Star.
London, England, 1816-01-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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EAST-ININA SHIPPING.

The India Company's shipsßamat Ind tunoibt.
outward-bound, separated on the Slit of November.
in lat. 45. 14. W. long. 11. 11. W. The SURREY
arrived in Funchal Roads on the Si,k did was to pro-
ceed on her voyage on the 7th of December.
TleelliCensed ship ASIA arrived in she Downs Tester.
day afternoon from Bombay—left there the middle
of September.

FALMOUTH; JAHUAIT 10.
Arrived the Wellington packet, Captain Paooron,
with Mails from the Islands in 35 days; the Swedish
bark Rosen, Captain BLACKUOTWI; from London
for Genoa, out seven weeks.—Wind W.N.W.

PLYMOUTH, JANUARY tl.
Came in the Albion, East Indianian, Captain
Flume, from London to the Isle of France and
Bengal, put in by contrary winds. Sailed the Hol-
lofrrn, American ship, JAmtuoN Master, fur Rot-
terdam, having put in here in distress.
PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY IS.
Arrived his Majesty's ship GARLAND, from the
Mediterranean. No sailings.—Wind
DEAL, JANUARY as.
Arrited and remain the Asia, GREW, from Bom-
bay; Pilot, ALLEN, from Para; Palermo, Jarrnr,
from the Azore Islands. Captain ALLEN, of the
Pilot, spoke the ship General Washington, in lat.
37. M. long. 41. all well. Came down from the
Kilter, the Henry, PAKENT, for Jamaica ; Abram,
ROORRION. for Tortoli ; Lord Lynedock, CRDIGII-
- for St. Helena, and remain in the Downs with
the *hole of the outward-bound as before.
COWES, JANUARY 14.
A French Olio% hame unkno*n, loaded with
outs, supposed fir Lladoti, was lost on the night of
' the 12th inst. and all her crew, at Black gang, in the
South part of this Island. A piece of her stern has
been driven on shore. having on it E. L. Jobling.
DARTMOUTH, JANUARY 11.
The Betsey transport, from Plymauth for France,
with 6.5 prisoners, was lost in Vigbury Bay this morn-
ing. We have ndt learned whether the prisoners are
all saved, bdt, frotn the violence of the vind and the
name of the coast. we fear many -may be lost.
/00244Afr4ftdift3aikRY •5: -
COM! in the Nestor transport, Captain-Timken,
with troopi from Rattisgate, bound to Cork. A vessel
is supposed to be lost somewhere about those islands
as several deals and small spars, and a hen-coop. with
fdwis, have been-picked up,toklay on the shares.
GRAVEsXNp, JANUARY IR
Arrived else Mari Ann. buskey, from Petersburgh ; Duke of
York, Eats, from Rotterdam ; Golden Fleece, Jaws, from Dublin,
and Ge/den Giese, Bossetter, from I.egborn. Sailed die Susan.
nab. D. Ward, for she Cape General Hewitt, W. Cainpbell, fur
India; Harvests J. Davison. for Havanna; Jobs, D. C.dd, and
AiglisiD. A. Reebok, for Havre; Liberty, J. Evans, for Dublin.

• Exttatt of a letter froth the Agent to Lloyd's, at
Surinam, dated Nov. 31, ISIS:
la Arrived, Oct. 27, the Ducal shipi Cornelia and Mirk, from.
Amsterdam; on the Stith, the Princess Elizabeth packet; on
the 30114 British ship, New Century, from Liverpool ; also se-
veral vessels from the British Colonies and United States, in
search of other markets. Sailed, brightest, in ballast. Remain
arid* shipping, brig Rambler, arose tth of May; strip Henry,
MN, des with of June ; ditto, Swallow, dem 11th of July ; Ar-
gyle, Mote 7th' of September; brig Herat* repalriog ; Lady
toload timber to Leeward; ship Illemoor, for die (.Hyde;
ship illisabeth Sophia; brig Treat • ship New Century. Sailed
Dotervon* Feudal's', Spikes, and Moregensber, far Holland.
Of the firegoing Mush vessels. it le probable the Rambler,
Henry, Cerf, and Horatio, and possibly the Swallow may have
to proceed to the kind, as there is us freight elliesag for Great
Britain, in cuirecuesce of the numbed... Swim granted to the
Dutch vessels, and the understanding diet British vessels canoes
take in a cargo for Hefted direct, and the circumstance of the
Dutch proprietors mitering the reduce nearly of the Colony to
be shipped to Holland."
'rhos Betsey, CAMMLAIN. from London for
Shields, is sunk on the Home Sand, near Yarmouth
—crew and stores steed.
Yesterday a Court of Direct Ors was held at the East
India House, when Captain Bawl( KAY was sworn
into the command of the Marchioness of Ely.
-'Thursday night, a boat belonging to the ship
Lune, ontward-bound West Wismar), Was upset
off I.4thmeutb, when one man was unfortunately
drowned.

