Star.
London, England, 1803-01-21 00:00:00

DEAL. JANUARY 20.

Remain in the Downs the IststnaTairrs and
JAMAICA frigates, and AltiPW fluop of war. Calm
and foggy.

LIVERPOOL, JANUARY tr.
The Ann, MESSINGER, from Leghorn for this
port, was la 15th Oiaoher, on the Bland of Ivica.
The Catherine, Davi at, from Waterford for this
port, is totally loft at Killand, near Strangford,,
fliv the Captain and part of the cargo eal, two men
drowned.

The Levant. ROSR itsc s, fronrbOott to Venice,
is on (pore near Veßieiss crew raved.

Captain Csiorsv :of the Dart, on his paffage
from Africa to Demerara, (poke on the toth Sept.

the Skelton Cale, bound to Madras, in lat. a. 30.
long. 3. 40. E. and the Edwin, of Salem, bound
to Mocha.

WMTEHAVEN, JANUARY zL.

We were mifinformed about the lots of the
Dumfries, Gissou, mentioned lately : It was the
Providence, Louts RS/0 mailer, which funk near
the month of the Duddon,a little to the fonthward
of Black Crmb, and about three leagues from the
land, at eight o'clock on Sunday morning, the gth
intt.—but we are happy to add, that the people
(v ho had quitted the vela, and taken to the boat
for their prefervation) were taken up by the Cle-
mentina, THOMAS WILSON mailer, and Safely
landed at Kirkcudbright.
We are lorry to announce that the Providence,
Warr:, which failed from hence, coal loaden for
Dublin, on the sth inft, was 101 l the day following
near Donapadee; and all on board unfortunately
perithed. flee matter and mate were father and
fon !

The Alliance, Areturox, of this port, k on
shore near hiellalh ; but expeacd to be got off.

GREENOCK, JAN. RI.

The Maria. GRAHAM, if arrixe4 at Savarmah.
from liarbadoes.

The Friemilhip, --, at Demerary, from Bar•
badoes.

The Countefs of Bate, M.Kti.Laa, at Alieant,
from Newfoundland.

The Ezprefs, Itossar., from hence at Belrak
on the 9th init. after a paflage of 12 hours.
The Packet, Jonasow, from ditto at ditto.
The George and Sophia, Donau, from ditto
at ditto.

The Thiflie, Merfey, and Perfeverance, Liter.
pool traders, were all fate in Belfalt Loch, on the
trth

The Sarah, BOWDIM, arrived at Lochindaal
from CharleSon.

The Robult, M‘Gatcott, from Pot t Glafgow
for Hamburgh, aground on a bank of land at the
entrance of the F.lbe, on the 4th intl. after land-
ing about one third If the cargo in craft which
came off to her affollance from Cuxhaven, was
blown off to lea, after holing 3 anchors and cables,
and encountering three days of a dreadful gale in
the North Seas, arrived at Hull on the 14th init.
with :omen and two branch pilots on board. who
had come off to their affiltance from Cuxhaven.

The Lucy, Camo, of this port, from New-
foundland to Barbadoes, has been deferred at lea.
Crew taken on board the Harlequin, arrived from
Demerara.

Sailed from the Clyde—Pomona, Ramsay, for
Grenada ; Two Brothers, Lamour, for Cork;
Hinds, Jawitsow. and Altive, Myra, for Li-
verpool; Harmony, ',siren, for Jamaica; Bril
liant, LIITCN, for Barbadoes; Hope, Mown, for
Dublin i and Friendfliip, Basin, for Coleraine.

The lieftor. Davurs, from New York, for
Hambergh, is ba near Flambro° Head ; crew
fared.

The Fatrwell, BARNARD, from Batavia, is ar•
lived at Cork.

The Direaors of the Eaft India Company have
taken up the Princefs Mary, extra fbip, for one
voyage to Bengal direft. She is to be afloat the
6th of February, Gal to Gravefend the ala ditto,
nay there ;oda'', and be in the Downs the 39th
of Mach.

