A BRITISH INTELLIGENCE. LONDO N, December 18. Port News. Be BOUT feven in the morning of the 17th of Dec a large fhip was feen about two leagues weft of the Land's-end in apparent great diftrefs, the wind then very hard at Eaft. Thirty people, from a fmall village called Sanning, went out, in two boats, to her affiftance. tween the fhip and the thore they were met by two boats from the veffel, who told them they were from Port-au-Prince, bound to Dunkirk; that they had been out 56 days, and had met very hard weather. The ship was leaky; and, when they quitted her, she had fix feet water in her hold; and they fuppofed fhe would go down in less than a quarter of an hour. This did not ftop the Cornish-men; they boarded her and found that very foul play had been ufed, and great pains taken to fink the fhip. Three augers were found, with which they had bored two holes under the cabin floor; alfo the rigging cut away, and the principal pump-geer tied. They ftopped the holes as fast as poffible; and in a few hours, got her fafe into St. Mary's in Scilly: her cargo is coffee, fugar, and indigo. The perfon who calls himself Captain, favs, his name is Francis Cardon; the hip called the Sarah; and that they left the real Captain fick in the Weft Indies. They brought 50 chefts of dollars with them. At Plymouth on the 3d inftant at night, and the 4th in the morning, they had the feverest gale of wind ever remembered by the oldeft man liv ing. The wind from S. S E. to S. The damage done among the ships is almost incredible. Twee Ge ufters, with wine and onions from Bourde wx to Amfterdam, funk at her anchors in the Pool. The Zeeluft from Nantz to Amfterdam, with fugar and prunes, drove from her moorings in the Pool and funk. The Rofamond from Newfoundland, with fish and oil, funk in the Pool, and her stern stove in. The St. Antonio Boa Viagam, from Oporto to London, ftern ftove in, and the veffel other wife much damaged; in fhort the Pool was an entire scene of wreck. At Falmouth feveral ftore houses and dwelJing-houfes were washed away by the fea's rifing to an uncommon height. On the 4th it blew a hurricane. At Cowes the James of Sunderland was totally Toft on the back of the Isle of Wight. The Catherine, from Lisbon to London, and Speedwell, from Bilboa to Plymouth were both lol. At Scilly a large Dutch ship drove on shore in the morning of the 6th, and about four o'clock foundered, and all on board perished. A large brig belonging to Dartmouth, from Newfoundland, with paffengers and agents, was loft on Bigbury- bay, and all on board perished. A Dutch veffel caft away upon Lundy-Inland. That island, during the late ftorms was entirely bicured by the uncommon height of the waves, which were fingularly awful to the oldeft and molt experienced mariners. The Ramirez, a French floop of war of 16 guns, totally loft on the rocks near the ifle of Alderney, and all on board perifhed. The Philip and Mary, from Jerfey to Bourdeaux, totally loft two hours after the failed. The Friends, Collingwood, from Seville to London, totally loft off Portland. In fhort, never was fuch havock made among the shipping on this coaft in the memory of man. The French and Dutch coafts are faid to have been equally strewed with wrecks. At the Texel, a Dutch man of war broke from her moorings and loft, the people faved. The Zuydazee, a large Weft-India fhip lost, many people perished. The mouths of the Maefe, Scheldt, and Dort rivers are full of wrecks. The Thibe frigate, which carried Lord Keppel to Italy, on her return met with the fame ftorm at the chops of the Channel, as proved fo fatal to the Halfewell Eaft- Indiaman. The lightning came on with fuch violence as to ftrike the men down upon the deck, though luckily they foon recovered. The mafts were split, and the rigging torn from them, fo as to make it neceffary to cut them quite away to clear the wreck. At St. Ives in Cornwall the lightning and thun der was terrible; but they preceded the fnow, which was afterwards remarkably heavy for feveIn Mount's-bay feveral veffels were ral hours. driven on fhore. De Chameron, or Count de Chameron, as he calls himself, who robbed and fo villainously treated Mr. Mackay, (fee our Dec. Mag p. 668.) was by order of the French minifter removed to the Baftile, where he has already fuffered the punishment of the rack once, and has, by this time, or very shortly will, fuffer death by the torture. When Mr. Mackay applied to the Duke of Dorfet upon the subject, his grace not only fhewed the moft polite attention to his complaint, but affured him he would, if poffible, get the woman fent over to be punished here; but as to the man, the Duke thought, that, as he had wounded the officer of the police, the French government would not give him up; and with refpect to the money which was found on the woman, and which the infpector of the police had lodged in the hands of Mr. Perigould the banker, his Grace would take especial care to fee it remitted. When the woman was taken the denied having any of the money; but, upon the officer telling her if the did not confefs he would. give her the rack, the inftantly owned that the had two hundred and twenty-five pounds in notes, concealed in the heel of her fhoe, where they were found. The Marquis of Carmarthen shewed the fame attention to Mr. Mackay's cafe as the Duke; nor can any thing exceed the vigi lance, activity and zeal fhewn by the French go vernment throughout this affair." 