Star.
London, England, 1810-09-04 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. s.

Arrived bis Majesty's ship 'remain as from the Downs, and
Aar schooner from a cruize.—Wind S.W.

SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER S.
Arrived his Majesty's ships PELICAN and PA PILLION from the
Downs ; and the SAN Flown°, from the Thames.—Sailed the
ISEAVIR sloop of war, to the westward.—The convoy for the
Baltic will sail about Friday : several vessels are hourly arriving
from the Thames to protect the convoy.—Wind W.S.W.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
Gaavzseri Di SC PT. S.—Arrived the Esdaile, Carlisle, front
Jamaica. Sailed the Enterprise, Brown, for New-York ;London
Packet, Holmes, for Gibraltar; CUo, Marshall, far Teneriffe;
and the Cynthia, Syer, for Lisbon.

The Ship John and Thomas, from the Cape of
Good Hope, arrived at Falmouth on the 30th ult.
We learn, that the following ships arrived at St.
Helena the 24th of June last, all well, •it. EARL
How; and the &a WILLIAM PULTRNEV and LADY
LUMINGTON extra ships Sailed from Bengal the
24th of March.

The EttraShips, SARAH CHRISTIANA andWtt.r.utx
Par, had sailed from Bengal for Madras, the former
on the 2d March, and the latter on the 12th of that
month.

The CEYLON, ASTELL, WILLIAM PITT, and Ett.
PHRATES, Extra Ships, outward bound, arrived at the
Cape of Good Hope the 22d May, parted company
with the HUGH INGLIS, HUMMED, NORTHUM•

41

BERLAND, TIGRIS, SIR STEPHEN LUSHINGTON, and
ALEXANDER extra ships, the 20th May, which ships
proceeded on their voyages to India.
The LEOPARD man of war, the arrival of which at
Portsmouth we announced yesterday, brings accounts
from the Cape of Good Hope to the 4th July. We
are sorry to find by these that the garrison of the Isle
of France has received a very considerable addition.
Three frigates, filled with troops, had arrived there
from France. The LEOPARD has also brought intel-
ligence of the safe arrival in India of the Georgiana
packet on the 4th of February. She bad received
directions to be in readiness to sail at a short notice
with dispatches for England.
A letter has been received from Captain HERBERT,
of the extra ship EUPHRATES, dated the 2d July, 1810,
stating that the EUPHRATES having struck on a rock,
in going out of False Bay, at the Cape, had been
obliged to return to Simon's Bay; that the ship had
been cleared from all her cargo, and it was expected
the damage she sustained would be completely re-
paired, and the ship would be ready for sea in about
three weeks.

EXIICUTION.—Yesterday Valentine Thomas, the
unfortunate youth, convicted at the list Guildford
Assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron M'DONALD, of

forging a check for £4OO on the house of Smith,
Payne, and Smith, bankers, was executed, pursuant
to his sentence, at the top of the gaol in Horsemon.
ger-lane. There was a propensity in this unfortunate
youth towards the species of crime to which he has
fallen an early victim peculiarly remarkable. He was
the son of a respectable tradesman in the City, of
London. At the age of sixteen, he was placed in the
counting-house of an opulent bargemaster, near Black-
friars ; upon whose bankers he forged a check, in the
name of the firm, for £lOOO, and obtained the money.
The fact was discovered ; but his employers, in pity
to his youth, and from respect to his family, refrain.
ed from prosecuting, in consideration of being reim.
bursed the £lOOO, and the youth being sent oat of the
country. The money was paid by his father, who
sent him down to Portsmouth, and entered him on

board a ship of war, then bound for the West Indies.
He went the voyage, and on his return to England
deserted his ship and came up to London, where he
returned to his former habits ; and through his know.
ledge of several trading houses, and the bankers with
whom they kept cash, obtained in their name blank
checks, and committed forgeries to a considerable ex-
tent, for which no less than thirteen indictments were
still pending against him at the time of his conviction.
From that moment until Saturday last, notwithstan-
ding the zealous exhortations of the chaplain who
daily attended him, he could scarcely be roused from
a complete indifference to his fate, or to a penitent
sense of the crime for which he was to suffer. On
Sunday he attended divine service in the chapel of
the gaol, where near three hundred persons of respec-
table appearance were also present, most of whom ap-
peared to be mote deeply affected by the situation of
the prisoner than he himself. He was attired in a
fashionable and gentlemanly style. His dress was a
blue coat with gilt buttons, lined through with black
silk,' white waistcoat, with black silk breeches, and
stockings; his hair unpowdered, and his upper lip
adorned with Hussar mustachios. His coffin, cover-
ed with black, was placed before him ; and when the
chaplain came to state to the auditory that the unfor-
tunate youth, who had now but a few hours to live,
was a veteran in the species of crime for which he
stood convicted, although he had not yet completed
his nineteenth year, the whole auditory were dissol-
ved in tears : not excepting the gaoler, who sat by
him, though familiar with such scenes : while the
L youth himself maintained a pensive firmness, endives
' the only person present who seemed indifferent to his
fate. His dress at the place of execution was the
r same as already described, and he met his unhappy
doom with decorous resignation.