TORN

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• MALI-LANE,
Our trade continues without the
from Monday-the wind continuing
fdr the arrivals of veffels coaßwife-'
quote the terms of the 17th for govt
Euglifh Wheat, per qr. 505.54.5.
Superfine 6zs.
Fine Dantzic Wheat, sos. 565.
Rye, 30. 38"
Barley, 245. z6s. (Very Fine) 2:
Malt, 425. 465. 475.
Oats, 15s. 225. ass.
Hone Beans, New, 335. 343. Oh
'rick Beans, New, 28s. 305. Old,
Hog Peace, 355. 375.
Boilers, 345. 425.
Carraway Seed, 365. to 41s. per
Coriander, 28s. to 3os. per cwt,
Canary, 785. to 845. per qr.
Rape Seed, 341. to 361. per latt.
Flour, 451.501. per fact.
COLN lIISPICTOAS ISTURN FROM UIPRIDOIL
JANUARY 204
Wheat, per Load, from 131. tos. to 161.
Bosley, per Quarter, from 11.45. to 11. 71.
Oats, per uartcr, from tl. 3s. to tl. 7s.
Beans, per, uarter, from 11. Jas. to tl. 181.
Pare, per (tarter, from al. OL to al. AL

A dafhicg Gentleman lately returned from Pa,
ris declared, the t though during his refidence in
that capital he had leen much expofed to frenci
knavery and extertha, he relieved bimfelf from ak
confiderable portion of them by the fimple opera.
Lion of French leave.

We have the authority of Captain Bterros, of
the Hindoaan Indiaman, for tinting, that there was
no truth in what was laid of the crew of that fhip
having " piped all hands to plunder," or. ber get-
ting afhore off Margate ; on the contrary, we arq
allured they behaved in the bell poffible manners
and did not difobey orders to the latt mnment.—..
The ofhnilve paragraph to which we allude fult
appeared in a Morning Paper.
The body of Mr. WILLIAM Hacarr's fon, of
Nicholas-lane, who was Loa in the fitimortAni,
has fusee been call on Chore.

Yesterday morning, between tea and clews*
o'clock, as the Earl of Mansfleld was coming to
-Town from Caen Wood, he was flopped and rob;
bcd by two highwaymen. His Lordlhip's
vans immediately purfued them, and was joiaesk
by feveral horfemen; but the robbers were not
overtaken till they got to Guildford.ftreet, whep
the horfe of one of them falling, the rider was fo.
cured. The other difmounted,and &aped thrones
Come of the allies in Gray's Inn•lane. _

On Tnefday as three Gentlemen in a chili&
were entering Northampton, the fore wheel Of the
carriage came off, when th? hoifes immigrate*
let of full gallop. The chatfe was aimed
denied to pieces, but the Gentlemen pmvideteetl4
cfcaped without the leaft injury. The poi! boy
was much hurt in the fall.
Wedneeday, at the Public Office, Uniop }W,
Crag, the Gipfey Chimney (weep,
has been Come time in cullody on fu(picion tsf !st-
ing concerned in the murder of Matthew, tine
Dulwich Herinit, was again 'examined privateli+
after which he was fully committed to take' his
trial. Bower and his rots th, two other perfonit
in coaody under the fame e were remandfor re-examination. Anotheril of the piton&
Bower has been brought forward;and it is expetpd
the two kinys will be detained to give evidence.
In confequence of the recent difcovery of illicit
predicts to a very great "extent; the Boards of
Culloass and Excife have come to the refolutiod
of regularly Rationing 06cera on board all Com& '
ing veffels, inclnding colliers ; a precaution agaia4
frauds on the revenue not hitherto adopted.
On the evening of loft Thur(day fe'nnight, a
man went to an inn, at Chickefter, and ordered
flipper ; but what' it was preparing, introdueeel
himfell to the foldiers of the loth Light Dragoots
quartered in the hnufe, and of them he Fend
which was their bell houfe; and having obtained.
01
that information, retired from his military friend '
to fop, about nine o'clock : after regaling himfel
plentifully, and having previonfly ftolen a pair
regimental piftols, in the foldiers' room, he "nob.•
fervedly went into the (table, moqnted the htirff
he had fixed on, and rode off.
GaLvanisw.—The body of Fortier, who waq
executed on Monday laft for morder,was conveyed
to a houfe not far diftant, where it was eubjededi
to the Galvanic Proceed by Profeffor 41.nis i, under
the infpeCtion of Mr. Beare, Mr. Caarus, and
feveml other Proferional Gentlemen. M. At-
tains who is the nephew of the difcoverer of this
molt interefting fcience, (hewed the eminent and
Aioerior powers of Galvaitifm to be far beyond any
ether ftimulant in nature, On the firft applicitiote
of the proceed to the face, the jaw of the deceafe.
criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining
mufcles were horribly contorted, and one eye wad
aitually opened. In the fubfequent part of the
procefs, the right hand was railed and clenched,
and the legs and thighs were let in motion. It
-Appeared to the uninformed part of the by-ftandera
as if the wretched man was on the -- of beir
ranted to life. This, however, •
as feveral of his friends, who were

