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deience, that.tia as*slop halo, wlken the brig sail! i
ed from Pontiadar. " • - •
The Jury, after (11.1"Trartrig for a few minutes,
turned a .aertiiscf i Gliitty.
'11)e ptiuilbriteitl of these two unforitimiti tnett,h4
since, we understand, teen commuted to trauspOttaa
don for life.

POETRY.

bind the row that sweetly blushes,
Upon thy grave with sea-green rushes;
And, while my heart with grief is swelling,
I'll guard, my love, thy clay-cold dwelling !
I feel no joy from morning snots',.
Or lucid stream, though dulcet flowing:
I wake to weep with bosom sighing,
That cold in earth my love is lying!
With foliage sad, from yonder willow,
I'll dress thy tomb, that's now my pillow ;
Awl, while my heart with grief is swelling,
111 snard, my love, thy clay-cold dwelling!

EAST INDIES.

MADRAS SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE,
DECEXIBEIt 15. 1809.
This clay Herbert Styles and Christian Kleyn were
pot to the bar, to answer an indictment for having
piratically seized and carried away, from Pontiana-
Roads, the brig Malacca, together with her cargo,
consisting of 2051 Spanish dollars, fourteen bales of
piece goods, and other censmodities. To this charge
both prisoners pleaded—Not Guilty.
Mr. SIMPSON opened the pleadings on the part of
the Crown, by a recapitulation Qf the heads of the in-
dictment.
He was followed by the ADVOCATE GeNen AL, who
related to the Jury the leading circumstances of the
story. The vessel in question was a brig, the pro-
perty of Mr. Hare, at Malacca, and was bound on a
trading voyage to the Malay islands. On her arrival
at Momparva. Mr. Ross, her Commander, went on
shore, and after a stay of two or three days, returned
on board with 2051 dollars, which he placed under
charge of the prisoner Styles, and of mother person.
He then proceeded in his boat to Pontiana, leaving
orders to Styles to weigh anchor, and conduct thebrig
to the same place on the following morning. This
was done accordingly ; and, on the morning after
their arrival in Pontiana Roads, the Gunner came
on board, with a note to styles, from the Captain.
On the receipt of this note, Styles informed the
crew that he was ordered to get the ship ready for
sea ; and, about the middle of the night, he drew
his hanger, and ordered the Carpenter (a Chinese),
to bring a hatdiet and cut the cable, under pain of
instant death. The carpenter, it would appear, ran
away ; and the ship's cook was then induced, under
the threats used by Styles, to perform the office.—
The cable being cut, they hoisted sail, and stood out
of the Roads. About this time, a man, named Van-
derbeck (who acted as a sort f Steward on board),
was roused by. the noise from his birth, and came
upon deck. Styles immediately put a drawn sabre
to his breast, and told him that they were going with
the brig to Java. To this Vanderbeck, overcome
with terror, only replied, that if it was so, he could
not help it. Styles, accompanied by the prisoner
Kleyn, then went below, and awakened a boy, named
Paulo, whom they also frightened into acquiescence
in the same manner. Some wine was then brosght
on deck, and Kleyn, knocking off the neck of the
bottle, poured it out, and drank success to the Ma-
lacca ; and then compelled all the rest of the crew to
do the same. The guns of the brig were then hauled
aft, and placed by Styles and Kleyn with their muz-
zles -towards the forecastle, under the charge of four
Chinamen, in whom they trusted, and whu alternately
kept watch with lighted matches.
• I
On the ensuing day, Styles and Kleyn went be-
low, where they broke open the chest of dollars, and
divided them among the crew. For seven or eight
days from henceforth, Styles was in complete and
.absolatte possession of the ship. They now began to '
fall short of provisions and water. On the Bth or
9th day they fell in with and spoke an English brig
from Malacca ; but did not venture to hold any close
communication with her. Shortly, after, however, a
Malay prow passing, they hailed her for a supply of
water, and the Nacoda came on board.—Vanderbeck
took an opperlttaity of telling this man the story of
the vessel, and asking if he would assist in rescuing
her. The Nacoda consented, and called up his men
horn the prow, who, with their creases, presently
overpowered Styles and his party. Kleyn, on this
occasiin when he saw that matters were going
against him, affected to co-operate ss ith the others in
seizing Styles. The previous part, however, which
he had taken in the transaction, would be too dis-
tinctly proved to allow him any advantage from this
sudden change. The Malays, having thus obtained
possession of the vessel, Styles was put in irons, and
carried, together with the vessel, to Malacca.
These were the principal facts of the case ; which,
if proved, would, beyond all doubt, =aunt to the
crane with which the prisoners were charged. If, in
their youth and thoughtlessness, or in any part of their
story, alleviating circumstances were to. be. found,
these would be for-the consideration of their Lord-
ships. The business of the Jury was to say, whether
or not there was proof of piracy ?
The above particulars were fully substantiated by
the evidence for the Crown, and the prisoners being
then called on for their defence, Styles delivered, a
written paper, which was react to the Court. It stated,
that he had sailed for four years in the service of Mr.
Hare, and was not (as had been asserted) the ring.
leader of the conspiracy to carry away the Malacca.
—Two days before the piracy was committed,Van,.l
derbeck called the people together, and told them, it I
the Captain should use any of them ill, to throw him
overboard—threatening the prisoner, at the same
time, if he refused to lend his assistance. 'When the
cable was cut, the prisoner was sopping below ;. and
came on deck on hearing the noise. The prisoner
knew the coast of Java, and advised the ctew to carry
the vessel to Cheribon. He then topk the helm;-
and, thinking to keep them tinder a mistake, stood-
tewards the Straits of Malacca, in hoPes of fallirig in
with some English cruizer. Had.he intended to ha.ve
one to Java, he would not have been found near
Lingan. After the brig was boarded by the Malays,
he was put in keels by the Chief Officer ; but next
morning WAs 'told by him, that he should be re-
leased, if he would concur in his (the Chief Officer's)
-He -- with cellit Coo to witness,

