er of a livery stable at Brighton, and the dog which was destroyed was a most useful animal in guarding the yard. The defendant was of that class of religious sectaries who are supposed to carry the principles of the christian religion to greater extent than their neighbours. He dressed like a quaker, and would talk like one; his yea would be "yea," and his nay would be " nay;" but so far from being purer in principles than his neigh bours, his conduct on the present occasion would show that he had not the first rudiments of christianity in his heart, for that was devoid of mercy. The Scripture taught us that a merciful man would be merciful to his beast, and he would add, he would also be merciful to his neighbour's beast. How far he had been so the jury would judge. The defendant, it seemed, kept a bitch, and the neighbouring dogs would frequent his house. He had an unquestionable right to beat them away; and if that had been all he had done, the plaintiff would have had no right to complain. But he should show that he actually enticed the plaintiff's dcg into his yard, and then he rubbed him over with a liquid, which, from circumstances, be believed was oil of vitriol. He then turned the poor creature out, and in the course of the next day it corroded the flank of the poor wretch until the bowels actually dropped out, and it became necessary to put the animal out of its misery. It was for the jury to say what recompense they would give the plaintiff. It was not intended to prove any specific value of the dog, but the jury would be justified in giving the highest value that ever yet was set upon any animal of the sort. Among other evidence, Cooper Sampson, ostler at the stables, stated that the next morning after the liquid had been applied, about five o'clock, he first saw the dog; it was then running about the yard in great agony. The hair on the back was hard as though burnt, but on the sides where the dog had licked himself, the flesh had been torn away, and there was but a thin skin between the bowels. The tongue of the animal, by licking itself, was burnt hard like a coal, and was so hard and stiff that it remained bent, as if it was bended. About twelve o'clock the skin in the flank was quite eaten through in holes, and the bowels dropped out on the ground. In this state they shot the animal. Two other witnesses proved the same thing. Mr. Serjeant Best, for the defendant, admitted he could not say any thing in his justification, and that a verdict must be had against his client, for the value of the dog. But he cautioned the jury against giving way to their angry feelings, and awarding vindictive damages. They were by their verdict to compensate the plaintiff for the loss of his dog, and not to punish the defendant. The lord chief baron also stated to the jury, that by their verdict they were to give to the plaintiff a compensation for the loss of his dog. In his way of business, such an animal was certainly useful in protecting the stable-yard from the depredations of strollers. But he doubted not but that such cruelty would be punished in the religious society of which the defendant was a member. They no doubt would expel him from amongst them, when they heard of such unparal leled cruelty. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, Damages Five Pounds. Admiralty Admiralty-office, Aug. 9. Copy of a letter from the right honourable the earl of St. Vincent, K. B. admiral and commander in chief of his majesty's fleet employed in the Channel, Soundings, &c. to William Marsden, esq.; dated on board his majesty's ship the Hibernia, off Ush ant, the 5th instant. I have great pleasure in transmitting the accompanying letter from captain Keats, with its inclosure from captain R. D. Oliver of his majesty's ship the Mars, whose perseverance and judgment enabled him to capture a fine French frigate in the face of her three consorts of equal force. I am, &c. I beg leave to acquaint you, that I continued in pursuit of four of the enemy's frigates the night of the 27th instant; although I lost sight of them, as also of the squa dron under your command soon after it was dark, except the Afri ca, which we saw until about ele, ven o'clock, on the lee-quarter, when she was observed to burn some false fires. We steered about a point free the whole night, with a light in the stern, standing to the southward, and carried a press of sail; I was induced so to do from observing the course the enemy's squadron was steering when first seen, and judging that it would increase their difficulty of getting to leeward of us: it had that effect most fully, for at daylight yesterday morning they were discovered