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London, England, 1817-04-03 00:00:00

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'in - - - 1 0 France -- - 1 • 0 .
'‘. ,c,-ed .. 0 0 Hamburgh - - 1 1
r sot; Jersey 0 0 Gottenburgh - - 0 1
1 . - - - 0 1 Flanders -- - 0 0
!'- 0 1 Brazils -- - 1 0
CALAIS, MARCH SO.
11,.. Fredi brig Louise, Doar, sailed this morn-
it-, viu. rot old artillery, for Gluckstaelt,
FALNIOU I H, MARCH SI.
•\ rived die Speedy packet, with a mail from the
1.; sailed from Rio Janeiro 29:11 instant. Sailed
..,, ~ace packet wish a mail for Gibraltar and
~;..j..4.—Wind, front N. to S. fine weather.
PLYMOU Ili, APRIL I.
Artirod the Great Britain, PACK, from London
for Anterice. Sailed the Galen, 'l'ita.,..Lv, fur Bos-
ton,--Wind S.E. •
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL S.
Paired the Lune, Zephyr, and Anna transports,
frau Cowes. Sailed his. Majesty's ship TYRIAN for
J im.i:a • ROSARII on a crutze ; Abeona, Borodic a,
110..t15, 'Astres, Maria, and Sisters, transports, for
tut (Apt: of Good Hopei with troops.—Wind S.E.
DEAL, APRIL 1.
C '.ll, down from the River and sailed the •Loya-
kt, Or Barbadoes ; and Harmony, for Teneriffe ;
aiso, froth Slleerness, and sailed to the Westward; his
111ja.t)'. OrpS PELICAN. Visayan, and SHRZRWATIIII.
6.,,it .1 ,i.c Dutch ship )'Augusta, fey Batavia. •
DOVER, APRIL 2. ' . • it
Arrived the Brisk transport, from Calais, wiih troop,.
—Arrived last bight five passage-vessels from Calais,
with a pre it many pasiengers, among whom were
the pdoe,s of RICHMOND and General Sir Dennis
fact.— .tiled this day the Flora, Captain WATIone
far Calais, with Admiral Lord ExuouTH ; also the
ltivanna, Captain Moon, with a mail and passengers
tol Calais. The Princess Charlotte packet, Captain
ai ti.LAND,, takes the Ostend mail this eteuing.
HARWICH, MIMI.. S.
Arlred the Henry Freeling packet, with a mail
from Cuxhaven : also the Venus, Benevolent, Fos,
(pest, and. Catharine transports, with troops from
Calais.— S tiled the Be Au foy packet, for Holland,
aild Lai k packet, iar Cuxhaven, both with mails.
GRAVEaIikID, APRIL 2. •
Arrived the Vrew Heursca, Helper, from Groningen ; Good
Boor, Westcrbring ; and Claugkster Attie, Druet, from ditto;
Gond Holfaung, Lerman, from Bremen ; Vrow Bielden, Anton";
hint Isar ; 'I wo Sisters, Smith, from Havre • Westmorland,
Hanlon'r ins Berbice ; Cornmercian, Beatson;from Windows;
Trim, Ulm ~,,, 'rum Peruambucco; Prilittii of Wales, Fos, from
o.tetiel ; Caldico: Carle, Munro, from Jamaica; Rebecca,
P;i:chard, from ditto; Supply, Massey, from Waterford. Sal
the Poona, Caner, for the I.le of Fiat,vr ; Good Intent, Kr
benseti, for Btrbice ; Hearty, Forrecir, for Gibraltar ; Beteg,
Nickelson, for Dublin ; Harriett and John, Baker, forEntbden;
Deal Ann's, Olivier, for Havre ; Petrel, Martin, for Calms.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 2.
SHIPS FOTERILD INWARDII.--4110 Vf•W Hitehina, Zoinman;
Onderviiiiiig, Howling; Vrow Gertrude, laming; Vrow GO.
bh33,l)•diii.s; Goole Verwagting, Mulder; Martha Hendnka,
holm; G.ktiC Hoop, Tigers; -1 wee Gebtoeders, --; Vrow
Geevina, Bassenga; Hercules, Boer; and Vrow Haristlna, Print,
from Groningen • Frau Helena, Alden; and Vrow Galina, Mi.
cheek, from toldets ; :sisters, nailing, from Oporto; Gleaner,
Styr, hem Lisbon ; Aurora, !Tema, from Denmark; Indostryi,
Hug r., from Cork; Mary, Nitta, front 'oils; Inclination,
Dee. et ii, front Bremen; Cronstadt, Jacobsen, from Norway; Ed-
mird ard 'Louisa, Christensen • front —; Align, Von Lau;
View Rewenia, -.-- g and gettlennouit, Clogen.,_ (rota
_Lost*
}teepees, ---, from Cuoinenziel p Harmoute, ........, from
Dashes; Governor Harcourt, Wilson, from Doeseara; Vrow
Elyeaket,Wykman, from Zermutee ; Vrew Alisla,Dogen ; Hoop,
Jansen; and Wulf Heckles*, Arnold, from Norden ; Hoffnullils
-, nom Weender ; and Flora, Schaffer, from MemeL
Gerea a us.-1 beGarland,Brown,for the Caps of Good Hope;
Wiliiaiii, hoer, for Dublin; Providence, Green, for Calcutta •
Rebecca, Arklay, for Tobago; Nimble,. Thonspson, for Hans:
barge; Martha,Deetjen, for Brenten; Alert,Colvill, for Madeira
