Star.
London, England, 1811-12-16 00:00:00

HARWICH, DECEMBER 15.

`this morning arrived the Lark packet, after a se- I
vere passage of 16 days, with Anholt mails. His
Majesty's ships VICTORY, ARDENT, DREYrDNOVEMT,
also a frigate and two brigs remains in Whlgo Sc Ind. ,
His Majesty's ship Sr. GEORGE, Admiral REYNOLDS,
-with an outward-bound convoy of nearly 200 sail, I
whilst in the Great Belt, was obliged to cnt awarber
masts, her convoy,were dispersed-14 of- them are re-
presented as having been entirely lost, And several
obliged to take shelter in the ports of SWedeit, where
it is apprehended they may be detained. Arrived also
the Freelintr, packet boat, with passengers from He-
ligoland, ;here it appears that the galehad extended.
The HORATIO frigate was obliged to cut from her
anchors, and stand out to sea.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

Richmond. for the Economie, on the 17th instant, at 9, Brkk-
coort, 'remple ; recalled Tuesdays end Thursdays.
Emerald, fot the Niemen, same day. on board the Royal WO-
liam, at Plymouth; recalleSTucadaye and FridAys, at Mr. Haw-.
ter's, Re.ton Side, Plymouth.

Edgar, for the Vama and Sarum, sane (Lei, at ag, Parliament-
Wort ; retalltd Tuesdays and Fridays.

The Friendship of' Yarmouth, Mr!MIMI:NT Master,
laden with coals, foundered at sea—crew all saved

except one man.
The Arrival cif the Wanderer, Capt. Neweounc,
from the West. Indies, affords us the satisfaction of
learnini* that the Leeward Islands; and the ships on .
the station, were healthy, and flee from fever. • . The
Wanderer sailed Irvin Barbadoes on the sth or.6th
Guadalcupe on the 16th ; and Antigua on the 26th
October. She has brop;tit home the last convoy of
the season, consisting of' only seven metchant ships,
and the William transport. Rear-Admiral Sir F.
LAFOUBY, in the Dttadox, with tba. GLOIRE, was at
)3arbadoes ; STATIMA. Tusuttx, and FL/MUSTER, at
Antigua; and ORPHZUB at Gaadahupe. Sir ALEX. !
CocHnaNt, since he assumed the goVernment of G lla.
daloupe, had preserved health. The only enemy's
vessels in those seas •was the Duke de Dantzick pri-
vateer; she had been often chased, but none of our
ships could come up with her. The TireTts, Capt.
'exam, CAS rou, Captain Du es, and FooLic sloop,
Captain WItINYATES,. had been removed to the J.L.
=aka station. They took on hoard 600 of the York
Rangers, from I3arbadocs, for Jamaica. The strong.-
fort of Bourbon, on the island of Martinique, ha been
destroyed.. The William transport has brought the
guns of the garrison to England. This design, it
would seem , has been undertaken irrospectively.—
Should the island be ceded, or taken by the enemy,
it will cost them immense time and expence to restore.
it to its former state of defence.


COW2r. 11tatitT144t. . -
plymoutn,Decenler
The Court tvitich roninietteed on board
the Sidvidar det.Mittikto in Ilatrioate, hii Tuesday
last for the telal oftfte fate mutineers and murderOts,
belonging to chi Diana and Growler, terminated last
evening.
It Velif tedallecreliby the atcdun:s which have
appeared at the different paperi, that the prisoners,
natuely, Iderhin, a Pcr:tiigtiese ; Margin, d Black ;
belnligitig t the Di ana-•-lif illineen, an Irishman; and
William:, an Englishman; belonging to the Growler
gun brig ./Jairr4f, another *Black, concerned in the
nierder, &owned—with two other seamen, named
Boyd and Grant, admitted as evidence. against theist,
were put on baardthe French prize brig leSnirMaree,
alone with the three persons rite murdered, viz. Mr.
Andrews, Master's Mate ; Mr, Bolen, Quarterinas-
ter ; Mr. Winsland, fitevraid,.a passenger, and that
after in vain attempting to carry the vessel into an'
enemy's port,. they were again fell in with by the
Diana and Aqui:on frigates, and brought here in Irons.
Rear.. Admiral Sir EDWARD Bvu.aa, BAIT. sat, as
President of the Court, of which the followitts Post.
Captains Were sworn Members, and toook their seats
as follow, viz —Harvey, F:ahie, Dundas, Seymour,
Schrombivg, Somerviile• Nadi, Tobin, Hawker,
Richardson, Aylmer, aßrown. George Eastlake*
Esq. Deputy Judge Advocate. Captain Ferris, of