story., conch:Med _ rig
that he was Perfectly innocent of the crime laid to•l A private in the Du:nfrics militia was sentenced at
-1;:s charge. •the late Ipswich Quarter Sessions. to one }•ear's
other prisoner (lEleyn) merely stated in his Prisenmeut fur buying counterfeit 7s. pieces.

. . ,PQLECS•• ITrltilt

Yesteriloa at WOrairip-it-riet Office, Anadivivcic Oai.
earllVija: Tally cefilituitprd. charged by Mr. Dorset, of
Cncitlane, Ilethnal green, with stealing out' of his
house a quantity of weariug.appairel- '
Yesterday, at the Mansion-hoese, .1. FOB, r, wbo
•*, stands charged with fo4ng and utteriug a check
i
Wednesday se'nnight, Mr.,Lax,pAsien delivered a upon the banking.house o Sykes and Co. again un-
lectere on his 'new system of education to a most res- 1 dOrwent examination, and was fully committed; It
peitahle arsdidece a / 4 evicAitly: On the Thursday he I appeared the check porported to have been drawn by
lectured at North Welds ; and next daT, by desire of Messrs. Hodges and Co. The porter from the White
Ralph Annet, Xsq- .11e.prOceedecrto Alnwick, where 1 lime, in Fetter-lane, repeated his statement of the
is the 'siting he delieered a lecture to a respecta; prisoner's giving him this sheck to procure cash, and
ble company; a committee of whom had been pre: I was to wait his retern ; that the check being stopped I
viciusly formed to establish a school according to Mr. .f he returned to the prisoner with an officer, svho Lock
Lancaster's plan. Next morning Mr. Lancaster was I him in custody. The officer produced some papers
invited to Alnwick Castle by his Grace the Duke of 1 and other cheeks, of a similar nature, which left no
doubt
Northumberland, by whom he was received with that I of tht prisoner's guilt. When called on for his
noble condescension and affability for which his , defence, he said he had not had an opportunity of
Grace is distinguished. The Duke's heart, which is 1 hearing from his friends in the country. The parties
laver open to the wants of the poor, was never more i were all bound overto gik evidence. He is a very
benevolently expanded than on this occasion. His genteel loeking yoting man, but seemed much erna-
Grace said he had been some time anxious to see tinted and great l y aFected.
A woman of the town was charged by a decent-
Mr. Lancaster, and was glad that he had now the
opportunity of forwarding his plans for the education ! dressed man, with stealing two RI tunes ; his conduct
of the poor in Alnwick. The Duke expressed him- appearing very reprehensible, and having accepted
self a warm friend to the liberal principles upon one of the notes back, and the other not being found,•
which the Newcastle Lancasterian School was foun- she was discharged.
ded, and felt indignant at the insidious attempt that i A charge was made at Marlborough-street Office
I had been made to bias his mind against its establish- • on Saturday by a tradesman's wife of St. Ann's pa-
! ment. a, No pen nor language," says Mr. Lancas- rish, against another tradesman, for committing a
`ter, in a letter from Alnwick to one of his friends in rape on her person. The prosecutor stated that the
Newcastle, aa can express the heartfelt satisfaction rids prisoner followed her into her house, and committed
interview has produced. How glorious it is to see the foul deed, although she made every resistance. It
the Nobles of the land, like the King himself, become turned out, however, that the complainant had met
the patrons of education, and friends of the poor.— the defendant in the street on a certain evening, and
A school will be established here worthy the House agreed to see him again another evening, on which
of Percy, the virtues and sentiments of whose Duke
Dukedom." is
SCOTS Divencr.s.—lt is well known *Oat divorces i evening he accompanied her home. The Magistrate
are more noble than h
I dismissed the complaint.
Yesterday S. Slearter and .E.Thomron were charged
I
at Guildhall, by J. Williams, with a violent assault
are more easily obtained in Scotlant: ...Sin in this part
of-the Island. The sentence of the Commissary Court on him. The prosecutor stated that he is a ginger:
of Edinburgh is as effectual as an Act of Parliament, bread-baker of the itinerant class; that o:1 Saturday
' completely dissolving the marriage in case of adultery, niAt h was stationed at the end of Golden-lane crying
