vessels employed in this trade, which average about
eleven or twelve men each; so that we who should
start with horror at a proposal to supply him with
5000 prime seamen for the management of a fleet,
observe coolly a nursery for 25 to 30,000 enter our
ports and get acquainted with our navigation. This
is not the only advantage he derives from this trade,
as there can be no doubt of a number proceeding to
French ports with naval stores, when opportunity
offers, they having. been repeatedly detected in the
attempt ; in a political point of view, it gives vent for
continental commodities, and employs and pays well
numerous classes of men who would otherwise have
occasion to be discontented with the war.
gl Another, and, if possible, a more pernicious trade,
is that which is allowed to be carried on under British
licences by the Danes, and the abuse of which seems
unknown to the Government, or they would certainly
devise some means of checking it. I allude to their
corn vessels, which are granted licences to proceed
to some English port with their cargoes, but which
are permitted to pass through the Sleeve singly.—
Many of these vessels are found to have naval stores
and other articles concealed beneath their corn, when
the weather will permit a strict overhawl ; but as they
generally take advantage of sailing with a stiff breeze
it precludes that, and I think I might assert, •ne in
ten never visit an English harbour, except sent in on
suspicion.

" Every person who has the least knowledge of
the Sleeve must know, that it is as utterly impossible
for cruizers to prevent their entering any port they
choose in running along the coast of Norway, as it is
for a street patrole to hinder a foot passenger from en-
tering any open door in a street he is passing through.
" The numerous non-compliances with the letter
of the licence may be proved in ports, by reference
to the report of guards of vessels of this description
boarded by cruizers here, and the entries at the Cus
tom-houses of Leith, and ports contiguous to Nor-
way, though perhaps one-half are not boarded.—
The prevention of these supplies may in a great mea-
sure deprive then, of the means of annoying our con-
voys, which the situation of their coast enables them
to do so effectually.
" Many of these licenced vessels belong to th,
Danish Government, some of which, by fortuitous
circumstances or great perseverance, have been dis-

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edly gone cleat. These vessels carry supplies of pro.,
visions and other necessaries for the garrisons and
crews of their armed vessels, _and these merchant-
vessels whom we thus licence My Manned by people
who, on completing their voyage, are turned over, it
necessary, to the gun vessels. An instan -e has lately
occurred where one of a drew, hot wising to jowl
the gun-boats, informed the man of war who was et-
mining the galliot he belonged to, that site was laden
with corn shipped by the Government of Denmark.
and intended for the use of the sailors and soldiers of
the vessels of was in Norway.
s, Some of these Vessels have been detained withs
commodities on board, not allowed by licence to he
exported, and yet the vessels, and other parts of the
cargo, restored to the orig'nal clairra its by our Ad-
miralty Court. Many of them have been sent in for
most notorious deviations from their proper course,
caught after a long chace, and near the entrance of
the port they were running for, yet restored on a de.
claration from the party who made the application for
the licence, that the cargo was really intended to be
entered in a British port before landed, when it is as
clear as the sun in noon-day that the greater number
of those, who are ready to make these declarations,
could not possibly know even the name of the ship-
per, much less the name or nation of the vessel—that
they are generally obtained to make a profit on the
sale of them—and that these licences are hawked in
all parts of the Continent, by Jews and others, who
get from 3 to 500 dollars for them (in the Danish
markets), where their arrival is proclaimed by the
Crier, and they are sold in the market place, like
hogs, to the highest bidder ; this we are informed by
the masters of the vessels who purchase them, and
it is too notorious to be doubted ; how then is it pos-
sible for the party who obtains the licence from the
Board of Trade, to know the party his hawker on
the Continent disposes of it to, or the voyage it is in-
tended to cover

The only ones which seem applied to the use fur
which they were granted, are those obtained for ships
in British ports, who proceed with them to their la-
ding ports, and return with the cargo declared, and
even those often proceed on 'peculation : while the
others, which are exported in batches to the Conti-
nent, are procured by Jews, Brokers, Agents, and
Foreigners, who have no interest in them but the pro-
fits which arise from their sale, and whose only te-
spectability consists in the number of licences they
have their names attached to, and who, in all proba-
bility, declare themselves applied to by correspon-
dents on the Continent, who have cargoes ready for
shipment—though I should hope some good securi-
ties are taken by the Board when granting such li-
cences, as they cover every species of illicit trade, AA
may be easily detected.
