TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. NALTRCAL LNTELLIGENCE. GALLANT ACTION. The Cumberland, Willarn Barrett, master, from Quebec to London, was attacked on Sunday morning, between Folke stone and Dover, by four French privateers. The first that cone up with her, hailed to know if he wanted a pilmedot Capt. it having suspicion pf her, replied in the negative ' • imiately after another privateer ordered him to lay back his mainyard, and the wholoof them commenced a fire of musketry, and two of them ran alongside and boarded the Cumberland, previous to which the Captain had ordered all the ship's crew into the cabin ; they being armed with their boarding pikes, as soon as about 9.0 men came on board, the Captain ordered the ship to be sheered off from the privateers, leaving the Frenchmen no good . retreat ; il:nd on the ship being boarded, the privateer ceased bring: i i the mean time the ship's company rushed fo rward t and etc fed the deck; the greater part of the boarders being killed, and the remainder jumped overboard. Immediately after m other came alongside, and told the Ca p tain they would give 110 quarts; on hearing this, the ship's company cheered them', and they were boarded and cleared in like mariner. This was repeated three times afterwards, with the like glorious success on the part of ;he ship's crew, and their taking three .priseners, two of whom were wounde:l, and one has since died of his weunds. Immediately after this Capt. Barrett discharged three of his cerronades, loaded with ronnd and cannister shot ; the first Vr - 4S seen to cart' away the: rook: mast of one of the pri vateers, and the second carried away the bowsprit of another, and it was supposed destroyed many of the men, as they were heard to cry out, and the shots were heard to strike the vesseL— Thcy then made oft, and the Cumberland proceeded for the Downs. We are sorry to fey, Mr. Coward, Chief Mate, is wounded isathe :.houlder, and that one man on board the Cum berland has died of his wcatels. The loss on the part of the ersetry is supposee. to be nearly 60. Caetein B. kil!ed three him self, one of evl ich he v. 4:. oLiig: d to put his foot on to extricate his pike. 'This is flii.t °sett to to the most gallant defence made by any rnerdetnt. ship dt. r the war ;as ner crew consisted r only of 26 men, aed those of the erivateers, according to the prisoner's s.:-I.iLeilt, tc CIO mete— . ['he Lords of the Admiralty have beer ph eeed lo treeress te t):a. Committee for maeaging the affairs at Lloyd's, th::ir Lerdelties' satisfaction at the gallantry exhibited on this ere asion, and their intention to grant to each eat the crew cf the Cm-a:Tulsa, as a mark of their Lordships favour, a prottc.i(.a tteru the impress for the space of three years. —_ upon having his pudding, and proceeded to break op the seals. On opening the overt it was found, that his pudding was at the back, and that many dishes must be removed before the identi cal one could be come at. The owners of the different dishes taking advantage of this circumstance, ran away with their pro.. perty. The breach of the o rder of e Priest will be brought before the heads of the Synagogue. • LAW REPORT S. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JAN. 16 DEFAMATION 4 LEMAITRE V. JACKS. Mr. TERRY opened the prosecution on the part of the plaintiff. This was an action for certain slanderous and malicious words, tending to destroy the reputation of the plaintiff ; and the re cord contained a variety of counts, the first of **whist' was, that in a certain conversation or colloquy of and concerning the cha racter of Sir F. Burdett, the defendant, Jacks, had said, " What opinion could he formed of Sir F. Burdett, who had associated with convicted traitors, such as Despard, Lemaitre, ere O'Con nor," thereby representing the plaintiff as a convicted traitor. There were other counts ; and the 6th and last of them was , that in the said colloquy the dfendant had represented the plaintiff as a traitor. Mr. GARROW then addressed the Jury on the part of the plaintiff. For the last ten years of his life, his client's character had been perfectly unexceptionable ; he was a citizen • of Lou.. cion, the master of a family, in a respectable way of business, and had gone through various offices to which he had been called, with great credit and decorum. With regard to the earlier part of the plaintiff's life, he had nothing to conceal: at the age of eighteeen, he bad joined societies, some of the members of which were engaged in the pursuit of Reform in Parliament, while others of them, perhaps, were actuated by the worst of purpose's. In those feverish times when the Legislature in their wisdom thought fit to suspen4 the Habeas Corpus Act, his client was imprisoned on suspicion of disloyalty. He then went through a long course of cruel suffering, the corporeal effects of which he felt tothis day, and from which he was never likely to completely recover. Both the accuser and the accusation were concealed ; and when brought