Star.
London, England, 1810-12-25 00:00:00

• ;1;11' .se K" . .
FA atefuni,
the Intrepid lugger peivatiat. tcUglairi
from the Mediterranea% 16. days frostk.Gi-
When she sailed, the Lady Arhbella packet
into Gibraltar from Malta.
PLYMOUTH, DICEMICER 23.
the FozuouloS prig of war, from Ports
so arrived late last night, the Princess Eli-
izet (1), Captain ti)u, with mails from
days passage.
izabeth, Capt. Fawttett, bouiad.frOtri ply-
St. Michael's, was captured on the 2441 of
qr the Duke of Dantzic French privateer,
is, and 100 men ; but was afterwards given
irrived at St. Michael's the following-day.—
:th of November a heavy gale was experi-
'here, which lasted till the Bth at night, during
•,ral vessels were driven on shore, and the
was obliged to cut her cables and run to
the following day, the 9th, she encountered
tle, in which all her sails were split in rags,
otherwise much damaged, she bore away
nbon, to repair, and arrived there the 22d fol-

Mr. Guam, 4 die Vigilant. tge
aa ---- a
Lieutenant Mine, of the Braave prison-ship at, :Individual ? It is well knoarn, that their charges in '
Plaiiimith, is appointed to the SAFEGUARD brig, at 1 India are higher than those of the other, as well as
Woolwich. • the charges of transport to Europe : their superiority,
mug, therefore, be in the purchase; and if so, the*
Malone, a favourite comic actor, some evenings loss falls on the manufacturer and cultivator, Who,;.
since at the
Plymouth Dock Theatre, in the character being deprived of all competition in the market, are
of Will Steady, the Benevolent Tar, gave the following under the necessity of taking the price offered by the
appropriate toast to his song -aii Our noble Comman- Company's agent* -,- , .
der of the glorious first-rate the Britannia—the I " The ComPad' tiitte. into the market in India,"
Ktee—Heaves bless him ! and speedily restore him says a late writer on the subject, " with an influence
to health and the kind wishes of his Messmates."— and effect always injurious to trade : their demandsPORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 24. Tho effect this had, as may be imagined, on the an. are never in alimited degree ;it follows, that the •
his Majesty's shipi Poneennes, ROMANprice
dience,of consisting nearly of Officers and men of the - of every wick they trade in rises-immediately, if their
and PORTMAHON, from a cruize. Sailed ships war stationed there, was truly gratitying—au power is uot exerted."-,--Lord Contwallis says, Nov.;
.CITOYENNE, HYENA, SPRIGHTLY, and Hie- acclamation of applause resounded through every 41788, 66 The manufacturers thew a great inclina-
.ame into harbour his Majesty's ship JASPER. 1 part of the house, and the actor's messmates in the tiou to quit, the Company's employ. Thus circum
DEAL, DECEMBER 24. gallery pledged--1
him (as satlors in general go to ;h ' e scanted, ado judge,that it must be impossible for
1 Theatre w
his Majesty's slips as per Last. • . Theaell provided with gag) with three heel pent hearty your servants to follow literally the orders fre I
y.
SHEERNESS, DEC 24. , cheers. ~ • ' * received from you, not to increase the prices of the
, the ronauttea.and Ouzsge frigates, from' , HACKNEY Coeenmese—A matter somewhat in. goods."—Mr. Bebb, 17S8, " The manufacturer pre-'
ward; and the CHILDERS brig of war, from teresting to the public was decided before the Com- le
rs tale employment of the private agent to that of
cnt on the Graving. Slip, to be repaired, ! missioners last Friday. A Gentleman summoned
a the Company."
,alsa gun brig.—Wind N.W. - coachman . for taking 3s. ,6d.•for. an eighteenpently In an address presented to the Court of Directors,
fare. The driver in his defence said, that 2s. of his 16th March, 1795, by one of their Civil servants, on
COWES, DECEMBER 22. charge was . for a glass broken in front of his coach. the subject of Prince of Wales's Island, he proposes,
iolent gales yesterday se'tinight did a great The complainant positively swore, that the glass was that the land should be granted on a long lease, and
iischief in this island, partly unroofing many ;not broken by him, and that he had every reason to the produce of pepper reserved to the Company, but