" The convoy lately gone up the Baltic under a
large frigate will evince it. But if it is necessary to
grant (a most inveterate enemy, and the almost
only one whose situation enables them to injure our
trade) such licences, why not make their vessels ren-
dezvous in Wingoe Sound, and proceed through the
Sleeve, with our convoys, the only means likely to p, e-
vent. their going direct to Norway and though this
would not always succeed, yet it would give a correct
list of defaulters; or, grant them special licences to
carry cargoes direct to Norway, laying a charge c,n
for such indulgencies, to lessen our burthen of was
taxes, which, if the number of vessels keep pace with
those already gone, would be something considerable.
We have fall n in with numbers licenced, too small
to cross the North Sea ; others, who have absolutely
declared they could not; seen others steering to points
from their proper course, but find it of no use to de-
tain them, as from the sentences of the Admiralty
Court, the bare declaration of one of those procurers
(who could not, if on oath, make known the name
of the consigner, vessel, voyage, or nature of the
cargo, his licence protected, unless apprised by the
master or crew on her arrival), is attended to, before
the solemn oaths of Officers who have witnessed such
deviations. But can there be a necessity to sanction
such a trade at this time ? When the Norwegians of-
fered to attach themselves to this country from an
act of policy, they were at war with the Swedes, and
had no means of procuring a supply; the case is very
different now ; they are at peace with Sweden, and
have had a most ample supply of grain, taking care
to procure under its cover the means of annoyance to
our trade, and yet we remain blind to it. They have,
by lately capturing a large convoy, convinced us
they are net that very contemptible enemy genl
supposed—they, like the Spaniards, carry on a
desul-
tory kind of warfare, which, though it makes no for-
midable appearance, often injures very materially;
they have lately ventured to attack with four of their
brigs a large frigate, and will not have occasion,
from the rapid increase of their naval strength along
the Norwegian coast (which our present system in.
sures) to remain immured in their ports long—unless
our force in the Sleeve is increased in proportion.
They have now nine or ten brigs, as many schooners,
and a host of gun-vessels along this coast, and the
Scaw swarms with small privateers and gun-boats, as
does Lessoe. Scarce a convoy passes of any magni-
tude without their culling some from it, and yet we
stipulate nothing in return for our indulgences ; and
there is scarce a cruizer here but has been attacked
by vessels furnished and benefited by these licences,
and yet we continue them. This is encouraging and
enduring the evils of war without an effort to check
it. I should like much to see an estimate of the gross
amount of sums received at Whitehall for licences
(exclusive of stamp-duties), and to know if these sums
are accounted for to thepublic. I have no knowledge
of the original charge, but from the great numbers
in circulation (not less I should think than 8 or 9000
in the year), their amoant must be immense ; per-
haps this is a source of profit to some in office, if so,
we cannot expect to hear of titeir being rescinded, till
some more serious evil has resulted from them. A.
few days since an American ship was boarded by two.
fishing-vessels, who put 40 men on board her, and
would, but for the presence of this and other ships of
war, have carried her in—they are innumerable at
this season, and all carry a great number of hands;
we board many, but as they all have fishing-tackle,
call themselves. Swedes, and we can discover no
arms, cannot detect the rogues.—We fell in with a
number of Swedes bound to Norway, the first of our
cruizing here; but this trade, carried on
Swedish Pomeranians, seems to have
from their vessels being more 1
for English or French markets."