ll Hot,e All Hot ! when he was suddenly attacked in
and leaving the parties at liberty to marry again, with 4
front, flanks, and rear, by a large body of juvenile
the eaception that the guilty pair cannot marry the
adventurers, who contrived to carry off part of his
I Paramour, if it shall appear from the proceedings who
provender, and to destroy his magazines. In other
the paramour was; but this is easily evaded, where a
words, these young gentlemen, partly loving fun, but
marriage between the guilty pair is in view, and the
more particularly loving hot plum-pudding, assailed
I person suing the divorce has no objection, by conceal-
the composer of this food, which is ambrosia to the
ing the name. Nothing is more common in Scotland
than the wife being the party complaining of her his- . mouth of every Englishman ; and, not contented
band's infidelity.—Lord P. and Lady I'. and Lady : with carrying off large slices of it, demolished the
A. W. have all, by pure accident, taken up their resi- i• dish in which it was brought hot from the manufactory,
and battered the tin portable oven, in which it was put
dente lately in Scotland. Lady P. has taken the op- .
ito keep hot. Besides this, they got the unfortunate
portunity of commencing a suit for a divorce frern '
kneader's wife down, and struck at himself, in which
her Lord, and it is understood as soon as it terminates,
, attempt he caught Thomson, but had nothing to al-
that she is to marry the Duke of A. and that Lord
*
or-
e. is to marry Lady A.—Such is the consequence of , ledge against Shorter. Alderman (C. Smith)
,dered Shorter to be discharged, and that Thomson
a jaunt to a Scots Watering Place I Talk of Brigh-
ton or Margate, indeed ! What are they to Porto- ',
should pay the value of the demolished pudding, as
well as that of the dish, and all attending ex rotes.
' Bello or Peterhead ? A fashionable Lady has nothing i
Ann Stanley was brought up by Michae l Neal, one
more to do than take a trip with her husband to Porto .
' Bello, a bathing village near Edinburgh, where, by :of the St. Sepulchre's patrole, who stopped her with
, a quantity of pewter in her possession, which she
a domicile of six weeks, she becomes a Scotswoman.
She has then only to prove that her husband has core- l' could not account for satisfactorily. Among it were
mitted a faux par, which he may have the contieveroion . a couple of old battered pint pots, on one of which
was marked a' R. Savage, Basingliall-street." Mr.
to acknowledge, or he may do the same by her, and
the polite pair are forthwith divorced. How must our Savage said, that it certainly looked much like one
)pots, but he did not know how he had lost it.
own Doctors' Commons envy the jurisdiction of the of his
Commissary Court of Scotland ! I The woman in her defence stated, that her husband
is a pewterer, in Bunhill-row, and that she gn i
MmeNeas, BART. v. RASTALL.—A writ of inquiry about with a horse and cart collecting and buying i
of damages in this cause was executed before the ' old pewter. This she had bought of a Mr. New-
/
Sheriff; at Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Monday se'n- . man, a dealer in old iron, who said, that he -put- 1
i night. The action was brought by Sir William Man-' chased it from a person then in Court, who described
ners, against Mr. John. Rastall, Ma late tenant, for himself as a dealer in old rags. Many of the pieces
overholding a firm at Great Ponton, in that county, of the pewter had evidently been melted ; and the
alter a regular notice to quit, in which the plaintiff Magistrate, on the whole, was not satisfied with the •
sought to recover a compensation in damages for the • d. efence that had been set up ; but the evidence being
mesne profits received by the defendant, from the ex- . incomplete, he was obliged to dismiss die complaint.
piration of his notice to quit, for removing and selling 1
off the hay, straw, and manure upon the premises, I
for mismanagement of the land, and for the waste, 1 Sunday ' night, the premises of Mr. Naxos:, car- i
spoil and destruction committed by the defendaot's penter, of Warwick4q TUT! were broken open, d
order upon the buildings and fences ; when evidence an iron chest in the countinghouse mi
forced, nut of
being adduced to establish the facts, the Jury, which which the thieves took bank-notes and copper to the
was a very respectable one, returned a verdict of amount of £2O. They had entered a door at the