and laterite; and Integrity, lamb, for Quebec and Motored.
THE PERSIAN GULPH.
We take the following important statement from
Tile Bombay Courier :
Tim sitestion and appearance of eight Islands on the South-
ern side of the Persian Guiph, seen from ids Majesty's ship
Famerite, the Honourable James Ashley Maude, Captain, oa
the lath, tub and 15th July, 1816, which are not inserted on the
Charts hutted by the Hydrograptikal Ofilce to the Royal Navy.
Ihe latitude and longitude of each island ascertained by crow
barium. Their names are Arabic. '
Deese.—Tbis Island is moderately high and rugged, a low
point extends to the S.W. It is about six er seem miles in length ;
ist passing It we bad irregulat soundings.
faleAlll has three high hummocks of an equal sheathes— '
two oo the North pan, and we to theiSouthward. The base
was too meat to observe whether the emreculties were low.
Aateste is rather high and uneven. There Is a rock above
water, about a cable's length off the Eastern extremity, and a
Similar we off the Western to the North-east. A shoal extends
nearly a mile from the shore, composed of coral rock and sand.
lie'Parourite anchored in Ist fathoms coral sand; the centre
\
of the Wand bearing S. by Er* li. elf shone sore miles. •
The voila( this island consists of inmate substances. Them
are no trees me Lt ;it has scarcely any vegetation. The South
slit is eaceedingly rugged; It is In breadth about 11 or 5 milts,
and 7 miles long, the termination of which to the W. B. W. is a
low point of laud.
DALXT Is a mo&rate height, darker colour than the former
Wand, remarkable by having a round kill to the Northward,
and the extremity of which terminates In a Lew sand. &Shell
fitends nearly two Witt from the point, which ought not to be
approached under seven fathoms. to the Boodsward there Orli
three small hummoeks, which slope off to a low mod. The
length of the island, from Meth to South, is about six inikari•
'fie peosge to tee Seutbward of this Island is considered emit
The channel between Artiste and palmy is perfectly clear vg
'Seals; the mending, in it ate irregular--froliii IS SO Sit ood 71i
to 7 fathoms, fine coral sand.
Sits Beni Vass is rather high in the centre, very rugged, azi
tending to the N.W. le a lose pofm, which pearly joins the main
frtd, leaving channel ooly =elvish for small boats. The coati
to the Westward is very low, and the pilot stated that diem were
sestral mull islands oil it, width he considered too dangerous to
be approached, except by boat. the Channel between Arsenic
and beer Beal Yass Is deemed mfe '
,1* '"g it es Ms, the Cebu? of which, in buy wee-
ti,'
5° "illy rentabWia ft burlaps, dm every precaution is
nest site to be takes In sI/it.
SIIIIA"w has two ..
baba on each extremity.
6 le•
ourow, and about three sr Ms wen le knelt. A mai rock
800"4 water weeds about Ws left frees tb. North poise to the
H.W. of this island.' The moot wog be apgroached, but it le said to
bowery low, consequently me be appreschedwitb cooties.
n
_,Aul.oet.-1-Tkis island is 'sigh In the ware. decreasing in its
';ration towards each extremity. 11 may bmapprosched with
Pktfect safety,-
The Islands described above have the NM arid, barren ap•
3tallea as Polio', the Tombs, sod other Wand. situated in
:Moir *hilt, off the Persian coast. The water, whkh Is found
is said to be brackish ; but, from the appearance of
and what I whammed on the island of Arsenic, I am
to suppers good water might be prompted. They are.
the centre of an ostensive pearl bank, which moods
k miles in a longitudinal direction, and 70 miles North
fi'v•• , from which a considerable-quantity of pearl, are an,
I'llY collected. I have been informed good anchorage may be
.irui.ied under any of these islands. They are conveninyty le-
-4'44 to afford shelter for vessels actinic the premiliffg I.4icatli-
re_it ,% inch. The current appeared to set to the W.N.W. sad
' .11 tun rate of wuico we were unable to ascartaio.
lb. 'vit. positiotis of tam islands I do not enosider to be mike
7.„ at (1" 1 the beat of the climate laving amsl4erably affected tbe
"Is or sly chrondineter, and the land bang as Vert le to pro'