d on chiefly by
ceased, perhaps
ttively employed
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the landlord, the moment the Irishmen entered, sent
' .fSSIZE.t i them to bed to be out of harm's way ; but that the.
••••••••
• ruffians searched the whole house to find the- carter'
•• CHELMSFORD, AUGUST 16. who had offended them, and Peats swore if they
James Swseiwy. Riefsa'rel Pearee..Rdmaind Bradley, Pa. could not find him they would murder some one else
trick Fleming, Maurick Brenwick and John Sullivan, in the house.
were indicted for the wilful murder of John Bolding, in An old man of the name of Quand, who was in
the parish of West-Ham, on the 20th day of May 'fast the house when they came, attempted to run away,
The Counsel for the prosecution said, that the cir. but some of them followed him, knocked him down,
cumstances which he had to lay before the Jury were beat out three teeth, and by kicking him, dislocated
of a nature the most atrocious and brutal that had his hip.
for a long space of time been the subject of enquiry The servant in the house repeated the circumstan-
in a Court of Justice ; but before he entered into a , ces nearly in the manner of the first witne.is.
detail of the facts of the case, under the correction of The prisoners being called upon, left their defence
his Lordship, he w gild presume to state what was to their Counsel, and called several witnesses, %vac)
the law as applicable to those facts. The evidence attempted to prove they were not present, but they
would not go to shew that the deceased came to his gave such evident proof of falsity and prevaricat;on
death by the actual hand of any of the prisoners at that the Jury seemed to pay no attention to their tn-
the bar, but the law was, that if any number of men timony.
associated for a common purpose, and acted in union, The Learned Judge then summed up the evident.:
the act of one was the act of the whole of them.— with great minuteness, and stated the law from Lard
Thus, if the Jury should be of opinion that the priso.. Hale, that when a party associated for an unl (wild
ners at the 'bar acted in concert with the person who purpose, either of beating a man or committing any
actually killed the deceased, they were as much trespass, and a murder was committed in furtherance
guilty of the murder as though they hadeach struck the of the joint design, all who were present in law were
fatal blow. He then proceeded to detail the trans- guilty of that murder. He then remarked upon the
actin as follows :—The deceased was landlord of the evidence as applied to each, and observed that acts
Eagle and Childpublic house at Forest-gate, in the pa. or words of violence were proved upon all the pi i-
rish of West-Ham, near London ; and on the evening I soners except Sullivan, and with respect to him it was
of Sunday, the 20th of May, a dispute took place in proved that he was present, armed with a blutgeon.
the kitchen between a man of the name of Morissy, 1 The Jury fbund them all guilty, but recommended
an Irishman, and one Thomas, a caster. There was Sullivan to mercy ; which the Learned Judge said he
present another Irishman, of the name of Scandling, should attend to.
and an officer's servant of the Cornish Militia. There His Lordship immediately sentenced them all to
were challenges to fight, and after some time Morissy be executed on Saturday morning.
wanted to go away ; the deceased suspecting he Thomas Rudd, aged 72, was convicted a stealing
wanted to fetch some of his companions at first would bark from the estate of Admiral Elia%) Harvey, at
not let him go, but afterwards he went ; the land- Chigwell, and sentenced to twelve months imprison.
lord then ordered the door to be fastened. In about meat. The principal evidence for the prosectitian was
half an hour Morissy returned, but in the mean time Mary Bloon.fiAl, who had been detected in the same
the deceased had sent the carter away. Morissy practice, but who was admitted to give evident.:.
knocked to be let in, but was refused ; Scandling, Susan Drafter, a very interesting well dressed young
however, opened the door against the lanlord's will, woman, the daughter of a small farmer at Holland,
and Morissy came back in a .great passion, pulling in this county, was indicted for stealing in Mr. Jar-
off his cloaths, and swore he would fight any body.— rold's shop, at Weeley, a piece of cotton, value ten
In a short time afterwards a large body of Irish la- shillings.
