174. 
Mr. Jekyll, Solicitor General to his Royal 
Highnefs, and Mr. Dallas, Chief Juttice of 
Chefter. : 
An affair has occurred in Ireland which 
has excited much fenfation. One of ‘the 
Judges of that part of the United King- 
dom, Mr. Juftice Johnfon,; was arrefted _ 
under a warrant of Lord Ellenhoroush, 
dated the 24th of November fait, ona 
charge of writing certain letters, figned 
6s JuverNa,”” in Cobbett’s Political Re- 
gitter. This is reported to have been 
done on the authority of the A& of the 
44th of the King, chapter the 2gth, which 
authorizes the tranfmitting certain offen- 
ders from Ireland to this country, for 
t'alhere. Judge Johnfon was brought 
betore the Lord Chief Juftice of the King’s 
Bench in Ireland, by a writ of Habeas 
Corpus. His Lordthip called to his affift- 
ance, in this delicate queftion, all the 
Judges within his reach; that is to fay, 
the Lord Chief Juftice of the Common 
Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, the Ho- 
nourable Barons George and Smith, and 
the Honourable Juftices Day and Finu- 
cane. The counfel of Judge Johnfon re- 
fitted the authority of the warrant, and 
the legality of the arreit: after a folemn 
argument, occupying feveral days, the 
queftion was decided againft the learned 
Judge. He then moved it to the Court of 
Exchequer, where the decifion was the 
fame. It is now moved to the Court of 
Common Pleas, where it is réferved for 
another folemn argument. 
We fiate with extreme wpleafure, that 
Government have iffued inftru€tions to our 
naval commanders, not to moleit any 
neutral veffel carrying fupplies of corn to 
Spain, during the fearcity in that coun- 
try, even though it fhould belong to the 
enemy. 
A letter to the Admiralty, from Lord 
Keith, dated on board the>Ardent, off 
Ramfgate, January 21, fiates, that his 
Majetty’s fhip thea Greyiiound, command- 
ed by Captain Elphinftone, has captured 
the French lugger privateer Le Vimereux, 
Jan. B. Pollet, Captain, of 15 gims, and 
69 men. Jt was againftthis veilcl that the 
attempt was made by the boats of the Rat- 
- Jer floop and Folkeftone lugger, which we 
mentioned in our. Ja%; acd we have now 
the fatisfaction to fiate, that Mr. Dalyeil, 
acting Lieutenant of the Ratler, and Mr. 
Donaidfon, afting Commander cf the 
Folkeftone, are fiill living, and that great 
expectation is entertained of their reco- 
very. The boats of the Ilefrious man 
of war, belonging to the Ferrol {quadron, 
commanded by Sir Charles Hamilton, in 
’ 
an attempt to cut out a brig, lying at: 
anchor in Varras Bay, have loft Lieutenant 
Thurnham, of the marines, and one fea~ 
man, killed by the fire of the mufquetry. 
Two more of our fhips of war -have 
been lately loft, the Fama, and the Doris 
frigates. [he ‘crews were faved. We 
have alfo to ftate the unhappy circum- 
ftance of the premature death of Captain 
Jervis, of the Tonnant, nephew and heir 
of Lord St. Vincent. He was drowned 
by the upfetting of his own boat, as he 
was going to wait on the admiral, it is 
faid on fome emergent occafon, during a 
gale of wind. We have alfo the melan- 
choly duty to announce. the lofs of the 
Abergavenny Eaft Indiaman, Captain 
Word{worth, bound to Bengal. She failed 
from Portfmouth on the 24th of January, 
in company with four other Indiamen, 
under convoy of the Weymouth of 36 
guns, This fleet meeting with tempei- 
tuous weather, bore away for Portland 
Roads, and in coming round the Ifland 
of Portland, fhe ftruckon the Shambles, 
where fhe lay nearly. an hour. After get- 
ting her off, the made a great quantity of 
water ; and notwithftanding every exer. 
tion made both by her officers and feamen, 
fhe went down in the Roads, about feven 
in the evening. The Captain, the chief 
mate, with nearly three hundred perfons, 
were loft. Between ninety and an hundred 
were faved. “Phere were nearly twenty 
cadets drowned, thofe young men having 
worked fo conftantly at the pumps as to 
be exhaufied, and incapableof exertion for 
their own fafety, when the fhip fank. 
Mok of tie perfons faved had got mto the 
main and mizen-tops, and in the fhrouds + 
from which they were taken by the brave 
and generous exertions of the crew of a 
fail fioop. It was two o’elock, on the 
following morning, before thefe were all 
taken from the mais and yards. It is 
due to the captain to add, that the Aber. 
gavenny had a pilot on board when fhe 
truck, Captain Word{worth was an ex- 
cellent feaman, and a moft amiable man. 
Sir TP. Trigge, late governor of Gibraltar, 
State of Public Affairs in February, 1805. [Marchl, ~ 
has arrived from that garrifum, in the - 
ra 
Fribune frigate. He failed on the 27th 
of December, at which time, all remaing 
of the epidemic malady had happily difap- 
peared. Only three perfons died in the gar- 
rion during the week previous to the failing 
of the Fribune, and none of them died of 
the fever. The new governor, General Fox, 
‘anded on the 18th 3 but the troops were not 
to difembark tillthe r@ of January, whem 
a regular communication would be opencd 
between the town and the bay. 
“On 
