Star. — London, England, 1816-12-20 00:00:00

rns .iitmr. The °Seers, Non commissioned Men and Pri ,are, of the 92J Highlanders, now in Edinburgh c a stle, have generously, and with a laudable zeal wort hy dim it:tcon, subscribed one day's pay towards t h e relief of the distressed poor in that town and seigOourbood. N.f7AL. INTELLIGENCE. lan, the was tie gin es. )rO• take a-. ?Int uni •yr. stem' FA I,MOUTH, DECEMBER 17. Sailed the Bedford, WEBB, for St. Michael's ; and the union, Gomm EY, for London.—Wind S. W. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER ie. Came in the PicT••u slooriof war from Cork ; and the Echo, LENDER) for Jamaica, PORTsMOUTH, DECEMBER 19. . Arrived the Minerva, SHARP, from Quebec, with l im b of anchors ; and Numa, NAPIER, from the Downs. Sailed his Majesty's ship INCONbTANT, for ; Quest, Venus, Fox, Trafalgar, and Wil liam and Henry transports, for Guernsey; Hussar tra nsport, fur Cork ; Cuba, for Charleston ; Dorothy, roster, And Sir J. H. Craig, for Jamaica ; William, for Trini3ad ; Robert and Ann, for Leghorn; and Symmetry, for Spitin.—Wind N.N.E. MAIL, DECEMBER !9. The wind, last night, got unfavourable for the astward-bound which induced the remainder to get a way, except the Lord Melville East In.iiaman ; Camillus and Glenmore, for the West Indies ; they st aid this morning. Came down from the River and sailed, the Vittoria, for Havannah ; Moffat, 1 , 4 Madras and Bengal; and the Perseus, for Bourdeaux. Wind %Vest. mini of thi mak Roy kao DOVER, DECEMBER 19. Arrived this morning the Lady Castlereagh, Cap tain Mzut.t., with a Mail and passengers from Ostend, also the Wiusleydale, Captain PARTRIDGE, from that port, with corn. Csme in last night, the Lord Duncan, Captain PAscoz, from Ostend, last from Yarmouth, where the Mail was landed. S tiled this morning the Lord Duncan, Captain HAMILTON, with the Calais Mail and passengers. Sailed this day the ship ANrilliam, Captain —, for New Vol k.—The wind now blows very hard from the northward, with squalls of hail and snow, many ships have passed here %Isis afternoon from the Downs, bound down Channel. MARGATE, DECEMBER 19. The ich:lener Cl Ira, of Dartmouth,lLLAßD Master, him Tarragona for London, with fruit, was bought Wao this hat bot:r this morning, with loss of both an ti:fin and cibleF.—Wind N. blowing strong. RAMSGATE. pccumßra 39. The wind having cone round favourable, the whole of the outwar;i:.bound, with the exception of those crippled in the late gale, have got to sea this morriii - l; with a stiff breeze.dt north, so that there is every probability of the coasters joining thtir families sod friends at the approaching festive season cif the! yen; many of them are indeed laden with the articles of enjoyment for Citriitmas cheer at the diffe rent l'..rts to the westward. Tbe Caniperdown brig, in ballast, Captaiu HILL, which was on shore off Broadstairs, Went all to pieces last ilight—teveral of the fragments passel this harbour. We are nallof anxiety tor the fate of a little brig, the Edward, • belonging to this part, which sailed hence the day Won the gale came on, for Holland, with a cargo of potatoes, as no news has been heard of her since. CM in for shelicr the York, SEXTON ; Deux Antis, .heel I cm,' in tel l int .11 OLIVER; and the sloop Boston Packet, fom London for Calais—the-latter br..k leer bowsprit in coming into the Barbour.—Wit,d N.E. CUSTOM-HOUSE, DECEMBER 19. Sum ENTERED IN WARDS.—Tie Malvina, Goodin, from Mirsiticke ; Prince Cubourg, Godfrey, from Jersey ; Ellen, Brent, from ,ierra Lune • Henry, Frost, from Cepbalonla; Isa.. bells, Cumming, from Diosadort ; and Watson. Watson, Irons Antwerp. Gir witans.—The Vrow FentAlgura, Ru'ens, fur Hamburg's; Alfred, amidi, for Trieste and Voila ; William, Paulter; Anna kW, Carey ,and Mercury, Ladd, ior Antwerp • Eclipse, Broek, Nr Malta. Smyrna, and Constanunople; Atlas , fur India sad China; Three Friends, Brown, for Havre ; Apolio, Tarbut, br Bombay ; and Levant, NiiGibbon, far Belfast. Extract of a louts from the Agents to Lloyd's at Cork, dated December 13 :—" morGing it blew 'gale at N. W. The ship William. of Liverpocl. tom Africa, drove tr.,m her anchors to near abreast sEAhada; and the brig John, Iron) New Brunswick, ourszed her cable and drove near the barracks nei- her, it is thought, will receive much thenage : the lahn vt off shortly after, ow ing 'to a flood tit!..." 