ad out-buildings. Two of the flims of the
t believel that it was done by the driver with the butt- 66 for which the planters should hate a
East Cowes were • taw from their situation. 4,,afair mariet price,.
of his whip. The Commissioners, upon hearing and not as the pclsper planter: are paid on the Honourable
of them was drilled a- considerable distance tthe whole of the case, fined the coachman in 10s. Company': settlements
on Sumatra, who are literally all-
ground. A flat-stone, of nearly one hundred I penalty. j zed to part with the produce of their hard-earned &Lour
was blown from the top of a chimney to an A daring robbery was committed on Tuesday night for Its: than a fifth of its value." This evidently must
credible distance. A small boat though.
.last, at Mr. Read's' jeweller, in .lermyn-street. The crush all spirit analanalemulation in the culture of this
a strong rope, was carried by the vortex at apprentice having left the door unfastened while he valuable spice..
•ards. :delivered some work nest door, a tray of gold watch i ; The records or proceedings of the Board of Trade
DOVER, DECEMBER es. • :chains and seals was stolen. An hour afterwards, an Still thew a correspondence between the Commercial
ight the PITT hired-armed brig, of Ltnidan, apartment ii the British Hotel was broken open, and . Resident at Hurryal, or Comercolly, and a private
ig for this harbour, ran foul of the -Extteri- robbed of a quantity of wearing apparel. I adventurer in silk. The former says, " You raise
trading sloop, which had got on the bar; and Thursday morning early, Vauxhall Gardens were the price of the cocoons iu the Bazar—you pay ready'
' before the -harbour. They are both singe got broke into by some persons at present unknown, Who money."-1807-3. The Resident pretends, that the
ith each 'a considerable damage ; the Pat mutilated the statue of Milton, which is cast in tead. ' merchant paid this money to people to whom he (the
the Brazils, with warlike stores. by taking off the legs, and one of the amt. They 'Resident) had made advances : this is denied by the
. .
•HAIiWICH, DECEMBER 23. • were disturbed by the watchman, and made off. i other.
red yesterday the Mertaintes stoop of war, Bowasartrer.—Mr. Richards, a surgeon in his Ma. 1 . Competition being driven from the market, the
agoland ; and the Hawke, revenee cutter, jesty's. navy, whom we stated was brought to town hative is left to the mercy of leis monopolizing Sm..
cruize, and remain.—Sailed the Lord Duncan 'some short time since by Rivett, the officer, from ign. His misfortunes, linwever, do not end here..
iana packets, the fotmer for Anholt, .anti. the I Sheemest, on at eharge of forgery, has undergone ce.- or the following year this Sovereign, not having.'
r
...
sidig...d.iver,,,..,...insions. At the time Rivett apprehendedsi ifnds sufficient to carry on his trade, or for other rea-
ItiTtl, DECEM4Ii. 21. •: I hirit, 14 alsO haddelieered into his custody, Mr. Roa., ions, stops-the investment ; and the Matarfacturers,
edne Farscv gnn-brig arrived oritlea eon.
sitaziraela . I befit Betl; In assistant-surgeon, by Admiral Stanhope, 'whote customers be bas already drieen away-, are
the Poet-Admirala who had been under arrest by or. f theniselves turned out of employ, and ?arced to seek
= Shaerne". —The' hate Of this part. struck
itoney Binks, in agate; iin Wedneiday 'The tier 4 the Commissioners of the• Navy, on suspicion ' a livelihood in :Other countries : this it actually the
life-boat was iinmediatelf • Matitliet; aOl 'six . 'of a similar offence. Rivett strapped At an inn atalfact :at the present time they cannot beaound. A• .
in landing the crew iit safity.--Durinj the Rochester with his prisoners, and stet for the landlorst i The great writer on the wealth of riatiens, in r.. s 4
a Swedish galliot was forcectio run on shore of thV .Chest: Arms' inn, at . Cliathana, Co identify the . says, " In the manner in which both the English and
. GortiOn.--.-A Sundeiland brighas been run person of Mr. Bell, he having been supposed to he Dutch East Indic Companies .govern their new seb..'
