Star. — London, England, 1811-09-05 00:00:00

INDICATION OF THE LATE CONDUCT OF THE COMPANY IN THE DISCHARGE OF THEIR LOANS IN THE EAST • TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sin,—No Measure ever adopted by the Company has created such a sensation in, the minds of indivi duals connected with India, as the late payment of their loans in our Eastern possessions: No measure certainly ever was more strictly justifiable, and yet none has been distinguished by such expressions of disapprobation. To combat these expressions of dis approbation, proceeding from the more opulent classes of the late creditors of the Company, who feel them selves disappointed and aggrieved by that measure, is the object of the present address. The East India Company is a body of opulent and honourable men, who have united their capitals for the purposes of mercantile profit, and their finances, like those of every private merchant, are subject to various and constant fluctuations ; they are sometimes in a declining state, and at other times improving ; and if when they are in the former condition, they are obliged to ta,:e money on loan from individuals at the high interest of 8 or 10 per cent.; surely when a change takes place by their affairs wearing a better aspect, or by the general state of trade preventing them from employing to advantage the money so bor rowed, they are at perfect liberty to pay'off those con tracts, and to save themselves the unnecessary bur then of high interest. The principal cause of complaint is the sudden and unexpected manner in which this step has been taken. The impossibility for creditors in this country to with draw their principal in proper time, so very short a notice of the Company's intentions having been pub lished in the Indian papers, is forcibly urged against them. But the loss and disappointment felt from this step arise, in truth, principally horn the neglect of the persons concerned (and in men of business, as the majority of them is, an unpardonable neglect) in not having previously given proper instructions to th , ir agents, This neglect of, on their part, can hardly be attributed to the Company as their fault. Those who have lost interest to the gre.ateL(amount, and who have mest.loudly proclaimed the injustice of the Company, have in fact the le;.st right to com plain; first, because the magnitude of their principal enables them better to bear the loss ; and next, as their property was most probably acquired in India, and funded by themselves, they can plead no ignorance of the customs of the Company, or the conditions of the loan. To these persons, therefore, benefited as they must have been for the length of time during which they have enjoyed such high interest on their large properties, and opulent as they still remain, the Court can not certainly be expected to grant any redress p nor can those individuals, under such cir eumstances, come before them with any degree of propriety. In truth, the only real and distressed sufferers, are those persons, the whole or chief part of whose small dependance resulted from the interest of money in the Company's funds abroad, and those who not having been on the spot when their principal was invested, and not having . made their own lodgements, may have been entirely ignorant of the uncertain footing on which their dependance stood, and consequently of the propriety of appointing agents to reinvest their money on such an event taking place. To such claimants as these, the Court of Directors, ever ready to succour the cause of misfortune, and commiserating the situation of these who by an act of theirs have been so seriously injured through the failure of their 'Usual and expecte/ remittances, would no doilbt be very ready to grant relief; hut to the other parties, these would be no end to affording redress : for the Court, by complying with claims for large as well as for small sums, and by attending to general cases as well as particular ones, would lose so much, that they might als well xestind the orders which they have issued. AN EAST INDIA STOCK-HOLDER. Madame DE GENUS' new Work is entitled ge Mt leirr Fanner Francais(' its halos Celebes., ;ti 1s leer Influence cur Its Litterature," &c. It is highly interest ing on several accounts, and contains numerous ori ginal anecdotes as well as criticisms upon the works of the most popular French female writers. A