Star.
London, England, 1811-08-27 00:00:00

PROM LLOYD'S LIST.

The Nile, Anderson, from Gahoen to Liverpool, pot into Bar-
badocs, the Seth of Juni, leaky, after throwing, her gems and
part of her cargo overboard.
The Conference, Gray, of Aberdeen, was lost at New Liver-
pool, near Quebec, about the 6th ult.
The Betsey, Quinton, from London to Rio Janeiro, was of
Bahia the 9.5 th of June, all well.
The Jubilee, —, from St. Domingo, Is suppoied to be ar-
rived oil Portsmouth, as letters have been received, marked by
her.

:—The Prince of Wales packet, from Jamaica, was spoken of
St. Domingo, the 15th July.

ARRIVED—In the Clyde, Alfred, Clarke; Mart, Alexander;
and Jane, Wilson, from Jamaica; Marv, from Quebec ; Minerva,
from Rio Janeiro; and Hazard, from 'Virginia. At Hull, Rego-
lotion, Brothers, Alfred, and Cato, from Davis', StreiAins. At
Cork, City of Cork, from Trinidad; Unity, Cockburn; and
Princess, from Lisbon; and Margaret, from Portland. At Dublin,
Dublin, from Jamaica ; Nancy, trona St. Croix ; Dar, from New
Orleans; Martin, from Oporto; and Hector, from Bath (Arne.
rica). At Newfoundland, Caledonia, and Six Sisters, from Li-
verpool. At Antigua, tndmtry, from London; and New Bruns.
wick, from Liverpool. At Tortola, Abraham, from Lancaster.
At Whitehaven, Cumberland, from Jamaica.

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C2ptain Hoootirov, late of the BULWARK, is ap.
pointed to the ALFRED, 74, now lying at Cadiz, and
arrived at Plymouth on Sunday to take his passage
out to that place.

On Sundty Sir RI.CIIARD KING set nut from Ply-
mouth for Portsmouth to join Sir CHARLIE:i COTTON,
as Captain of the Channel Fleet, which is on the eve
of rendezvousing at Plym uth, the prep.tratiGns mak-
ing in the ports of the enemy on the oppfisite coast
having rendered the assentb;ing of such a force indis-
pensably necessary.

Another French privateer is reported to have cap.
tured a merchantman ofF Penlee Point, on Sunday
evening.

While the SEINE frigate, which Porn Ply-
mouth on Friday with the Quehec convoy, hi,' in the
Downs, a few days ago, two women came cif on .1
visit to two of the, sailors, and were permitted to re-
main on board for the nit ht ; in the c(4;rse of which,
however, they were both taken in labour, and cre the
dawn of mornirg were safely delivered of two fine
children, a boy and a girl, without medical aid.—
Next day the ship's company subscribed £l`'2, and,
after giving them £6 each, had them conveyed on
shore in the best possible manner.
Extract of a letter from Calicqt, Jan. 26, 1811 :
" His Majesty's ship Caroline, Captain Cole, bound
from Bombay to Banda, and his Majesty's ship Fox,.
Captain Wells, proceeding to Bombay, anchored]
here on the 19th inst. for the purpose of taking in
treasure, and sailed• on the 25th. Neither of them
give of any news. Several Arab vessels have lately'
] had very quick passages to this place from Bengal
one arrived in fifteen, and others in twenty, twenty-
four, and twenty-five daps. The sth Native In,
Cantu at Cannanore, have received orders to hold
themselves in readiness to proceed on foreign service
with the expedition sailing from Bombay. The ships
from Bombay are to touch at Cannanore, and take
I them on board."

The folluwint• extract of a letter from an Officer of
his Majesty's ship Princess Charlotte gives an acc2um
of a very brilliant affair between a !wit of that ship
and some French gun boats :

