Star.
London, England, 1819-12-20 00:00:00

N'A VAL INTELLIGENCE.

PINZANOZ, Dec. 17.—The 0. P. At m, was run onboatd of by
another vessel, and carried away her topmast, and received other
damage. The Fly, SAMPSON, has lost a man overboard.
Pr:varnr•vrt, Dee. 16.—Tbe Fortitude, from Chepstow, got on
shore last night in Firestone Bay, but has got off to-day with
damage. Put back the Hero, for Africa. Arrived the Latona,
Coamies., from Qnebee, with damage, and loss of two of her
crow ; and the Cambridge, Lannomr, from London forl3arbarieft
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. I:l.—.Arrived the London, Drsean' from
I.ondtan fbr Tobago; Hazard, from 'Malaga; Ind Ruby, Hoca,
from Petersburgh.—Wind W.
Cowes, Dec. IF.—The French schooner Eli7a, from Morlaix
for Donkirir, got en shore near Brook, at the hack of the island.
The Captain has arrived here. -
Dear. Dec. d Peace, Gard:atm, from
Shields for Antigni, was on shore yesterday at the North Sand
Head; the has since floated off and sunk. A vessel was ob-
served yesterday with her'masts out of the water, and assistance
was sent off to ; the boatnien report this morning that it is
a brig or sloop. supposed to be laden with coals. Hopes are en-
tertained that the crews df both vessels have been saved by a
Ramsgate boat. Put back yesterday, the Dawn; for Jamaica;
and Saracen,. for New South Wales, the latter saw the Thomas
Corms East indiaman off Beachy Head, all well.—Arrived to-
day and sailed for the River,the Hope, Wresort, from Tobago,
with damage ; Pallas, BOOTH, from Pictnu ; Isaac Tod, Satrrn,
from Quebec, with damage; and Lively, RATCLITTE, from
Chisme. Came down from the River, the Colonist for Barba-
does ; St. George, for Grenada ; Britannia, for St. Kitt's;
Bern, for Berbadoes; Salisbury, for Cadiz; Adamant; for Ja-
maica; and John Bushman, for Tobago.
JAVERPOOT DECEMZEiI IS.—Arrived the Mercator, RATIVN,
from Handuras. On the 3d December, in lat. 49. 46. long. 22.
12. took the Captain, six passengers, and part of the crew, from
the Emma, Ilimates, froth Miramichi, for this port, water-
lpgged : they had been three days on the wreck without provi-
sions, and lost the carpenter and two men overboard. Also
• arrived the Isabella, Svarixort, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
• On the lath December, in lat. 50, 1.5. long. 11. 42. spoke the
Fair Cambrian, from New Brunswick, for Milford, with loss
of main-mast; took her in tow : they cut the cable on the 16th
1 December. The N'erthumberfand, PRENTISS, from this port to
• Nova Scotia, is totally lost, off the latter place; the Captain ant
several of the crew drowned. • . .

The following Report is given in a New York Pa-
per, of the proceedings of a Court of Oyer and Ter-
miner for the District of Quebec and the Indian Ter-
ritories, opened by Comtnission under the Great Seal,
dated 29th April, 1818, and continued by. adjourn-
ment to the 21st of October, 1819:
It appeared in the course of the proceeslingsin
the Session of the Commission, that, in November,
1818, a Memorial was 'presented to 'his Grace' the
Duke of Richmond, on the part of the North-West.
Cdmpany, myths, 'that a Special Court of-Oyer
and Terminer might take place, to hear and :deter-
mine all-cases arising in the Indian Territories. Anl
early reply was given, that a Court Would open ftir
that purpose on the 21st of October, 1819, and alai
the Crown would, in-doe time,- give notice to the:
patties. On the.24th of May last, the Crown. gave
notice that a Court Woad Eft held
.at'QUebec, on the
2d of November, for that iturpose;,and the notice:
was immediately acted upon by those-of theiNorth-
West Company interested therein; it was forthwith
dispatched into-the interior, and those Whtriiere im-
plicated in the accusations broughtforivsird-hy.tbe
Earl, of Selkirk were apprised of it, as fora: time
and distance would allow. It appeared, lagwever,
that some time after this notice kid been given to the
North-West Company, the agent Of the 'Earl 'OC Sel:
kirk, notwithstanding that his Lcirds)iip bad, Ili. ap
Ipeared by his printed Memorial) produced jn Csutt,
'oho pettoonett government ilithis country, is (kW
ber, 1818, that a Cotiarnsion of Oyer and Terminer
for the same purposes should issue, had explicitly
stated to Government, that the private prosecutor,
(tbs. Earl of Selkirk 4 was not ready, and that proba-
bly the earliest time when he might be ready would
be the autumn of 1820! An intimation to this effect
was, in consennenZe,. given on the'ilOth of ;lone, to
the principal *agent of the North. West Colinpany,
,then absent from the Pro4ince; and actUally in the I
'lndian territories—a period when it :Much too
late, even had the thing been, in itself- reasonable ;
and the preparations for the. approaching expected.
trials, though at a great expense, necessarily went
on, pursuant to the first-notice. However,'On the 2d
Of October, the parties accused found it expedient to
lay a Memorial before the President against any fur- I
ther protraction of their trials; in reply to Which, his
Honour stated, that ..;‘t Commission of Oyer and Ter-
miner, for the Trials of Offenies comtnitted in the In-
dian Territories, had issued on the 29th . of- April,
1818, and was continued by-adjournment to the 21st
of October, and would open on that day, t where le--
gal course and redress must be sought for by the per-
sons interested therein.'

. .
" Accordingly, several' Gentlemen belonging to
the North-West Company, with upwards of twenty
witnesses, collected from distances of from two to
five thousand miles, appeared on the opening of the
Court, when the names of the accused, viz.—Archi-
bald Ntrinan M'Leod, James Leith, Alexander Mac-
donell, Archibald M.Leitan, Hugh SimUn
Fraser, and John Siveright, were recorded by con-
sent. The Court continued by adjournment till•last
Thursday, when the COunsel a the North-West
Company stated the circumstances above set forth
from affidavits sled by consent, and moved that
those who were under recognizance should be dis-
charged from their bail, and those not under recog-
nizance should be discharged by proclamation, as
the Crown had declared in Court that there was no-
thing to object against any one of them. After. a
discussion of sonic length, the Court adjourned to
consider of these motions till the following day;
when, with the exception of one of the accused (Mr.
'MtLellan), who happened to be under recognizance
in that Court, the Bench decided that the applicants
should take nothing by their motions. In the course
of the animadversions that fell from the Bench and
from the Solicitor-General, it appeared that they con-
sidered that the Court had no jurisdiction to inter-
fere with offences alleged to have been committed in
the Indian territories, unless brought forward by the
Crown.
" Early in the Session, two' bills of indictment
were preferred by the Crown, and found by the Jury,
agaiast Mr. Williams, Mr. John CI arice, Mr. John
IV•Leod, Captain Mathey, Serjeants Vii,ohy and aril-
and several Meuron soldiers, all in the service
of the Earl of Selkirk or of the Hudson's Bay Corn-,
pally, for the assault and false imprisonment, in the
nionth of June last, at the Grand Rapid. in the In-
dian territories, of Mr. Shaw, Mr. M'Tavish, Mr.
Campbell, Mr. Frobisher, and Mr: Mackintosh, part-
ners in the North-West Company, with several of their
head canoemen.
" On the 29th of October, the Court adjourned
till the '2lth of January, 1820."