The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-18 00:00:00

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Prom the LONDON GAZETTE, Sam 16.

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.Admiralty-Offirs., .Sept. 16.
Copy of a Letter from Vice-.Bl.dmirn% Whitshed, Cntomarwter
in Chiefon tbe Coast ()Melon& to toe Him. Wifli.ua Wel-
lesley Pate, dated at Cork, the Bth imtant.
SIR--4 transmit herewith, for the information
of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, tbe
copy of a letter that I received from Captain
Worth, of his Majesty's sloop Helena, stating his
baying captured, on the Ist instant. iii lut 46. 0.
N. and long. 8. 10. W. Le Jason French Ingiter,
privateer; and I have to acquaint you, that Lc Ja-
son arrived at this port last evening.
I hard the honour to be, Ste.
(Signed) ./AII ES 11. 11 lIITSHED,
Vire-Admiral.

Helena, at St-a, Sept. 1.1809.
Ste—l have the humour to acquaint yoU, that
his Majesty's sloop under try command captured
this afternoon Le Jason French lugger privateer
(pierced for ten gnus, and forty-four men, from
Bayonne•, twenty-one days ; not made a capture)
after a chase of seventy miles ; she threw her
guns overboard except two. her capture was
fortenate, as she would have intercepted the
packet, which 'crossed during the chive, and an.
sviered her private signals ; suppose her to have
been from Lisbon.

I have the honour to b', &r.
J. A. WORTH.

Vice-.kchniral Whitshed, &r. Cork.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

War-Office, Sql. IS, 11109.
Liestermnt-C3cne►al Sir James Henry Cr tip K. R. from the
22d Font, to be Colonel of the 78111 to burnt of Foot, vice
Lieut.-General Mackenzie Fraser, deceased.
Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Invernesshire
4th Regiment of Invernesshire Local Militia.
Lieotenaot-Colonel Ranald George Marano:till to be Lieut. •
Colonel Commandant. vice Alezander Macd.osild, resigned
—dated Aug. 28, 1909.
C011103i5400 in the Oxfordshire Local Militia, signed by the
.Lord Lieutenant.
East or Centnd Regioneot.
William Hodge, Esq. fo be Licut.-Coliatel—dated August
16, 1809.
ERRATU II in The Gazette of the 24 inst.
For Thomas Roberts, of Robert's Cove, in the county of
Cork. Esq. to be a Baronet of the United Kiugdont. read
Thos. Roberts, of Glove bury, Is the county of Kent, of
Britfields town, in the roomy of Cork, and of toe city of
Cork, Esq.

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MR. ELLISTON AND 'ALMS C01.30N.
Umost.HALT..—Mr. Ellisten, on Saturday,
underwent another exa•' illation before Sir J,,uN
PlNitonm. A person from the Marshal of the
King's Bench attended, and stated to the Magis.
trate, that a gentleman who was to have given evi-
dence to some material facts, could not attend at
the office, he being a prisoner within the rules of
the Bench.
The clothes which the parties had on when the
pistols- were fired, were produced by Coiling.
bourn ; they were perforated with the balk, aatl
appeared singed, as if by the powder, in revcral
places.
Mr. TiumpußETS, on the part of Mr, Elliston,
then submitted to the Magistrate, that on the evi-
dence, as it stood, none of the facts required by
the law to make out a capital oWenee had been
proved, nothing mere than suspicion against his
client exigted ; he therefore contended that Mr.
Elliston should be admitted to bail.

Sir Jou x, however, did not consider himself at
liberty to take bail tin the present occasion, espe-
cially as the evidence was not fully closed. It was,
notwithstanding, his wish, that every indulgence
should be granted to the young man that his situa-
tion would permit of his receiving ; and to pro-
mote that object lie had visited him in the gaol, to
see that his accommodations were the best that
the prison would afford.
Mr. Ellision was then rettanded, till Sir Jour•
shall have taken the deposition of the person (a
surgeon) before alluded to.
IVillinns Wilson, servant to Mr. Joseph Allen,
of Lambeth Butts, was apprehended by Coiling-
bourn, charged with rubbing his master of la o
bushel, of split beans.
It appeared that he had been employed by his
master to deliver ten sac!, s and two bushels of
beans to Mr. Alumford, of liennington.cross; the
len sacks he had faithfully delivered, but the two
bushels had quite escaped lii. memory, although he
hlel them on his back when apprehended by the
otlicer.—Ho was fully committed fur trial.

LINCAS7'E R ASSIZES.

FORG Mt Y.

The following trial is particularly interesting to
commercial men, and those in the habit of taking
Bills of Exchange.
Daniell lI ulker lorl John Ihnre were indicted
for h. ving forged a Bill of Exchange for 551. 3s.
and John Howe was further charged with uttering
the same, knowing it to be forged, with an intent
to' defraud Joseph Shed.lon, Thomas Faulkner
Phillips, and Shakespear Phillips, of Maui:hec-
tor. The bill was dated Liverpool, drawn by 1).
Walker and. Co. upon Doettynes and Cu. Beakers,
London.
The substance of the evidence was, that Walker
Jrcw the bill himself, and gave it to Howe to ne.
gociate for goods, which he did, representing Wal-
ker to be a merchant in Liverpool, when he was
not to be found there.
Mr. Cams, fur the prisoners, contended that
the case did not amount to forgery, as the prison.
cr Walker admitted he drew the hill, and there
was not a shadow of evidence to connect the pri.
setters' eases together.
Mr. Etas and Mr. MaTcoca, for the prose.
motion, its reply said, that Walker, signing the
hill aid Co. when there was no proof of his being
inltartnership with any body, and his residence in
Liverpool not being to be found, made it a false
representation of himself, which amounts to a for.
gory ; and 'Howe's. uttering the note for the pur-
pose of fraud, made the case of the Prisoners ap-
plicable to that'of Parker and Brown, which had
been decided. .
Judge CIIADISRE said, the case appeared to be,
that Illalker had lent.liis name to the bills, to per.
cons who did not provide fur them. In a mural
point of view there was no doubt of their guilt,
but they could not estend the law ; for, if it was
not a forgery originally, they could nut make it
so then. He was much afraid it was a practice for
men in business to suffer men of straw to dean'
bills, or their elerks. It was much to be lament.
ed the practice of the London Banker., in paying
any description of bills, if the money was sent,
without asking any questions.
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Upon the Jury returning a verdict of Not
the (earned Judge addressed the prisonyrs,
and recommended them to he very cautious in fn.
lure.

An Officer of one of the late China ships re-
ports, that notwithstanding the settlement of the
recent differences at Canton, and the re-establish-
ment of commercial intercourse, the I•rincipal
Mandariues at that place hare evidently conce:red
an unfortunate prejudice against the English,
which will not easily be removed. They attri-
bute every misfortune which befals their people in
their transactions with us es entirely owing to an
intention on our part to injure them, and fail not
on the sli4htest pretcuct to represent their griev-
ance to the superior powers.

Ilcxter 111. died in the 56th year of his reign,
and in the i:ith year of his age. EDWA RD 111.
expired iu the 51st year of his reigw, and in the
65th of his age. Our beloved Sovereign will en.
ter upon the 50th year of his reign on the 9,.5th of
October. These are the three longest reigns in
English history ; and, which is a remarkable Coin.
cidence, each of the three Sovereigns is the third
of the same name.