" His Majesty's Ship Princess Charlotte, ofl
Schr,tian, Aug. s.
" The Princess Charlotte having captured a Spa,
nisir launch, it was fitted out to cruize upon the coat
with a carronade, small arms, and SO men ; and the
command was given to Mr. Salter, Master's Mate.—
Being forced to come to an anchor near Brrmiti by
a gale, he was perceived by the garrison, and three
gunboats were dispatched to uku'peussession of him.
Fortunately, Mr. Salter soon discovered their intent
cut his cables, and made towards the enemy. A
brisk firing,soon commenced on both sids, when one
of the boats was seen to sheer off, and soon after suni
with all her crew, consisting of the Captain of s
French national schoonox, then lying in 13e.rtnio, I
Major, second commandant of tile gat risoi:, and SC
men, not one of whom WAS saved. The other twt
boats continued the action for some time, but at iasl
made all sail into port, having had a considerabl.
number killed and wounded. Mr. Salter %soul,.
have either taken or destroyed them, but the wine
WAS dead on shore, and being close under the bane.
rics, it was impossible to pursue them. There were
only two men wounded on hoard the launch. Eitel
of the boats had SO picked men on board, aid ram(
out for the express purpose of taking in Mr. Sahel
with them.
" Within these few days Mina has had an action
with the French, and has defeated them with very
considerable loss. Mina himself has lust upwards.oi
SOO men. He yesterday received a very considera,
ble supply of arms and ammunition from the Iris.—
The French troops on this cos.st are ordered to join
the army, anJ I believe those that Mina has defeats(
were destined to relieve them.
St. Andero, it is said, will soon be evacuated.
Purlier is very near it with an army of 5000 men."

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LIBERTY'S COAST.
A SONO!
WRITTSN •Y -WILLIAM THOMRS TITZOtRAtO, tn. AND
JUNG IT MR. INt.PAIRI, AL VAWEIIIALL.

•• While the sailors of finFla, d .voilman:i no the main,
And our Soldiers triumphant ar, I:9:;gt:r'd in Spain;
Let who at home guard our chqrcn and wives,
Defend this biesAl Isle at the fist •f

For wliete is the spot which the sun err saw,
So favoued of with freedom, by !AV/ !
Where each fnan may patbertbe ii....rsrost he sows,
And the house that he builds is his eagle he knows!

If the tyrant should ever attempt to enslave
This island, so fam'd on the lend aid the wave,
We have hearts and have hands that would sioon make him feel
How sharp is the point of the true Drltiblt steel!

For though sometimes we quarrel at home for a feather,
Let the 'roe but appear he'd unite us tf;gethcr;
1 I.tn an end would he rut to his pride and his boaat,
And Oppression be shipwreck'd on 1 iberty's Coast!

For, a% king as our shores shall be wash'd by the sea,
We will scorn to b_ slaves, and will die or live free.
Then join with tic, Tiritons, and let 114 all sing
Lone life and ?nod heal h to anti the King!

ASSIZES.

MAIDSTONE, AUGUST 2s.

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the school, but could not be collected ; she was ob-
served crying by her school-fellow, who went to her
and asked what was the matter ? The acts of the
child arc evidence of what had happenede—in cases of
actual ripe they would be evidence ; when she is
s: en in trouble, inquiries are made by the other little
girl, and in consequence she asked that other little
girl to go with her, and she accompanied her out of
the school ; when they came to the door of the school,
they saw the man at the bar walking in the• church-
yard ; she cried out, 4, He is there," and ran back
into the school. She had begun to write a lefter
whilst in the school;butlhe could not finish it ;—it
was to her mother-in-law, for the purpose of telling
her what had happened. When she came out of the
school she again went to Mrs. Sheridan; but hearing
the prisonec coming up stairs, the girl went up into
the garret, first pulling off her shoes, that she might
not be heard, and then made her escape, and went
home to the house of her father and mother-in-law.

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..' Ravel Pamir was tried for a misdemeanor, hi
committing an assault oi'Mary Foreman, girl of
''';•l6, with intent to commit a arape. He had been pre.,
' viously tried for the higher capital offence, but was
acquitted, on the,evidence of a surgeozr, who examin.
. ..ed the prosecutrix, and stated, that the crime hate
- certainly not been completed. The prosecutrix stated,
that, cis* the day:mentioned in the indictMent, she
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had to fetch some chairs. down a ladder early in the
morning,- and' that the prisoner, who was only 21
years of age, was waggon* where she lived as maid
of, all-work. He heaped her to bring down the chairs,
and when the last was coming down, he threw her
against the ladder, covered her mouth with one hind;
-pinioned her arms in the ladder with the other, and
then committed the assault complained of.
Mr. BOLLAND, for the prisoner, cross-examined her
as to a variety
,of particulars of her previous improper
and indecent conduct with regard 'to the prisoner and.
other persons, and particularly as to one instance of
a charge against a married man, who 'had at first
given her 3s. to be quit, although he denied the truth
of her statement, w:iich Ss. she had accepted, but after-
wards, in conjunction with herlather, had issued a
warrant against him, when, to prevent trouble, he
• paid thefather a guinea and a half; and thaton this oc-
casion, which was two months before the offence in
question, the father had said there was another per,.
son whom they-should have soon§ viz. the prisoner.
She admitted the receipt of the money from the per-
son alluded to on account of his improper conduct to
her, but denied all the other suggestions,' as well'ai
hsc having ever said that the prisoner had been in-
thhate with her twice before.
Afr. BoLLAND having addressed the Jury, stating,
that he should distinctly prove all the circumstances,
hehad alluded to in his-cross-examination, and many
othersaproceeded ;o call several witnesses, who; hay.
hVg fully-substantiated the •facts, •the Jury instantly
acqukted the prisoner.
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STAFFORD.
The Following trial was the-last-that occupied .the
attention of the Court, and excited much interest.
Daniel Twits Sheridan, a schoolmaster, of Waiver-
; hampton, was indicted for an assault upon. Ann
Taylor, with intent to commit a rape.
Mr. DAUNCETI Cqunsel for the prosecutor, stated
that the prisoner had several scholars, most of whom
v.'ere day scholars ; hut the child in question having
lost her mother, she. was placed in the prisoner's
house. On the 23d of May, Mr. Sheridan desired the
child to go into the school to assist in hearing some
of the scholars their lessous ; the house is at some