One Thousand Pounds damagesebeing the whole of , backpart Of
the house, and passed through the cellar
the damages as laid by the plaintiff in his declaration. and workshop before they could reach the counting.
1 Saturday afternoon, as a town-cart was going along : house.
the Strand, very heavily laden•with furniture, books,' The house of Mr. FENWICK, No. 6, Park-street, 1
&c. the shafts suddenly gave. way from the body of was broken into, before the setting of the watch, on
die cart (the carman at the. time being on one of the' Sunday night, and several articles stolen therefrom. •
hot ses); the shaft-horse not finding so heavy a drag 1 The family are in the country, and the house was
as he had just before, gave a sudden jerk-, at which left in the care of two female servants, one of when?)
the other two took fright, and set off galloping ire.' was out at time, and the other alarmed the thieves
mediately ; the carman, having the presence of mind after thei had been fn the house half an liour, when
at the moment, jumped off the horse, and fell on his they made their escape at the front door, which they :
hack, by which means the horses passed over him, bad opened with a false key. . .
and kicked him in so shocking a manner as to leave I On Thursday evening, _agent seven o'clock, the
no hopes of recovery. The horses were stopped house of lamas Flower, of. Lambeth \Valk, was.a.
near Charing Cross, and the man was taken to the tered by a false key, and two watches and some silver
Hospital. spoons stolen therei ram. •
Saturday night, about tell o'clock, as three respect. a '-•_On Friday night, as some fellows were attempt:or
able young women, milliners, were returning home ; tobreak into a•house in Aldermanbury, the beadle
down Vigo-lane, Bond-street, they were attacked by of the parish, named Eldridge, who was passing at.
a fellow of a most horrid description, who violently the time, attempted to secure them, when one of the
tore their clothes, and otherwise assaulted their per- ruffians struck him with an instrument which knock-
sons in an indecent manner ; the shrieks of the wo- t ed out one of. his eyes, and otherwise wounded him'
men brought a person to their assistance, but the vii. so severely, that his recovery is despaired of.
lain found means to escape. I A gentlemen was robbed on Friday night In the.
A shocking accident happened in Lake-lane, Ports- ' Strand of a double eased gold watch, capped
and
mouth, to a lad in the employ of Mr. Salter, rare. jewelled, with gold chain, and other valuables. •
chant : he was driving a cart up the lane, when he '
come to gentleman that had just
Saturday evening. as a
came in contact with two carts. loaded with sand ; he mirn,"and had a 'bgundle In his hand, was
was thrown out with great violence ; the cast went passing
down Broad-street, St. Giles's, two respect*.
hltolookiag men asked him if he would oblige them
over his thigh and broke it, and he was otherwise
much hurt. • Iby telling them the hour of the evening, when the
I gentleman pulling his watch nut of his packet, they
Saturday Morning early, as a wherry was passing
by
some mismanagement it I snatched it out of his hand and made off.
tinder London Bridge,,
• A swindler, who assumed the names of Morgan
upset, when a young man named '
8°1311411 "IT and Williams, has defrauded three, tradesmen in
drowned. The boatnian and another passenger were
Portsmouth, last week, of goods to the amount of
picked up by a boat which put off to their assistance
from Nam
.gsgate. MI. After taking apparently great pitilts to choose
A sailor 'who had received a sum of size-none the articles, he desired them to be sent to his lodgings;
p
'
on Friday eight, accompanied a nymph from St. Ca-
in intance
rc he obtainedpossession of the goods, ,
aftanter the spael W 33 taken to poss
hies lodgings on th e
therine's to Sadist's Wells, but &gibe conclusion of Hard, bY sending the bearer back with a check' on*
the enterteinment she taok idvantage of the crowd at Grant and Burney for the,amotint i and, in the other
the doors to slip from him, having previously picked i two instances, by taking the goods from the unsuspec.
his pocket of 4€16.

ting persons, before they had reached his pretended
lodgings, and giving them checks on bankers for more
CIAII the goods came to, and requesting the difference
to be 'nought to him.