fold, had violently pulled his legs,
a more fpeedy termination to his II
experiment, in fall, was of a bet,

deney. Its obje& was to thew thL
the human frame, when this animal
duly applied. In cafes of drownini
it promifes to be of the tarpon ufe,

adios of the lungs, and thereby
expiring fpark of vitality. In cafes
or diforders of the head, it offers all
raging profpcits for the benefit of •
Profeffor. we underftand, has made
:tiro in feveral cafes of infinity, and
fireceft. It is the opinion of the firli
that this difcovety, if rightly mans/
profecuted, cannot fail to be of

haps as yet, aurorae= oils,.

E, JANUARY 2f.
the leall variation
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Kovernmeut.
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Old, 345.365.
Id, 325. 345.
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LAW INTELLIGVITE.

HIGH 'TREASON.

Yeßerday, was the day fixed for the opening of
the Special Comma:Gott appointed for the trial of
Colonel Defpard, and of thofe perfons who were ,
arrefted at the fame time and upon the fame
charge, a lift of whom we gave in our tall Paper.
This fubjed has excited luch nniverfal intereft,
that a number of perfons prefented themfelves for
admiffion at the Seffions Houfe,Horfemonger-lane,
at a very early hour in the morning ; but the ap-
plications were fo numerous, that it was found ne-
ceffary to reftriet the admiffions to thofe who had
tickets from the Sheriff, or were introduced by a
Magiftrate of the county.
The Judges appointed by the Special Commit-
Con were met at the Obelifk in St. George's-fields,
in their carriages, by EDWARD Parris, Efq. High
Sheriff of the county, when the Procellion moved
on to the Seffions Houfe in the following order :
The Judges' Trumpeters.
Mr. Pope, the High Cooltabk of EaR Brixton, on Horfeback.
Fifty Cooftables, two and two.
The Sherif 'a men in Livery, with their Javelins and Hangers.
The Sheriff and Under-Serif.
The Judges in their refpedtive carriages.
Moft of the Police Officers of the metropolis, and
nearly 200 Conftables attended upon this occafion,
and brought up the rear. About half pall eleven
o'cicick the Cavalcade arrived at the Se ions
Houfe. The Judges were.
The Right Honourable Lord ELLIWIOROUGM, Chief Janice
• of England.
Sir AAAAAA Tints noir, Knight, one of the Barons of the