rattle distance. from the school, and the schoctl is'
an tapper room, and she was going there when he
e,ired her to pass through a room which led under
the. school.
_and might be almost termed- an under-
ground room ; you go de' n, a step into it, it is al-
' most 4411, and only used as a lumber room. Shp
svas-passlug through this place, and when she arrived.
at the farther end, she found •the doer fastened by
some lags of. wood: she was attempting to remove
--he- hs f- the othe

The examination in chief of the gill proved all :he
circumstances as stated by Mr. Dausicey ; and in a
cross-examination by Mr. Jervis, the evidence was
fully confirmed. It appeared that the prisoner had
put his watch into her hand, which she held ; it was
also attempted to obtain from her that the prisoner
had taken libeities with her before, and she admitted
that the night before, that is, on the 2'2d May, he had
pulled her on his knee, and.ll,.it he had done so once
before on his return from Stafford, after having been
there a month, hut it appeared that on that occasion ,
he had sent for three of his scholars (two girls and a
boy,) and that he had taken them each on his knee
Successively, and expressed his pleasure at again be-
ing at home with them; that during the illness of Mrs.
Sheridan, Miss Taylor had frequently, indeed mostly,
prepared her breakfast, and took it to her up stairs;
that she had the !morning of the `23d May, before the
transaction took place, endeavoured to extract a thorn
from the prisoner's finger.
Mrs. Taylor proved that her daughter-in-law tame
home unexpectedly about three o'clock in the after-,
noon of the 23d; that the tears were pouringidown her
face; that she exclaimed—" 0 mother, never let
me go to, that Sheridan's school again ; I am ruin-
ed."—Mrs. Taylor begged she would compose her-
self, and said that if alit thing had happened amiss
she would pay for it (supposing that her daughter
had broke something valuable); but she answered—
'" Money can never pay for it." After some time
Mrs. Taylor succeeded in soothing her, and then
learned from her what had happened.
Mr. Jettarts, Counsel for the prisoner, in a speech
replete with genuine 'feeling, said, he did not stand
there to justify, to palliate, or to excuse that of which
the prisoner had been guilty, viz. that he was a school-
master, that she had been placed under his protection;
thAhe had violated his trust and her ; that by com-
mitting those acts he had lost the esteem of all got:id
men ; that he was for ever consigned to infamy and
disgrace to whatever part of the world he might re-
tire. But the duty of the Jury would be to lay aside
their indignation, and to give a verdict with sober
and cool jtidgnient. Although it might be satisfac-
torily shewn to them, that the prisoner had not been
guilty of the erime imputed to Him, yet that he had in.
tended to deflower this unfortunate child,to sink her into
ruin, and to deprive her of one of the first and dear-
est virtues, was too apparent to admit of an attempt
at denial : but Mr. J. contended, that the liberties
dap prisoner had before taken with her—that her not
having been thrown on the ground, her not having
cried out, her holding the watch, and her want of re-
sistance, were proofs of consent.
, After the Judge had recapitulated the evidence,
the Jury consulted a short time, and returned a ver-
' diet of—Guilty.
Sir S. LE BL.tsc in passing sentence, said, that the
prisoner had been found guilty of a crime called a
misdemeanor, but than which, there were not any of
greater inagnitude in our code of criminal laws. The
situation of master and scholar was like that of parent
and child ; it was his duty to have led this child in
the paths of virtue; he had endeavoured to lead her
to those of vice ; and he had been obliged to shelter
himself from the punishment due to that crime, by
saying that he had seduced her—seduced a child of
14 years, placed under his care and claiming his pro.
tection. His Lordship then passed sentence upon,
Mr. Sheridan, which was, that he should be imprison-
ed in the county goal for the space of two years, and
should be set in the pillory for one hour, on a market
day, at Stafford.