great number of silver coins, of different sizes, of the reigns of Henry VI. and VII. was lately found on clearing away the rubbish to work the marble rock opposite Mount Edgecumbe. They are in high preservation. The late *hey rains have occasioned considerable damage in Dumbartonshire. Some of the rivulets swollen almost instantaneously, by the excessive dis charge from the adjoining mountains, forced them selves from their former channels, deluging and de , stroying the neighbouring corn fields. A bridge on the road near Dunglas, was carried away by the im petuosity of the current, as was also a considerable part of the ford, which was, in consequence, rendered quite impassable. Monday, the 19th ult. the Broughton Tower, Capt. Wm. Campbell, laden with lime, came into Balcarry Bay. In the evening, the Captain told his crew, three in number, to turn in, and he would keep the watch. About eleven o'clock. he supposed he heard the boy making an unusual noise, and, upon going into the cabin, he found the whole of them speechless. With , great difficulty and exertion he succeeded in bringing them upon deck successively. The boy and one of the men recovered upon being brought into the air, but . the third was gone past recovery. It appeared that the lime had heated in the coisive of the voyage, and the crew having shut down the door of the companion behind them, the smoke bad proceeded from the hold along the cieling nun the cabin, and thus produced this afflicting event. A Court-martial was hell on Saturday, at Ports mouth, on t Mr. Jeitur Hall, boatswain of his Majesty's ship Primrose, for the constant practice of gaming, and drinking with the ship's company, and for having used seditious words, an.: encouraged others to desert, and for disobedience of orders. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Primrose; rendered incapable of ever serving as an Officer again ; and to serve in any other situation the Commander-in-Chief shall di sect,R.ear.Adiniral HAR4OO.IO President. • i \ _ EAT! INDIA compaNr. _ i \ CORONER'S Dierizsrs . A Coroner's Jury sat yesterday at the house of Mr. Leach, in Adam's-buildings, Oxford -street, on the body of Miss A. Loach, aged 19, who was killed by a kick from a horse on Sunday night. Th e d eceased was crossing Oxford-street with a gentleman at the time a coach was passing near them, and in hastening to clear the carriage, she was knocked down m s e Swan-inn, t . , n a.i E n s q n by a horse led by a groom, and kick e d at t h e same instant on the temple, which killed he r on t h e spot. Verdict--Accidental Death. An Inquest was held by Charles at the Je m Coroner for the county of Surrey, Wandsworth, on Tuesday the 3d inst. on the body of Mr. William Astell, late gamekeeper to the Right Honourable Earl Spencer, at Wimbledon Park. Lavender, from Bow-street, produced the gun, which had been taken from the deceased, and which' was found in possession of William Holt, when ap prehended by him and Vickery, at Farnham, on the 21st ult. The witnesses were re-examined, and evidence given the same as before the Magistrates at the Session house, Horsemonger-lane, with the addition of that of Mr. Shillito, of Putney, one of the Surgeons who attended the deceased. From the evidence of this witness, it appeared, that, independent of two. wounds on the left side of the head, with the skull fractured and driven upon the brain to the extent of five inches, injuring that organ and its membranes, the deceased had also received two violent blows on the lower part of the skull on the same side, and also several severe contusions on each thigh ; i that the deceased had been understood repeatedly to articulate, although indistinctly, that Woolzyer did it, and always pointed towards Wandsworth as the residence of the person ; that in consequence of it a' man of that name living at V/andsworth was brought to him ; the deceased, however, gave unequivocal sign of his Rot being the offender, pointing at the same time to the door and waving his hand for him to retire. The witness afterwards understood from him, and had it confirmed in three different ways, that a man who had been lodging at the Antelope, Wandsworth, was the person who had wounded him, and that he had declared to the deceased upon his corning up to him in the field, that his name was Woolzyer. It also appeared from the information this witness had been able to