to the :bar. .to tyke his trial, the Attot ney-General of that day said, that he had no evidence to adduce against him. After so many years had expired, after the indiscretions of youth, if any there were, had been forgotten, Mr. Jacks; in a public assembly of the Common Council of the City of London, had gone out. of his way to attack Mr. Le maitre, and without the smallest provocation had publi hed of him the foulest falsehood and the most abominable calumily. His client having learned the charge, very naturally applied for some explanation or apology ; which surely any man of a well regulated mind would have been forward to give. What atone ment did Mr. Jacks make? He left with his partner in busines the following written answer to 'Mr. Lemaitre's application s 4 I have spoken with several of my friends who were present: none of whom recollect the words you ascribe to me; and se, eoral of them have. no recollection of your name being mn tioned, at all, nor was it noticed next da y in an y of the nes papers.' Mr. Jacks did not venture to say that he had not used the expressions; and it should be prove( that he had actually used them, and that numbers cried out shanty . 1 shame ! oil the occasion. The letter went on to state, ' that he apprehends that, as a member of the Common Council, he had a right to state his opinions on public measures, and also on men whose conduct had come forward to public view.' Mr. Jacks seemed to thiuk, that he might say all sorts of thing s of all sorts of men ; but his Lordship and the Jury would that day teach hitn a very different &striae. The letter went on to add, 64 Having this privilege, I feel no .disposition to apologise to you for any sen timent uttered by my me in the course of my p ublic duty ." Was it, then, the high privilege of the Court of Common Council, ill the opinion of this Member of it, to ruin the reputation of any man whom lie pleased to attack ? On receiving this answer, Mr. Lemaitre felt himself compelled to have recourse to a Coen of Justice. He himself, and his wife. a nd children, bad live d for years without suspicion and without reproach. He . knew that in his Lordship he should always. find the protector of character, and that a loyal Jury would fully appreciate the value of reputation. Mr. GARROW then proceeded to call the witnesses. Mr. Samuel Miller was then called and examined. Knows the plaintiff for the last ten years. Recollects being at a meet ing of the Common Council early in June last, upon the subject cf Parliamentary Refor:n. Mr. Quin spoke, as did Mr. Jack s. R e collects a passage in Mr. Jacks' speech injurious to the characa ter of the pla.ntiff : has a perfect recollection of the plaintiff: hl a perfect recollection of the passage, and states it to be as fol cows ; 14 Wag. 02illiCell can be formed of Sir Francis *Burdett* PARISIAN FASHIONS. A long feather in front of the hat, and a Saw of ribbons with long ends un the side. Th-se are two articles of fashion generally adoi.:ed. At the commencement of this fashion ,he feather was worn inrnediatel; trout •if the hat; to day it may be worn a Ifttiv on one side. In the first instance it was worn in a straight and upright form; but today it is admitted to be a little incline d ; a white : , taw cr rftbon may likewise be worn, or one of pit*. but wi:at is the must admired is a mixture of both; that is to a ribbon composed partly of pink at,d partly of white; or, if you prefer, yellow and white. At first the ends of th. 2 bow were placed in an opposite position to the feather ; but now it it worn on the same s de. Borderings of gold embroidered on hats of black velvet are considered the summit of elegance, but the embroidery must he extremely light ; it must to. rn only a narrow - border, for the broad would be considered volirar. Pearl and coral beads are the grand re source of the milliners; yes, pearl or coral. We have said that the pearls had taken precedence of the bugles. It is now the same with the coral: they 'have taken precedence of the pearlc. DUKE'S PLACE IN AN UPROAR. On Friday evening, a consid.-•rable disturbance took place among the Jews in Duke's-place, arit:og from the circumstance of a Jew baker there, who had, previous to that titnz., been in the habit of baking joints of meat, puddings, pies, &c. and deli vering them on Friday eveuinzs, atter the commencement of ;he Jews' cabbath, niforrn:nion and complaint (af v.'hi . .:ll was Made to one cf their Priests, who went to the baker's at the time of sun-set on Friday evening; and put three seals upon the entrance to the oven, with a view to prevent its bring opened till after the Sabbath was over. A short time after, the per sans who owned the dishes applied for them ; the baker informed them what bad happened, and that ne dared not open the oven At length, one awn more r;:solute than the rest, put the Priest's seals and orders at defiance, knocked the baker down ' insisted w~ • f $ t: s- ly )11 da to se ; ry iis . a 3 Uu 111 er, •ed ego of lue !Lt- ject tks. rac- has lat.! • ~.+ t