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the lliana, Prosecutor.
After the Court had been .duly-sworn,.the first wit•
nes called was Boyd, Ni to depitsed, that on the 25th
of November kit, himself, with Cunt, the p. isoners,
the Black, dtowned, and the three • nl4:sing people
were put on board the brig, and directed to proceed
to Plymouth, Which th.y dfd,.until the night of the
29th, or morning Of the Stith; when off Scilly, the di-
abolical plan was, put in execution.. That 'he and
Grant bad the first watch, from 8 to 12, and Werere-
lieved at 12 by some of the pris 'furs. 'that et About
three o',:lock he was .called by Joachin, but he did
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not a: tend to him; that he was call-d the second time,
w:lcti he went upon deck, wit,:re he was told bY Joa-
chin and Baptia, they hail taken the vessel, and in-
tended t take her to France, and it be would join
' them he might: this offer he peremptorily refused,
and called for Bolen, will did not Answer, he called

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again, and was answered by one of the prisoners that
Bolen was dead;—horror instantly struck him to the
soul, he however called for Grant, vein answered very
low ; on which Joachin told him as he was a poor
seaman like themselves, he might go below`and they
should reit hurt him; that he t' en went down the
steerage into the cabledier,'where he touni Grant,
who had been previously called, up and asked the
same questions. • Here their situation Must have been
truly dismal, expecting eery moment to be murder-
ed also. They were kept as prisoners by Martin, who
stand sentry over them Kith Mr. Andrews's sword.
Bid further states, that th,re. *as citify a sliding
door which parted them a-iisi tha- eabai, where they
saw a body covered over 'wee a quilt, and lying on
'the floor, which was afterwards removed en deck and
.throten overboard. That In the ;waning, at day-
light, they heard •a voice frils; at 4itck say, he saw
two sail in chace, acrd abou- beech:a, they heard the
boat lowered frum the stern, and tow off;. that after
the boat was g.,ne, Boyd loot‘d
,uis deck, and per-
ceiving but Beetist, Mildest' n,hind Williams, he
Said to Grant—.S4 N. wis our tune to go oat deck and•
throw the 111 .A (B obit), treeisaerde assidiecure the
other two," with which Gram compiled, and they both
went up : by this time the vessels were near them,
and they were about seven miles from the Saints
island, standing quite on upon thelind; for some miii.
Utiles they (the witnesses) appeared to take no notice,
Net on B iyik observing the lore-top bowline loose,
he desired' tie Black to haul it taught, and he went
to assist, with the hope of getting an opportunity to
throw *lent overboard ; but not finding an advanta-
, geoui oilpertunity then,' he walked behind him • to-
wards the' stern, and observing the main-mast topsail
Sheet gone, he desired him to haul that tiught, when
the desired moment presented itself, and he caught i
the Black by the heels, and threw him outside the
Cbulwark, where the fellow clung with his hands to
I the rigging, 'and, with his teeth to Boyd's thtintb,
which-he bit almost off. On Grant observing this he
ran to Boyd's assistance, and struck the Black on the
;head with a stick, and knocked Inns overboard. That
he (Boyd) then went to the helm and seized Milling-
ton, tied his hands and set him on the deck—that
Grant, at the same moment seized Williams, and set
them side by side on the deck ; when they stood the
vessel off the hold to near 'the frigate, and to avoid
the Black still swimming. That the Aquilon's boat
boarded them soon after, when be related to the Lieu-
tenant what bad happened, and was then taken ou
board the Diana.
The next witenss called was Grant,whodeposed es-
aitly to the same effect. Both of them gave their
evidence in the most clear and steady manner.
Many other evidences were called, the whole of
whom corroborated the two former ones ; when the
prosecution closed.
• The prisoners were then admitted on their defence;
Mattin first, for whom the Court was cleared, that
some gentleman might write his defence for him—it
was soon'after re-opened, and his statement read ; it
merely contained attestations of his innocence. Joe-
' chin was the second, who said he had nothing to say.
Mililneon was the third ; he gave a clear and distinct
narrative of the horrid affair, (rem the first moment
to the time they were retaken, which was nearly as
follows:—" That on the morning of the 30th of No-
vember last he came on deck to relieve the watch, at
twelve o'clock, where he saw the prisbner Joachin,
'and the black, Baptist, sitting on the windlass, and
conversing together, but of what he knew nut, lie
being at this time at the helm. Martin was standing
on the deck, and so was also Williams : that he had
not took this station above half an hour before he saw
Joachin and Baptist come aft; Joachin went below,
and brought up an iron crow bar and an axe, and
presenting them both to Baptist, tell him to take his
choice—that Baptist chose. the are—Joachin then
went along the deck, and Baptist into the cabin.— ,
Joachin went behind the Master's-mate, who was sit-
ting on the Main hatchway, covered with the main,
sail, and asleep—that Joachin struck him a blOw osi
the head with the crow bar, with which the poor fel-
-low fell back, apparently dead ; he then struck him
on the head and halved his skull; he strock him many
other blows abont the body—that he thin went to
the companion ladder, and calling to Baptist in the'