Exchequer.
Sir SIMON La BLANC, one of the Jultices of the King's Bench.
Sir ALAN CNA MN e,ock ache palms of the Common Pleas.
The Commillion was then read, and the Grand
Panne' of the County was called over, and on the
name of Mr. CARFENTIII SMITH being mentioned,
that Gentleman rofe, and after expreffing his un-
vrillinmefs to (brink from his duty, requefted to
know from the Bench, whether his having been one
of the bLigiftrates, under whore warrant Colonel
Defpard and his fellow-prifoners were originally
apprehended, did not render him ineligible to be-
come a member of the Jury on this occafion ?
Lord E 1.24 aolono N.—That circum Rance does
not difqnslify you, but as there is inch a numerous
attendance of jurors, it will not be inconvenient
to excufe you.
On the awe of LordTsto 'mown, being called,
Lord Etttaaoacioon foggefted that, as according
to the articles of the Union, Iriffi Peers were be.
come Peers niche United Kingdom, it might be.
come a qUaiON whether the Noble Perfonage al-
luded to, was the peer of the perfons to be tried
under this Conlmiffion. The name of Lord Tao G /I •
MOUTH was therefore omitted.
The following Gentlemen were (worn of the
Grand Jury :
The Rigbe Honourable George Sr Rebore Burnett, Km.
Wawa !Oyu Leak, eau- R. Hoiderj. Bfq.
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The twenty-three Gentlemen above named hav-
ing been (worn as a Grand Jury, Lord Et.i.sw-
sonoutni addreffed them to the folloniqg effeit :
'4 Gentlemen of the Grand Jury—Ke are af-
(cabled on this occafion under the author ity of his
kfajelly's Special Commiffion, ifued for the trial
of certain perfons charged with all or Come of the
offences therein fpecified. Thole offences are,
High Treafon, Mifprifion of Treafon—offences
againft a (Unite paled in the ,6th year of the
reign of his prefsnt Majefty, entitled, " An Ad
for the. Safety and Prefervation of his Majeßy'
Perron and Government again& Treafonable and
Seditious Praelices and Attempts," and againft
another flame, paled in the Arh year of the
reign of his prcfent Majefty, intakd, " An Aft
for the better Prevention and Puniffiment of At-
tempts to (educe Perfons renting in his Majefty's
Fortes, by Sea or Land, from their Duty and
Allegiance to his Majefty, or to incite them to
Mutiny or Difobedience," and laftly.againft ano-
ther AR, paled in the fame 37th year of his Ma-
jelly's reign, bladed, " An Ad for the more ef-
feßually preventing the adrainiftering or taking of
unlawful Oaths." Many of the offences I have
enumerated are of thofe fpecies which, from their
peculiar malignity, their Inanifeft danger to the
peace, happinefs, and feenrity of the realm, and
their obvious tendency to ffibvert and deftroy the
foundation of all government, have been placed in
the higheß clefs of crimes. By this I (hall be
underftood to mean the crime of high treafon
againft the perfon and authority of the King.—
Another offence of the fame nature, immediately
fully& to your cognisance. and againft which the
dente of the 37th Geo. 111. is exprefsly direited,
is an offence, fecond only in degree, and inferior
only in magnitude, to the crime of high troika,
and of which they form, in foss mks, a very
material part-. 4 mean the crime of (educing, or
attempting to (educe perfons (erring his %spiky
by lea or land. The law of this land, from the
remoteft peeiods,has with as anxiety in a confider.
able degree, proportioned to the magnitude of the
objell, but of late gears more particularly Co,
owing to a variety of circtundances, at prefect
aeceliary for me to dwell upon, watched,
with a jealous eye, for the life and fafety of the
Sovereign. It has confidered, in this innanee, the
nufi.hievons workings of the imagination, and
the malignant feelings of the heart when diretted
towards the dearulbon of the life Of the King, as
criminal as any all conducing to the carrying them
iego execution. It has rendered the bare intention
is deeply aimingl as the perpetration of the
anxious deed. To afcertens and lewdly's
itich a porpofe in the mind, and thole cells dot
are done in furtherance of it, and in law denomi-
nated avert aas, has at all times been the molt
weighty pan of the duty of a Jury, charged with
the important funakes you are called epos to
curdle. What mould be deemed laciest oven

