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TD OF KING'S BENCH—May 28-
Cuffe vs. Christie.
was an action upon a policy, of in-
xipon goods, brought to recover a
ss and premium against the undsr-
plaintiffs, 'Messrs Cuffee and Bick-
were considerable merchants, and
- i-s of butter and cheese from the.
ant, and the defendant a gentleman
— t respectable character. The policy
^tu'it wa$ underwrote for 15001. upon
—^,-irhich appeared to be of the value of
-^ efs. and had been shiped by the a-
rff t he plaintiffs, Mr. Ebegg, atEmbden,
__ ^^ed to the plantiffs by the ship call-
- I^eundschaft (the Friendship) which
=-c»red at the cusmm house at Embden
lOthof November, S.803. She re-
-^ in that river, owing to contrary
tan til the 6th of December then fol.
^*-, and had never since been heard of
^Tclie part of the defendant, itwascon-
__3 that at the time of effecting the
^_- in question, which was done on the
-' f December, there was a concealment
1-5. ocuments, which the underwriters
-. -3 "have been made acquainted with.
-« «^eter upon which the policy had been
d was dated the 2d of December, and
ed the 23d from which it appeared,
lie ship in question was then ready to
-vvhereas the plaintiffs being very ex-
"_^,ely en,.'aged in this trade, had receiv-
_,sral letters from their agent Mr. 'Eb-
Evntecedent to, that date by, Die
Sch'.vestren (the Three Sisters) Der
i*5 jvon Prussen (the King ot Prussia)
titer ships, with consignments from
. place, in most of which it appeared
*. lie Freundschaft was supposed to have
*A* ^^-tJ £°v England, lone before any of them
**• «
£*
*<=>
ome apprehensions were entertained as
safety. Some of the captains and
; of- the above mentioned ships were
anr-» £*¦ k; laed, from •whose evidence it appeared
^¦3^** tTiey left the Freundschraft in. Embden
*^~* " ^js a" the 9th December.
'3E^-c>-^^c,rcl Ellenborough left it to the jury up-
'j^e credibility of these witnesses, when
o**- „arr:d with these documents, which his
Irip conceived to be a concealment suf-
The jury found' <» veroict for Hie -plaintiff
__damages <5°1- which was the sum pro-
ved to be necessary to put her in a state of
sea worthinesss.
r^t to void the policy, if the jury disbe-
* - e"' yWh-t in tne couuty °f Devon, which to
**_» -^per.rances was a sound and well-built
& .el but upon examination, after the ship
, "vC "brought to the Thames, it was found
t her' ontsfde planks were worked up of
'", j-,er which had not sufficiently been clear-
_, 0f the sappy part at the edges; in conse-
* cce of which, when the seams were af-
*^ rv«E&rds caulked, the edges of the wood
ve vvay and the water leaked in through
^Vie ape,tlires- Theplantiff, therefore, hav-
c _, paid for her as a sound ship, brought
* aCttonof tort as for a deceit against the
, ^f^ndant, for having sold him a ship as a
.SnA and well built ship, which was in
jOUiIW
•fact no* sound.
On 'he part of the plaintiffit was proved
-£JLr. Treyludda, the captain, who pur
¦by
,.ecl the vessel for his owners, that at the
BY THIS DAY's MAILS.
.1.UCACE, May 22.
Yesterday a detachment of Saxon "Body
Guards returned to Dresden, from Silesia.
The Imperial Austrian cordon has lately ex-
tended as far as the frontier village of Mex-
dorf, in Upper Lusatia.
VIENNA, May 27.
General Michelson's army has lately re-
ceived reinforcements from the govern-
ments, Taganrog and Odessa. The old
prince Prosorowsky exerts himself in ob
taining reinforcements for general Michel-
son's army.
The insurrection in Romelia continues.
