The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-28 00:00:00

Tllr KING U.CIAREE.

This was a tilotout for an information in the I
nature of quo warrant°, calling on Mr. Clarke,
the present Mayor of Liverpool, to shew by whit
authority he exercises that office, and the founda-
tion for the motion yras, that he had not beri regu.
lady elected, thy elm-riot, having been closed,
while several of the burgesses proposed to vote in
favour of a geniteloan of the name of Driuk water,
who was the Candidate opposed to Ms. Clarke at
the election.

TheATTon:s Kr-GENERAL and Mr.PARX elem_
ed cause against tee rule, and Mr. Reim and Mr.
SCARLETT supported it ; after which the Court
were Unanimously of opinion, that the rule should
be discharged, on the ground that not one of the
freemen who were stated in the affidavit to have
°Nereid to base voted kr Mr. Dritik water, at the
time the !imam:llion was made by the returning
officer, for closing the poll, hail been tendered at
the plied of poll, nor hail one of them Made an
affidavit that he was ready to pull at thu time of
making ex !,rorlamation. The penal) who made
the affidavit was a Mr. Ntoorhouse, an atturney's
clerk, and no frrhtnall, and he unly swore that
there w .is 11 loud cry of " Mute votes fur Drink-
s% ater," &c.
Utile discharged.
PRoft !TUTU/N.

Mr. llsxPli e. Y.,iir Lordships have often

heard of the title of the Plaintiff t am going to
name, 1., the cause in which 1 am about to move ;
but never, I pretiii•ne, of sueb a Defendant ; for
my Lords, the title of the cause is, The KING I".
certain Fish, supposed to be u WHALE. The
facts arc these. Some time ago, a large whale
sou seen and killed, somewhere near Gravesend,
and taken on shore in the body of the county of
Kent, and therefore not subject to the prescrip-
tive of all Royal 'Fish ; it was claimed by
the City us Conservator of the River Thames;
they took the fish and brought it up to London ;
the moment it came in sight of Doctor's Comtnons,
lir.Cricket (we thitik)said it was a Droit ofAcni.
tally, and accordingly o suggestion was entered in.
to the Admiralty Coati, at Doctor's Commons, to
arrest.the whale; this suggestion 'was served on
the whale, and there it was kept and detained no.
der arrest, until the horrible stench arising from
this dish entered another suggestion, which is as, of
Eie propriety of disposing of it : for the 6sh was
of enormous size, 75 feet long. It was actor_
din* disposed of, and they arc now proceeding
against this whale in the Court of Admiralty, as a
Droit of Admiralty, which the City ciAim as
tight of Conservator of the (liver.—Or which
may be said at all events not to be a Druit of Ad-
miralty, for it was taken infra corp.ris con:dal:6s,
it being taken on a bank of sand on the Kent
shore of the river, near Gravesend.—My
motion to the Court is, for a prohibition to
the Admiralty Courts restraining that Court from
proceeding on this suggestiou as for a Druit of
A.lmiralty."
Lord Et.Larisouovott.—" Take a Rule to
slim cause ; but how will you entitle your affi-
davits to bring it into a form proi.er for the
Court to entertain the, inatterii Your allilavit
mu..t be correct in its t0i1...."
Mr. DiMPIER.—"The whale is dead, and the
whale iA here ,nade Defendant, my Lonl."
Rale to slicw I nose granted. _

A gentian:ln lately deeiastoithas flrbidden his
*son to play at cards, though the father 10:4,1e his
fortune by play. We remember that Gencral
Scott kit his amiable daughter two !tontined thou.
sand ',vends, on the express condition that she
neither married a Peer, nor the son of a Peer. The
General made his fortune among Peers, and thought
• perhaps they were too prodigal of their mottey.
And it is within many persons memory, that a
tich saddler left his iinniense property to his daUgh.
ter, on condition only that she ,named a saddler.
ller charms were irresistible; and the Earl of Ha-
lifax, to gain so lovely a creature, articled himself
for seven years to a saddler.
On Saturday last, a fleet of London colliers ap.
peared off Whitby, when the wind having come
on to blow a severe gale from the E. N. E. consi-
derable apprehensions were entertained that some
of the ships would not be able to clear the land.
Six of the number gut safe into Whitby, although
the sea broke with great violence a considerable
dielance from the entrance of the harbour. The!
Re:du/ion, Walker, a sloop, went behind the 1
West Pier, part of het rigging and sails having
given way as she was running fur the harbour.
The Margaret and Graham, Peacock, came on
shore upon tile Beach, at SJI(WiCk, about a mile
south of Whitby, where shy is gone to pires ; the
peop!e liuded in safety en the f Mint of the tide.
It may be regarded as a circumstance of a very
providential nature, that the safety of her crew
depended upon an occurrence otherwise apparently
trivial. Ad intelligent joiner, of the statue of;
Frank, perceiving from IVliitby Pier, the dan-
gerous situation of Vie teasel, then very ties, the
shore, repaired with the utmost expedition to
. Saltwick, and arrived jest a: the critical period
when she was about turning the Nab to endeavour
to gain ‘Vhitby ha: boor ; a measure which would
bare insered the destruction of the vessel, with all
on board. Hating made a signal with his apron,
which he took off fee that purpose, he had the
satisfaction of seeing it attended to, by the vessel
steering towards the ;lace where he was ; and by
that means coming on shore upon the only spot,
(not more than lot) yards in ext, nt) between Ito.
bin Hood's Bay and Whitby, which could bare
afforded the possibility of the people getting safe
on shore. A few minutes lunges peiseverance in
steering to the northward, would have rentlerM
her return impracticable, and exposed her to the
certain floe of being dashed to pieces upon the
rocks h skirt the perpendiculerly high cliff
between and Whitby. The iteople se-
know ledged with gratitude w hen .they came its'
shore, that the preservation of their lives was
(under Providence) solely owing to the exertions
made, and means used by the person above.meo.
toned, to direct than low to star taes fusel.