Star. — London, England, 1811-03-21 00:00:00

:-+a 7'HE FAST Yesterday being the day appointed for a General Fast and Humiliation, it was religiously observed in all parts of the metropolis. About 12 o'clock. the House of Lords, consisting for the time of the Lord High Chancellor, with the usual officers of that House, the Archbishop of Can terbury, the Archbishop of York, and the Bishop of London, with nine other Prelates, accompanied by the Earl of Liverpool, and by the Lords Bolton and Walsingham, proceeded to the Abbey Church of Sc. Peter,Westroinster. Having here joined in the prayers for the day, a nd a ft erwards heard a seasonable and, impressive sermon from the Rigla Reverend the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry (Dr. Cornwallis), their Lordships,contributing to the poor-plate as they departed, separated in the customary manner.—The Abbey was thronged ; and the'Bishop, although ra ther advanced in years, delivered his sermon with clearness and with energy.—The Very Reverend the Dean of Bristol, Dr. Parsons, appointed to preach before the House of Commons, also delivered an in. ielligent and animating sermon, in the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, from Jer. eh. iv. and v. 14 : 6 , () Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy Vain, thoughts lodge within thee 1" Besides the Speaker of the Commons, together with the official attendants on that assembly, several Members were present. On kis quitting the church, the St. Margaret's Volunteers, who were present during Divine Service, accompa nied the Speaker, seated in his-state-coach, to his own house. The church was literally crowded r. and the service of it was conducted throughout with dignity, and with devotion. No collection of money was at tempted here. The Hon. Fittoznict PONSONEY, brother of Lord Porsossiv, has been returned for the Borough of Galway, in the room of Mr. JAMES DALY, who has accepted the Escheatorship of Munster. Aaitesrs.—The object of the Amendments made by the Committee in the Arrests Bill is to extend the provisions of the Act of 184)3, so that no person shall be arrested for a sum which did not originally amount to £2O, exclusive of costs, charges, and expences in curred in suing for the same, except on bills of ex change or promissory notes. INSOLVENT DEBTORS.-B 7 the Insolvent Debtors sill, as amended in the Committee, where the credi tors of the prisoner (exclusive of those at whose suit ke is detained) are numerous, or. their residence re mote, Court to be empowered to order (instead of individual service of notice) notice of petition to be inserted in the 2.ortdon Gazette and two or more News papers, twenty days at least before the day for hear ing the matter of the petition. The proviso respect ing.debtors wantonly wasting or fraudulently dis posing of their effects, whilst in prison, left out, and a new proviso substituted, enacting that any prisoner baying done so, within five years before applica tion, with intent to consume property instead of ap plying it to the discharge of debts, shall 'not be en tided to the benefit of the Act. Clause added giving power m the Court, upon the application of priso ner or of any creditor, to require assignees to render accounts upon oath to compel the production of bca?ks, papers, :cc. and take such measures as may be neces sary to compel the rendering of account and proper distribution of effects, and to have power to award costs against any of the parties as justice may require. Proviso added to prevent the discharge of uncertifi cated bankrupts for any debt which might have been proved under the commission, unless detained in pri son five years before application, or unless certificate signed by the major part of the Commissioners, and I only defective for want of the signature of a sufficient proportion of creditors. ' Clause added empowering the Court to commit to the next county gaol assignees, or their executors or administrators not delivering over effects or paying balance according to the order of the Court. Clause left out respecting persons im prisoned by processes from Courts of Conscience.— Clause added directing that insane prisoners (their insanity being certified to the Court, after examina tion by a Justice or Justices of the Peace) may be dis charged by the Court, after directing due notice, and - clerk of Court to execute assignment in the name of prisoner, except where commission of lunacy, and then assignment to be executed by committee of lu. narks, under the direction of the Court of Chancery. The quantity of British coin seized during the year ending February 1, 1811, amounts, in gold, to '10,427 7s. 6J. and in silver, to £9O 15s. The gold exported, during the same period, iimounted, in bul lion, to 12,635 ounces, 11 dwts. in coin, to 45,853 - ounces, 3 dvvts. and 1200 pieces ; in plate, 73ounces, 8 dwts. The silver coin exported , to 2,387,463 ounces, and $ dwts. The silver plate, to 88,832 ounces, 6 dwts. Accounts from Dunkirk state, that the three Ame rican sailors, who who were left en