'A private letter from Paris, dared Dec. 13, says: The enlightened and patriotic inhaintaats ot this enintri, I ke those of our own, are devising evety possilde means for succouring the industrious poor on this disastrous season. Under the encouraging sespices of the Government, large subscriptions is'oe been already effected. Peor-houses, where is recompensed, are opening eve:y where, ee. the reparation of roads of Inc second and e;rd class are already in a great state of activity. [idle department of be Seine and Marne, the varia :i-n of the price ot grain Las occasioned some re teietis : hut the vigilance and solicitude of Govern. lent have counteracted the intrigues of the Nobles, tole were wiiling to give them another complexion." A Gentleman now retired front business, who was brmerly a merchant in the City, says, that in the year: 1800 he rouge it into his head to purchase a Ticket on IU birtk-day, and bring fortunate in his first adven ere, he has continued to do so every year since upon tae return of the day, in the course ot that time he Ls got eleven Priaes, of which (our were Capitals— e may be truly said to have been born under a lucky Tenet, or to use a vulgar expression, that he came itto the world with a silvef spoon in his mouth. In the late enumeration of Lord STAN HOPE'S chil. *en. his eldest daughter, the celebrated Lady Hes. 7 trt SrA morn, has been inadvertently omitted.— .I Nat Lady, 0/110 bat been for some time on an eastern tour, was favoured with a considerable pension by MAJESTY, out of respect for the services of kr 14 usItious uncle, Mr. Pzrr, with whom site was a de. laved favoutite, and resided at the time of his deatb. Nue HENRY, new Early Swami% having been ' "ukaplately provided for by his father, was appoin- Id Lieutenant Governor of Dover Castle by Mt. i Pitt His Lordship, in 1808, married the Hon. vArtitttLl N Lucy SMITH, a daughter of Lord CAR ' litlerrose by whom he has issue. Tocsday Jassint Watson was committed to Cam ' Re Castle, charged on the oath of JONATHAN an. , t. r ati. and others, with feloniously main a " 1 1 horse, the property of the said J. Page. VIII LAl'll AIPTI 111111111111 PARTICI/LAU. the LORD MAYOR haring adopted the Means of ascertaining, through the medium of the. elder Wat• son, whethei any of the communications lately re ceived by his Lordship, purporting to be the hand writing of young Watson, were genuine, they have been clearly proved to be fabrications. Yesterday his Lordship received at least a dozen additional letters upon the subject, one of which was frum a fisherman in a sea-port town, stating, that he had landed young Watson in France, and en closing another letter from the latter person, in which he declares most solemnly, that now, although he is beydnd the reach of the blood-money gang, se he was nut the person who shot• Mr. Platt, but re peats that he knows who did I" With respect to young Watson, the LORD MAYOR is desirous that it may be. known, that the descrip. tion given of that person is not as accurate as it I should be to a common observer. His Lordship has 'obtained from the Mayor of Lynn, where AVatson went to school, an account . , which states, that young Watson had a mark on the eye, rather than a mole beneath it. The mark is represented to be a sort of protuberance or'heaviness, which, during the time of conversation, or his looking an individual straight in the face, constantly falls down. Preston, the ci &vont Secretary to the Spafields Committee, denies that Dyall was the proper Chair man of the Meeting. He regrets the attack made upon Mr. Platt, but declines saying more on that subject than that Government have much reason to be indebted to young Watson, for his riiecipitancy and violence. Preston further states, that Hunt has been feared by Government, since he adopted his dan gerous motto, during the period when the case of Sir Francis :Burdett so much agitated the public mind. 1 Yesterday 1 Komar Tyrrell, the drayman, was brought up, and underwent a final examination, at the Mar.