Much animositv subsists between Mustapha ;
fiairaktar of Rudshuck, and the Ayau of j
•PhilopoppeL These disturbances operate
very seriously in increasing the difficulties
of provisioning the army of the grand vi-
zier. The blockade of all the ports in the
Ionian and ^Egean seas, by the Russians,
has caused a great scarcity at Constantino-
ple ; and in consequence of the arrears due
to the troops, the garrison of ,the Darda
nelles have lately mutinied, and left their
post. The commandant, however, over-
took them at Budjukdere, and prevailed on
them to return, by promising them a speedy
payment.
The ci-devanf grand vizier, Jussuf Pacha,
has suddenly surprized and taken the castle
of Anacria, very important for its situation
at the mouth of the Phasis. The garrisoa
was extremely weak. A similar attempt
upon Kambal failed altogether.
M. Lablanch, the secretary to the French
legati m, and lieutenant-colonel Pouton,
have set out from Constantinople to Fetkaly,
Sehach, to conduct the operations of the
Persians against Grusnia.
The emperor will return to Vienna thro'
Styria, and is expected here on the 1st of
June.
His highness the archduke Joseph has
been suddenly attacked with a spitting of
blood, and is very much indisposed.
letters front reaching Paris that conveyed
such discouraging accounts. Nevertheless,
means have heeti found to 'inform the sol-
diers' families and friends of the real state of
affairs in Puland. It is an undoubted fact,
and well known to the gentleman in ques-
tion, that when Bonaparte's last message
was sent to the senate, whish had for its ob-
ject the calling out of the conscripts, the
measure was not assented to by the majority
of the members until three days had elapsed,
during which very warm altercations were
produced, and much rancor manifested by
.the opposite parties.
MAGDEBURG, June 2.
The 450 French seamen who arrived here
in carriages from Boulogne, have been sent
on their journey in the same vehicles that
brought them.
COPENHAGEN, June 2.
In a letter from Silesia it is stated, that
there are between 17 and 20,000 men in
Glatz.
Dantzic surrendered for want of powder.
General Kalkreuth has already arrived at
Konigsberg, where he has been introduced
to the king of Prussia. Lord Gower and
the Earl of Pembroke are both here.
HAGUE, June 4.
Russian, Prussian, and French couriers,
are continually arriving from the head-quar-
ters, and at Warsaw, but none of them
bring intelligence of any movements among
the armies.
T'me, the defendant " laid it on" m praise-
f his vessel ; and taking it for granted she
-as well built and sound, he purchased her
t a sound price. To all immediate appear-
nce, indeed, there was no defect in her ;
- t>,t afterwards being found that .some of
i,er tii^hers got wet, Mr. S. Barbe was call-
A in, who requested that a ve;;ulai purvey
Viou'd he had : and upon examining the
teT planks as. far as the high water mark,
Irnost allot'them were bad and defective, so
tbat if she had been sent to sea there would
»-ave been great danger of her sinking.
Mr. S. Barbe said that it was not usual
with him, when he bought a new ship in
the river, to examine her very particularly ;
but th*«»»•* *° Prevent *BS
SALEM (v'uss,) \ugust 7.
Entered, sclus Eliza, Whittredge, Balti-
more ; Vandyck,Pauchard,New-York; sloop
Criterion, Drinkwatei, Boltimore.
Cleared, schooner Victoiy, Learock, Mar-
tinique.
One of the seamen, (D>aniel Martin) to
obtain whom the outrage was committed,
who is stated to.be a native of Westport, is
ascertained to have been born in St. Domin-
go. He is a mixture of Indian & Spanish.
When a boy hewas taken and brought away
as an apprentice, by a captain Rowland, who
was there on a whaling voyage. He lived
with captain H. till his death, which hap-
pened about four years ago, but soon after-
wards ran away from his mistress, being then
about 19 years of age. It is not probable he
was ever naturalized.
BOSTON, August 7.
