Star.
London, England, 1804-10-29 00:00:00

GENERAL I.Altre ARMY.

Q. 0.-BY THE COMM•NDEE IM CHIlt, OCT. 2 t , 1803.
ThsCommittee'affemhled to afcertain the claims
of thnfe emitted to (hare in. prizes, having left the
fubjea to the decifion of his .zeelleney the Com
pander in Chief. his Eseellencyjpis direaed a ecpy
of his attfwer to Maw General Waite, Prefident of
the Committee, t-.) be published for the information
of the army.
The principles laid down therein, having been ap-
proved and adopted by the Committee. •.
ta MAJOR GENERAL WARE
TEE.PRESIDENT OP PRI.2E
COMMIT

Sir—ln compliance with the wifhes of the Committee. I hive
the honour to communicate the following, as my fentinsents an
thq woft jun and equitable appropriation of peat
• zit, All Corph °Seers and Soldiers, who Mir pretest trlth the
Army," the loth Augult , and 4th of September, tilos , are unit.
ted to (hate in Prize taken by the army during the War. with the
exceptions hereafter mentioned.
, ad, MI Corps,Oflicers and Soldiers who joined the army be-
tween t►e 4th and t t tit September, are entitled to Cure in pried
taken fubfequent to the z sib September.
3d, Cory*, Ogicers aid men who joined hied Sag join the tw-
iny fubfeqnent to an action °rapture of a place, are not entitledto
glare in prize which was the immediate confequenee of loch ao
donor capture.
4th, Corps, °Pacers, or foldiers are to be entitled to than in prize
made fubfcquent to their junaion, with the exceptions alluded to
In the foregoing anklet.
stn, No Officer who quits the army en leave of abfcnee is en-
titled th dare in prizes made during his abfence, arnica his &b.
fence than have been occafioned by wounds or ill health.
. 6th, 015cen transferred from Corps with, or which hate been
with the army, to corps in other Gamines, are not entitled to male
in prize taken after quitting the army.
• There appear to me to be the leading principles upon which the
divirson cf, prize ought to be adjufted ; I shall. ►owever, with
~rtnch pleafure take into eon/Ideation any fuggeftions which the
Comnoittoc&all aver. (Signed) ta. Lacs.

0. 0....•••11Y TNIS COMMANDER IN CHIEF:
. Gaither 32 —His Excellency the Commander in
Chief .has direaed the following proceedings of the
prize-Committee, of which the Hon. Major-General
¢ir: Joins it prefident, to be publithed for the Mkt-
'nation of the army s
The Committee have refused, that all officers bull
Aare according to their rank, viz.
Majet.Clecerab, Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonels, Majors, Cap-
tains, Majors of Brigade, Aid-de Camps, Surgeons, Chaplains.
and Field Payrnaller Lieuttnants, Affinant Surgeons, Comm
Lieutenant fireworkers, Enfigns, and Veterinary Surgeons, Qsr
tereMafters of Cavalry, and Cosiduelors of Ordnance.
Elston/ ss The Committee refolve, that Corporals, Gun-
ners, Drummers. Trumpeters, and Privates, Ball receive t (hare ;
eel Mtg. a; SAICANI-Majors. ; Conduetors, and (12arter-Ma(.
tens of Cavalry. is; Ernes, so: lictitcoants, 7o; Captains,
MI Majors, aso; Lieutenant-Colonels, 360; Colun.ls, 600,
Malor•Generals. 1300.
The Conntiattdcr in Chief 1-Ilth of the whole, after &dueling
Prlze-Agents Conardfkon.
PristsAgwas to receive c per Cent tosmifion, pairing di in-
Siderite! meows. .
liarrvas.—.Nakli.. ad Tlndds,Trespess. %goys, Osisadasso
Drummers. Trumpeters. Gun Lagar% Pioneers. Pactalliss. and
33beegle., receive two thirds of a Blare; Harikari. iR Tindala.
and Native Maori, one, and cue-third of a mare; Jewidars d
ava r y and Infantry, aid Syrangs of Artillsry, arm glares; Su-
bidets, five.
Prize-money to be drawn fot all Arne and *bo may
have been kili4l is Winn.