- ! sion-House, charged with being concerned in the ' disturbance on the 2d instant. A witness on the part of the prisoner was brought forward, to prove that the latter was seen in the Black Eagle public-house, lit ick-1 tne, Spital fields, on :he day in question, about hall-past three o'clock ; but another individual stated, that the piisoner was at a cunsideralle. distance from the quarter mentioned at peer. The former account the prisoner had himself given to the LORD MAYOR on Wednesday. Tie variation of the statement now induced his Lordship to send for some of the parties in or about Mr. Beckwith's ; but they having been called upon to view the person of the prisoner, were unable to identify him. He was accordingly dis charged, with a suitable admonition from the LORD MAYOR. Yesterday the witnesses engaged in apprehending Dr. Wats.a at Highgate, attended at Bow-street Of fice, and their evidence respecting that transaction was formally taken in writing; but we do not yet mulct stand, whether it is determined how he is to be i I prosecuted, relative to his political conduct and oc tions carnbined with it, or for being found at High-' late with fire-arms, under suspicious circumstances. It is now generally admitted that the description 1 or the person of young WATiON that has been pub l'ail:e I, is far from being accurate. In consequence, several persons going about their lawful business, or in quest of employment, have suffered much personal inco iveoience, and it is probable that many others mai 3et be apprehended. In fact, in country places every stranger, not an old man, who makes his ap pearance, is suspected to he the assassin of Mr. Pc iTT ; and should he proceed on his journey before Bon face_ his satisfied himself respecting his birth, parentage, and education, the hue and cry is raised against him, the report of his narrow 'escape is circa bated as quick as the mail can carry it in the direc tion of the rout of the stranger, and all being thus put upon the alert, the probability is that other tra vellers Fill be stopped on their journey. Something of this kind is now transacting in Scotland, as our Readers will see by the following very sagacious statement, copied from an Edinburgh Paper received this morning : /1 To the F.DITOP • " Sin—A young man answering to the tley..ript!on of Watson, passed by iiawick on Sarerday last ; he arrived lit a public house in that town late in the evening. on a hock hone, with a small port manteau tied on before, asket: :or a private room, shunued being seen, went almost immediat ay to b d, and departed northwards' before daoight on Sunday mo-ning : this you may depend on, having it trout the publican himself, who was not aware of the advertisement for the apprehension of Watson at the time; it it, therefore probable that he may have gone to Glasgow. And . l am, Sir, your obedient servant, .„ (Signed) "J. THOM PSON. - Yesterday and to-day the Officers of Justice have made roost diligent search in the neighbourhood of Tottenham-court-road for young WATS4II:4 without avail. . Yesteeday as the Lady of --- Dzawrix, Esq. of Canterbury, was in attendance upon a sale of household furniture, at St. Lawrence, in the neigh bourhood of RaMsgate, she had the misfortune to trip over a carpet, which threw her down and broke her arm. Mr. COIZeS game, at Holkham, this season, has begin so scarce, that in a grand kali be gave a party of sporting friends, the other day, only twelve brace of pheasants were sent in, when from the same num her .et guns, one day last year, more than sixty brace were bagged. Hares and partridges were found scarce in proportion. Extract of a letter from Liverpool, Dec. 17 s— " The cargo of the ship Harlequin, consisting of flour, was this day sold at auction. The sale eaten.' nienced at 78s. per barrel, went down to 735. 9d. and closed at 755. per barrel. The Harlequin left New York on the 24th ult. when flour which had ad: vanced to 13 a 14 dollars, was again selling at a 12 dollars per barrel, and a good deal may be ex. peeled. Accounts have been received opt to the 24th of October, from Liverpool." At Norwich Corn Market, on Saturday, there was an abundance of samples, and Grain of all sorts con sequently lower in price than last week. The supply of lean Galloways and Homebreds on the bill was very considerable, and they still continue at low prices. Nearly all the pens were filled with Sheep and Lambs,"Which obtained rather higher prices than of late. Cogs &memo& MARE•LAIII4 Dap 20.