aas of crimping the death of the King, or in
other words, what ads fhould amount to evidence
of fuch a purpofe, has been occafionally the rabic&
of much difpute ; but long before the paling the
late Ratute of the 36th George 111. this appears
to have been fettled by the molt able authorities:
That all meaftues adopted for depofing the King
from his Royal State; all meafures of force
againft his Royal Perron, either for attacking,
obtaining paten-ion of, or fubjeaing it to impri-
fonment, are, without exception, impreffed with
the Ramp and denomination of overt ads, and
are entitled to be received as the molt cogent and
decifive evidence of the offence of high treafon.
Authorities have alto fettled, that any confulting
or meeting, with a view to effect filch purpofe,
although nothing fhottld be done, and though the
whole fclieme and plan fhould be rendered abor-
tive, and further, that any content given to fuch
confultations or meetings, which is to be collected
from circumftances of approbation, or other evi-
dence, are all of them overt ads of that fpecies of
high treafon which confifts in cempaffing and ima-1
gining the death of the King. All pretence for
doubt upon a fubjea, which it is of fuch impor-
tance to have cleared of every difficulty, has been
for all future times obviated by the wife and pru-
dent provifions of the 36th of his precept Majetty,l
which enacts, that if any perfon within the realm,
I or without, (hall compafs, imagine, invent, device,
or intend death or deftruttion, or any bodily harm,
tending to death or deftruaion, maim, or wound.
ing, imprifonment or reftraint of the perfon of
our Sovereign Lord the King, or to deprive or
depofe him from the Rile, honour, or kingly name,
of the Imperial Crown of this realm, or to levy
war again(' his Majefty within this realm, in order,
by force or conftraint, to compel him to change
his meafures or councils ; and filch compaffings,
imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions,
than- exprefs, utter, or declare by any overt et,
Inch pylon fo offending (hall be adjudged to be a
traitor, and fuffer death. To compafs, imagine,
or devife the death, imprifonment, or reltraint of
the King, is now expreffed in a clear and politive
Ratute, an a& of high treafon, precifely as that
offence Rands under the letter of the cth Edw.III.
—The fame may be Laid of all thole treafons
which are fpecifically conneaed with the Ratute
of George 111. ; and I (hall only fcle& as matter
of obfervation to you, the compaffing, imagining,
or advifing the death of the King ; becaufe it is
probable that fuch offence is the one to which
your attention will be more particularly called.—
I have already Rated thet fuch ads as indicate an
intention of committing any of the offences within
the Ratute, are properly overt ails of high treafon.
—All overt aft' are required, by the Ratute 7th
William 111. ch. 3. to be named in the indictment,
in order that the prifoner may be apprifed of the
charges againft him, and know to what point
to dire& his defence ; but the numerous parti-
culars into which fuch a charge may branch,
need not be detailed, and fpread upon the re-
cord; it is enough that notice of the overt-a@ be
fpecified with convenient certainty, and when this
is done, the many other circumftances with which
the overt-ad is connefted, need be no further
Rated : the other matters may be confidered as fo
many parts and appendages of what has been be-
fore let out, and as virtually included in it. I
have Paid thus much, in the hope of affording you
fome affillance, fo as to enable you to underhand
the meaning of the form of the indictment which
will prefendy be laid before you, couched of courfe
in the technical language of which you will find
it compofed, and compare it with the proof in
fupport of it, which will be fubrnitted to your con.
federation. I will now proceed to Rate to you
what proof the law requires. In the firtt place the
law requires, that the crime of that treafon
be tried in the county where part, or the whole,
of the offence was committed. Some one overt-
'@ of compaffing the death of the King, or of le-
vying war artist him, mutt be proved by one
witnefs to have been committed in the county
where the trial is to take place; one meeting to
carry a traiterous deign into execution muff be
proved to have been held within the county ; or
fome other a& of a ftmilar tendency, mutt be ()sewn
to have been committed. This is previoutly need:
fary, to invelt you with a legal power to
inveßi-
gate the Cubic& in all its details. When this proof
(ball have been laid before you, you are at liberty
to enquire into any other fait, whether committed
within or without the county. Whatever has any
relation to the charge contained in the indictment
mutt be received as evidence, without any objec-
tion on your part—l mean as far as refpeas the
locality of the evidence. The law alto requires,
as well on the trial by the Grand Jury, as by the
other jury, that the overt-ads (hall be proved by
the oaths of two witneffes, though the oath of
one is fufficient, with regard to each diftina fpe-
cies of overt.alt. If however the overt-a@ implies
any dire& attempt, whereby the life of the King,
or any bodily harm to his perfon, is threatened, in
hat cafe, by the 39th and gosh of his prefent Ka-
the perfon accufed may be tried in like man-
ner, as if be was tried for murder. I am not
aware that any fuch dire@ attempt will come be-
fore you, under the precut Commiffion. It is un-
neceffary for me to fuggelt any thing further, as
to the form of the indiament, or the number of
witneffes, by which each fpecific charge is to be
fuppotted. I will, however, trefpafs on your atten-
tion,
while I addrefs a few words to you on ano-
ther part of the (obit& I mean as to the.probable
tikes of the treafonable ads about to be laid be-
fore you. Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, it is,
perhaps, too much the nature of the fouls (idiots
men, who are hardy occupied in the contemplation
of radices injurious to the enuenninity, to believe
that others are &dusted by fentiments funikr to
theirs. The kggellions of their own depraved
minds induce a confident perfuafios that there are
others, woofs difisisfitions are congesial to thok
by which they are influenced, and that they ate
ready to &deist and fallow the impalfe of their ono-
chinatians. This perfuafion engenders a degree of I
Masse% is the overtures of guilty men, towards
thole they svik to corrupt, that happily their (di-
citation generally lead to the difcovery of the mif-
chief which threatens the public fecurity i but the

