Star.
London, England, 1803-03-11 00:00:00

" GIBRALTAR, FLpitUAFt.Y r 3.

gi Veflerday a French line of battle (hip pafrea
this to the wellward : from having troops nn board,
(he is fuppofed to be bound to St. Domingo. Two
other French line of battle flips, with troops on
board, were ken to the eaflward two days ago.

" Mr. WicKs, the Swedifh Conful•General to
the Barbary States, arrived here a few days (ince,
in his uay to 'Morocco : he carries prefents for
the Emperor.
" LA night the DASHER flOop of war arrived
from Plymouth, in nine days, with difpatches for
his Royal Highnefs and Malta, for which place
fhe again failed this evening. The DRAGON and
Reszowx arc nearly repaired, and, along with the
MoNmourn, will fail for Malta on the 16th."

F. 14 —Wc are HI in the dark refpaling
Malta. The Abundance florefhip failed for
place a few days ago, 'with naval and Military fray:
of all d.:/,-riptioni, which appears very flrange, if thy
intend to give it up.
Tfic garrifun is in good health."

His Royal Highnefs the Dukc of Yoaa attend-
ed yellerday at his office at the Horfe Guards,—
General Baowma Inc, Secretary to his Royal High.
nets, isconfined tohis houfe, by revere indifpofition.
The Royal Staff Corps of Military Artificers
arc on their route from Chelmsford to Chatham
Barracks.

Every hand has been taken out of theCompany'sk
(hip the Huddart, by the late unexpeltedrsf.s,—
This thip was nearly ready for lea, apsitels on the
eve of being difpatched. The Exeter, Charlton,
and Hugh Inglis, are alto deprived of their men,
and, confequently, will be detained for tome time.
Captain RICH az Lt., who was a Lieutenant at
the time of the mutiny at the Nore, and was pro-
moted for the eminent fervices be thea rendered the
country, has been entruiled with the execution of
the imprefs Service in London, on the prefent occa.
Pion ; in which he has difplayed the greatell aai.
♦ity.

LI SZ !ARA—General NORTON, Chairman of the
Seidl Committee appointed to try the merits of
the contefted Eledion for the Borough of Lif-
keArd, in Cornwall, yefterday reported to the
Houle of Commons, that the Hon. loam and Wis.
ELLIOT, the Sitting Members, were duly elided
but that the Petitions of THOMAS aft ;Dm,' and
WM. OGILVII, Efqrs. and others, were neither
frivolous nor vexatious. The right of elation
has been determined to be in the Mayor and Bur-
geires, and not in the inhabitants paying Scot
and Lot ; for the latter of which the Petitioners
contended.

NOTTINGHAM COMM ITT! —Wednefday another
witnefs, examined before the Committee appointed
to try the merits of the Petition of this Eleetion.
was committed for prevarication. His name is
Stephen Brookes. The Committee retired for near
an hour; on their return into Court, the Chair-
man, Ifaac Hawkins Browne, Efq. thus addreffed
the witnels

"Stephen Brookes--4 am extremely concerned to have beta.
(lon to deliver to you the very revere judgment of the Committee.
The Committee have come to three Refolutlons, which I have'
the painful talk of reading to you : the ftrft 1,, that you have
h:en guilty of wilful prevarication in the evidence you have
given before the Committee. The fecond, that you be imme.
da•ely committed to the cult ody of the &desalt at Arms; and
the third, that I be inftruded to move the Houfe of Commons,
that you be lint to Newgate. as this is the fecond attempt of
the Lane at e,rious nature which has been made in the cootie of
this inquiry. You mutt confider, that there cannot be a greater
, offence than that of wilful prevarication. When you are called
upon to give evidence on oath...called upon pa annul to At.
seion-r Goo for the truth of every word you fat, and that
your everlailing Itatc in a future life, your happincfs or !offer?,
depends upon the truth of u hat you declare, under In foltmn AM
affeveration--it is of the greatelt importance to Society, ands•
the decilions of Courts of Juflice, that the evidence given in
them Ibould be true, free front aU hiss and partiality, and that
It mould be cutififtent. The greatnils of the offence snakes it
neectl.u7, when it is repea.eit, that the pdbiflament mould be as
revere as that which I am ordered to move the Houfe of Com-
mons to inflict on you. I heartily hope that your punifttment
will bring your mind to a knfe of your guilt. The Committee
have gilfCll yuu every opportunity of explaining your evidence.
We were ftrangers to the character of the perfon wffom we
have committed, and fo with rtfpen to you. We ad purer'
front what has palled firer you came into the box. If you were
in a higher lituation of lie, the punifhmint would have beer.
more revere; but after the warning you have had, the Commit-
tee th nk it is ncetffity to procted to a greater length, for (tar
the example Mould not be fufficient to deter other offenders."

The Mefrenger of the Serjeant Arms ironic-
; diately took the witntfs into cultody.
Two othars were committed yefterday, whore
eye-fight and memory could not at all agree.
i The Committee on the Nottingham eleEtion pe-
titian were on ‘Vedneiday gratified, with a fight
of the famous chair in which the popular Candidate
was feated during hit triumphal proccflion. Such
a CharliaCT was given of this famous chair, that it
was thought an aa of jiifiicc to fend it all the way
from Nottingham to (peak for itfelf. So far from
its meriting thr defcription it had received, it was
in point of frig a loyal a looking chair as the
Lord Mayor's, but by far more fplcndid. it eN-
biLiitcd ribbands cf ail the colours of the rainbow.