obtain from the decea sed, that the wounds had been inflicted by his han ger, and after he had followed the man over the ;tail ing into the woody part of the Park. Instead of that composure which was observed in the deceased 'when the real Woolzyer was brought into his pre sence two days before, the deceased was agitated on first seeing the prisoner Hult enter the room ; and when asked if he was the man who had assaulted him, he lifted up his right hand, and pointed it two or three times at him, in, as the witness thought, the most convincing manner ; also gently nodding his head as a corroborative assent. rhe witness was of opinion, although the faculty of sp.ech was at the time impaired, that his intellects were sound, and also when his deposition was taken by Colonel Fleming, the Magistrate. Several attempts had been made by the deceased to write, and which he seemed anxious to accomplish, but was unable sufficiently ti grasp either a pen or chalk. The Jury, alter an investiga tion of eight hrrs, returned a verdict " Wilful Mur der against William Holt." • Friday last, Sir CECIL BIsIIOP'S game-keeper, named Woods, accompanied by Daniel Nash, a labouring man, went into a coppice in the neighbourhood of Parham, to shoot a hare, and having started one, the gamekeeper shot at it, but, owing to a sudden doub ling of the animal, unfortunately he lodged the charge, in his companion's breast. The wounded man is, however, likely to recover. On the 22,1 ult. a melancholy accident took place at Windermere. A party of four men pushed off in a small boat to amuse themselves on the lake, when it upset by a gust of wind ; one of them, a sailor, ad vising the others to hold by the mast, swam to the shore, and brought another boat ; but, in the interim, another of the party, a good swimmer, let go his' hold, and perished in attempting to make the shore. He was butler to a Gentleman in the neighbourhood, and bore an excellent character. A young man of respectable appearance was found drowned, on Monday morning, near the in tended Vauxhall Bridge, by a lighterman. He had a silver hunting watch in his pocket, and abort three pounds in mt,iey. The body was owned on Tuesday morning, by the mother and sister of the deceased, who reside in the vicinity of Fulham. He had been missing from his employment in a respectable house in the neighbourhood of Carnaby Market, since Monday se'nnight. • FATAL MISTAKE.—A few days ago a woman went into a druggist's shop in Liverpool, and ordered some medicine for a child, which she promised to call for in a short time The medicine was made up accord ing to order, and placed on the counter ; but on her return the person in the shop being very busy, did not observe that she took up a wrong bottle, which unfortunately contained laudanum, and of which •she gave the child so large a dose that it died in conse quence. Monday a boy, while blacking tile side of a ship in the West India Dock, fell therefrom and was drowned. Saturday morning some villains entered the house of Mr. Braithwaite, of Gloucester-place, Edgeware road, by forcing the window-shutter on the first-flow landing, and carried off plate, &c. to a considerable amount. Another house, belonging to a Mrs. Adams, in Church-street, near the same spot, had an unsuccess ful attempt made to rob it, on the same evening. Lord Paget's house, in the King's-road, Chelsea, was attacked twice last week. Mr. Watkins, who is in possession during the absence of the family, pur sued a man on the last attack, whom he fired at, and wounded, blood having been traced eit the shrubbery the next morning. SWINDLING --John Williams, a watchmaker by trade, was yesterday, at twelve o'clock, publicly whip ped on Clerkenwell.grecn, pursuant to sentence passed upon him by the Magistrates of Hatton Garden Po lice Office, by virtue of the Pawnbroker andJewellers' Acts. The - prisoner was convicted of having obtained from divers persons watches, under pretence of re. pairing them, but in reality-with intent to pawn the property of his employers, and convert the money to Ats, own we. .- - • • ... AM ICA ROBIHERY AT VAUXHALL GARDiaffe.