22.] Mr. Meriton, 2d raate of the Halfewell outward bound Indiaman, R. Price commander, arrived this day at the India-Houfe, with the melancholy news of the lofs of that unfortunate Chip 1786. Hiftorical Chronicle. fhip on the rocks of St. Purbeck, be ween St. Albans Head, and Peverel-point near Portland. going. At The Halfewell failed through the Downs on Sunday Jan. 1, wind N. fell calm off Dunnage, ■ breeze from the fouth fprung up, ran in fhore to land the pilot, but the wind baffling, obliged to anchor in 18 fathoms water; furled topfails, but could not furl the courses, the inow falling At four on Thursday thick, and freezing hard. morning a ftrong gale fprung up, obliged to cut and run off to fea; at noon put the pilot on board a brig bound to Dublin, bore down Channel immediately. At 4 P. M. the wind freshened. A 10 P. M. blew a violent gale of wind at fouth, which obliged them to carry a preis of. fail to keep the fhip off thore, in doing which the hip hove a great quantity of water on the gundeck; founding the well, found the fhip had fprung a leak, and had five feet water in the hold; pumps to work immediately at 2. A. M. Wedaelday morning, endeavoured to wear fhip, but without effect; cut away the mizen-mait, and tried a fecond time to wear, but with a litthe fuccefs as before, the ship having now feven feet water in the hold, and gaining on the pumps The fhip at very faft; cut away the main malt. this time was just foundering. At 8 A. M. cleared the wreck, and got the fhip before the wind; kept her in that pofition for about two hour, in which time the gained two feet with the pumps 10 A. M. very little wind, and the fhip labouring very much, rolled the foremaft ever on the larboard fide; the wreck going through the forefail tore it to pieces. At 11 A. M. the wind came to the weltward, and cleared up; faw the Berry Head bearing N. E. by E. four or five leagues; got another forefail beat immediately, and erected a jury main matt, and let a top-gallant fail for a main lail, and bore ap for Portfmouth; employed the remainder of At 2 A. M. the day in erecting a jury maiamast. on Thursday morning the wind came at South fresh, and was very thick at noon; faw Portland bearing N. by E. diftant four or five leagues. 8 P. M. it blew a ftrong gale at Suth; faw Portland lights bearing N. W. diftant four or Eve leagues; kept firetching out to the eaftward in hopes of weathering Peverell Point; faw St. Alban's Head a mile and a half to leeward; teok in tail immediately, and let go the imali bwer anchor; the fhip brought up at a whole cable, rode for about an hour, when the drove a nd time. At 2 A. M. Friday morning the Eruck and came immediately broadfide to the Just, and at 4 A. M not an atom of her was to One hundred and feventy men were fuppofed to have got afhore, but from the dark Bel of the morning, and furging of the ica, upWade of an hundred were dashed to pieces and drowned. beleen. At The circumftanees attending this unhappy wreck are dreadful in the extreme. Capt. Pierce a little while before the hip went down, called Mr. Meriton into the cuddy, where his two daughters, two nieces and three other beautiful young ladies were clinging round him for protecwas impoffion, and being told that it fible for the ladies to escape, he nobly refolved to fhare their fate, and addreffing hittelf to his daughters, and enfolding them in his arms, ! a The Chief Mate faid, in the fatal moment Mr. Thompfon, the Quarter Master, was the The following is an authentic lift of thofe Mary Ann Pierce } Anne Paul Aan Mantell. daughters of Captain Pierce. Two filters of the wife of Mr. George Tem- Henry Meriton, 2d mate } midshipmen McManus Jacob Murray } gunner's mates Thomas Barnaby, batfwain's mate quarter maiters James Jackion, cooper's mate The few men, who have efcaped, are moft terribly bruifed, and fome have had their limbs broken from their being dafhed afhore on the rocks. The East India Company's lofs is valued only at about 60000l. Captain Pierce was the oldest Captain in the fervice of the Honourable East India Company, and propoled to retire, had it pleafed Providence to permit his return from this intended voyage. At the Seffion at the Old Baily, (which began upon Wednefday the 11th,) among others, came Ga on the trial of John Hogan the Mulatto, for the murder of the fervant of Mr. "Orrell (see cur Mag. for July, p. 389), of Charlotte-street. The following circumstances appeared. That the deceased had her head-drefs torn off and thrown on the ground, covered with blood, as were her handkerchief, gown, &c. Her kull was fractured; her left eye beaten almoft out of its focket; her check bones both broken; her chin cut her neck and throat both cut; feveral wounds in her breaft, particularly a large circular one; her left arm broke; and her right arm and wrift both cut. The inftrument with which the wounds had been made was a razor; and notwithstanding it had been thrown into the fire, the fpots of blood were not erased. She was alive, but fpeechlets, and died that fame night at 12 o'clock. The prifoner