Arrived, (via quarantine,) shipPegassus,
Cary, of Salem, Matanzas, 25 days ; brig
Sampson, Strout, of Portland, Guadeloupe,
25 days ; brig Adventure, Hail, Newfound-
land 21 ; schr . Seaffowej, Crosby, Gos-
p rt, N. S. 18; Enlerprize, Hall, Rich-
mond, 6 days. Leit, a Lynn brig just ar-
med from ' It'imore. Passed two British
men of war at l-juuhavenbay August l,
A brig went in quarantine road.
Cleared, Drake, Stodder, Savannah •;
Mount Vernon, Peirce, Dighton ; Colum-
bia, Southworth, Richmond.
Brig Parkston, Carpenter, St. Johns,
N. F. ; schr. Boston, Smith, Martinico.
NEW-YORK, August 10.
Arrived, the British ship Venus, Wills,
20 days from Boston. On St. George's
Banks, was boarded by the Indian sloop of
war.
The brig Thomas, Southworth, ofNe.v-
bedford, 58 days from Amsterdam.
The English were expected at Amster-
dam. The ship Halcyon, sailed some days
before the Thomas. Two American ships
just arrived—another American ship loaded
with tea, was just got on ashore on the no-
thern side of the Texel. In the Reads,
ship Eliza, of New-York, to sail in 2 days
for London. June 14, in the North Sea,
Fair-island bearing W. by N. 13 leagues,
spoke ship Hannah, Smith, of Newbury-
port. July 8, lat. 48, 20, long. 33, spoke
ship Adeline, Trott, of Boston 18 days
from Liverpool for Charleston. loth, lat.
45, 20, long. 43, 40, fchr. John, Gibson,
13 days from Wiscassett for Liverpool.
28th, lat. 42, 26, long. 64, 20, spoke
ship Charles Foster, -28 days from Mil-
ford for Ne>A.bedfoid.
The brig Huron, Hill, 50 days from Bor-
deaux. Left, ships Ranger, itberburnr, for
Baltimore, uncertain ; Acmw, Nye, for do.
in 8 days.
Th" brig Black Walnut, May, 16 days
¦fToni Havanna Left Patty, for N. York, in
3 or 4 days ; brig Charleston, do. in 6 ; and
biig Adeline, do. in 12. August 5, in lat.
39, 83, spoke brig Ontario, 2 days from N.
York for Guadaloupe ; next day, spoke sloop
Patty, Bevans, from Mew York for St. Criox.
August 1, lat. 36 l.ing. 74, brig Superior,
Hays, from Philadelphia, for Havanna.
The schr. Polly, Leary, 14 days from St.
Thomas. ugust 2, in lat. 35, 55, long. 78,
3 spoke schr. Adventure, 2 days from Bal-
titwre for Havanna.
The bvig Clarissa Claiborne, Hayes, 26
days from New-Orleans. No news.
The sloop Mary, Hand, 9 days from
Charleston.
The-----, Crosbie, from Yarmouth, n. s.
In the sound, bound down, the ship Pre-
sident, Russel, of Wiscasset, 50 days from
Dublin;
Cleared, ships Abula, Dillingham, Bar-
celona ; Soline, Destouet, Charleston ; Sa-
vage-Bostwick-. Liverpool ; Lord Sheffield,
Oyres, Halifax ; brig Hope, Walker, Wind-
sor, N. S. ; schrs. Mary-Ann, Beatty, St.
Johns ; Margaietta, Cochran, St. Johns, N.
S. ; Eliza, Benjamin, Philadelphia.
1000 lb. mor. can.':
Ht'tpgy loco ft #s'ooo
48 lb 3600 SMOOft
42 8800 21000
36 3000 soooo
32 2700 19000
24 Q100 16000
18 2000 15600
12 1500 11000
9 1300 12000
0 1200 9600
4 1000 7200
2 590 sooo
1 463 2S0O
PHlL'bELPllIA, August 10.