board Mary Ann (captured by a French privateer, afterwards gallantly recaptured by the American Captain, but who was unfortunately obliged to abandon her), were in a short time after their arrival in that port, tried, condemned, and shot by the French. A French Gentleman left this country about a fort night ago, for France, whose only purpose in visiting it, was, to purchase seeds and plants for Empress Jo- WHINE, which he took away with him, to the value of about seven hundred pounds. Bonaparte, to a recent Address from the Electoral College of La Vendee, returned the following an bwer Whatever you tell me in your Address, I experienced in my last journey to your country. The view of your cities aid your villages was horrible. I have made war in three quartets of the world. I be , Live I have a right to the gratitude of the people I have vanquished, for'six months after the termination of the war no traces of it remained on their territory: I was affected with the sentiments which my people of La Vendee profess for me. They do well to reckon upon the love I bear them. Let all traces of your domestic. misfortunes quickly disappear : I have given orers to my Minister of the Interior to employ new rwaos for your assistance. When you repair a ruin, rthuild one of your houses, consider that you do what is most agreeable to me • it is a certain way of pleasing me . Th e fi r st time that you come here, tell me that all your cities and villages are entirety rebuilt, and that my people of La Vendee are accommodated as becomes the fertility of tl.e:r . '7 . . • r • • • • LAW INTELLICENCZ. Ares TIMIt4C T " 7/ •' 1 • ••=10.01.M.....11. 11 rm•••••!•••••• COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH IS. a wfwesoa•CASlLl, MARCH 21. MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS. " There has been no material difference is His, BARONESS DR GREY 01 RUTIIWYN V. LORD ARDEN ; HER MAJEsry's state within the last eight or ten days. DAUGHTER V. BARONESS DE GREY OP RUTHWYN. (Signed) Judgment was this day pronounced by the' Lono CHANCELLOR, in this interesting, difficult, and most HALFORD, WiLLIL" I important cause. The question turned on the fol- EAST-INDIA SHIPPING. lowing words, in the marriage settlement of the Ba roness, and her deceased Lord, De Grey of Ruth- His Majesty's ship AFRICAINE sailed from Sr. He wyn, viz. " except in the event of an eldest male lena the 3d of February ; left there the TIGRIS which issue." The only issue of the marriage is the infant daughter, the plaintiff in the crosshill, against her had arrived at that Island from Bengal. mother, the first bill being filed against Lord Arden, The Tams, in coming down the River from Cal merely as a trustee, to take the opinion of the Court • eutta, on the 7th November, met the MIDAS, JULIA upon the descent of the estates in question, which • ' NA, ANN, HARRIETT, SIR WILLIAM BEESLEY, and were settled by the late Lord Sussex, to the uses of this marriage, and to the younger children in tail ; but . . Linos going up. The DIANA had separated in a gale. if no such issue, then to the use of the husband and His Majesty's ship NERRIDE arrived at St. Helena wife, and the survivor of them and their heirs. the 26th. January. It was prayed of the CHANCELLOR, either to.make The WINDHAM was to sail for Bourbon the first new words in place of the words of exception, or to 1 week in January, with a cargo. put inch construction on the aforesaid terms, as would let in the heiress as if she had been male, in order to l The Company's regular and extra ships were on continue the descent, or give efficacy to the settle- the point of leaving the Isle of France for India the scent, which was so defective, that there might have t 16th December. The following eight coasting ships -been issue of the marria left wholl unrovied of Were for, I engaged to take the French garrison to Europe : I contrary to the natural w ge wishes and r e al i nten tions the parties. UPTON CASTLE, LORD CASTLEREAGH, HELEN, SIR His Lordship observed, that after the learned argu- WILLIAM BURROUGHS, PoRTsEA, ANNA, Goon HOPE, assents he had heard from the bar, and the long con- LADY BARLow, and EMMA. sideration he had given to this question, he found - himself wholly unable to relieve the daughter from the exceptive words of the settlement, notwithstanding the hardship of the case. He decreed the possession of all the estates in question to the Baroness De Grey of Ruthwyn, as the survivor and executrix of her de ceased Lord Judgment for the Plaintiff in the first cause, and for the Defendant in the second. MARCH 19.—Ex PARTE GRANT V. BOYLE. ELOPEMENT.