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EARL STANHOPE'S MODEL OF A SHIP OF WAR.-Yesterday morning, Earl Stanhope went to Masterman's barge-house, near Lambeth Quay, which place he reached before six o'clock. Determined on putting his new invention to the most severe trial, he ran her down through the three bridges, just at the turn of the tide, in order that her powers might be displayed in coming up against the strongest of the current. The gills were found to be of the utmost service in passing through London bridge against a strong ebb tide. Mr Warren, one of his majesty's pilots, steered, and Nelson, junior, and Masterman, junior, of Stangate, rowed the newly-invented model. His lordship tried her in various directions; and, by having a more lengthened sweep than she had at the former experiment, it was found that she answered the purpose much better than could have been at first imagined. There is still, however, much reason to doubt, whether, in a gale of wind, a ship constructed according to this model, would be able to hold her wind as well as a ship built on the usual plan. His lordship's plan may unquestionably, in some instances, be the means of preserving a ship when she falls into a trough of the sea (or the furrow between two heavy waves,) as the gills are calculated to turn her head against a swell, which might otherwise overwhelm her. When they came opposite Somerset-house, not withstanding it rained incessantly all the time, his lordship continued working the newly-invented vessel about, backwards and forwards athwart the tide, and making head against it for nearly two hours. She was then worked up as high as Lambeth Quay, sometimes with sails, and sometimes by oars, until it was nearly half past

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four. At one time he moored her astern of the brig cut down, which has been converted by Mess. Boffe and Mills, to an engine for raising the sand forming the irregular banks in the river, by means of steam, and other machinery. That curious piece of workmanship, however, was not then in action; and his lordship made a few experiments as to the powers of his newly-invented model, in slack water; after which, when it was nearly dark, he had her brought in shore, until another opportunity, when there may be a stiff breeze to try her sailing more effectually. As far as the strength of the tide could be opposed, with about 1400 weight of ballast on board, this little vessel answered very well. The chief doubt is as to her capability of making good headway in the direction that she steers for, without making much leeway, when she has a strong current of heavy sea athwart her beam, or on her weather-bow. Though the day was extremely unfavourable, his lordship remained the whole of the time on board, exposed to the rain and cold, without the least refreshment.

Lately was shot by George Pringle, at Staingate, near Danby-Lodge, the sporting seat of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Downe, Yorkshire, an eagle of the following remarkable dimensions: its breadth, between the tip of the wings, two yards ten inches; the length, from its beak to the tip of the tail, thirty-eight inches; the extreme breadth of the tail, twentyfive inches. When placed in an erect posture, its height, two feet seven inches; its weight, sixteen pounds two ounces; the colour, a mixed brown and white, the back almost nearly white. This extraordinary bird has been put into a state of pre

servation by Mr Frank, at DanbyLodge.

5th. The troops from Monte Video finished their disembarkation at Cork; the returns of the sick on board amounting to 317. The whole force, effective and non-effective, which arrived in the transports, was 6294.

A neutral vessel arrived at Hull from Riga, after having been detained by the Danes both at Bornholm and Copenhagen. After the captain's papers were examined, he was suffered to depart, on the principle (which the Danes now recognize in practice) of free ships making free.

cargoes.

Some of the labourers on that part of the Caledonian canal which cuts the side of the hill Torravain, near Inverness, and close to the old road leading to Lochness, dug up a silver chain, of double links, in all containing thirty rings the thickness of the bars which compose the links is about that of a man's little finger, and the medium diameter of the rings may be a little more than an inch and a half; the chain weighs six pounds, and is of silver, mixed with a small quantity of alloy, seemingly of brass or copper. A human skeleton was found near the chain, and a piece of the same metal, resembling in shape a bracelet, but which could not have been intended for that purpose, being considerably too small. Inverness is well known to have been the ancient capital of the Pictish kings, and the forts of Craig Phatrick, near that town, as well as many others, are supposed to be the remains of the royal habitations of that race.

8th. The annual importation into Lisbon of cotton from the Brazils, is said to have been for the last three years, at the rate of from 110 to

120,000 bags each year. The importation into Oporto has been about 20,000 bags a-year; the gross amount of imported cotton has been thus 140,000 bags, about the amount we imported into Liverpool last year from the United States. Of the cotton imported from the Brazils, about 70,000 bags were annually sent to France.