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vent onr juigirg with any degree of accuracy the distance we
were off the shore when the bearings were taken. I rtnagine,
however that their situations are sufficiently correct to render
some assistance to those persons to wham the Southern side, of
the Persian Gulf is unknown :
Daus Latitude 25. to. No. Long. per Chronometer 52. 45. B.
Jarnain 52 a. - 53.536
Arzenie 24.56. 54.53.

Dainty 34. $.
Seer Beal Tan !4. 34.

25. 1.

. ♦ 52. 40.

Sherarow 25.19. -
Haulool 23 41. - -
/ 13th July, 1816, 4. 47. W.
Variation* 14th - 4. 59.
15th • 3.59.

52.111.
52. 13.

The present Emperor of CHINA, KIA Knot, has
been defied for years by the Chinese pirates, who
defeated his war boats, captured them, and compelled
their crews to join them, until their numbers, at last,
amounted to 45,000 men. About four or five years
since, rather than risk a battle with a Portuguese fri-
gate and two brigs, assisted by eight of the Emperor's
war boats, half manned with Portuguese, the pirates
capitulated on terms, and peace has since been re-
stored. The former feats of the Portuguese in India
have impressed the Chinese with the idea of their
superiority over other nations ; and this opinion the
Portuguese in China keep up, to the detriment of the
English nation.