. .
T The following Cestlis In the Kent Weed bawd re-
teired orders to march, as under, neat week, 4.4..
To Chelmsford, the Warwick Militia, from Chatham, Word
atto, from Dover. Weft Middlrfex from ditto, Berk. from Deal.
To Dover, the Lcicefter from ditto. To Midi, the Eatt York,
Mid tit Welt York. trots Coitheath. To Ofprlnge and Feirerikant,
the 3d Welt York. from ditto, aad Cambridge, from Chatham.
To the Ille of Thanet, the Weft Kent, from Milford. To Silver
Hill Barrack., Su3es. Fait and Welt Norfolk, from Cmln.aih.
To Deal, Brigade of Citiards, from Barham Downs. To Canter-
anrv, General Stuatt's Brigade, 5311. and 334 Regiments, front
Barbaro Downs.
The biottinghamthire Militia, on Thurfday and
Friday marched from Canterbury for Riding Street
Barracks, near Tenterden.
The 39th Regiment is on its route to Portfmonth.
The 3d regiment ( Buffs) is under orders to em-
bark at Forth-timid) for Guernfey ; the 69th regiment,
tecently arrived at Horlham, it is fuppofed, Will
follow.
The Shroplbire Militia leaVe Yarmouth tis-morrow
for Norwich—they will be replaced by the Fifefhire.
Monday and Tuefday laft, the Dumfriesthire Gen-
tlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry; the Dnmfriesfhire,
the Nithidale, and the Annandale and Efkdale Co
liinteer Battalions, marched into Dumfries, where
they are to remain on permanent duty for 16 days.
Yefterdat morning about too Hanoverian troops
tnarched through Pamlico, on their way to Lynting-
ton. About the fame trine, near the fame number,
who are difabled, palled through in caravans.
Law Association.—On Saturday the Law Alfa-
ciation were int-peeled in the Temple Gardens by Bri-
gadier General WHET!' Atti. For fume time pall the
parades of the Alfociation had been fdpended, be-
caufe a proportion of its members beyond that of any
other Corps in London, is during the rummer months
either engaged in the Circuits, or relaling in the conn.
try from the labours of prokilional duty. tall Mon-
day the parades recommenced, And were extremely
well attended, confideriog the numbers that hate yet
returned to town. The Corps on Saturday muttered
at twelve o'clock ; General WHETHAM came on the
ground at one, and was received in the ufual Man-
ner. The General feemed perfectly fatisfied with the
flate of difcipline in which he found the Corps, and
had the eondefcenlion to try And infirm% them in lonic
manoeuvres which he thought it would he right for
them topratliee.—The Corps was tinder the command
of Lieutenant Colonel ERSKI.II, the Commandant.
Utters from Tonquin Rate that coaft to have been
lately vinted by a hunicane, more violent and de.
fink-live than was ever remembered in that quarter.
Upwards of twenty native veffels foundered in the
Bay, and betwsen filly and tiny were dallied to pieces
on the those. The coati for many Wiles was (hewed
with dead bodies and fragments of wreck. Several
villages have been totally dedroyed. Upwards of
twenty thoufand perfons are Rated to have periflied
cn the occafiou. •

SWINDLING.

IBMs HALL, CLEREENWELL, OCTOBER s 7.