BR IDGEWATER.

them, molten the prisoner, having fastenet. Ae. other 1 WITCHCRAIIT !—At these Assizes, Betty Town-
door, came up to her, and proceeded teperpetrate rad, a very old woman, aged seventy-seven, who for
that fact of which they were then about to say whe- . many years past has been considered by the super-
titer or not he was guilty. • The poor girl trenibled : . :tidal): as a ettimi,-wets tried for obtaining money of a
he said—" Do not alarm yourself ; no harm shall i child, under the following circumstances t ' The pro-
happen to you, I will take care of that." She asked I secutor, Jacob Poole, was a labouring man, residing
him what he was about,? he again told her ~ not to ! in a hamlet of Taunton, in which parish the prisoner
be alarmed', and said it-was what must itlwayi hap. .`also resided, and had been in the habit of sending his
pen." Mr. Dauncey said, be did, not mean now to , daughter, aged, abbut thirteen, with apples in a bas-
state that the whole,cif the circumstances were, such ' ket to market. About the 24th of January last, the
as .to constitute an actual rape: The charge prefer- old woman met the little girl, stopped her, and asked
red againsr.the prisoner made it appear not to have to see what she had in her basket ; 'which having ez-
been Slone to the hill extent ; had that been the case, amined she said to her 44 Hast got any money ?"
the prif.ontes life Would have bean endangered. 'The . The child said she had none.. a Then get some for
g irl! s age and -innocence-prevented-her proving that me," said the old woman “ and bring it to me at the
which She could not know. M. Dauncey knew not Castle-door (a tavern in Taunton) or I will kill thee!"
1 what-the defence set up by the prisoner would be.— The child, terrified at such a threat fmm a witch,
Could he ;et up a defence that be wanted to seduce . procured two shillings, and carried it to her ; when
her ? What ! seduce,* child. who was placed, through the old woman said," 'Tis a good turn thou bast got
the dead; Of;iser mother, under his care and protec- it, or else 'I would hive made thee die by inches."
, tion ? * She cried,--she begged him to desist, but she This- was repeated seven times-within five neorrths,
did not cry out. The Gentlemen of,the Ilury would when Poole, the father, going to the shop of, Mr. Bro.
~c.onsider that she had-been long under his care, and, ford, a druggist in Taunton, to pay a litt/e bat Which
' governed by him ; and should it be urged that her he owed for medicines, found no less than steen'dif-
: rot crying out was to be reckoned as a proof of her ferent charges against him for money, lent ; and on
aedostion, the Jury, would look to their relative situa- enquiry found that different small sums 'of two.shil-
Lions, to her age, and to'his.' 'Consent I could she be lings, half-a-crown, five shillings, etc. had been bor.'
said to consent to what he wished, who did not know rowed by the little girl in her lather's name; for the
' what he intended to do ? He 'desired hereto take her purpose, as she said, of going to market, but carried
bonnet and walk-into the churcli!yard.. Mr. Dauncey as a peace-offering to the old woman. The whole was
.;aid he had forgot to inform then% that the defendant now discovered; and Poole's wife and another woman
' was a married man with four children, and his wife took the girl with them to the prisoner's house, and
was it that time ill and up stairs. What didthis unfor- interrogated her as to the facts. She admitted a
' innate girl do ? why, instead of going. into the church knowledge of the girl, but on heing,reprehended for
yard; she immediately ran to the Wife of the prisoner, her conduct, raved and swore that if thcy dared to
and told her what had happened. The wife, knowing accuse her, she would make them ,4 die by inches."
that the prOmulgation of this must injure her husband, 4, No," said Mrs. Poole, who appears tik have thought
and his family, begged of the girl that she would not that she knew much better how to deg with a witch
tell what had been done ; and told her that it would than her daughter, a that thee shalt not—l'll hinder
bring shame and disgrace to her (the girl) and re- that ;" and taking.a pin from her clothes scratched
quested her to go into the school, and not take any the witch from her elbow to her wrist, in three places,
notice, but to keep up leer spirits. She did go into. to draw her blood, a process believed to be of unfail-
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