molt material part-of the diiclofure, and indeed!
that which mutt develope the fecret fprings of
their aCtions, can only be detailed by thofe to
whom the falls were difelofed, who are partici-
pant in fome of the counfels of the confpirators,
and who mull be conlidered as emb..rked in the
fame defigns. The evidence of accomplices, al-
though it is competent, is at all times to be re-
ceived and aCted upon with jealoufy and caution ;
and if, aCtuated by that jealoufy and circumfpec-
tion, you are not perfeltly perfuaded, the evidence
derived from this flume is of fuch a nature as to
afford a fatisfaCtory ground of proof, you are
bound to rej..Et it, as unworthy of forming the
balls of conchifions which may affeEt the lives, for-
tunes, or honour of the parties under accufation.
In weighing, therefore, the evidence of accom-
plices, a Jury will naturally exiled to find fuch
degree of confitlency in the tetlimony of the wit-
nelfes—fuch a general conformity in their relations
of the facts—fuch a coincidence between them anal
the main rules of ordinary probability, as (hall
render the furn and fubftance of their details cre-
dible, and worthy of being relied on. If the evi-
dence of the accomplices (hall be limit as I have
defcribed, you 'trill give them that credit to which,
in the fair eiercife of your judgments, you (hall
conceive them entitled. You will, of cootie, bear
in your minds, that it is by another Jury the guilt
or innocence of the parties accufed, is to be eltab-
!Hind, and that, upon the prefent nccafion, it is
only; necetfary there fhould be a reafonable and
probable ground of delinquency made out, to in
duce you to put them on their trial before that
Jury which, on a full enquiry into all the fat% and
circumftances, and by the evidence nn both fides,
(hall be enabled to pronounce a verdict of condem-
nation or acquittal. If fuch a cafe is brought be-
fore yen, it will be your duty to fubmit it to the
ulterior invelligation of another Jury. At prefcnt
it is only neceffary for me to add, that to refute
its proper degree of credit to the teftimony of wit
neffes of the defcription I have laid before you,
would he to render the crime of High Treafon the
means of its own proteCtion. It would be adopting
a principle of dittrult, to the evidence of accom-
plices4which would be adverfe to the rules of com-
mon fenfe and public juftice. I forbear detailing
to you the particulars of the offences charged
againft the prifoners— they will Ihortly be detailed
to you by the witnefres. By forbearing to antici-
pate them, I (hall avoid infpiting your minds with
that degree of prejudice which might be injurious
to the parties accufed ; and I am perfuaded the,
ends of Juftice will be attained with equal certain-
ty. If it Mould appear to you, that only the fame
chance of fuccefs accompanied this confpiracy
which has uniformly attended other abortive trea-
fons, you will, on that account only, require that
more circumftantial evidence (hall be laid before
you, in order to fatisfy your minds of the ezittence
of a fcheme fo hopelefs and ill-advifed; but if it &all
be made out to your fatisfaetion, your diffidence
and doubt as to the reality of fuch a cafe will be
fucceeded by other fentiments ; by fentiments of
furprize and honor. Surprize at the boldnefs and
audacity of thofe who engaged in fuch a confpira-
cy, and horror at the tremendous confequences
which mutt inevitably have attended its fuccefs.—
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, confiderMg who
it is I am addreffmg, I fear I have occupied too
long a portion of your time. I have endeavoured
as far as I was able, to Rate as much to you if
the nature of the indictment, the proof which you
ought to require in lupport of it, and the nature
and quality of that proof, as will enable you to
eftimate its full value, and to draw fuch conclufions
as reafon andjunice require. You will now proceed
to difcharge your duty, by a full invelligation of
a fubjeet, deeply of the interells of fociety,
and the lives and fame of the parties accufed. I
have no doubt but the refuh of your enquiry and
deliberation, will be as fatisfaetory to the public,
as it will be confinent with the jullice you owe to
thofe perfons, who are the objeBs of that forted
duty you are this day called upon to perform."
The Grand Jury then retired; and twenty-one
witneas loon after came into Court, and were
!worn to give evidence on a Bill prefented againft
fourteen ofthe prifoners, one having this day been
admitted an evidence for the Crown ( Cowl,), and
another(Wisseriewem),having been leftat Newgate.
The Judges remained on the Bench till five
o'clock ; when the Loan Passivism and Baron
Townson went to dinner. On their return, Sir
&MON Le ELMIC and Sir ALAN Clllllll, retired.
At half peA eight in the evening, the Judges
being
.all retested on the Bench, the Grand Jury
came to with their Bill. _ _ _