the Osnabuigh smack belonging to the bun- ; Patting, up there at the time the forged Bill of. Es. jects, the natural genius of an exclusive Company
sing Company; one of the cre‘v-was drowned: ' change was uttered at Rochester. The landlord has shewn itself most distinctly." Alter mentioning.
'Etter sloop of war has* arrived fmm Gotten- brought with him his bar-maid and a man servant, the barbarous policy of the Dutch, liCcontinues—
Laving been warned -off fiteh that pareattith when they all identified Mr. Richards as the pertain , " The best way they imagine to secure their own nue
rov, whiCh else pined with on din ,pass?age who had been at their house by the name of Dr. Bell.; nopoly, is to take care that no more 'hall grow than
. but they recollected his taking a place to gb by the what they themselves carry to market. The English
.. _ •
'.eadeis are already aequainted-erith the n Company have not yet had time to establish in lien-
n: stage-coach, which went from their house to Canters .
bury, by the name of Richards ; and it was particu. gal so perfectly destructive a system. The plan of
, loss of the 14fatene andsPi'r frigites their government, however, has had exactly the same
'unbar. The Vlowing letter give some fur'. larly impressed upon their minds as an extraordinary
,circumstance, as the coach went without him. Rivett tendency. In almost all countries, the revenue of the
aticulars of this disteetsing event :
conveyed them both to London, and, on an investiga- Sovereign is drawn from that of the people. The
act of a letter front an Ocer of the Royals. to
tion before Mr. Read, Mr. Bell was liberated and ad- greater the revenue of the people, therefore—the
Leman in Edinburgh,. dated Dunbar, Dec. Ma,
mined an evidence.
I greater the annual produce of their land and labour,
ircOast presents a dreadful spectacle of the
Weldon John Tumey, a grocer of Rochester, said, the more they can afford to the Sovereign. It is his
of two fine frigates, the PALLAS of 32 guns, I
'that on the 20th or 21st of November last, the pri- interest, therefore, to increase as much as possible
NIIMPHE of 56 ; the one a mile below Dun-
soner, Richards, called at his shop, and purchased that annual produce—to open the most extensive
id the other theee miles further. Coming up .
i goods to the amount of eh 6s. in part payment of market for the produce of his country—to allow the
ltd at half-past ten last night, when at the rate
`""Mich he presented a Bill of Exchange as a quarteily most peifect fieedum of commerce, in order to
`trans an an hour, they both ran aground on: the
! bill, purporting to be drawn for personal service, net crease as much AS possible the number and competi-
aid exhibit a total wreck, the coast all strewed
yams, planks, casks, &c. i pay of Robert Bell, assistant-surgeon of his Majesty's tion of buyers ; and upon this account to abolish not
gun-brig Manly, amounting to O:14. 9s. 6d. dated only all monopolies, but all restraints upon the trans
only sired or eight men have lost '
I October 28, payable to order, and to be approved by purtation of the produce from one part of the country
ices in both, who were brought ashore, and
E. N. Greensward, Lieutenant and Commander iif to another, upon its exportation to foreign countries,.
leans in vain tried for their recovery ;saw the
Ithe said brig. He asked the prisoner to write his .or upon the importation of goods of any kind for
•ieutenant brought 'out apparently dead, but
name, and he wrote Robert Bell. He not having which it can be eichauged : he is in this manner
hOur and a half, was so far recovered as to be '
L change for the bill, he sent to the Bank, where change most likely to increase both the quantity and value of
to the Duchess of Ronsuitou's.—Now well•
i was refused, except Mr. Turney
.signed it, which Ile , the produce, and consequently of his own share of it,
was eleven this morning before a boat iotild
seir assistance, although within a cable's Wilgth I accordingly did, and the goods were sent to the Chat , or of his own reeenne.
•
Arms inn, at Chatham. I a Bat a Company of Merchants are, it seems,
shore; and the life-boat upset with 40 men, ut , .
Robert Bell, Assistant Surgeon of his Majesty's incapable of considering themselves as sovereign