bourers, above thirty, came to the house, armed with Thomas Brooks, foreman to Mr. Jarrold, proved
bludgeons, potatoe hoes, &c. There could be no that the prisoner, in company with her sister, came
doubt, he observed, but that when Morissy left the to the shop between two and four o'clock in the after-
house he went for the purpote of getting this assis- noon, and after looking at a variety of goods, the
tance ; and there was as little doubt but that Scan- sister bought a gown. On the prisoner turning to
dling was privy to the purpose for which he went leave the shop, Brooks observed some confusion and
out. Bolding, the deceased, however, had shut up bustle, and at the same time saw that the prisoner's
his house, and refused them admittance, but Scan. pocket stuck out very much ;he therefore challenged
dling a. se-and time got to the door, and opened it, her with having stolen something, which he desired
at the same time exclaiming, 44 Now boys, go it I" her to take out of her pocket, and it proved to be a
They accordintrly all rushed into the house, the six gown-piece. No other evidence was called, neither
prisoners among others, and `in the most tumultuous could this unfortunate girl produce any person to
manner demanded the carter, who had given the sup. speak to her character.
posed affront ; they searched the house, but not find. The Jury found the Prisoner—Guilty.
ing the object of their intended rage, one of them, The Judge observed, that in consequence of the
whom he should not be able to identify, jumped over prisoner's youth, although it was in his power to
the bar, where Bolding was sitting, and who had transport her, he should pass a more lenient sentence,
given them no just cause of offence, and immediately in hopes that the time she spent in confinement would
with a bludgeon attacked him. His skull was badly be used in reflecting on the very heinous offence she
wounded, his arms broken, his body much bruised, had committed, and induce her to resolve upon a fu-
and after languishing about seven days, he died of cure conduct less disgraceful to herself and friends.
his wounds. He should prove that the six prisoners His Lordship then ordered her to be confined in the
were among the persons who thus rushed into the House of Correction six calendar months.
house, and after they had thus maltreated the de. Elizabeth Cox was found Guilty of concealing the
ceased, Scandling demanded gin, which he served out birth of her child, bat was acquitted of the murder.—
to the others. It would also be in evidence, that She was sentenced to 12 months' confinement in the
Sweeney, one of the prisoners, looking, over the bar, House of Correction.
observed, as the beating was going on, " that the old Samuel Mounter was convicted of an unnatural crime,
fellow was catching it now ;" and another, whom the and received sentence of—Death
witness believed to be Buckley, though he was not
certain, exclaimed, ,6 the English were done at YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.
last." The Learned Counsel having commented at Luke Wriglit, aged 11, was charged with feloniously
some length on this violent outrage, said, he thought, killing and slaying Matthew Anderson, an apprentice
if it Was proved in evidence, he was well warranted in of William Wright, the father of the -prisoner, by
saying it was one of the most brutal transactions that stabbing him in the left side with a knife, of which
had disgraced modern times. wound-he almost instantly expired.
