Star. — London, England, 1809-09-25 00:00:00

o , .ts discontent which, of late, has been trunitested the Officers of the coast army, and which has led to the suspension of five of high rank and respectability, and cf various removals from commands and appoint ments. I dare not venture to express my apprehen sicns of the result of these important proceedingt, which have excited the greatest agitation in this set dement." By the India Goventnent Graetteof May the 4th, i t a ppears, that the most violent disputes existed be tween the Council and the Army. Several officers, some of them of considerable rank, are charged with prepar ing a sedition: paper, “ purporting to be a re monstrance in the name of the Army' against th• acts of the Government under which it serves," and • calculated to destroy every foundation of dhci one, obedience, and Sdelity." Other officers are accused of circulating inflammatory papers, censuring t h e suspension of Major 80x.&v., the late Deputy-Ad jutant-General ; and all these proceedings are attri buted to the example set by the violent and infem. perate acts of the late Commander-in-Chief." A con siderable number of officers have been rebuked or sus pended in consevienee, and, among others, Lioate nant Coloneh I . l.llaju k t7Ba r „ an d j LA LEits, I v? I)ein removed from their commands ; Ljeute_ .n i n t,Colonel-Jorm Chet, AGE and CaPrirM.,cekiiss3 separated from the Staff ; and Lieutenant Co the - Honourable A RTllnnt Sr. Lust Iga t Major JOHN Da MORGAN) Captain Jesmn MARSHALL ) and Captain Drams GRA NT ) ordered to'hold themselves in readi ness to return to England. In r short, from whatever cause these divisions may have arisen, whether from the late Commander-in:Chief having chimed, like his predecessors, a seat in -the Government, whe: ther from usurpation ,attempted on the past of the Army, or refusal of right on the part of the Couli cil, they appear to be of a most extensive and serious ilea re. Distance alone renders the tenure of our East Indian possessions a precarious one, hut at such a time as the present, when the genius of our enemy is lurk lag about them, ready ta take advantage of every in cidental weakness, we ought td render ourselves more invulnerable'than Achilles himself, and not leave even abed exposed. Yet, alas ! the nation is at this mi. mite distracted in head, and sick at heart, and the very hands which should be its safeguard are em ployed in madly smiting each other. Another account states, that when the Vtumxin sloop, which brought these dispatches, left Madras, the dissatisfaction, that had some time existed, caused by the circulation of a vimonstrance against the act of Government, in rereoVing the late Com:Eander in Chief, had subsided, that all was einiet, and that the officers, who hid prepared and ciitnilated thti: pepi were, by a general order of the Odtiernor' ban'ncil, tithe 6th of MaT, to be sent home by ;hi ilest e whiels was shortly expected to sail for EnghtnCirlie names menticned are those above stated, with the addition of Major ROLE,, namely, ColonehST. Ma• ions BoLCS and Da MORGAN, and Captains GRANT and 14.1isnAL. CHANGE OF MINISTRY. The new Ministerial arrangements are not yet set tled, nor has any thing transpired on which we can place absolute reliance. We have already stated the rumours that were in circulation last week on this fltbject; and in giving , them we desired our readers to recollect that most probably all of them were tine tired more or 'ess with party and family feelings To this we may add, that some of the reported . ar rangements rest more upon the wishes of individuals than upon any real or solid foundation. We hat c reason to believe, however, that a fact tirit has been strongly denied by some of our contem rotati,7s has somef , undation in truth—namely, that Lards C:;ENVILLE and Derr have been actually sent • for in the present emergency. This zewilutien was formed at a Council held on Saturday. It was communicated to hih MAJESTY by the Ea rruf Li ERPOOL and Mr. PEncavAL,on Saturday afurnoxi, and his MAstaat's pleasure having bees taker., two Messengers were Sent off from Windsor in the evening. Lord GnExvu.tz is in Cornwall, Lord GREY in Northumberland. _ . tnwhile the folloWing resignatieuisare apcl to have been determined upon, in . addition io the reAig• "'ions of the Duke or PORTLAND; Lord. CASTLE itrmar, anJ Mr. CANNING, viz. Lord LEXISON GOWER, i..31"1 CAMDEN, and the Earl of WESTMORLAND.: There Tll then be six vacant seats in the Cabine t . The who remain are-- - Lord ELDON. Earl of CHATHAM. Earl BATHURST. Mr. I'Ene4NAL. Lord Mi.l.c.mvc. Earl of LIVERPOOL.. The six se.its already vacated, or to be vacated, 7 0U1d, it is to be supposed, be kft to Lord GneN ! v!itk's distribution.