Lord Lents, the Foreman, prefented it at the
Bar, and Mr. ICM•PP, Clerk of the Arraigns, de-
clared it to be a true Bill for If h Treafon, againft
'Edward Man*
William Leader. 0111111, Wanes,
Anther Graham,
Thaws Dembwo,
Masao Philippa. Newsiam,•
Dodd nada% Soma. *ads.
jobs Dark, law hibeaanwa.
Charles Peadrill, no bill found againfl him.
As foci° as the Grand Jury had returned the
Bill, they retired, and the perfons 'pipit whom
the Bill was found were ordered to the Box. Mr.
Ives immediately brought them up.
Loan You have beard that a
true Bill has been found again you fur High
Treafon. who do you with Mould be of gned as
your Coanfel
Colonel Defpard named Serjeant Bur and Mr.
Ginner—whom the Court approved.
The other prifoners not having chofen their
Counfel, were informed by the Court. that they
would be called up and arraigned on their India.
meat upon the stb of February. and tried on the
7th ; and that at any time previous to the former
day they would be at liberty to ferve entice of
the names of fach Cnunfel as they fbould chafe up-
on the Judges at Chambers for their approbation:
An order was made that the Connie) and Soli•
citon fir the roamers &odd have seeds to them,
at any reafonable tint's. for the pupae of taking
the siecelfery inflruaioos for their defence.
The psifoners were then remanded ; and the
Special Conunifses Court. at nine reclack, ad-
journed to the sth of February.—The prifonen in

general were of fqualid appearance. The Colonel
was unpowdered, wore a brown coat, and a co.
loured neckcloth. Nune of them appealed to be
depreffed in fpirits.

I,

COCKPIT, WHITEHALL, JANt;ARY to.

Before the molt Noble and 'tight Hon. the
Lords Commtaioners of Appeals in Pt iite CA ofes
The Mood en Haah, Ellef,en matter.—( An
Appeal from Martinico.) This was a farther
proof cafe with refine to a cargo of wine, and
other merchandife, which were captnred in the
month of October, 1798, by his Majay's fhip
Santa Margaretta, George Parker, Efq.
der, and carried into the above itland, where the
ulna' proceedings were had. It appeared that
the cargo in queflion (nearly of the value of
to,000l.) w.ts claimed on behalf of hleffrs. Cramer
and Co. merchants of Copenhagen ; and it was
contended on the part of the captors, that this
was a mere colourable tranfaftion, in order to
cover the enemy's property.
Their Lordfhips, after hearing the claimants'
Counfel, condemned the cargo, as good and law.
ful prize to the captors.
The General Wrangle, Damberg mailer. (An
appeal from Gibraltar,)—This was alfo a further
proof cafe with refped to the cargo, conlifting of
beans.

Their Lord(hips, after hearing the Counfel, on
both fides, pronounced the property to belong as
claimed, and condemned the refpondents in the
coils of the prelim hearing.

COURT OF RING', BENCH, JAN. ICI

THE MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE O. MERTON COLLEGF.