--This was a petition filed by the trus tees of a Mr. Robinson, deceased, against the Defen dant, an officer (Ensign) in the Tower Hamlets Mi litia, who has carried away the daughter of the de- Ceased lately, from Kensington, a ward of Chancery, I entitled to a considerable fortune, while she was only 18 years of age, and had intermarried with her, with out the knowledge or consent of the trustees. Sir SAMUEL Romtm.v, on the part of the Petitioners prayed only that the Defendant may appear before a Master, to have it inquired whether the marriage was legally solemnized, and if so, then to have a proper dad settlement of the Lady's fortune made, after account- e dd l e. ing to the Court for his conduct ; which was great mildness in the application. Mr. HART, for the Defendant, stated his submis sion to the Court, and readiness to execute any settle ment approved by the Master. The LORD CHANCELLOR desired to see the affidavit ,of the Defendant filed this morning . ; on the produc tion of which the prayer of the petitioner was granted. COURT OF REQUESTS, MARCH 15. • The proprietor of a stag e waggon was summoned before the Commissioners by a young woman named ^Frankland, for £2 las, being the value of a parcel, }containing a 411 note and. some wearing apparel, which she had left at the Waggon-office, to be con veyed to her friends in the country. The parcel did not reach the place to which it was directed ; and, on , her inquiring at the Office, she could get no account of it, nor would they make her any recompence. The book-keeper attended, and refused to pay, on the ground of there being no such parcel booked as that described by the young woman. She, however, of fered to swear that at the time she left it she paid the carriage, and an additional two-pence to have it booked, and en requesting the clerk to enter it whilst she was present, he replied it was all in good time, and told her she might go. The Commissioners highly reprobated the conduct of the clerk, who they said had been guilty of a fraud upon the plaintiff, in re ceiving money professedly for booking the parcel, and i afterwards neglecting to do so. They therefore or. l dered him to pay the full amount of the plaintiff's de mand, together with all expences. ADMIRALTY COURT, MARCH 19. ' Cousin Marianne, De Boer master.— This was a further proof case with respect to certain bales ofl French cambrics, that were coming from France at the time of capture, to the consignees and owners this country. The Court restored the same, subject to the captors expellees. Horatio, Hiddes master.—This was also a farther , proof case, in regard to two parcels of wine, which were coming from Bourdeaux to this country, in or der to pay the tonnage duties, and then the vessel was to proceed to Stettin. In this case the Court restored the same, with freight and expences, and allowed the captors their expences. Jeuge Anthje, WATTEs master.—This was a ques tion of costs and damages against the captors. The Court, in this case, rejected the application, but re fused the captors their expences. Alert, master.—This was also a case of cap tors expences, the claim for salvage not being pressed, by them.—The Court refused the same on the groundy that after examining the ship's papers she ought im.l inediately to have been released. Tuesday as Mr. Powis, of Marlborough-street, was driving a spirited horse on Knightsbridge Cause way, on his way to Fulham, the off rein became un buckled, and the animal started off at full speed. The vehicle was forced against some railing and broken) to pieces ; and a youth, about fourteen, who was with Mr. Powis, received contusions on the head, which' left but litte hopes of recovery. Mr. Powis was also seriodsly hurt. The account of an atrocious murder •committed upon two females at Castlefin, in the North of Ire land, is contradicted in the papt4 (Drrry Josornal) in , which it appeared,,the girls having been seen in ano ther part of the county ; and the young man appre hended on suspicion, has of course been liberated. A sailing-boat, containing three young men, was upset yesterday morning in Putney Reach in conse quence of unskilfulness in managing the sails, ant, one of the party, of the name of Keep, was drowne j One of them swam on shore, and the other was piek ei up by a " ‘terman, and recovered from a state of , lug been Kraal minutes under water« • I BRIGHTON, MitRCH 19. During the whole of Saturday, Sunday, and Mon day, weather more delightfully serene and bright was never before enjoyed here in the month of March.— Last night, however, we had a slight fall of rain, and the atmosphere to-day has been less pure, a haze pre dominating, and the wind having veered from the North-east to the South-west. Two armed brigs, the Vantour and the Hope, the former mounting 18 guns, and rated as a sloop of war, and the other ntrunting 10, are again at anchor within gun-shot of the shore. Several of their officers and crews paid us lengthened visits yesterday. The Channel prospect yesterday was very agreeably diversified, several square-rigged ves sels being at a distance in the offing, and coasters, col-• liers, and fishing-boats, irregularly interspersed over the extended surface of the watery expanse. The telescopes at the Marine Library were in no ordinary request during the cheerful progress of the day, and the greater part of the Cliff Houses display ed their occupants similarly engaged. THEATRICALS. J. BRADBURY, the celebra t ed pantomimic Clown, has had