precisely on the same bearing as on the previous evening, though at a greater distance, except their sternmost ship, which we appeared to be gaining on this induced the French commodore to tack with his three headmost ships, and join her, and form in line of battle on the larboard tack-I thought, and hoped, with a determination to try the fortune of war, which was what every one on board the Mars most anxiously wished: but after making some signals, about three in the afternoon he made off with three frigates; the other continued her course under an extraordinary press of sail; and finding she was the only one we had gained on during a chase of 150 miles, and the day far spent, I still kept after her till six o'clock, when, in the midst of a violent squall of wind and hail, we were ranging upon her lee-quarter, after the first shot she struck her colours, just at the moment our broadside was ready to open upon her. She proved to be La Rhin, a very fine French frigate of 44 guns, 18-pounders, on the main deck, and 318 men; only four years old, commanded commanded by captain Chesneau : the squadron was commanded by monsieur Lamarre Lameillerie, in the Hortense, with the Hermione and Themis frigates, on their return from Porto Rico. Soon after the Rhin had surrendered, on the squali clearing away, the other three frigates were seen standing to the south-east; and I regret that the weather, which has yet prevented our removing more than one-third of the prisoners, made it impracticable for me to pursue them further. I cannot conclude without expressing my admiration of the conduct of every officer and man in this ship during a chase of twenty-four hours, against so superior a force, with ther, and incessant rain; several of our sails were split, and replaced with alacrity; and, in short, placed with alacrity; and, in short, had the remainder of the French squadron waited our approach, from the great zeal manifested by very bad wea every person on board, I have no doubt but our efforts would have been crowned with complete success in their destruction. I have the honour to be, &c. ROB. DUDLEY OLIVER. To captain Keats, of his majesty's ship Superb, commanding a detached squadron, &c. P. S. The Rhin hove overboard in the chase six of her quarter-deck and forecastle guns, and a bower anchor. Admiralty-office, Aug. 12. Copy of a letter from captain Stiles, of his majesty's ship the Adamant, to William Marsden, esq. of the arrival of his majesty's ship under my command, at this anchorage, with the victuallers named in the margin*, accompanied by the Spanish ship Nostra Senora de los Dolores, alias La Reparadora, four pounders) and three hundred of thirty guns (twelve and twentyand fifteen men, commanded by Stanislaus Comaud, an officer in the Spanish navy. We fell in with and captured her on the 6th instant, in lat. 30 deg. 30 min. S. and long. 15 deg. 20 min. W. She had been out a month from Monte Video, in the Rio de la Plata, and had taken nothing. I have great satisfaction in announcing the capture of this ship to you, as from her magnitude and force she might I have the honour to inform you have done much mischief to the trade on the coast of Africa; her crew are a desperate set of French, Spaniards, Portugueze, and Américans, the principal officers French: she had authority from the viceroy to wear the colours of the king of Spain, and had a company of Alexander and Royal Charlotte Spanish Spanish infantry on board. She is a strong well-built vessel, about four years old, coppered, and copper-fastened, and is, in my opinion, well calculated for his majesty's service. I have the honour to be, &c. JOHN STILES. Commodore sir Home Popham, &c. &c. Admiralty-office, Aug. 12. Copy of another letter from captain Stiles, of his majesty's ship Adamant, to William Marsden, esq. dated at St. Helena, June 25, 1806. Sir, Four days before I parted with the East India convoy, 1 fell in with and captured a Spanish ship of war of thirty guns and three hundred and fifteen men; the particulars of which I beg leave to inclose in a letter No. 1. I arrived in Table Bay, with the victuallers, on the 20th of May; and having seen them in safety without anchor ing myself, I immediately proceed ed to sea on my return to St. Helena, according to their lordships' orders; but meeting with a most violent gale of wind from the N. W. and being very short of water, (having been three months from England without touching at any place, with three hundred and fifteen prisoners), both my maintopsail yards carried away, and my people very much afflicted with the scurvy, I thought myself justified in bearing up for Simon's Bay for refreshments. The