The Foreign seamen on board the Batavian and
Helder, lying in the River, are in a good state of
health, and many are leaving the ships by their own
request. The burials, during the last two months,
are about 28.
The Royal yacht, which conveyed the Grand Duke
thessocas abroad, under the command of Captain
OWEN, is ordered to berefitted without delay, to con-
vey the Duke and Duchess of Otecentes to France.
It is to be in readiness by Sunday, but it is not ex-
pected that the PUKE and DUCHESS and family will
leave till Monday.
A dread! ul engagement took place on Wednesday
se'nnight, near Whitby, between a revenue cutter and
a smuggling vessel.. Both vessels, front the severity
of the storm, were run ashore; four of the cutter's
men and seven of the smugglers were killed. Ten
of the men belonging to the latter went through
York, unpursued, on Thursday and Friday, by the
coaches for London.
The first stone of the Cornwall Lunatic Asylum;
was laid last week, at Bodmin, by the Right Hon.'
R. P. CAREW, with much Masonic ceremony.
Yesterday the Anniversary Festival of the Royal
Humane Society for the recovery of the apparently
I drowned or dead, instituted in the year 1774, wad
held at the City of London Tavern. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex in the Chair. Upwards'
of SOO persons sat down to dinner. After the cloth
was removed, Noir Nadir Domine was sung in fine
style, by Messrs. BELLAMY. TAYLOR, EVANS, StC.--
I The usual toasts followed ; several fine songs were
sung, and airs played by the Duke of Kisses band.
A procession of the restored persons, about 47 in
number, entereds and were conducted by the Stewards
round the room, the band playing solemn music ;—.l
and afterwards honorary medallions were presented to'
those by whose means they were preserved from SO 11
,entimily end.
, • The Pansca Rsoesre's Stag Hounds will tomorrow
start a fine deer for a day's hunting, near Chertsey.
bridge.
The Proprietors of that very useful and highly-
interesting Monthly Publication, The Gazette of Health,
in order to testify their gratitude for the liberal pa-
tronage the Work has received, have -established a
correspondence with the most eminent Physicians of
all the Capitals of Europe, and of America, as well
as the East and West...lndies, &c. to enable them
speedily to communicate to the public all the disco-
veries that are made in the known world, that may
regard the means of preserving health, of curing the
distaies incident to the human frame, promoting do-
mestic economy, or that may in. any .respect ren-
der man better acquainted with himself,.and effec-
tually secure him against the action of contagious or
other agents that may distab his health. The 16th
Number, published on the Ist instant, contains,
among other interesting matter, a safe and effectual
plan to correct the Gouty constitution, by an old
Physician; experiments on digestion te ascertain
what articles of food are the most easy Of digestion,
by Mr. A. Cecina ; remarks on different species of
mental maladies, by Dr. Duatnisou ; a remarkable
'cure of nervous headache by diet ; Prescriptions for
tonic mixture, toothachE, 4a, cure of incipient cancer
by sweet spirit of salt;. the Chelsea Pensioner's re-
ceipt for Gout and Rheumatism; proper treatment"
of corpulency, by Mr. WADD ; new remedies for
hydrophobia, epileptic fits, palsy, bilious complaint%
&c. &c. &c. Monthly Report of Diseases, kc. The
Proprietors of this Work have also made arrange-
-silents that the Work may be obtained of the Book-,
tellers in the Country a few days after its publication
in London.
As Mr. Haycraft, ironmonger, of Deptford, was
proceeding from that place to Lewishans about eight
o'clock in the evening, a fikw days shy', by the side
of Lewisham River, near the Armoury. Mills, he was
stopped by'a singlefootpad, armed with a pistol, who
robbed him of his gold watch and some silver.
MansioroHoose..--Werser Semis, a saner, was sent to
Bridewell for a monk, apes a charge ot adds' antic tricks in a
church-yard, such as chewing .cabbep-stalks, proving to the
passers by that be Woe 'bin on, &A. with the view ot sicking
nmpassion.
Town HALL, Ileanint.—Mkkeet Tinny, wive was dia.
charged for biting tilt a ones Mr, at the Southwark Sessions,
was brought up on a charge of itiorder, when it appeared that
Alderman i• 3. SUIT' had recce.OS latter tram a Justice of the
Peace for Ling's County sod County of Tipperary, giving a de-
scription of the releaser and his name, who had murdered a
man earned Win. Long. The staler said be had bees a soldier
for fourteen yean, and had not been in Ireland- at the dine the
murder was sold to have been comesittaL The description,
however, corrapooding, he wan rensanded for ten days.
Dow-evaerr.—A milkman noderwent an examination Yea*
ttiedap, charged with attempting to commies& rave
on a blind
iwomee, ie Citurch-heie. eirtimstances being very slight,
he was dischargaL I
Matnaouon-resithr.--Colonel Murfew, of Grosvenor-
Placeit was abet up on &charge, originating under the following
curious cirawasuuwes—iehneon, a watchman, said, that he had
received orders from a Lady in the Colonel's bone, that when-
ever he observed him aims home as late as doyen o'clock, he
should take him WA. watch•teuse; this order he was foolish
ieneigh to Attend te, and about ten minutes past eleven o'clock
On '1 sedgy night, as the Colonel wee knocking at his doer is
order to he admitted, Johnsen sassily took him into custody and
brought hiss to the watch-house, but the Abair of the night dis-
missed the charge, and permitted the Colonel to go sway en la
own promise to ascend. Thu Mailman severely reprehended
the cooduct of the foolish watehasen, and hnuediately dismissed
the clsarge.

AS.SI2ES.