Wednesday, Mr. FOY/ a constable, at Portsmouth,
was sent by the Magistrates. to bring a soldier be.
longing to the 66th -Regiment, who was embarked
on board a transport, lying at St. Helen's : it is sup.
posed that the boat must have upset. as Mr. Fox's
body hat been found thrown on More on Hayling
Wand, near Portsmouth..
Jamatca...-Mr. Stewart, me of the Members of the
Hansa of Assembly, has moved an impeachment
against the Hon. John Lewis, Chief Justice of that
Island, on the following .grounds s—l. Giving judg-
*sent in the. caseµ Dun sp. Cathcart." contrary to the
=st of the majotlty of the Judges of the King's
9. Passing an arbitrary and oppressive sm.
mace on J. Fraser, late Deputy Marshal for Kingston,
by imprisoning him in the remote and distant gaol of
Savannah le.Mar t S...Coonivance and collusion with
a person or persons in altering the exhibit lists of Ju-
rors : 4. flagitiously threatening individuals with his
high resentment. when brought before him 'in his
capacity of Chief Justice.—On the 9th of November,
Mr. Stewart moved, that a Committee be appointed
to inquire into the above charges. The motion was
seconded by Mr. Stroud, who trusted that the high
personage accused would be able to meet the inquiry,
and that it would end in the entire vindication of his
character. The charges, were referred to the Stand.
bag Committee appointed to inspect the state of the
'Ceuta of Jinks in the bland.

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Yestery Therm Butt and Joseph Catelatre. two
lads, about 15 years, age each, were indicted for
stealing privately quantity of sewing silk, of the
value of se3. 14s. in the shop of. Mary L..wis, on
the 19th of D:cembei Verdict—Guilty of
stealing, ,but tint privately;
lanes Tee was tried, and found guilty of stealing
a pelisse, the property of John Elliott, oti the 15th
of December last., . , . ,
Mead& Repeldee, a young woman of respectable
appea.ance, was then put to the bar. charged with
having hao in her possession three forted one pound
notes, purporting to be payable by the Bank of Eng-
land, feloniously and without lawfol excuse, on the
14th of December last. The Jury, with very little
hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty.
Thema: Grua was indicted for the wilful murder of
Elizabeth Martin, by throwing her out or a window
two stories high, by which her skull was fractured.
W. Flint, Beadle of Norton-Falgate, apprehended
the prisoner on Saturday the 23d of December, at
eleven o'clock at night, at the New Crown, Wheeler.
street, Spital-fields. He heard the woman was dead,
but he knew nothing of the circumstance himself.
Sarah Hewitt lives it No. 22, Moior's-alley. Nor-
ton-falgate, at which house the prisoner also lived.
Witness lives in the lower part of the house, and the
deceased and Green occupied one of the glans.—
On the night of the 23d of December witness was
coming home, between seven and eight o'clock, when
she saw a great mob round the door, and the de-
ceased lying on the steps. Witness went up to her,
and found her scarcely able to speak. She did not
think the deceased had her perfect senses at this time.
She smiii carried to the watch-house, and witness went
with her. The deceased either died on the way to
the watch-house or to the hospital. The witness srw
the prisoner a little after, at the King add, Queen
wine vaults. She asked how the woman came oot. at
the window? He swore, and said, is How do
know ?" Witness said he ought to know, as the wo.
man had lodged with him upwards of two mind's.
He said he sat by his own fire-side, while she broke
the window with her knuckles. Witness said he
ought to have come down stairs, and have seen what
was the matter with her, as the woman was con-
nected with him. He ansWered, that it she had a
mind to go out of the window, and break her neck,
it w.s nothing to him. Witness had not se:n tl:e de.
ceased all that day, until the fatal circumstance took
place.
Rebecca Slade'lives in the next house to the last
witness, and in the garret adjoining that of the priso-
ner, divided by lath and platster only. Witness had
never seen the prisoner or the deceased before the
night of the murder. At about eight o'clock she
heard the prisoner and the deceased wrangling, which
they constantly did, night and day. She heard also
some one pushed towards the door, and down three
Or tour steps. They loth remised into the room,
and she heard some one forced down stairs. Tl, s she
believed was the deceased, as she heard her say three.
times--s. Don't murder me." The prisoner said he
did not intend to murder her, he only wanted his
money. Witness then heard him return into his
room and shut the door, 4.11114141 also heard a groan
from the first floor, and the staircase window broken
tour or live times. About seven minutes afterwards
she heard a person tall from the window. Witness
immediately tan down stairs, and saw the deceased
lying on her back in the court. There was a wooden
pent=house over the door, part of which the deceased
had broken off in her fall.
Elie. Manning lives in Moor's-alley, almost hieing
the house of the prisoner. Between seven and eight
o'clock on the evening in question, she heard the pri-
soner and the deceased quarrelling in their own house,
and making a great noise. She heard the deceased
call“ Murder I" several times, and call, for Gott's
Isake." on some good Christian to come and help tier.
About ten minutes after she beard a window larc,krn
several times. Some time atter witness went down
stairs and saw the deceased lying on her back, in the
COWL