;Hairy Perfia was indided on the katote of Gao.ll.
Or obtaining by, falfc pretences a I. note from the
Earl of C AAAA hDON. The details of this caufe exhi.

bited a fyllem of fraud almolt unequalled. The priT
foner had carried on his depredations on the public
for a long time without deteaion, and from a memo-

randum book of his own it appeared, to the amount
44881. he had duped the credulous public within

the IA two years. The plan which he put in prac-
tice againti the Noble Profecutor, was one of the
moil artful that ingenious wickednefs culd conceive.
Mr. ALLsr opened the pleadings by dating that
thls was an indiftment againft Henry Perfrel for a
fraud, in obtaining from the Right Hon. Thomas
Villiers Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, by falfe pretences,
the fum of Isl. and alfo the further fum of 21. There

were three other counts, varying the nature of the
charges. The prifoner ad pleaded Not Guilty, and
that was the atm to be tried.
Mr. GUINIY" Gentlemen, I have the honour
to appear as Counfel for the Noble Earl Clarendon,
who has come forward for the ptirpofe of bringing
to public jußice a Criminal of no fmall enormity.—
The cafe I lb& prefent is one which might be gra-
tifying to cut iofity, if it did not difplay that Chocking
and depraved perverfion of talents which might, pro-
perly &rafted, have been employed with the gteatell
advantage to the poffeffor of them, as well as to the
Public. It Items there are in this metropolis a fet df
fwindlers, Who employ the heft feelings of the human
heart for the wolf purpofes—wretches who make the
fyrnpathies of our nature the inilruments of fraud,
and who thereby, as far as lies in their power, Reel
the hearts of the benevolent againft the cries of dif-
trefs, by infuling into men's minds fufpicion whether
the claims on their charity are real or fiftitious. It
. .

is the °hied of perfons of this defcription to feek thole
who have the will as well as the power to do good,
and to wake them the viElims of their frauds. Among
fuch, it was not difficult for a man, who employed
himfelf as the prifoncr has done, to tingle out the
Noble Earle and to fpread fuch a net as was Cute to
catch him or any other perfn, however circumfpeel
he might have been ; for, In far from being furprifed
at his having been impofed upon by a plot contrived
with Inch art, and executed with fuch ability and ad

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drefs, I am perfeEtly peifuaded that no talents. no
experience, no knowledge of the wotld, could have
guarded agaioll its effects, provided the perfon in-
tended to be impofed on was alive to the feelings of
humanity. While the Earl of Clarendon was at his
feat, the Grove, near Watford, Herts, he received a
letter, which purported to tome from a female. It
WA4 dated London, July 5, 5204, and was to this
effect :