French admiral Willeaumez, with six sail of the line, was in these seas about six weeks ago; his intention was to have gone to the Cape; but hearing it was in our possession he was obliged to go to Fernand de No ronne for water, and has not since been heard of. The Cannonnier French frigate (late his majesty's ship Minerve) put into False Bay about the last of May, not knowing the Cape was in our hands, and sent her boat on shore with a lieutenant, who, with his crew, are prisoners on board this ship. As there was no man of war in either Table or False Bay, and as she did not quite fetch into the proper anchorage, she got away, and it is supposed she is gone to the Isle of France, where the Piedmontese is lying blocked up by the Russel, Lord Duncan, and Psyche. I have the honour to be, &c. 15. Yesterday afternoon as Mr. Bolton, haberdasher, of Stanhopestreet, Clare Market, was travelling with his son, a fine boy, four years old, inside the Bath and Taunton double-bodied coach, in Piccadilly the door flew open, and the child fell out; the hinder wheels of the vehicle, which was loaded with from fourteen to twenty pas sengers, went over both the legs of the child above the ancle, and broke the bones into splinters. It was a spectacle too shocking to give a full description of; the blood flowed copiously from the wounds, and the legs seemed only to be held together by the sinews.-The poor child was taken to the shop of Mr. Hambridge, Piccadilly, where every assistance was afforded to alleviate its wfferings. Thursday se'nnight an infamoustransaction took place at a publichouse called Low-bridge, on the road between Manchester and Huddersfield, about two miles from the latter place. A young woman who had not been married more than a week, proceeding on a visit to her parents, parents, called at this house to procure refreshment, where five men were drinking, without appearing to take much notice of her. Just after she had partaken of a gill of ale, she complained of sickness, and went to the door; on her return her indisposition evidently increased, and at this period she was laid on her back, while they poured ardent spirits down her throat. In this situation the young girl, who in the absence of her father had the charge of the house, with apparent humanity helped her to bed; but this was no sooner done, than she introduced into the room of the undefended stranger the fellows above noticed; from whom, aided in the proceedings by two other vile women, she was compelled to suffer a species of violence above all others the most abhorrent to the feelings of a virtuous woman. Not content with perpetrating the above, those wretches proceeded to amuse themselves with many indecent pranks, to the disfigurement of the young woman's person. The three men, and the three females above mentioned, are in custody. When the offenders were apprehended, and ready to be conveyed to Wakefield, the populace at Honley would have torn them to pieces, had they not been restrained by the constables. which Mr. Fernandez is ordained as their pastor. Mr. Carey expects two others to be soon constituted. A Mr. Mayhir, who lives 700 miles in the country, and has lately joined the church, with young Mr. Fernandez, have arrived at Philadelphia, on their way to Britain. The former intends to return immmediately, to attempt to introduce the gospel there; the latter is to reside some time in Britain for improvement as a misionary. The mission at Serampore have published proposals for translating the Scriptures into Shanscrit, Mahratta, Gazzerattee, Orissa, Carnatta, Telenga, Burmah, Assam, Bochar, Tibet, and Chinese. These, with the Bengalee, Hindostanee, Malay, Tamul, and Cingalese, are the whole languages in India; and the Bible being already in the five last, no part of that vast continent will be destitute of the Word of God in their own language. The college at Fort William, and the Asiatic society, patronise the undertaking; and the Bible society of London, of which lord Teignmouth is president, have voted 1000l. towards defraying its expense. The Chinese translation is be gun, under the tuition of Mr. Joannes Lassar, from Canton, professor of that language, who was lately employed in correcting the official correspondence between the Portuguese at Macao and the court of Pekin. He is now resident at the Mansion-house at Serampore, and is teaching the language to three of the missionaries. Some part of the translation is already printed off, from characters cut in wood after the Chinese manner. The third and last volume of the Old Testament, in Bengalee, is at press. The Gospel of Matthew is printed in the Mahratta tongue; and |