—The Premiership and . the Fo reign Department are those which he and Lord Pim 5.3_d in the last Ministry. Gozeite of last night contains his Majesty's or der for proroguing Parliament from the 28th inst. to the 2d of Nuv rm b er next , b ut i t d oes not Stan that it :s then to meet for the disfiaqh of busintu. • This morning Mr. Sit AW, one of his Majesty's Bites ? , •cngers, arrived at the Secretary of State's "Office, in °owning -street, with dispatches from Spain. —Mr Abstance of the diApatches'had not.tranipired *hen ::is Paper was put to Press. C n hC he is lc- put to by tut !ss rs is Its - iz, LE he St- ,rd .r, ni- ne xs .), , ARMS The troops lately tittbarired if *ittOttOittli, and intended-to reinforce etivAinaflit fattepti f ate still is b t;nci e * . on board the transipopei; Win - o .tniteireitid Yarmouth Roads, in the Isle of Wight."' \, Among other medical officers recentliaead in the Island of Walcheren, we regret to hear G T. Avg. LINO, Esq. Inspector of Hospitals to the Army there. The loss of this very zealous and skilful man is Much regretted in the Army, and by a numerous circle of acquaintance. He caught the fever in the execution of his duty, to which his humanity ever led him to pay the most unwearied atter.tion. tho very harass ing nature of the duty on this accursed island, it is thought brought on the fever which deprived his pro- fession of this invaluable officer. it is determined that only a Court of Enquiry of General Officers.shall investigate the Expedition to the Scheldt, and that there will be no General Court Martial. The Hall at Chelsea Hospital is, however, 'fitting up. 1 4 1.1Pit4 INTEL LlGl3,llrd.r. "r . • • • . FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER tz. Arrived, this day, the Princess Elizabeth plater, ICrno, with tnairs from Lisbon, nine days-passage, left there the Prince of Wales packe4 ; yesterday his Ma jesty's ship JaLaust, 18guns, from a rruize ; the American ship Celpi, Mooaf., from London, bound to Cadiz, in ballast ; this day the Francis Freeling packet, BELL, with mails from Jamaica, 39 days pas• sage, she has on board 16 passengers, and 250,000 dollars—she brings no news.—Yesterday sailed, his Majesty's ship HUMBER, 18 guns, with alleet of coas ters, and about 10 sail, for the Downs ; the Corn wallis, (late packet) ANTHONY, for London; and his Majesty's brig CONFLICT, Lieut. BUTT, with a messenger and dispatches for Lisbon, but put back again this day.. PLYMOUTH ANto PLYMOUTH-DOCK, SEPT. as. Came in the French brig l'Artemise from Baur deaux, laden with brandy. and wine, bound to St. Maloes ; she was captured by the Hero privateer, of Guernsey, the .15th instant ; she fell in with a fleet consisting of fifty sail, under convoy of a brig and 'lugger, off the Isle de Dieu, steering the same course, six of which she drove ashore, the others escaped un der the protection of the brig and lugger, neither of which attempted to chace the Hero. Came in also the Sidburk, Capt..BtaeKsToN, from Dartmouth, for Newfoundland; and AMAZON, of 38 guns, from a cruize.—This morning the William, Captain BEARK- LiR, drifted among the rocks in Mill Bay, where she hi' taxi* much damage. • r DOVER, SEPTEMBER 24. APTIVAeff here the Elite Ana, Scuds, from Cunt ; left that island on the 18th ult.; had accounts brought there by the TWEED sloop of war, that his Majesty's ship LARK foundered on the 3d alt. in a hurricane off the coast of St. Domingo, and all hands lost, except one black and two white seamen, who were picked up after thesalt on, some spars.—Came . in the brig Emmerson, from Quebec, captured last Sunday by a French privateer, and recaptu r ed by th e DAPPER gun4orig, off Bearhy ; the Captain and all the, crew of the Emerson were taken by the privateer, except one man' and a itoy.—Passed by the Invention, —, from 'Buenos Ayroi ; the Fame, CODD, from Antigua ; and the Baltic Merchant, PROCTOR, from Pernambuco. —Wind W.N.W. and blows strong. YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 24. Arrived the DAtmrtEss sloop of war ; Lyre and Eliza tenders, and transport, No. 303, from Flushing with sick. The. RICHMOND gunbrig sailed with the trade for Heligoland ; and the REDBREAST to the northward. 'A large fleet of colliers passed through these Roads for the Thames; the colliers have suf fered very much in their masts, rigging, and sails, and seven are blown on shore near Robin Hood's- Bay, and had the gale continued many hours longer, several others would have shared the same fate—a deal 1 of wreck was seen floating in the North Sea. The.' ships in the Roads are the Roebuck, Pandora, Daunt less, Cbanticleer, and two tenders. Wind W. N. W. _ _ SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER 24. On the 22d inst. the AcGRESSOK gun-brig sailed with the Heligoland convoy, consist i n g o f 34 sa il ; and this day the-ALtniao man of war sailed with the Gottenburgh tonvoy.