This cafe occupied the whole day. It was con-
cluded by Mr. EaSCIIIF, Mr. Gipps, Mr. Wools,
and Mr. WiLion, for the Plaintiffs, who were the
Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgefres of the town of
Cambridge, and by Mr. GAILROW, Mr. DANCEY,
Mr. WARREN. and Mr. Po LIAR, for the Defen-
dants, who were Fellows of Merton Hall,' in Ox-
ford, and Jefus College, and Saint John's, of the
Univerfity of Cambridge.
Mr. EILSIEINs, who opened this cafe with great
clearnefs and perfpicuity, obferved, that this pro-
ceeding arofe out of a private AR of Parliament,
which was lately pared, for dividing, allotting,
and enclofing the common fields, and meadows,
&c. within the parifh of Si. Giles's, in the townof
Cambridge. On the paling of that Ad, which
had for its object the enclofing of there open fields
within this parilh, different claims were brought
before Parliament, with regard to the right athe
foil of the lands that were to be enclofed and im-
proved ; and they referved in the Adt a power for
the different claimants to try this right. The
Learned Counfel proceeded to Rate the mature of
the evidence he meant to produce, and which he
did produce, in rapport of the Plaintiffs claim to
the foil of the open fields and wage lands in this
parifh. The Town of Cambridge copfißed of
fourteen parifhes, and there was no doubt but
the right to the foil of all the lands in the different
painters, as dercoled in the Ad of Parliament, be.
longed to the Corporation of Cambridge, except
thelands in the parifli of St. Giles's, which were
claimed by the Defendants.
Mr. Gautow here obferved, that he meant ohly,
to trouble the Court and Jury in fupport of the
claim of Merton Hall.
The firß piece of evidence produced on the.part
of the plainttris was a Charter, or rather en
went, admitting that a Charter had been granter
by Henry 11. of all there lands, &c. now claimed.
by the Corporation of Cambridge. That wits',
dated in the year t t6o, and was confirmed by ,
King John, is the Bth year of his reign, A. D.
1307. And there was then produced a Charter
of Richard 11. in the sth year of his reign, and
in the year 183.
The Countil for the plaintiffs then proceeded to
(hew a variety of ads of ownerthip under this
grant from the Crown. They 'hewed a number
leafes granted by the corporation to different per
Cons, of the wale lands in the peril!' of St. Peter's:"
St. Bennet's, St. Andrew's, Ste. and, then they
gave a variety of inflances, of fuch leafes which
they had granted, of lands of this defcription, In '•
the parith of St. Giles's. There !cafes were of an
ancient date, and had been renewed from time to •
time, down to the prefent day. They alto fhewild.
from the hooks of the Corporation, a number of it.
glances where they had granted, for a valuable
confideration, a licence to plant trees on different
parts of there lands, and they had received a fum
of money from a Vice Chancellor of the Univerfit r,.
for permitting force trees to Rand as an orpiment,
and as a Rude to the walks.

---On the part of Merton College, the defendant%
in order to anfwer the evidences of the plaintif
they began with producing an original deed, dated
in the y4th of Heavy 111. from which it appeared,
that William de Manfield had granted them a
Bone-honfe and garden. adjacent to it, in this
parith of St. Giles's. They then produced a
copy of a grant to the Warden and Scholars of
Merton Hall. This was a confirmation by Charles,.
I. of the manor of Merton College, in Cambridge, ,
which is called Pythagoras's Farm. They thf.
(hewed, that from the 14th of Henry VIII. dowk";
wards, a Court belonging to this Manor had betF,
regularly held, at which prefentments had
made. They alto Brewed that the Corpora
Cambridge p*id sos. per annum to Merton, fir
tg
mill which they leafed from the defendants.
It farther appeared in evidence. that this farm
of Merton College, which was filtrated in the pa.
fiat of St. Giles's, in the town of Cambridge, achy
contained from yo.to 6o acres, to which they had
an undoubted right. and nobody was bugle&lea
with them. But they contended they had a right
to all the open fields and wane lands is this peril,
which amounted to teuo acres. The tenant of
Merton Farm had an extenfire &cep-walk over
the whole parifir, when the corn was taken off.—
He had a right of going on the lands of thofe w ko
did not hold of Merton College; St. John's Col.
liege had a right egnallyestenfive, and Sir Charles
Cotton had alio a right of this fort, but
After a fhort reply from Mr. ERSKINE,
Mr. Jullice LAWRIINCII up :he evidend