•The prOplit• tor of the Gardens hiving had suspicions for some time past, that the men employed in lighting and trim-, ming the lamps were in the habit of robbing him of considerable quantities of oil and cotton, steps were taken to detect them, but without effect till Monday 'last, when a constable was set to watch them as they were going out, who accordingly took his station near the gate, and as one of the suspected men, named Brown, accompanied by Crowley and Guileford, two other lamp-lighters, were quitting the Gardens, he stopt them, and en searching them two large bladders of oil were found concealed under the hats of Brown and Crowley, and upon Guileford was found a %inn tity of cotton.' On this discovery being made, Brown and Crowley expressed contrition, and offered to dis cover all they knew relative to the depredations.— In consequence of their discoveries, no fewer than 12 of these pilferers were taken before a Magistrate, when sour of them were discharged, and eight were reman ded fur farther examination. There is also a person in custody on suspicion of having received the oil, knowing it to be stolen. HATTON GARDEN.—A very interesting case was ,`nought before the sitting Magistrate yesterday, by one Joseph Canter, a working goldsmith and jeweller, against the Un;on Benefit Society, to which he had belonged for 33 years. The claimant charged that his allowance, being one guinea per week, according to the Articles of the Association, had been withheld from him s nce the .sth of Jnne last, after he had re ceived the same for 2c weeks, he being now at the age of 70 years, and afflicted with weakness of sight. wholly Dr. Clare attended to testify, to a degree incapacitating him for the finer parts orthe work. The Society is very rich and numerous, but principally composed of goldsmiths and jewellers, several of whom attended to give evidence of the no.. ture of their trade, and to obtain the judgment of the' Magistrates upon the Bth Clause of the Articlei, which specified that the party claimir.3 the allowance must be, by blindness or other visitation, wbolly un able to work in the finer or coarser branches of the trade, or in any other kind of trade or business what soevcr. On the latter words of this clause, the doss , * was lately started by the Treasurer and Stewards oft, the Society, not with hostile views towards the clai mai.% but to settle the point. —The Magistrates, Mr. ' LEacit and Mr. BAKER, after an astute and patient discussion of the merits of this case, ruled the excep tion not to apply to this case, but that the words of the clause were to be restricted to the trade of gold smiths and jewellers oaly, and not extended to any other trade or business.—Judgment for the claimant. CHILD Sattattato.—Tuesday morning, a miserable looking woman, bordering upon sixty years of age, decoyed away a female child from the door of its pa rents in West Smithfield, under pretence of giving it k an apple and buying some toys. She then took the little innocent up an alley in Cow-cross, and was pro ceeding to strip the child of its garments, when a con stable, who had watched her actions, conveyed her to the Compter. GLANIORDANSHIRE GREAT SCS9TONS.—A case came on for trial, in which Good title, on the demises of Sir Watkin Lewes, lEnt. Justina Anna Lewes, spin- I ster, and Granville Sharp, Esq. was plaintiff, and George Morgan, Esq. James Morgan, D.D. Henry 'Wilde!, D.D. John Morgan, Esq. and others (mort gagees and tenants of the estates, the subject of this I ejectment) were the defendants. The Plaintiff's Comt• sel stated, that their case rested upon an outstanding term of 50J years, created in the year 1717, for pur poses which have ceased to caist upwards of 40 years since; but which term Sir WatkinLewes had procured i an assignment of to Mr. Granville Sharp, so late as January last, for the purposes of this action. After ' the Pl.tintiff's case had limn stated, Mr. Chief Justice Hardinge said, that he felt it his duty to direct a non-; suit, winch passed accordingly.