having brought home fome chairs, a fhort time before, to Mr. Orrell's, and a perlon anfwering his defcription having been seen in the neighbourhood that day, fufpicion fell on him, and he was twice taken up, and twice difcharged for want of evidence. The prifoner had been tried for a larceny, and Mr. Orrell reading his trial in the Seffions-paper, it occurred to him to fearch at the pawnbroker's, where he had pawned the property tolen for which he was fo tried, to fee if any of his property, which was stolen at the time of the murder, had been Todged with that pawnbroker; there he found a cloak of his wife's, pawned the morning after the murder, by the woman with whom he cohabited. On the prifoner's being taken to the body of the deceased, he appeared not in the leaft agitated; but, putting his hand on her breaft, he laid, "My dear Nancy, I do remember you well; I never did you any harm in my life!" Thefe expreffions very forcibly added to the fulpicions of his guilt, because her face was fo exceedingly cut and mangled, that Mr. Orrell declared he could not poffibly have known her. Two other circumftances, which tended to criminate him, were a pot of blood on a waistcoat which be wore, and fore flight marks of blood on one of the fleeves of his coat; which coat had been washed, though the blood on the fleeve remained; and an effort feemed to have been made, but in vain, to rub out the (pots of blood from the waifcoat." The principal evidence against him was the woman with whom he cohabited; who depofed, that he brought her home a cloak, which he faid he had bought, on condition of paying for it at the rate of fo much a week. The cloak was produced in court, and Mrs. Orrell wore to it as her property. The deponent further faid, that after Hogan had been twice taken before a magiftrate, he at intervals appeared to be very uneafy; that particularly he could not fleep in his hed; that the laid to him one night, "For God's fake what is the matter with you, furely you are not guilty of what you have been taken up for:" that his anfer was, "yes, I am."—I am guilty :-I did it.”—She then was much troubled in mind, and apprehended fatal confequences to herfelf, particularly, as he faid to her, you must fay nothing; you must be quiet, for if I be banged, you will be hanged with me; and on her asking him, why he had murdered the young 'woman, he answered, because he wanted to be great with her, and the refifted him. The prifoner being called on for his defence, faid, "I am innocent; and if any one takes away my lie, I will never forgive them." The Recorder fummed up the trial with great impartiality, and the jury inftantly found him guilty; he was then fentenced to be executed on Monday morning, and his body to be diffected and anatomized. He was accordingly taken from Newgate in a cart on Monday, and executed on a gibbet oppofite to Mr. Orrell's houfe. A great concourfe of people attended the execution, but never died a malefactor with leis piety. Just before being turned off, he bowed four times to the populace, and, in an audible voice, confeffed himself guilty of the murder, for which he had been juftiy condemned to die." MARRIAGE S. Dec. Bonly fon of Lord Camden, to Mits Y fpecial licence, the Hon. Mr. Pratt, 31. Moleiworth, fole daughter and heiress of the late W. Molesworth, Efq; and fifer to Lady Lucan. Ꭰ E A T H S. ATELY, in Hampshire, Lady Dorothy L Child, Yunt to Sir James Tylney Long's 23. Bart.At Amfterdam, Dr. de la Carr, formerly a phyfician in London.-At Garthore, in the parth of Kirkintillock, eight miles from Glagow, Anne Horne, aged 49. She was 44 times tapped of a droply, and 286 Scots pint of water taken from her. For halt a year before her death a Scots pint was collected every day. At Glasgow, Mr. William Cochran, painter, a native of Strathaven in Clydesdale, born Dec. 12, 1738. Having early thown a genius in defign, he was put as an Eleve to the academy of painting in the College of Glafgow, in 1754. then chiefly under the inspection of thole cminent painters, Meff. Robert and Andrew Foulis. After fome time spent there, he went to Italy about the end of 1761, where he ftudied to five years, mostly at Rome, under the celebrated Mr. Gavin Hamilton; fince which time he followed his profeffion in Glasgow, with honour and advantage to himself and fatisiaction friend. In portrait painting of a large fize he excelled; in miniature and other fizes he bad great merit, his drawing was correct, and he feldom failed of producing a most striking likenefs. In hiftory there are fome pieces done by him particularly, “Dedalus and Icarus,” “Diana to his and Endymion,' new in Glagow; effay picces done at Rome, that would do credit to any pencil; yet, from an unusual modesty and diffidence, he never could be prevailed upon to put his name to his works. A dutiful attachment to an aged mother and other relations fixed him in Glafgow, ambition with him was no ruling pal "fion, nor was he eager after riches; but a natu ral philanthropic difpofition, and an affiduity to pleafe, were confpicuous traits of his character. By permition of the Lord Provost and magi frater, he was buried in the choir of the cathedral church, where a neat maible is to be erected to his memory, with this infcription: |