—We had a large supply of Wheat and Barley from Suffolk this morning, which met ready sale at Monday's prices. Beans, Peas, and Oats, fully support Mon day's prim. okboogitdiore was a good arrival of tub. LAP 1371ILLICRAVIL room. Olt OttANCERIN DEISEMEER CHEMICAL SECRETS. ATLANO IS !horning the LORD CHANCELLOR delivered his opinion on this case, which, he observed, was oiled the most extraordinary that ever came before bird. He had carefully perused the answer, and it was very remarkable, that no complaint was made by the de fendant as to the secret being divulged. This was a pretty strong presumption that there was no secret I tor, otherwise, the defendant would have taken no tice of the disclosure. He could find no Woof in the answer of its being a new dieovery, or that the • defendant was the author of it. At the same time, it did not clearly appear whether the process had been fairly conducted or not. It was possible there might be some . misunderstanding on both sides ; for he would not pronounce that the defendant was not a learned chymist, nor that the plaintiff was incom petent to manufacturing the soda, if the defendant's instructions were faithfully and accurately given. I He was confident, however, that the circumstances of this case were of very considerable importance to the public, and consecreatly deserved the most se rious consideration. At present it was impossible for the Cowl to decide whether a real secret had been sold, and that there was no imposition or fraud on the part of the defendant. Some farther etplanatinn must be given by the defendant ; and, therefore, ur• til the Court was more folly informed of the circum stances, the injunction to restrain the defendant from parting with the mortgage and notes must be con tinued. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DECEMBER SPUTA V. CHAU/41E11T. The plaintiff, according to the statement of the ATIIININSY..GENERAL. is a respectable young man. of good connexions, who. previous to forming a matrimonial connexion, was anxious to embark a capital of no inc. nsider tble amount in a trade that promised to make A imitable return. He was attracted by an advertisemeet in a newspaper, which requited a partner in a lucrative concern : but upon inquiry he found that it would not suit his purpose. The introduction he then obtained, however, brought him acquainted with the defendant, who for many years had carried on a prosperous trade as a tanner of mo rocco leather, in Bermondsey. Chaumert was at that time desirous of retiring from business. and proposed to the plaintiff to engage in it, making it a condi. lion, precedent to the sale of the good-will, that he should join it, Mr. Roberts, as a partner, who, though formerly a journeyman, at wages of 121. a week with the defendant, had. by the defendant's account, saved large sums, and was fully capable of advanc. ing a sufficient capital. The plaintiff liked the pro posal, and offere4 to lay down £4,000, and to ob tain his father's bond for three more, provided Ro berts would also add £7,000 to the joint stock. Ro berts professed his readiness, and the defendant gave . repeated assurances that he had ample means of doing so. This statement afterwards tutned out to he un true, and for the misrepresentation the present action was brought. It was agreed that the defendant should lend the new partners, besides their own ca pital, £5.0110 at 5 per cent. taking care, however, to obtain. se2,OOJ for the good wilt f his business, and to compel the plaintiff and Roberts to take a lease of the premises for 50 years. at the rent of te3so. The payment of these sums he secured by mortgage, and by a warrant of attorney to confess a judgment. The arrangemen!s having been c included, the plain tiff married, and the sum of 600 was laid out in the repair of the. premises in Bermondsey. Some tune afterwards he was much surprized by a demand of ,0300 by the defendant, as a debt due to him from Roberts, which Roberts was unable to pay. The plaintiff discharged it, on an assurance that it was the last : but a short period bad only elapsed before a further claim of £5OO against Roberts, was made by the defendant. who, it now appeared, had only inveigled the plaintiff into a partnership, that his capttat might satisfy the creditors of Roberts. Under . such circumstances it could not be supposed that the business would be successful : Roberts never had more than 43,000 in she world, and that was swal lowed up by his debts, so untrue was it that he was able to advance a capital of £7,000. The defendant had