more than common success this season in the Irish metropolis. He has produced a comic pantomime, " Harlequin from the Moon," which has afforded con siderable aid to the theatrical treasury. His approach ing Benefit is expected to exceed any previously wit nessed in the Sister Kingdom. The Theatre at Manchester afforded the lovers of the Drama a novel spectacle, on Friday evening last, by the introduction of a new Comedy, in three acts, entitled, How will it End ? the Dramatis Persons of which were thus filled— Sir Charles Delville - - - Mr. Douai. East court - - • Mr. ANDRICWS. Sir Cynton Sapless - - Mr. KOWCR. Batton - - Mr. GRANT. Dash-hall - - - Mr. RAs. Torn - . - - Mr. GORDON. Lady Delville, under the :muted name of Miss Eastcourt - - - Miss BRISToW. Mrs. Eastcourt - - Mrs. Doss% Susan - - - Miss GRANT. The plot is altogether new. The characters through out well supported. The language chaste, elegant, and spirited ; with quite enough of the pathetic to keep sensibility alive, and of the comic to elicit bursts of laughter. Considering the disadvantage under which every performance comes out at a provincial Theatre, we may truly say the piece went off with uncom mon eclat, and was well received by a most numerous audience. We understand it is the maiden production of a young author, who cannot at once be master of the jets de Theatre, sufficient to rank it as a faultless piece, but we have no hesitation in saying, that with a very few curtailments in the sentimental speeches, it would be most favourably received at a Metropoli tan Theatre. It would be unfair to pass over the merits of those performers, to whom assuredly the author is indebted largely for support. The talents . of Mr. RAE, in Dash-hall, were conspicueus—his thorough knowledge of his author, vivacity, and ex pression of countenance, entitle him to as high pre cedence in the gay Court of Thalia, as he unques tionably possesses in the more sombre one of Melpo mene. Miss BRISTOW was all the Author intended in Lady Delville, beautiful, correct, and sensitive.— Miss GRANT, in the . pert Chambermaid, excelled her self. In shalt, we think, the Author had ample en couragement to try the effect of his pen on a more extended scale, and have little doubt but in so doing be will considerably assist in checking the charge, *lade by a troop of horse over the manes of SHAKE.* •SPEAR, SHERIDAN, and Comm , . • Dumfries, remarkable for salubrity and longe vity, has lately lost one of its oldest inhabitants. Mr. Jean GASS, barber, died there on the 10th instant, in 'the 90th year of his age. His simplicity of manners, benevolence, and undeviating integrity, during an ia- Anstrious and active life, excited universal esteem and respect ; while a singularly retentive memory, toge ther with the peculiar naives; and shrewdness of his raltarks, and a certain eccentricity of character, made 'his conversation interesting as well as entertaining to all ranks :—he often used to boast, with apparent sa tisfaction, that he had done what no other man dared to do—the taking the Pretender by the nose, in 1745. As an instance of the mildness of the season, a wood pigeon's nest was on Suoday se'nnig'ht discovered near Carlisle, by two boys, which contained two young ones - - 4111 • Dunr.n MARCH 13.—A melancholy accident De. curred on Wednesday, at the Weirs, Cerk. As two young ladies, daughters of the late John ?yhe, Esq, of Lisgoold, were returning from Sunday's Well, one of them missed her footing and fell into the river and unfortunately was drowned. Monday evening the honourable Judge DAY, one of the Lords Justices of Assize tor the Munster Cir. cuit, arrived at Ennis, and shortly after opened. the Commission. On the next morning at nine o'clock, his Lordship appeared in Court, when the Grand Jury were swore in. His Lordship, as usual, syddressed the Jury with much eloquence and force. He dwelt with peculiar satisfaction on'the tranquil and orderly state of society ; and, drawing a striking contract between the County of Clare, and districts not far distant, he paid some flattering compliments to all classes, from the Magistrate to the husbandman, of that respectable county. Tuesday morning the Hontrlrable Baron Sir Wl4. CUSAM Salmi arrived in Ennis, and proceeded upon the Nisi Prins department, which is, this Assizes, un usually light and unimoov , ... The following were . the first day :—/dichael bly carrying away Mary mothy Keann, and Patrick Burke, guilty of man; feloniously cutting John year 1806, capitally cow stealing, ditto. The Assixes held at which commenced on Saturday evening. On . tween Standish and Standi: tried, was decided, and a compromised. In the Crown Court, John Heney was tried for for. cibly taking from the person of Mr. Byrne, nearDro. gheda, 300 guineas in gold. John Hickey, an ia. former, swore positively that the prisoner was at the robbery—and Hickey's wife,that he was present when the booty was divided; but Mr. Byrne could not identify the prisoner, who was taken concealed in a cave at the rear of his own house. The prisoner set up an dill, and produced three witnesses, who were accurate and consistent in their evidence. The Jury, after deliberating for an hour, brought in a verdict of Not Guilty. At the Assizes for the county of Meath, held at Trim on Saturday last, Roger O'Connor, who now occupies the paternal estate of Marquis Wellesley in that county, was convicted of an. assault on P. Ogle, Esq. There was nothing political in the busi ness ; but a curious altercation took place between ,Lord Norbury, the Judge who presided, and Mr. O'Connor. WATERFORD, MARCH 9.