Sarah Cumber, the first witness, deposed, that she John Tindall was the first witness examined. He
lived housekeeper with Bolding. In May last, about stated, that he was apprentice to William Wright, of
half-past nine in the evening cf Sunday, the 20th, Rotherham, shoemaker, and father of the prisoner.—
there was a quarrel in the kitchen. There were pre- On the sth of April, about nine o'clock in the morn-
sent in the house John Farmer, J. Baker, Mrs. Baker, i_ng, the witness, Luke Wright (the prisoner), and
Mr. Simpson, Mary *Leary the servant, Wm. Tip. Matthew Anderson (the deceased), were working in
pett and George Gay, two soldiers, quartered in the the same room, when a quarrel took place between
house • one Thomas, a carter, Thomas Scandling,l the prisoner and the deceased, which originated in the
and to' rnelius Hay ; another Irishman, of the name latter taking from the prisoner's seat a tool used in
of Morissy, was also present. In the dispute, Scand- their business, called a copperas stick : the prisoner
ling wanted to fight the carter, and Morissy offered insisted that he should not have it, and got up from
to fight any body. At the time an officer's servant his seat, and took it from the deceased. Anderson
came in, and he accepted to fight Morissy. She immediately followed the prisoner to his seat, pushed
begged them to desist, as• it was Sunday night.— him down upon it, and fell upon him. Prisoner had
Morissy then wanted• to go away, but the deceased at this time a pointed knife in his hand, which he had
at first would not let him depart. He, however, been using in pairing shoe-soles ; witness saw him
went away, and Bolding ordered the doors to be shut flourish the kuife, hut did not see it enter the body of
andfastened. Soon afterwardsMorissy returned,but was the deceased. Witness, when he saw this, got up
refused admittance. Soon after a person of the name of and run towards them, but Anderson immediately
Daniel Mahoney, not in custody, came, and Scandling, started up, screamed out, and ran down stairs. Wit-
against the directions of the deceased, opened the door ness followed him almost immediately, his clothes had
and let him in. When he came into the house, he already been taken off, and he saw the wound, which
stormed and swore,andflourished a stick over hishead. was on his left side. He died in about twenty mi.
Shortly afterwards a gang of thirty of them came and nutes. The deceased and the prisoner ihad always
demanded admittance, which being refused, they been upon good terms. This witness stated, in his
broke the windows and window shutters, and Scand- examination before the Coroner, that he saw the knife
ling again got to the door and let them in ; when enter the body of the deceased ; on being questioned
they rushed into the house, the carter and the officer's by his Lordship, as to the cause of this variation in his
servant made their escape by the back door. Ma. evidence he said he was then under the influence of
homy asked, what was the affront ? Some one ex. terror, but what he had now stated was the truth.
claimed; the English had insulted an Irishman. He Mark Wright said he was brother to the prisoner,
said, is that is sufficient," and they all made a great and described the quarrel in the same terms as the
clamour. Just then some one, whom she believed to preceding witness : he stated that he also saw the
be Mahony, jumped into the bar and knocked the de- knife in his brother's hand, when Anderson and hie
ceased down, and continued beating him for some brother were down together upon his brother's seat,'
time. The witness cried out ; the man made a blow but he would not admit that he saw him stab it into
at her, and swore he would knock her down. She the deceased ;he stated that Andes son started up al
escaped into the parlour, and hid herself under the most immediately, screamed, and ran down stairs.—
table. Soon afterwards she returned, and Bolding i Witness said the knife was left on his brother's seat,
was sitting in his chair bleeding very fast : Scarier-1 but be did not look at it, nor did he remember whe-
ling was standing at the door and demanding gin, j they his brother said any thing to him upon the sub-
which she was obliged to give him. She saw all the . feet ; the next time lie saw the knife was at the Col.
prisoners and others there; they were flourishing lege, the place where the inquest was taken, but it
their sticks, 'and apparently' rejoicing at what had was then clean. Both these witnesses gave their tes-
happened. Patrick Fleming, one of the prisoners, I timony with evident reluctance.
stood flourishing a large stick over her head, and Mr. Turner, Surgeon, of Rotherham, described the
.grinding his teeth. They exclaimed, gr who will nature of the wound, and said he had no manner of
affront an Irishman After a time they all departed. doubt but that wound was the occasion of his death.
, John Baker, John Farmer, and Mary Farmer, gavel His Lordship, in his observations to the Jury, said,
testimony to the same purport with the last witness, it was evident the death of the deceased had been oc-
with the additional circumstances, that they swore i casioned by the prisoner, and unless the Jury could
they would murder some one before they left the believe he was acting in his own necessary self-de-
-louse. And by the evidence of Gay and Tiffin, the fence, and which he could not suggest to them as a
two'soldiers quartered at t house, it appeared that serious question, they must find the prisoner guilty