lily only one man was drowned. Most of Onr
gun. brig, the Manly, said that he was acquainted even after they have become such : trade, 'or buying
at have been there all day guardino the wrecks, '
ta I with the hand-writing of Edward Nathaniel Greet=, in order to sell again, they still consider their princi-
Assisting as far as they could. .
Led ! sward, Lieutenant and Commander of his Majesty's pal business, and by a strange absurdity regard the
The miserable appearance of the half-drown.
as they were carried on shore, was truly ;Kan brig Manly ; having seen him write frequently, . character of the Sovereign as but an appendix to that;
, de. We have invited.. the Officers to come to and that the name written on the bill of exchange .itt of the Merchant—as tontethieg that ought to be made
arracks—none of them would dine today, -hut . question, as his approving, was not his hand-writing, subservient to it, or by means of which they may be
e promised to-morrow. Although they had apilot
as he believed. He also said he had known the pri. eta/bled to buy cheaper in India, and thereby sell with
soner for some time past, but that he never gave him a better prat in Europe. They endeavour, Tot thit
board, they mistook a lime-kiln burning at Brox-
' for the. y or the
May Light, and the Ma - fßell any such bill, or authority, to draw it ; that it was purpose, to 'eels out as much as possible all compe.
~ i not drawn by, or signed by him ; and that he had re- titors from the markets of the countries which are
,
tract of a Letter from an Officer belon to I ceived his pay up to the 4th of September last, .or subject to their government; and consequently to vet
atlas frigate, dated the '2lst instant :
ging
„ I have about-that time. He recollected seeing the prisoner duce at least some part of the surplus of those coup,
come from attending
beach, one belonging to the
last, and then told him that the Manly brig had sailed own demand. or to what they can expect to self itft
.
boat and twelve of our own, all that have been and left him on shore, and that be iutended to .go to Europe, with such a profit as they may think reasorl.m.
,
London. I able. Their mercantile habits draw. them, in tide'
The Pallas, as also the Nymph, mistook a
Philip Egerton Otte'', of she navy, proved the bill ,manner, almost necetsai ily, though perhaps interns
ila burning for the May light. We struck the '
coming into his hands in the regular couraa of his sibly, to prefer on all ordinary occasions the little end
at ten on the niht of the 18th. Ina quarter
i office, in order tiehielaying it before the Navy Board transitory profit of the monopolist to the great ar
.i,A:r afterwardsg,. the ship's bottom was broken
Jet payment ; but on examination of the boas, it : permaneottevehue of the s, oh..reign, and would gra ,
and the water above the hatchway. 'IVe •
appearing that Mr. Bell had already drawn for his pay'', dually lead them to treat the countries subject to their
several guns, rockets, and blue lights der- appearing
the greater part of the time mentioned in the bill, 1 government merely as the Dutch treat the - - -
the night ; aad soon after, to our great sans- for
id suspicions arising in his mind as to the signature I "It is indeed. the interest of .the East '
ai, found a fire lighted on' the beach. abreast
of Lieutenant Greensward, an inquiry took place, and I pang, considered ale Sovereigns, that the
and a life boat dowi, 'which we cheered from Admiral Stanhope! the Port Admiral of Sheerness, goods carried to their markets should t
'ip. A party of soldiers came down to protect as cheap as .
from thence should be sold ti
possible, and that the Indian
property washed ashore. Our masts were gone, l are brought
ad our boats destroyed'; so that one life boat leap a 1 as possible: but the rev.rA of this is their .
in
time getting the men on shore... At late by I Merchants. .As Sovereigns, their interest
11 heavy seas she was upset. A small boat and the same with that of the couatry which
tope fastened from the iltate to the ship, by' -Ws'
as Merchants, their inters is threctlycentraty to that
i
very:eipeelitidtilt lisitilitrfrom one tp-
.