—( Cambrian.) At the late Assizes held at Bridgwater, a man was' tried on the Crown side for stealing letters from the, Post-Office at Bath. On New Year's-day last, Messrs.! Slack's and Co. linemeir2pers,i f Milsham street, Bath, put a letter into the Bath Lust. Office, containing notes I and bills to the amount of £7OO, directed to Messrs. Whitehead and Co. Bankers in London, the whole of which came tohand except two 'lank of England post. hills, amounting to £l7O. Notice was gtved at the Bank of the robbery, and one of the bills, after some time, was traced to a pawnbroker in Gracechurch street, London, who could give no other account of the possession of it than that he took it in his shop in the way of business, of a man calling himself Mr. Jones, of Reading. Inquiry was made there, but no such person was to be found. After a considerable. interval, some circumstances occurred by which the bill was traced to the prisoner, who had been em ployed as a servant at the Bath Post-Office, which si-, tuation he left, and went to keep a public-house in Bath, occasionally calling in at the Post-Office, and when they were busy assisting in sorting the letters. IHe removed from Bath to Milford to keep the Fox Inn, occasionally pursuing the lame practice of call- I ing in at the Bath Post-Office. Another post-bill was traced to the prisoner which was put into the letter with that tittered by him in London, and which he passed at Gosport for the purchase of some sil k. He was tin and the Judge left him for execution. At the Glamorganshire Great Sessions, la-t week, I a true bill was found against J. Merrick, a only 12 years of age, Mr setting fire to the tin manufac tory, at Merlin Griffith, but the trial was postponed till next Sessions. At a Court of Inquiry held at Winchester, on the I 26th ult. to try the right of property in a sloop called the Venus, lying in Hythe Dock, the Jury, aver de- • liberating a few minutes, expressed a wish to retire,l and were accordingly conducted to the Grand Jimmy ' Chamber. There was / division between them, nine being of one opinion, and the other three of a diffe rent opinion. Neither party could make any im-1 pression on the other, so as to induce them to alt their opinion, and they remained in the Jui y room ti m three o'clock till about nine, when it was discovered that one of them had made his escape out at a back window from the water closet ; the remaining eleven then importuned to be discharged, which they were, without coming to any decision. The sham Parson has relinquished all idea of itroneiion in die Church, as tle me* very shortly to be called to the Airi , - • • ' rag NSW COMM: AWRY, spa S.—The Coact which was ob served soils time ago in France, coming down to wards the no. has passed its p.rihelion, and is now ascending northwards. It was seen at Bury •)r e, . today evening last, and at SS minutes past ei 4 ;lit, had about 11 degrees altitude above the horizqi, and formed a triangle with the two lower stars of t 6 sqtutre of the Great Bear, they being the base, and the Comet the point downwards. It formed a good dia gonal line with the two stars in the Great Bear's pie ceding hinder foot, and about a quarter belur t awe the Comet had risen sensibly from this diagonal. It had a nebulous appearance, the denser light abott Ave or six minutes diameter, strongest in Cie centre, which was like a star of the 4th or sth magnitude ; the general diffused coma (winch is very twig and delicate,) exceeded a degree. It appears to be pro. ceeding northwards towards the tail of Ussa Major At present it is tie illy North. N: dad. 35 degt.ty nearly ; It. A. (doubtfuty) about 152 degrees. The comet was distinctly seen with the naked eye and through a telescope. at about a quarter beim Ifour, on Sunday morning at Hackney. Upon the passage of the goith Cork Militia from Cork to Spithead, a Serjeant's wife, belonging to the regiment, had the misfortune to fail overboard, and l n o t i i i y el pl C ui rt ig a e w d ro in a t o o , t i i i i n e observ ing the aceiden., ii . would unquestionably h ave b een d rowne d, h a d not though in boots -nd r e . Colonel gimentals, and by lt:s exertions kept the poor woman's head above water until a boat was got ready, whit h brought the Colonel and the Serjeant's wife safe on board the transport. '11)5 ihnihjui oral ••• which Colonel cnAwrosto has had the happiness to say from drowning a fellow creature. An alarming fire broke out at seven o'clock in Tuesday morning, in the premises of a hair-dresser, in Taylor's -court, Islington Road, which for a t in.: threatened the destruction of the buildirg ; but a number of fire engines soon arriving, and there brine a good supply of water, by the exertions of the firemen aid others the &me► were subdo.rd, after doing vc.y considerable diunge. The Society of Methodists have purelased the su perb mansion and grounds of Apperiey-bridge lithe West-riding of Yorkshire, late the residence if Tho mas Clapham, Esq. for the purpose of 4 public school; this institution is to be