not neglected to secure his own Interests in all ways; for finding that the trade, which had been very advantageous to him. was failing, be entered up judgment on his warrant of attorney, took out execution, and was at this moment in possession of the premises. As to the measure of damages, per haps no specific amount could be proved : but with these facts before them, the Jury would not deal out compensation with a sparing band. A Mr. Butler was the first witness, but he only spoke to a preliminary interview between Spitta, Chaumert, and Roberts, in which a capital of :111Q,000 was spoken of as necessary for the business : heard the defendant say nothing regarding the means Roberts possessed of producing £7,000. Edward Roberts, the person with regard to whose circumstances the representation was alleged to have been made, being put into the box, also denied that the defendant, in any of the conversations. had re presented that his (Roberts's) affairs were flourish. ing, or that he could ulnae" a capital of €7,000. The defendant had never told the plaintiff any thing _upon the subject. • The plaintiff having no other evidence to establish the misrepresentation, Lord Ermsrsonotrom directed that a nonsuit should be entered. MIDDLETON AND SAILS! W. POTTS. This was an action for wort and labour, to reco ver a compensation for the trouble which the plain tiffs bad, in making the estimates of expense for building the New Custom-bouse, for which the de fendant had entered into l'coatract. The defendant paid £2lO into Court. . It appeared that the defendant, having made a tender for re-building the Custom-house, bad em ployed.the plaintigt to make an estimate of the et pense,for which it was **whited that they were to receive the sum of £5O in case of the refusal of the defendant's tender by the Commissioners, but that W the tender was accepted, they were to be libesally rap munerated for their-trouble. The tender was to be made on the 26th of July, sad on the 2d of that .month the plaintiffs heti received their orders from the defendant to complete the estimate, To effect this, it appeared that they bad worked sometimes aereatees hours a day, is copying plaaa, and other %maw latieet to 'bake oat the eseini,i, Was completed in time for the defeaclant, who oh , , tabled the contract, The ease went to the Jsiry aeon the quanta* leer:tit, the plaintiffs insisting that they had a right to receive for their trouble the sum of t 6497, and the defendant Contending that the money paid into Court was sufficient to cover the demand. A great number of most r•spectable surveyors were examined cn bath sides, and the Jury retired for about an hour, and found their Verdict for the plain.; tiffs—Damages ,C 250. INSOLVENT' DEBTORS' COURT, DECEMBBR IL GREEN AND omen D. F. I CLEMENTSONs Mr. Domani opposed the discharge of this petso ner, on the authority of the last Insolvent Debtors' Act Amend:newt Act, which provided that the debtor should not be entitled to his discharge if it appeared that at the t4nelof coturacting his debts he had no prospect, or visible means, of p.. l ioti his cre ditors ; and that in such case he s'iould be r• , :tianded to prison for the space of five bears. Ti:e prisonce Was the son of a revestablc ftztor in the City, awl had been educated for tl:e piofession of an attorney s to which he WP :id 13: red, hut far the last two years had not taken out :,is cc; tificate. During that period he had led an extravag,:int course of kite—frequentinit coffee-;ii.nwc and taverns, keeping horses, driving his tilbot y, drat king Fiench wines. and, in short, living in the style of a nein the first fortune and fashion. His horse account for the ye..r 1315, and part of the present year, uniranited to about re2.:50, and his tai tor's bill, from Janturi to July in the present year, amounted to £77. The pi incipal creditors opposing ,his discharge were Mr. Green, the master of Wills's C..ffee-house, Setle-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. with wham lie had incurred a debt of £5O in two nt.:nths, fin the most ecpensive luxuries; Mr. Ilunibett, the proprietor of the Piccadilly coffeezhour.e ; Mr. Ana tin, a livery-stable keeper; and sevaal other persons. The Learned Commissioner was clearly of opinion, that if he were called upon to decide the ease l he must remand the prison( r. Bet Mr. PoLI.OOK and Mr. HeAT4, as Counsel for the prisoner, proposed that the claims of the creditors who actually appeared to oppose the defendant's dis charge, should be excepted; upon an understanding that the prisoner's father would pay them ; and that with respect to the remainder of the debts he should be discharged. To this proposition the creditors present acceded. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DUBLIN DISC. CRIM. CON. HINDS T. MIDDLETON. The damages were laid at £sooo.—Mr. dOO.O stated the caw. The plaintiff was an attorney in Dublin—the defendant the keeper of a private esta blishment for insane persons at Carlow. His part ners were a Mr. Clay and a Mr. Delahoyd, wier have similar establishments in England. Mrs. Hinds was the mother of three children and about S'4 years of age; having unfortunately become deranged in her intel• lects, she was sent down to the defendant's Insttu tion, where she became pregnant, and informed De lahoyd that it was by the defendant. She repeated her charge in presence of the defendant and Dela. hoyd, at the request of tilti latter, whett she was surely ordered to her room by the former. When about five months gone with child, Dr. Middleton. on pretence of taking her home to her friends, re moved her to Kilteagan, an obscure torn re town, where he described her as a Mrs. Hamilton, and where she lay in of a male child. All this was un known to the unfortunste husband, who continued to pay the stipulated laJaid of one hundred guineas Vet' annum. The evidence to limy,: the affection v..hicis subsisted between the husband and wife previoas the unhappy malady. was conclusive. The first witness called to prove the adultery was Delahoyd,'the defendant's partner. Ile spoke to the examination above mentioned of the Lady, her confess.. ing her pregnancy to him, and also accusing Dr. Middleton with being the cause of it to his face. On his crass-examination, he admitted that be was a married man, and had left his wife and two children in England : but that he had intrigued with one of the servants of the Institution, who had a child by him : he admitted also that he had treated Mrs. Hinds with punch once fir twice to make her speak out against Ors Middleton—that he had once kept an improper female for twelve days at the li,sti• union, and gave her twelve shillings when she went away; he also owned to sleeping with Mary Ryland, the cook of the Institution, whir used to come to his bed. Being asked if he had ever true females at once in hod with him ? He declined an leering until he had the opinion of the Judge. but the latter declined interfering. Knew Mrs. Conelly, the Matron of the Institution, very well: she was a eke woman, but she escaped him Nakao and uidoucher4 Has heard of her intimacy with a lunatic patient, called Alonzo. He was a prisoner for debt in Dub lin when he first communicated what he kkew Mrs. Hinds. The next witness was this Mrs. Conolly t :Le ad. mitred that improper females were frequently caught in Delahoyd's apartments : knew Mrs. Hinds to be pregnant. but could not tell by whom. Tnis witness confessed to several love-letters which had passjd be tween her and the Patients of the Institution, anti which were produced. The next witness was the person with whom Dr. Middleton placed Mts. Minds during her accouthe meat. He believed her to be a Mrs. Hamilton, until her husband, Mr. Hinds, came to enquire for her. The servant of this person deposed to seeing Dr. Mid. dleton kiss Mrs. Hinds when he visited • her during her accouchement, which was attended with great danger. Here the Plaintiff's case closed t and the trial was adjourned over to Monday hit. On that day Mr. Gawne addresed the Jury for the Defendant, and ex amined witnesses. Lord Noasuav then charged the Jury, and at half put seven they retired. After remaining out an hour Alderman WARNaIt, the foreman, came into Court, and said, as the Jury could not agree in their opinion, he wished to know if the parties would withdraw a Juror ? the Defendant's Solicitor agreed to, but the Plaintiff re fused. The Foreman then retired, observing, th at there was no chance of the Jury agreeing, an d f rom the tempen of some of them he knew they would stay all night. In the course of the evening, however, Mr, Hi n d s , the plaintiff, consented to withdraw a Juror, and thus the seek termip,ated. Each party pays his own costs. r c