Anne Kelsey lives in Moor's-alley also, and nearly.
opposite the prisoner's house. On the evening in
question she was in her room, on the first floor, be.•.
tween seven and eight o'clock, when she heard the
deceased call out 66 Murder I" Witness opened the
window, but could not see the deceased. Witness
afterwards said, she 9kl see the deceased's head out of
a window, in the upper part of the house. She asked
her what was the matter with her ? and she said, she
wanted to get out ; and, if she could not get out, she ,
would throw herself out of the window. Witness said,
66 Don't do that ; somebody will come to you." In
a very few minutes after witness -heard something
heavy fall into the alley. Witness ran down stairs
immediately, and went to the deceased and asked her
if she had hurt herself ? The deceased opened hes
eyes, but could not speak.
E. Batty, a watchman of the Liberty of Norton
Falgate, brought the deceased to the watch-house.—
She was hardly sensible. She was taken to the Hos-
pital ; but he believed she died going along.
Mr. Maton, a Student at the London Hospital, re-
membered the deceased being brought to the hospital
soon after eight o'clock. She was then dead. On the
hinder part of the head there was a bruise; and on
removing that part of the skull there was some effus-
ed blood between the aro nutter and the brain. There
was no fracture or depression of the skull ; but he had
no doubt that the extravasation of blood was the cause
of her death.

The prisoner, in defence. protested his innocence.
and insisted than, even bad he been the wickedest
person alive, it was impossible for him to have taken
up a middle-sized, strong woman, and have forced
her out et a window nearly five feet above the floor
of the landing place on the top of the stairs.
Several witnesses described the prisoner as a hu-
mane man. The prisoner is a weaver.
The Loan Cam BARON summed up the evidence;'
and remarked, that to enable the Jury to convict the
prisoner under this indictment, the evidence =MR
leave no doubt on their minds that ke actually threw
her out of the window. The weight of evidence was -
on the other side, in his opinion, namely, that she
shrew herself out of the window.
The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced4the pri-
soner Not Guilty.
Susannah Lewis, J. Mills, W. Chapman,. J.
Hodges, G. Josling.T. Brown, and Mary Ass Caf-
fray, were also acquitted.

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IKISEL BONNET.
.4.iite ~.1\• . -',. ,_ • .
Abealifikdipvei*Tia bens
s , 'and 01. slw Continent bad seen, .
' With what's most strange upon It ;
And when riturn'd to England's shore,
Upon her bead fair ?draw bore
A Tower, and not a Bennet I

Her language was a modish speech
Of many tongues beyond the reach ,
Of simple Nature's power;
And slam ber tongue, eonfned and ailed,
Resembled Babel's tongues, she
Above it Babel's Tower!

DRIIRrLANE THEATRE.

MASSINGEIN admirable Comedy. entitled A New
- /fay to Pay Old Alas, was performed last night to a
brilliant and crowded audience. attracted by Mr.
KLAN in the character of Sir Giles Overreach. The
late Mr. Co, cc was remarkable for his vigorous de-
lineation of this important part. Mr. Koine has
exerted his chaste and able judgment in the same ad.
venture. Mr. lEsag has followed both. and if we
may judge from the stretch of power with which he
• met the undertaking. he was not 'inapprehensive of
the recollections against which hi bad to contend,
upona ground so often trod by such great eompeti.
tors. It is not our intention to pursue the invidious
task of comparison is this instance—it is at all times
difficult. and never generous. The surest guide we
can have is the standard which the Author himself