founded on the model of the school at Kingswood, in the neighbourhood of Bris i tol, and is to be on a scale sufficiently large to ac ; commodate4oo boys, principally the sons of the mi nisters of that community. Thetford Lamb Fair was on Friday last rather 1 .._ smaller than last year, but the price of lambs was much the same as at Ipswich, and nearly all were ' sold. Mr. Thornhill's wether and ewe sold for 275. i each ; Mr. W. Bidwell's refuse ewe Southdown lambs ' sold at 18s. ; Mr. 1. Manning's, 18s. ; Mr. Sewell's, 20s. 6d. ; Colonel Cadogan's Southdnwn wethers, Ws. r Mr. Si ll is's half-bred ewe and wetlwr, ilirs.; Mr. Jacob's (Brandon) half-bred ewe and wether, , 20s. 6d.; Mr. Rodwell's Norfolk ewe lambs, 22, I The Fair was not very brisk, although aimo-t every thing was sold except the crone ewes, which in gine ral were very poor. There were several wool-buyers, and many flocks of wool were sold from .555. to 38s. per tod. Werisr ate the mast frequent sources of Children.' disases. Their symptoms every parent and guardian of children should be acquainted with. They occasion loss of appetite, a paleness of the colour of the face, emaciation, and irregular state of the bowels, atten ded after with violent pains ; they bring on convul sions, they affect the growth of the body, and they prove fatal, by ending in a consumption or decay.— Both as a preventative and cure of these alarming complaints, CAines Patted Irons • Loaenges is univer. ' sally allowed, on the testimony of the highest chaise ' ters in this country, bout in rank and respectability, rto have no equal. The public approbation given to the Proprietor, from a personal knowledge outs won derful success in their own families, stamps its merit ' beyond competition, and gives a sanction to it, of , which no other medicine of the kind can boast.- 1 Parents and others who have the care of children Ishould have this remedy as a family medicine to re. tort to, whenever the stomach or bowels of children are any way disordered, which it will always be j found to relieve. Sold, wholesale and retail, at Mr. I Butler's, N 0.4, Cheapside, corner of Paternostar.riiw, and retail by Belam and Sharp, Portsrnou•h ; Hail ; and Johnson, Gosport ; Ailnutt, Weavin, Mallory I and Jones, P,ortsea ; Trev:nun, Exeter ; Cooknor thy, Glenville, Gilbert and Holland, Plymouth ;...- Newbery, Dublin ; B rater and *Donald, Glasgow; i Smith, Manderston, Scott and Cargill, Edinburgh ; i 3ruttwell, Bath ; Rias and Peck, Hull ; Gregscr. and Billinge, Lverpool ; Stains and Lynch, M sr.- chester ; Bowen, Nora ich ; Knott and Lloyd. 13 rifngliana ; Gregory, Brighton ; and most Medicine Venders, in Boxes at 2.. 9d. and Ss. 6.1. each. ECCL ESIAS ricAL PROIIOIOIIOIOI3. Sunday loot,\o. 1« Manse), D.D. Lord Bishop of Brlstid,was inducted Into the valuable living of Barwick to Elmore, Yeasts's.% The Earl of Plymouth has been phased to appoint the I•c‘• David Evans, B.A. of Llaudilo, Carmarthendure, to be one cf his Lordship's Chaplains. The Rev. John Davie, B.D. h of Sidney Sorts Cctl‘r-, Cambridge, was elected on the 30th Wt. Master of the J widy, hi the room of the late Dr. Pearson; and on the followleg .!a ) , the Rev. Hoslth g, B.D. also fcßow of that Society, vas presented by the Master to the Rectory of Remota/se, is hot tingbamshirr, vacant by the death of the said Dr. Pearson. LEM IFICAIES, SEPT. t 4. Huy, of Weston, Herefordshire, cattle dealer. Fri:derick Wine. of Frame Sc woad, Thorow. Itebnison, of lAverpeul, merefunt. 0. Stratton, Cumberiand.stmet, Goodge-s: feet, liquortnerchreft Edw. Weaver, of Kenton -wrest, bruuswlck.square. slaw dealer. John Wyo.'s, auf Leominster, merchant. J. Taylor. of Marryort, Cumberland, cottongrizaufacter.t. 1. C'ilit'oPY, of Nioryport, Cumberland, clams insaufac•u: Thos brockbank, of 11l iventen, Layeastifre, cot ton. inatistfaci wet. W .111 am Todd. of Cross-lass, It. Mary.hill, merchant. hallscl Dyer, late of Newbury, Berkshire, alai:star, Thomas Ectil.ihm„ of Romford Ewes, lincli-dt d. T'numls Ruhi ion', of keonfonl, x, n•net. inut. Lately, at TewkeNtirry, Mrs. Mn Cecilia Di ddridge, lass Hein rtaughter of the pious and le.unesi Dr. Norrisamprou *h., died 111 6761. On Wefineksy, the each of August, ft Paitisite, Nors. rt. - toesbire i in bee Hitt. year. Elisebesis , wife et the Rel. Th o r....* Welch, Vfisir o 1 1 at isar rrmtelplrMimm w T, m 1i0..J• iiiMNatb{N'7"'ban •• • I