According to a census which appears in the last American papers, the population of New York has more than tripled since the year 1785. In that year, the return was 23,600, at present it is 85,530.

8th. This day, about three o'clock, Sir John Stuart and Sir Home Popham proceeded to the chamberlain's office, Guildhall, when the chamberlain first addressed Sir John Stuart as follows:

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"Sir John Stuart, I give you joy; and, in obedience to an unanimous resolution of the lord mayor, aldermen and common council assembled, do give you thanks for your very gallant and heroic conduct at Maida, thereby proving to the world that the boasted prowess of the French arms cannot stand, when fairly tried, before the intrepid bravery and steady discipline of British soldiers. And, as a farther testimony of the high esteem which the court entertains of your very meritorious services, I present to you this sword."

He then addressed Sir Home Popham as follows:

"Sir Home Popham, I give you joy; and in the name of the lord mayor, aldermen, and common council, assembled, return you thanks for your gallant conduct and important services in the capture of Buenos Ayres, at once opening a new source of commerce to the manufactories of Great Britain, and depriving her ene

my of one of the richest and most extensive colonies in her possession. And, by an unanimous resolution of the said court, I am to present you with a sword, as a testimony of the high esteem which it entertains of your very meritorious conduct."

Sir John Stuart and Sir Home Popham each returned short and appropriate answers, expressive of the high honour conferred upon them, and promising to use their swords in defence of the rights and privileges of their king and country. They then returned to the chamberlain's parlour, where they put on the swords presented them, and went to the mansion house, where an elegant dinner was provided for them, and about sixty of the lord mayor's friends.

11th. The accounts of the public revenue for the quarter which had just expired, present the most satisfactory result. There is a surplus of about 120,000l. in a quarter which has generally been deficient, on account of the very heavy charge which it has to provide for; which charge has, in the present instance, been augmented by some payments which do not properly belong to it, and which cannot recur again. The net produce of the permanent taxes this quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, exhibits an increase of 1,022,000l. Part of this arises, no doubt, from the provision made for the increased charge on account of the loan of 1807; and the remainder consists of the augmentation of the old duties, under the heads customs, excise, stamps, and assessed taxes.

The arrangements at present a greed upon respecting the trade between this country and the Bra zils, are stated to be, that the same articles which were admit

ted into Portugal shall be allowed to be imported into the Brazils upon payment of duties not lower than the last tariff, but subject to any augmentation the new government shall think proper. All the articles prohibited in Portugal to continue so in the Brazils until a new treaty is concluded. Bonds to be given by the merchants that the goods shall be landed at the custom-house of the port for which they are shipped.

Statement of the quantity of strong beer brewed by the twelve principal houses, between the 5th July, 1807, and the 5th January, 1808 :

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12th. William Chapman, the captain of a Liverpool slave ship, was indicted before the admiralty sessions, for the wilful murder of Robert Dunn, by exposing him naked to the weather, by starving him, and by repeated acts of cruelty and illtreatment.

The solicitor-general opened the case, in the absence of the king's advocate, when George Scott, the doctor on board the ship, and the principal evidence, together with Richard Smith, Henry Nutson, John Barrier, and others of the ship's crew, were called to corroborate the case made out.

The deceased was sent out by one of the owners of the ship, and it appeared that the captain had taken an early dislike to him, from a suspicion that he was placed on board as a spy upon the conduct of the ship's officers. The ship had not left Li

crawled on the forecastle, where he lay with a mat to cover him, incapable of moving. He continued in that situation till he expired about three or four days after. The captain was told of his death, and exclaimed " D-n his eyes, throw him overboard." The doctor's description of the dead body was as follows:-" The face was so swelled that his eyes could not be seen-his head was also swelled, and his hair clotted with blood-his breast bone stuck out like a wedge-his back appeared to be humped his belly was shrunk in-his whole frame emaciated, and his body covered with bruises."