o My Lord, the molt charming eh:media I have beard of your
I.ordfhip, for every virtue which can adorn the truly good and
great, gives me every hope that your Loftin:alp may thew•fonee
(maßcumpalfon on a young ftrangcr. I am i native of the
Bland of Jamaica, where any family retitle, and ai:c iftluent and
refpedabie. I married a young man who was a Surgeon's Mate,
and came out to that Mend in a Hap of war. He was a native of
Scotland, and was introduced to my father. I malt confers I did
not She him, r he was a Scotchmast, proud, and always boaft-
bag of Lis great family. But as my father's will had ever been to
lOC slaw, I agreed to the facriber. provided he could be brought
to prandie to railer the Welt Indies. He did, and we were
milted. My father gave him moot and as fuon an he received
that money, he was al*ays perfoadihg me to go with him to
Scotland, but I was rale to It, but be got my family to uni e
in his pertliguans, and I yielded. Six months Glace we Landed in
England, and I titer mired him to go to Scodacd, but he always
lett we when I (poke to him ou this fubjed. Brief ice rue b; as
the recital *minds me much. He got icto ba.l ccm p x•y , gamed,
drank, and eumniitted every taw's, till be killed Intuit-If. tic
Weeks Slice be died of a batty decline, leaving me with two chil-
dren, not a day to reckon, with child, nor a Stilling, in a Stange
country "ere arid my dear babes Itarving—and I know taut ally
of his family, nr want part of Scotland he came from. theeeh my
tither dues. I have writtro Lone to my father my Etna:tun, hut
Goy only knows how I and nay dear failtalef. babes flail fubbit
till I hear from him. A ir.dy. who has been Lind to if c, gave me
a molt charming charaeler of your Lortifhip, as well as your
Lordtkies acidrcti, and defired me to write my cafe to your Lord.
Stip, but at the fame time made me promite no: to mend an her
name to your I.ordlip, as the Paid the had rut the honour of
being perienally known to year L,srelthip ; and I pronalfed her I
would not. lam not at years of age, a till new I never knew
what want was ; and I reel much at fueb an application. Should
your Lordthip's noble, generous, humane heart, thew any compel.
Son to me, and my dear fatheriefs Marring babes, I null never
omit to pr ,y GOD to reward your Lordflelp with every terrestrial
as well at celeftlal Wetting. I owe fur la:highs:l, a. well as my
bufbrd's funeral and apothecary's bill ; and as it not in my
power to difeharge them, they have kelt to am:lt me, and I
am this day going into Mx, to be with a pow widow till I can
hear from my tither; St that. if any ea of your I.ordde p'. thouH
be addreffed for me at elle Poll Oilier at :larlow, Fires. if I am
put to bed, I will get tome fate petron to trine it tu, my Lord,
Your Lordthip's mutt dutiful, ("tardiest, and unhappy.
refireelfultahrlient Servant, U. GRANT.
A tale of greater difirefs could not pi-41114 be told;
and I do not cohceive how it could be told in a more
pathetic manner."
His Lordlhip's anfwer to this letter, evinced the
moft benevolent heart. He eeprefred his readinefs to
alleviate her (lairds but juflly obfervcd it ought to
he authenticated by comediing more titan the recital
of a perfea (trailer. He defired to know who the
Lady was who had recommended the applications to
him, and allured the writer the need nut conceal her,
for he confidered it was doing him a great kindnefs,
to afford bairn the means of rendering fervice to the
diltreffed. Ott the t+th of July, his Lordlhip received
a note nearly as follows:-
0 Mrs. Smith, widow of Captain Smith, beg. leave to inform
Loral CI arendon, that Mrs Straw was brought to bed. It was
the why recommended Mr.. Grant to lewd ( larendoo; whale her
hutband we. living, the had frequently been with him on the
recruiting ferrite in Herefotdante, where the had beard of the
benevolent chat...act of lab Lordthip, and recommended Mr..
(drat tto Rate her cafe to his Lordthip. She 3.Meti, that Captain
Smith, when in Jamaica, bad fretren ty soloed Mrs. Grant'. te-
ther, who way s pe. ton of great wealth; that the had beef, if dame
more than the could afford, foe an amiable and unfortunate young
woman. She haul tan dyad", hat that as loon as the voile' receive
an enterer front Jamaica, but that Mrs. Grant's hither would feud
her abundant relief ; but tlll then, the might, without the friend-
(hip vat tome one. be totally haft.'
In confequence of this lan note his Lordfhip re-
tm ned an anfwer and inclofed a draft for five gui-
neas—offering at the fame time to write to any rer-
fon at Harlow who might be of aalf:ance to het, par-
ticularly to any medical perfon. On July 23, the
fuppofed Mrs. Grant writes again to his Lf,r,lthip,
acknowledges the receipt of the I. ss. and tote. that
(he has had the offer of a paltsge horre ; the willies to
fee his Lordfhip, to return her grateful thank , &c.
al the fame time (he is extremely delicate Ind their
meeting (inlaid be milconfi rued by a malignant world.
and intreats it may take place at a little tiittance from
town. The anfwer to this letter fit begs may he ad-
, dteffsd to A. B. C. at George's Coires-houfs, to e