Arrived, bvig Syiph,. Yardsley, Amster-
dam, S4 days ; St Croix Packet, ---------,
St. Croiz; Ruth & Mary, Matjack, Havana;
brig Lydia, Lmwson, St. Thomas ; -schr.
Amicus, Nelson, St. Thomas.
Arrive'ti, at the Lazaretto, Banish brig
Fame, Kiein. Havanna, »4.
Cleaved, ship Oileans, Toby, K-w Or-
leans ; bvig Union, Johnson, -Havanna ;
sloop Delight, Ireland, New York ; Hero-'
ine, Williams, ditto ; Brother and Sister,
Hickman, ditto,
Brig Nancy, Bingham, from Havanna, is
below.
Yesterday arrived, brig Sylph, captain
Yardsley, from Amsterdam, which he left
15tli of June, having biought no papers he
says nothing material had turned up to his
knowledge, since the capture of Dantzick,
though an engagement was daily expected
Captain Yardsley, informs, that the ship
Abigail. Bangs, sailed for this port June 1 ;
the Amsterdam Packet -was to sail in two
weeks for this port ; the Camilla, Warden,
sailed the 8th of June for Petersburg ; and
the Mechanic, Bedlow,-was to sail about the
1st of July, with passengers, for this port.
He further informs that the ship Mandarine,
Cunningham, from Boston, was cast away,
9th of June, on Texel Island ; the crew
and about 4 or 500 boxes of tea saved, the
vessel and remainder of the cargo lost ; the
next day was drove on the Haykes, the ship
Pacific, Stephens, of New Bedford from
Bordeaux, to Tonningen, but she beat over
and was towed ashore, part of her cargo is
saved, but the ship and remainder will be
lost.
( aptain Y. spoke, June 25, off Beachy
Head, brig Ariel, Donavin, from this port
for Amsterdam, 25 days out. August 2,
lat. 38, 18, long. 62, spoke brig Tyger,
Rowland, from Savannah for Liverpool, but
being leaky meant to put into the first port he
could make ; the next day spoke brig Henry,
Hyde, from New-London, for Barbados, out
4 days. Captain Y. was boarded in the
Channel by several British vessels and treat-
ed politely.
August 11.
Arrived, ship Agnes, Bunce, Charleston,
6- days ; schooner Colltctor, May, Vera
Cruz, 24.
Cleared, brig Betsy, Bradford, Lisbon ;
sloop Polly, Grove, St. Mary's.
The ship Henry, of New-York, from Ha-
vanna, has been deserted at sea ; captain
Hughes and crew, after being in the boat 2
days, were picked up.
from City of St. Domingo, July i2.—
All American produce is very low, owing to
the many recent arrivals from the U. States.
Several privateers now fitting out here. The
following vessels are here : ship Pftaliix,
Tinker, of New York ; barque Edward,capt.
Dole, of Newburyport ; brig Eunice, H.
Knssell, of Boston ; schr.------, Tagart, of
Indian-Town ; schr. lietsy, Hewes, of Phi-
ladelphia, captured by a privateer, and it is
expected will be condemned ; schr. Brothers
Return, of Georgetown, also captured, but
it is thought will be cleared.
From ths-PhiladelpkiaGazette.
A T .ULS
Shewing the distance to which balls and
bomb-shells may be thrown from cannon
and mortars of different calibres, level
and elevation 45 degrees.
Calibre Calibre llrvatcd
if of. Level 45 de-
Mc. tars. Cannon grecs.
150 lb. 18000/f.
100//?. 146 0
OQ'ib. 11000
One oz. of powder will burst one hundred
lbs. W eight. An experiment made in Eu-
rope, with a 241b. shot against a sand wall,
it was found that the ball entered 22 feet ;
61b. shot, at the distance of 500 feet, en-
tered ten feet within the wall ; heavy can-
non, such as 48 and 36 pounders: at the
distance of 1200 feet entered 10 or 12 feet
—this ball will fly in I second 368 feet ;
in half a minute 2 miles.