verpool more than a month, when the deceased, having spilt some molasses, received five dozen lashes by the captain's orders. From that time, September, 1805, till the 31st of March, 1807, the deceased experienced an uninterrupted series of ill-treatment and privations. Every fault, though of the most trivial sort, was visited with the severest chatisement: He was suspended hours together with a chain round his middle, and left swinging in an horizontal position; he was tied up by the neck, his toes just touching the deck, till he was nearly strangled; he was again suspended by the legs, with his head downwards, his fingers' ends resting upon the hatchways, On the ship's arrival at the island till the blood having overcharged the of Dominica, the doctor swore to vessels of the head and brain, he be- . the entry in the logbook, respecting came insensible. Again he was ex- the decease of Dunn, in which it apposed naked to the weather, and peared that he died of extreme nervcompelled, in the midst of a cold ous debility and exhaustion; but this rain, to wring out the swabs, and was was qualified by the doctor in his eemployed to empty the tubs in which vidence, by saying that he made the the slaves deposited their filth. On entry under the apprehension that one occasion, when he had upset his life would be in danger if he did one of these tubs upon the deck, the otherwise, the captain having pu captain beat him with a handspike, nished him, in the way of a common and bruised and lacerated his body man, for having in his absence given in a most pitiable way; the blood away a bottle of rum to a mate who flowed from his head and covered had newly come on board. He left his shoulders. His daily allowance Dominica, however, in about a fortwas a pound of yam or bread, and night afterwards, and in two days three half pints of water, and of reached Montserrat, when he made course his body became emaciated, a disclosure to the magistracy of the and his flesh and strength dwindled facts before stated, and he and the away. He was also beat over the witnesses were sent home in the Norface and eyes with the handle of a thumberland, to give evidence against cat, and these various acts of cruel- the prisoner. The captain was also and chastisement repeated almost sent home in the same ship; and in daily. The last act of cruelty, how the way he corresponded with one ever, was when the poor wretch was Evans, a marine on board the Nordiscovered lying in the place where thumberland, the letters to whom the pigs were kept. He again used were given to Smith, and by him the handspike, and beat him with it shown to the doctor, and the part of from head to foot. The deceased the crew detained to give evidence

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These letters were now in court, and breathed a spirit of contrition on the part of the captain for his ill-treatment of his crew, promises to give each 100%. if they will appear on his behalf at the trial, and contradict the assertions of the doctor :-tells them that his life is in their hands, and that they must assist him in obtaining his liberty.-Assures them that the depositions taken at Montserrat were all destroyed, and could not be brought against him, therefore, if they were all of one mind, and would falsify the doctor's evidence, he might still have his freedom. He concluded several of his letters by hoping to God he should escape through their means, and assured the men, if they behaved generously to him, he would never forsake them nor their interests.

The prisoner, when called on for his defence, gave in a written paper, stating, that he had the misfortune to have a turbulent and mutinous crew, and that he was compelled to have recourse to severities in order to maintain his command. Smith, the gunner, after disobeying his orders, said, he had the key of the magazine, and would blow up the ship; on another occasion, eleven out of twenty-five of his crew left the ship and went on shore; that the whole was a conspiracy to take away his life, and the charge had been made up by the doctor out of revenge, he, the prisoner, having punished him for his misconduct. With respect to the letters he sent, he was obliged to have recourse to that expedient, as the only probable way of saving his life, as he found the whole of the crew leagued against him.

Captain Brown, of the Eliza slave ship, then deposed to the mutinous state of the crew of the prisoner's

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ship; and capt. D'Arcey, the com mander of a Guineaman, gave the prisoner a good character for humanity!

Mr justice Le Blanc summed up the evidence, and said, it was a question purely with respect to the credibility of witnesses. If they believed the facts deposed, they certainly amounted to murder; but if they thought the facts had been overcharged, and the case had been made up from motives of pique, ra ther than of public justice, then they would take the improbability of the case into consideration, and say whether, under all the circumetances, the prisoner was not entitled to their acquittal?

The jury retired about 9 o'clock, and remained enclosed six hours. At three o'clock they re-entered the box, when their foreman pronounced a verdict of Not guilty.

At Horsington, Somerset, a pitched battle was fought, between Hazard, a butcher, and Stacy, a shoemaker, two noted bruisers. The combatants entered a large ring, with their seconds and bottle-holders: Tom Hazard, a sailor, seconded his brother, and Clarke seconded Stacy.--The contest continued, with little variation, till the 50th round, when Stacy sprained his wrist so badly, that he could not make a blow with his right hand; and, after nine more severe rounds, and appearing very weak, he, at the repeated request of the gentlemen present, gave in. A dispute having taken place between the two seconds, a challenge was given, and accepted; and after the above was decided, they set-to, when another very severe contest took place. After 32 hard-fought rounds, victory was declared in favour of Hazard. Several amateurs and gen

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