•
ilrhieb)plate the Will fend for it. His Lerdthip at
'their requeft wrote an anfwer and appointed, the B.VI
Inn, at Kilbnrs. Before, however, the arrival, of
the day of meeting, his Lordthip received tnother
letter from Mrs. Grant, (hang that ever (ince the
came to town the bad met nothing but trouble. Her
Taft child had died, and the was feized with a milk
lover ; that the had tat. left of his Lordlhip's, and
Mrs. Smith's bounty, when the came to town ; that
fie was afraid of coming further than Whitechapcl
left her creditors might arreft her, where the was at
prsfent miferably lodged in only one room ; the con-
cluded with a requeft of the loan 0151. to be inclofed
in a Note addreffed to Mr. Paul, to be left at the
Saracen's Head Inn, Aldgate. His Lordlhip in re-
ply to this note lent the money requefted, and with
great humanity condoles on her fuppoled fituation.
He then purpofes to take her into the country, where
the may live quiet and free of expense until the hears
from her friends. The next letter introduces another
earr on the Rage. It comes from the Rev. H. Paul.
Mr. Paul, at the defire of Mrs. Grant, who is then
delirious, acknowledges the receipt of the sl. He
will write again and fay any thing Mrs. Grant way
dictate in a lucid interval. He begs his anfwer may
be left at the Chapter Coffee-bode. His Lordthip
accordingly writes to the Rev. H. Paul, with parti-
cular enquiries after the Rate of Mrs. Grant, and
propofe. to fend her proper medical aftiftance. The
Rev. Mr. Paul again replies to his letter, and Rates
the nature of Mrs. Grant'. complaint, which was of
a delicate !moire. He then hates the high notions of
Mrs. Grant, who will not condefcend to fee any per.
fon from his Lordthip, in her prefent wretched Rate.
She lays her fituation is fuch that it is not delicate to
admit any one to fee her but thofe abfolutely necel-
Ca.
y. Mr. Paul has therefore promifed not to di-
vulge her refidence, bin, in her lucid ir.tervals, the
exp.-effes the utmoll anxiety to be enabled to thank
her benefatior.
This correfpondenee produced a meeting between
the fuppoled Rev. H. Paul and his Lordthip, which
took place at the Bell inn, at Kilburn, on the Bth of
Augutl. The prifoner then introduced himfelf to
I.i.Lordlhip as the Rev. Henry Paul. They entered
into convertation on the fubjeit of Mrs. Grant, when
his I.nrchhip afked every quetlion as to her fitua-
tien, with a view to alleviate it. Mr. Paul laid he
had lint teen her dillinelly, for the curtains were doled
round her, but the opium had had an drat which he
had known it frequently to produce. It had given
her eyes a more than ufual brilliancy ; with refpea
to her lodging, it was a very fmall room. The wo-
than who attended her rimed agora; fort of woman
enough, and the was alio attended by a furgeon or
apothecary. .1; ith refpea to himfelf he laid, he had
been educated at Weltminfter and Oxford, and had
the living of St. Kitt's, in Jamaica ; that he had
property in Ireland, and was going, to America on
private htifinefs. To his Lordthip 's queftion, how
he was fo fortunate to meet this young woman, he
replied, that it was by accident, that quite looked
like a romance. He was coming to town in the i
Ongar Rage, in which was a young woman, two
children, and a lady, all in mourning. He entered
into eonver Cation with her, and was furprifed to find
her the daoghter of a perfon at whole hook in Ja-
maica he bad himfelf been frequently received with
kieJnefs. Although his butinefs preffed, he deter-
mined to flay and afford her Come affiftance. He
then Rated that he had that day given her a al. note
which his Lordthip at this inter view returned (being
the note on which the indictment was founded). He'
added, that Mrs. Grant's father was extremely of
fluent, and that he !honk! not wonder if he was to
remit cool. at the firft intelligence of his daughter's
fittiation. His Loidthip added, that he expreffed
himfelf in the language of the pureß truth and be.
nevulence, and as he appeared a well educated gen.
demo'. who had teen the world, his Lordthip had
ao fulpicion of any fraud. After this interview a
currepondence coined between Mr. Paul and his
Lordiltip, the former informing his Lordthip daily of
the nate of Mrs. Grant's health, accompanied with
requelis foe. linen, poultry, fruit, and wine, all of
which were !applied by the bounty of his Lordfirip.
At length Mrs. Grant is fufficiendy recovered to
write to his Lordthip ; the tells him, but that for the
kind al:finance of the Rev. Mr. Paul, the thould have
been 1011. And although the is ordered by her medi-
cal attendant to keep hell& perfeBly quiet, yet the

writing, one at them an account of money received,
by Which it appeared, that by theft fwindling prac-
tices, he had plundered the public to the amondt of
4881. within the lark two years. The other was as
outline, or tranfcript, of all the letters he wrote, with
memoranda in what hands he wr to them. Thus,
Mrs. Grant's firß letter had the following note--frinall
runniv hand—Mrs. Smith'*-4efr band—Mr. Paul!s—
large right hand jlourybed—fo that, by referring'to the',
notes, he always preferred confißency in bus feigned
hands. _ _ _ _ _ .