—Thursday a respite was received, staying the execution of Thomas Dosser, John Brown, John Whelan, and Thomas Whelan, who were to have been executed this day, until Tuesday, the 9th of April next. CLONMEL, MARCH 9.—On the night of Monday last the house of James Adams, a tenant of Mr. Pennefa. ther, at Newpark, was maliciously set on fire, and I :tether with all his furniture, clothes, &c. was td. y consumed, and a fine child, two yaws old, burnt to death. Yesterday afternoon, as two respectable looking young men were passing down Penton-place, Penton vile, and playfully pushing each other, one of them fell, and unfortunately broke his thigh. A gentleman observing a croud of persons collected nearly opposite his door, stepped out, and was informed of the acci. dent by several Ladies and Gentlemen who seemed' • much exasperated at the inhuman conduct of a Medi cal Gentleman who passed by at that instant, and whom the sufferer begged in vain to assist him. On the 27th of February, William Galls, private lin the detachment of the 9th Royal Veteran Batta lion, at present in Kirkwall, in a fit of intoxication, discharged bis musket loaded with ball cartridge, at a woman named Isabel Hutchinson, with whom he bad lived for some time. The ball penetrated through her heart, and she instantly expired. The unfortu nate man was immediately secured, and lodged in Kirkwall gaol. . A man of the name of Hopper, a billiard-maker, fan 63 miles on the Deal road, one mile in and out, on Sa turday, for a wager of 20 guinea.; ; he performed it in eleven hours and SS rrfinntes, winning the match by . about 22 minutcs, twelve hours being the time he ran against: • The Lancashire man who has been bro.sgkt to Lon. don Gregson, has challenged any Tan in England, . by with the exception of three, to combat at any notice. Wednesday last, James Hammond was convicted ih the penalty of ies for buying a regimental great ,coat of George Martin, a private in the 14th regiment of light dragoons, now stationed in Coventry. The workmen who discovered the Roman burial. ground on Beaconsfield farm, have, in pursuing their work, arrived at the Roman bath described by Nor r, in his Antiquities of Orfordshire. The bath was al ways visible, but was considered as a small stew, walled round with rough stone, till the workmen discovered the tesselated floor near h. Here the Roman tiles and the tesselation are still in a state of good preser vation, although in a wet situation. The oak dug up is sound, black, and heavy. • . Friday evening a labouring man, - of the tone of Reasen, went into the tap of the White Hone, Crip plegate, and called for a pintof beer, when he laid himself down on the bench as if to go to sleep; some men in the taproom thinklag Iftn to be so, by way of joke, tied his feet together, m which situation he re mained for two hours, When they attempted to awake., him, but discovered him to be actually dead. On the evening of Monday se'nright the runner tvAit 'Lanark and Manton of Lesaohagow, was near . Stonbyte 11y ke, attacked by a man about six feet:high knocked down and robbed of the mail, contiOning the bags of letters from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Hl milton. A reward of i. 50 is oared for the dis.overy. important. re the convictions at the close of lad Craven found guilty of forci- - Mary Keen—James Jordan, Patrick Lee, for killing Richard nanslaughter—James Cloon, for • 'ohn Blike with a sword in the convicted—James Mulcahy, for . it Trim, for the county of Meath, 3n Monday, terminated lkte on On the Civil side, the cause be- Standish, which had been twice and a verdict for each party was _, —/ i • 1, 0 11111 W!!. CI. IVWI r &Ili W. •••••.11.1 Ora ,11.11.46. ava BUG $.110.161 , 11V11 nearly fledged. of the perpetrator. At Norwich Corn-market, on Saturday last, Wheat Tuesday se'snight, as a boyabout ten rears of or s , was sold at 495. Beans 18s. Oats 161. and Barley 14s. was fishing in the water of Girvan, near the Garpin per coomb.—At, the Cattle-market, on Saturday lasts B. idge, a younger boy who was along with him fat there was a plenty of fat beef, most of which was sent into the stream: The elder boy plunged it lip reams to London, at from N. 6d. to 1011. per stone, and fat hi m , an d succe eded lo conveying ... or th e bank iil mutton sold at 70. per lb. There was a goad show of sa f et y, b ut a f terw a r ds missing his h liirnself, fell . lean Scots, and sales were effected it about6s. per :tote. back Into the river, and itsidirowned. • :f I