CORNWALL ASSIZR3.-.L/WNCESTOI4, MARCH
CHARC.q. OF. MURDER.
The following very interesting trial for murder ec
copied the Court tlii, day frOm eight in the mornirg
until nearly nine in the evetong. The number ot
persons anxious to be present was so great, that not
a single bed has been to be procured in Launceston
for several days past ; and the crowd at the doors
of the Court this morning was so excessive and vio-
lent, that the additional precautions of bars and
double bolts were found insufficient. The javelin-men
were overpowered, and the High Sheriff himself, in
his fuU cour-dress, WAS several times compelled to
descend to the ignominious office of doorkeeper.
The prisoner, Robert Saul Darned!, is a young
man of twenty.sie; and carried on the business of a
surgeon and apothecary at Falmouth. In July last
he married the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Downing,
of that place, widow; and he now stood charged
with the wilful murder of his mother-in-law, on the
Sd of November last, by administering ar,tnic in
a cup of cocoa, upon bread and butter, or in some
other undiscovered manner.' His vilfe is upon the
point of being confined.
The prisoner being put to the bar, was arraigned,
and pleaded not guilty ; after which Mr. Serjeant
Lees stated the facts to the Jury in a very candid
and temperate address : they are all contained in the
depositions of the following witnesses :
Mr. Gilbert Abrahams swore, that he lived at
Falmouth, and that in February. 181(3, the prisoner
applied to him for loans of 811, £l4. and re.itt.
stating, that he was in considerable distress for the
money, but that lie should soon be married to Miss
Downing, daughter of the deceased, when the whole
should be repaid. On the 23.1 of May he applied tor
£5O more, observing, that it would be either his
making or his ruin. He was married to Miss HAI..
net Downing in July bit, and The witness several
times applied for the repayment of the loans. About
three weeks before the death of Mrs. Downing, he
said, that his mother-in-law would not live long, and
that then the witness should have his money.
Mr. Samuel Downing, third son to the deceased,
deposed. that the prisoner began to pay his addresses
to his sister in the autumn of 1815: she was entitled
to about 13,000; and the prisoner represented his
practice as in a flourishing state. The parties had
had frequent conversations on the subject of the mar-
riage-settlement ; and the prisoner proposed, that a
draft that had been made of it should be altered, so
as to give him more coning's' over her property
during the life of his wife. The mother of the wit-
ness was worth about £14,000, and she had four
sons, John, William, Samuel, and Edward, and
two daughters, Elizabeth and Harriet. On the 19th
of October last, Mrs. Downing, the mother, went to
drink tea with the prisoner, her son-in-law the wk-
ness had previously dined with her,and she appeared
in good health and spirits. She returned home after
supper, and, at about twelve o'clock, she complain-
ed of great sickness at her stomach. Sbe vomited,
and was attacked by a violent cramp in her legs.—
The prisoner attended her, and she was better on the
following day ; but site did not entirely recover for
more than a week. On the Slst of October she
drank tea at the house of her son John. On Sun.
day, the 341 of November, she was again invited to
tea by the prisoner to meet her daughter, and ano-
ther. son-in-law, a Mr. Jordan: on this occasion she
observed, ss You know the list time I was at your
house was taken dl, I hope k Will not hews again."
The witness dined with her, and she ate heartßy
he went to the prisoner's at about halt-past five, when
he found Mrs. Donnell at the table, en which were
the urn and tea-things; and a plate of bread and
butter: the witness and the prisoner sat on the Nome,
side of the fire, while Mrs. Downing, and her son '
'Edward, sat together on the opposite side: the party
was only waiting for the cocoa, which was brought
up soon afterwards by' the maid-servant; When 'it
was poured out, the prisoner left his seat, and went
to the table foe the purpose of handing the cups and
bread and butter. The attention of the witness was
.attracted by seeing the prisoner going round, and
passing behind the chairs of some of the party, with
the plate in his hand, towards Mrs. Downing ; in
doing which he spilt a part of her son Edward's tea
her gown: Edward exclaimed, ‘, Donna%
what are you about ?" but the prisoner made no
answer, bet offered the bread and butter to Mrs.
'Downing, who took a piece of it; the prisoner then
*returned to his seat. Just afterwards the servant•boy
called the prisoner out of the room. There was no-
thing unusual in the prisoner's handing the bread
and butter or teas tor, when the servant did not at-
tend, it was his practice to do so. The witness did,
not see who handed the cup of cocoa to. his mother.l
buehe saw her drinking it ; she took a second cup,
and while drinking it, she complained of being sick,'
and in a few minutes returned home with her son
Edward : her expression was, that she felt unwell.,
and withdrew from the fire. While she was in the
act et morning, the prisoner came again into the
rod m. Immediately she got home (the two housesl
joined), she desired that a basin should be broughti',
,and she vomited, observing, that .she hoped 'be
should not be as sick as she had been the last
time the came from Donnall's. The prisoner and
his wife entered soon afterwards, and the deceased
was pareaded upon ta go up stairs to lie down
upon the bed : she complained.. of great beat.—
The witness then went out, and •returnid at about
nine o'clock : he found iu his mother's house the pri.
sonar, Wm. Dawning, and M. Jordan. In the
course of the evening, the prisoner frequently went
up stairs to Mrs. Downing, bringing word only that
she was still sick: the chief topic of conversation
downstairs was field sports, and the prisoner said
nothing *Vogt administering any medicines. The
witness went to bed about two o'clock, having re-
commended an emetic an hour tickle ;- but the pri-
soner replied that gentle means sequin used, and that
be had given Mrs. Downing something to compose
her. When the sinless was going to bed, he 4:0
the prisoner whether be should stay longer ? and the
answer wu, that he should wait half an hour to as
certain the effect of the last pill. The witness en-
tered his mother's ;nom as he passed the do'or, and
the prisoner went with him : she ,complained ot vio-
lent piles in her stomach, and of cramp iu her legs;
in order to relieve which she wished to leave het bed.
The witness then went to bed, knd at. about lout
o'clock be was awakened by Mrs. Jordan, who said

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