The following shews how far a ball o
the different calibres entered an oak wall
at the distance of 1000 feet, viz.
36 lb. shot entered 4 feet 4 inches,
24 lb. ditto 3 do. 4 do.
18 lb. ditto 3 do. 3 do.
12 lb. ditto ' a do. 5 do.
9 lb. ditto 1 do. 10 do.
6 lb. ditto ^ 1 do. 3 do.
English three-deckers cany 42 lb. cannor.
of lower battery ; in a seventy-four, 32 lb.
cannon. French, Fiussian and Spanish
three.deckers carry 48 lb. of lower battery ;
in an eighty and seventy-four, 36—the Da-
nish, Dutch, and Swedes, of same calibre.
All the cannon that is mentioned most be
loaded with one-third prt weight of the
balls in the mortars, one ounce and a hall
for the bomb filled with powder, 80 or 90
degrees force.
N. B. If government should require
guns and mortars of heavy metal, to defend
their seaport tojvns as given above, I would
engage to furnish correct prop utions of the
size and olher particulars relative to them ;
and likewise the construction and the pre-
paration of the carriages to work upon, by
light mechanical contrivances. I would
furnish plans for the whole, f r a proper
compensation; and by so doing, I am con-
fident the advantage s arising from the same
would supercede all other improvements in
this part of the globe. Besides, a conside-
rable saving would arise in the end, and
finally, be a mean of better security from,
attack by an enemy.
WM. SCHULTZ, Engineer.
•CHARLESTON, July 30.
Arrived, ships Ocean, Malcolm, Gieen-
ock, 83 days,; Neptune, Osgood, fNV.w-
York, 20.
Capt. Osgood spake off the Frying Pan,
on Saturday last, sloop Gazette, Price, 20
days from Santo Domingo, for this port—
all hands sick.-
July 31.
We are happy to learn, that capt. Kaltic-
sen, the commanding officer of fort John-
son, has received advice that a large supply
of cannon and military stores have been or-
dered on to this city, for the defence of our
harb r. Six cannon, 18 and 24 ponndeis,'
with travelling carriages, and ten 18 pound-
ers, are directed by the secretary of war to
he deposited in this city, under the charge
of the officer commanding the militia.
Arrived, schr. Maria, Jesot, Havanna, 5
days ; sloop Regulator, Hay, Savannah, 2.
August 1.
Arrived, schr. Betsy, Jenkins, Nassau,
via Georgetown, 14 days.
Clear:'.:!, ketch Flora, Stevens, Plymouth,
(Eng.) ; schr, Lavater, Uandlin, Balthmre,
NORFOLK, August 7.
Captain R. Taylor, who went down to
the Triumph on publick business, returned
this morning ; from him we learn : ,'. (J»e
Triumph in the bay, and the Colum'birie in
the Roads, are the only British ships in our .
waters. With captain Taylor, went down
the proprietors of some negroes that had got
on board the Triumph, where sir Thomas
Hardy detained them until they could be
identified and claimed which being' dene,
they were delivered to their ownc 1,
It is but justice in us to state, that all the
gentlemen who have gone down on business
with sir Thomas Hardy, speak in terms of
the highest respect for his character, and of
the polite attention which he manifests to
them.
Band of Music.
Those patriotic Young Men who have join-
ed any of the Volunteer Companies attRChed
to the thirty -ninth regiment, and those who
have not joined any company as yet, who ;;re
dfesivoiis of forming a 11 AND, to he aUacl.i.^.
to the said regiment, wi'l please to meet at
the Pantheon on Wednesday Evening, the 12th.
instant at 8 o'clock. As it is not probable that
all the amateurs of Baltimore are. ahead;. ¦ ¦¦
gaged, it is hoped that there are a few still
left to instruct those who cannot play on any
iiwmnent, but who are willing |