The polling fnr The Election of Common Connell'
men closed yesterday ; the numbers stood Its ;ono*:
Those masked thus (i) are near Candidates.
WITHOUT.
•
This Ward returns Siatcvn Mather*:
Mr. Oulu - 666 Mr. Dawson - 4tl
NVAlthman . 617 Young b
lit rring (Deputy) .517 Wow -
W. I. iteevts - 507 Griffith - 4:107
Nitboalb - - Mustrii -'r- VW
Crook - - 465
\Vright - 467 I
'F. Rrrve - 464

Miller • • 4541
VINTItY
I bis Watd
Mr. Pickering -
Whitby, jun.
Cads
Gatt7
Grub

• Harper

.

lIJSUOPSGA
Thi- Ward returia
Sir W. 'Winyah's - - 340
Mr. Chide

57
- 57
, 66
sti
55

.

De cern
lA' ii i te
Nash
ludkins
Niguel'
Davits

• ' 333
LA
1131
- 314
• 301
a WV

- 431

Posithic - - 4.15
• ILicitert - 34'3
• Biumicil ap‘

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mellifi % vsyvnc but as the re ng fait sorp tu revenue ~. . :,_ .U4s.. msa toll's taelTft :40409L irigdriAtidftsr:‘, ..Tercira. .
41 ',..''''',. /iiitisifitieatiiT ~.. theisousitryT.olllllite have not been all 1.4114;
Ai..
, . ..4.1. 4' .04
:•,. i.. . ittial.twis! aphisait '•--,- • -.- "v". '4,,",1 In the contain between t Tiothrotopatiy,o)h claw oultivith our situation, as Sif,
ESMC. Ati jam swat se) re *LT isel. frisouship, - line side for winottoptifY, Zgre'private adventdrers canthruted of monopolists, for obit** .!0
Restrillii, toll* Vieforj. . On the-other for an open teeda,the interests of forty prosnote_the prosperity of those territories f
• ladienen Paes
tum, to the Odsaia.
Litititemant Menu*. to tbe Medusa. . millions of nativesseaMto haeOtienentirelyOttoman. we. erive so valuable a tribute."
Lieutenant R. B. Bowman, to the Ckrisdao VII.. • The Company contend, that they cad import *it . Since this, a continuance of reign for 93 resell *as
Lieussant.Ausabss, to the Tiros& • goods from India cheaper analietter than pirate met- only served to extinguish the surplus revert 141 t 6
LiegitenaPt BONA MY MANSILLLb to the Tyrtan. 1., chants. If this be true, there would be an end of ill annihilate the trade and manufactures.
I Limitinantstlia it, to the Safeguard.
t. commercial controversy ; for the latter cannot carry
.Mr. J. P. HARRELL is appointed Pots* to the SaltaSultan.
.141 fr. sim MO NVI, to the Manly. • . on, year after year, a losing trade, which it must be, .
Mr. Huouts, Purser of the Ceurageaux, 4 appointed to die , Want are undersold in the market. '
..
~ ;s•..l lc: ire
Searbortingh. • 'it is however incumbent on the Legislature to ill- CITY ALECIYOAS. • '
: tons
Mr. MACFARLANE, to the Cour-avant.. ... •
quire by whit means the COmpani is enabled to carry a. .7.,-r1
Mr. MAc Ilt ; Purser of the' Vigilant, to rise Stately.
THIRD DAY.
• Mr. GILBERT, to the Vigilant. • on this trade, so as to obtain an advantage over the

was written to on the subject.
Selina Hand Young, the wife of the Master of thti
Flora, in the Westlndia,lrade, said she knew
Robert Bell, who was het' brother in law ; and was
well acquainted With histaitdritittg, having be-
gin* seen him :wiite I:aqdliftei catifully exaMin-
the bal. wAs attitlion, that sec 'the sighitiire,