cabin, he told Lint ,fu_ heae a hard and slash away,
(meaning to kill the Steward, Mr. \Vint/land). to
which Baptist answered, 'tis all done=wlien he, Mill
lington, heard the ale strike against she deck every
blow, but that he did not know thrts.htii any inten-
tion to commit any murder, or etrelt they were'
goaig ab, u., when Joachin came on deck with the
weapons in his hand : that Joachin 'And Barist.then
came on the quarter-deck, advising who they Should
next dispatch; and after dAibetating about a quarter
of an hour, they ddei mined on the old quarter-master
(Mr. Bolen.) .'That Joachin immediately. went
below, and called him from when: he lay asleep
in the steerage, and mld him, he yap wanted ou
deck directly, with .which.he complied: that, ortj
his coming up the ladder, •Joachin *mod at the
top, and, with the very axewith which Baptist kiLed
Mr. \Viusland, he struck fire a mortal blow .cidethe
si le of the head—they then proceeded to take Min
up, anal throw him overboard, which they aticoraplish-
ed, and also threw Mr. Andrews, alter stripping him,
overboard that they then. called Grant, being pre-
paid], should he make any resistance, to kill him
also, and asked him. if he would join them, saying
they had taken the vessel, and intended taking her to
France? he (Grant) refused; on which they told him
to go below, which he did ; they then called Boyd,
and to him they put the same question, who also re-
fused. and was likewise told to go below, which he
ciamplied with : that Martin was put by Joachin (who
stood Captain) !.o stand sentry over Boyd and Grant,
and not to toiler tl:em to .tome upon dick s that at
day-light Baptist went on deck, and said he descr;ed
two castles on the land; on which Jo:ichin went aloft,
and said it was two men of war brigs in chace of
them ; that on their nearing them they descried them
to be iiigatet : that, at eight o'clock in the morning,
they could plainly see the Diana frigate to be °ate of
the vessels that were in chace of them ; and Martin
and Joachin, in consequerce, took the boat from the
stern, and made toward the land: that, as soon as
they were gone, Boyd and Gr.mt came on deck, and
appeared quite easy •for some time; that Boyd? at.
length, began to give orders to the Black (Baptist),
who did as he was told; that Boyd told him tb haul
aft the maintop-mast stay asil-sheet, and .whes. the
Black Was belaying it; Boyd eatthitn in his arms
and threw him overboard s that d then proceeded
to secure himse:f and Williams, which he aid: that
the main-sail, deck, cabin.B ior, and many other
places were covered with blood ; that just before day-
light Martin had gone into the cabin and tied nrope
round the middle of the biedy of Mr. Winsland, which-
they hauled up thmugh the ckylight, and after strip-
ping, threw the I>ody overboard ; his head was cut to
mummy, not the least resemblance of a head was
there left • and that, for his own part, he should not
hate j'.ined,: but was threatened to be killed it he did
not. •

Williams was the fourth who entered on his dc-
fence: he sta!el nearly the same as Millington.
. None of the. prisoners stated any cause that led
them to commit this .diabolical act. They were of
course found (nifty; -after a most paiient investiga-
tion, and accordingly were sentenced to suffer death
on board such ships and at such lime as the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty shall be p'.eli.ed to
,*direct.

The awful sentence, although rend in the most inui
pressive manner by the J MOE ADYICATF, had not the
smallest effect on any one but Millington, who cried
much, for which he was jeered byWilliarns, who told
him that hanging w.is nothing hut tlioaking.. .
The PRESIDKNT, before dismissing the Court, took
the opportunity of returning thanks to BOYD and
GRANT, for .their brave and seaman•like conduct
while in such perilous situatirn ; end said, he hoped
it would never be forgot by those present, and that
' them high and meritorious behaviour deserved the
greatest praise.