affords, and if the performer of the night-can strictly
bear that test, we are satisfied with giving him our
tribute of applause, and leaving to others the grad.
ficatinn of comparing. individuals. This effort of
Mr. Kea* was attended throughout with every tes.
timony of satisfaction and delight. It is, we think,
• Unquestionably one of hii very best performances.
If it would wit be too hazardous to assign it a dis.
duct and positive classification, on a first representa-
don, we should place is next to his Rickard. Nothing
could be more adapted to his peculiar line. The ra.
pidity of the dialogue—the bustle of the scene—the
vehemence of the passion—the abruptness of the
transitions—all were calculated to call forth his ge.
trios, in the situations it was best calculated to meet.
It would be impossible, in the short to which
our account is necessarily confined, to give an accu-
rate detail of the different points to which he give
striking impression. We shall, however, select
some ; iutending nothing more to be inferred from
thence, than that they area few, and but a few of
the most prominent. Thouph the pre-ceding scenes
were finely characteristic, that 'in which he inptructs
his daughter Marvind as to the mannerin whfch she
should receive the addresies of Lord Lovell, was the
first that could be regarded as a powerful effort.
That indeed deserved the name. The austerity of
his manner, while delivering his pernicious counsels
to her pure and virtuous ear, was accompanied with
an occasional hesitation, that 'hewed the villain was
yet a father. In pronounciog the hie—
" And, therefore, wilco he kissts —you kiss close."
he made a pause at the word sa kisses," and even
after the pause pronounced it with hesitation and
difficulty, at if shame had checked his voice for a
moment. In the same scene, after Afargooyt had
expressed her apprehension of being deserted, the
reproachful bitterness with which he asked her
" Do I wear *sword for fashion r

could not be surpassed. The sane in which his ne-
phew Wellborn is introduced to his notice by Lady
.4411avorth, afforded one of the finest pictures of hy-
pocrisy that could be presented, in the mere recog-
nizing expression of 14 My nephew." The sudden
relaxation of his haughty frown, till his features as.
somed an air of timid benevolence, that preceded
the expreuion just alluded to, was in itself a volume.
It signified in one glance, that the sycophant recol-
Sected he was.once a tyrant. The scene in which he
offer his daughter to Lord Lovell, and discloses his
own character with an intrepidity of candour that
braved opinion, by disclaiming morality, was also
tknonring of the high arprobat;on it received. To
11111311 many other passages that should be noticed, we
shall merely select the one most beautiful fur its
poetry. On being asked, whether he was not moved
at recollecting the injuries he had done, lie burst into
the following sublime reply, which he delivered in
the terrific grandeur to which it was entitled :
" Yes, as rocks are,
When foaming billows split thernsetess against
Ileir flinty ribs ; or as the moon is moved
When wolves with hunger piled howl at bee brishmess."
We reluctantly pass over many
.intettnediate beau-
ties to come to the last scene, which was, in our opi.
nion, a master-piece. The astonishment with which
he received the tautiti of his nephew--the significant
limy with which lie exclaimed, 44 His fortune swells
him,"—the despair with which he beheld the faded
parchment that was once his deed—the artful kind-
sins with which he pronounced the name cF .Mareal,
when wishing to make use of him as an nittriimeist
' once osore—the furywith which he received his 41.itigh-
ter as the wile of tfllcoortk—and the horror with
which he delivered his last raving speech, would have
reflected honour upon any actor we have seen.—
Even the performers. around lain) were struck to the
heart by the piercing workings of his rage, disap.
?ointment, and misery. Mrs. Guivart, while look-
i.tg on him, was so extremely affected that she seemed
about to faint, was compelled to recite up the stage;
and was not perfectly recovered when the amain
descended.—The characters throughout were well
sustained. MuNDLNIs Marra furnished one of the
Most exquisite pieces of drollery ever witnessed on
any stage. The play. was announced for Monday
amidst a tumult of rapturous applause.

It h reported, that in.the course of a few weeks,
the representation of a new Pace will be announced,
called, ?die Lotter, Share ; or Fortune': Faye:wile:
the Author's name has not yet been ,wade known, but
we have reason to believe it will prove the production
of a poetical genius, who has often appeared before
the Public, and who had the good fortune to choose
a Share of No. .18,646, a Prize of £50,000, sold in
tbe last Lottery by IttCHARDSON, Gooncuca, and
Co. This Poet, happy in his choice of Oteustsuo, will
doodcis feel his subject. thonh in prose, and on his
lucky transition from Mari Verve to a Prise Farce,
we ulia him our coogratulatioas.