Mr. GLEID addreffed the jury on the part of the •
prithner. The Learned Counfel, on the other Me,
had elegantly espreffed his feelings, when he raid,
that it was lamentable that the fympathies of our na-
ture fhould be converted into inflruments of fraud.
So far he would agree with his friend, but he mud
diirent from him in the fubfequent pofition—that the
net was fo artfully fpread, that no man exercifing
ordinary prudence, could avoid the fnare. His friend
had triumphantly exclaimed, " the prifoner had no
defence." If he came into Court without any de-
fence, the proceedings, on the part of the pro(ccu-
lion, had fupplied him with a full and complete pro-
teelion. It was to be regreted that impotiors elated,
but there would be no impoftors of this (hallow do-
fcription, if men would exercife their undealtanding, '
and open their eyes at noon-day to the obflrultions
that are prefented before them. He Ma 'mutual
into a minute examination of the different letters
that had been produced, and he attempted to
Thew the complication of abfurdities which ap-
peared in the whole and every part of thens, by
which his Lordfbiß could not have been decanted,
if he had not given way to the unfufpieiosse
generolity of his nature. The Learned Counfill
objected to the evidence upon two grounds: fir&,
that the charge againfk the prifoner did not come
within the meaning of the Retie, as his Lordthip
might have Peen through, and dircovered the imps!•
fition fecondly, that the indiament charged the pn-
foner with having &taloa two pounds from the
plaintiff, on the day therein Rated a now, he had aro
tually received a al. note inclofed in a letter, and k
I was imrffible to tranfmute this paper, however
luahkr it might be, into two pounds of gold, Elver,
or other current coin. This objeelion was, however,
over-ruled by the Court, as it was *Vented from the
Chair that no man could be fecure in his poffersos
of Bank notes, if this delinquent was (offered to if.
care unpenithed. The preffure of the times was
facts as to induce the Legiflature to paths law maw
Bank cf England notes a legal tender. Therefore fuel
notes were to be confidered to all intents and par-
pufei the fame as money.—Mr. Grain then proceed-
ed to (late the prifoner's defence. His defence was
chiefly grounded on tome weeds itt the firß letter
written by the Earl of Clarenden to Mrs. Grant.—
" But it is to be lamented, that the condo& of inx-
poßors had been a great enemy to charity." There
expreffions, he cr.ntended, gave an air of furpicion to
all the fubfecitictnt letters of his Lordfbip, and the on-
ly way he could be deceived was in the great bene-
volence of his nature.
The Calmest ma having fummed up the eviiiibeds
and compared the fads and the law of the cafe with
great precilion, the Jury, after a very ikon delibera-
tion, brought in the verdict—Guilty•
The lenience of the Court was, tranfpnrtation for
the term of-feven years.

The prifoner s:as di-tired like a clergyman. and
appeared during the whole trial (vbich biked fit
hours) firm and compared ; he never cliangetl co-
lour, or varied the pofition of a feature when the to-
lemn (entente was pronounced. He was engaged
very often in making notes, which he tranftnistei to
his Counfel by the hands of his attorney, who kept
up a continued intercourfe with the prifoner, until
Mr. (Litt. doled the defence. The prifoner appears
to be between so and 6o guars of age.

Sittings appointed in Middlcfez and London before
the Right Honourable Sir Jam s Marian 0, Knight.
Lord Chiet Judice of his Majely's Court of Com-
mon Pleas at Weilminfier, in and after Michaelmas
Term. ISo4.