—Yesterday, the wind blew a heavy gale from S.W. but we hare not yet heard of any damage being done to the shipping.-,-The next convoys for Heligoland and Gouenhtugh will sail ,from hence on the 30th inst.—Wind S.W. HARWICH, SEPT. 34. Sailed the Lady Nepean packet, Captain Livlxo, with mails and passengers, for Heligoland ; and the Lark, Callain DELL, with mails and passengers fzir Gottenburgh ; also the PEACOCK 5100 1) of war, with a fleet of light transports. OW; MARKET, MARK -LANE, SEPTEMBER 25. The supplies of most kinds of grain to-day, are short. Wheat at an advance of 2s. and Ss. per quarter, from Friday--Barley the sane—Malt and White Peas are rather higher—Beans, of the two descriptions, like wise...—there are also a short supply of Oats, aad prime samples am named somewhat dearer—Flour fully at last advance, 'and . inclines upwards—fine American 625. to 665. per barrel . OINSIAL OUlliteNCT Al UNDIRS Wheat, 945. 1041.1 the. Beans, 625. 68s. Five ditto, I tOs. 1241. Tick ditto, 545. 595. Rye, 545. 60s. Oats, SOs. 341.375. Barley, 465. ses. od. Poland ditto, 391.42 e. Od. Malt, 80.. toe, Potatoe 431. White Peas (boilers) SOL 9 41. Rape Seed, SQL to 541. Grey" dlite, is. 595. Fine Flour, 95e. 1006.--SoceOde Ns, 95a. . • , • • •1s • r . • A la b taiu-irl;ro „_ • , ~,,,r,5,.... . o , • - A ...., - sokraielkompoetiti7-fsp.-. -ro qm: • ...:1•130 A..itEa , sz-; • 77 : 7 1 " — AnT.,, ~65 , :neltift i 9 C - ''' lin % - ! Stli Satithilit trili 1 *4l3 #e with the l Fate . oitiot,itelkilair fiC 'Was utterlj. ihipossillt to heg#: a Wtwd from the thotfikat the cute=' tain drew up. • . The' popnlat spirit, far frOin beint subdued, teemeti rather to have gained strength. T ' Theatre was by no means so crowded as on the former nights ; but this proceeded in a great measure from there having been no orders issued, and the Ma. nagers being desirous of trying what effect 'might be produced by leaving the Public to the weight of - their own judgment. The usual catcalls, rattles, trumpets, whistles, &c. proceeded in full chorus. During .the interval, a number of placards were displayed, with inscriptions favourable to the public cause, as it seemed univer. _sally to be esteemed. Among others we noticed the following :—" British merit for ever, and no Cata lani."—One board contained a list of the salaries and benefits of Catalani, J. Kemble, C. Kemble, Mrs. C- Kemble, and Mrs. Siddons, amounting to 425,57.5. Others, the following : " John Bull, John Bull,be merry, bold, and resolute, " Fear not to thew disapprobation, " But freely keeryourvoisy station, " Fur none of Xemble born - " Can GVLL a Bands Nation." , " John Kemble linnets the cause of this riot; " When he lowers his hiaes, John Bull will ix. 'quiet!" —" The Clerks of the Bank are prevented from tit-! tending the Theatre through John iCenible.—ft Bring i down the pride of Keml.le and hit-rite tsp." -Tile- I pent, Monopolizers, before the just anid deserved in dignation of an insulted British audience overtake you in your career."--..." Let not a British audience be in timidated by Bew-street officers,"—" Do yon lower your prices, and we will Raise the Wind.—liax poluli, supremo lox."—•A coffin, with crossbones, Bcc:- .- and the words—" Here-lies the body of New Prices, who died ' the 23d of September, 1809, aged six days."—These and a predigious number of others to the same effect, were pinned to the fronts of the boxes, and displayed in the pit. Several printed papers were thrown down during the performance, and the oppositon appeared t© be most general. The play was ended a little after eight, and the farce was over at about nine. —The cmpany, however, remained in their places till between ten and eleven, during which time the noise and uproar were louder than At any time during 1 1 th e performance. Silence was, however, obtained for s'short time, while a gentleman addressed them from ;he front boxes, who had been heard on former occa sions. He stated, " that his principal reason for coming forward was, that as the gentleman who was . most accustomed to address them (Mr. Leigh) was l not then in the Theatre, it would appear a triumph to the Managers if no person was to assert the rights of the audience. He congratulated them on the events of the night, and thought they had obtained a triumph over the avarice and insolence of the Ma nagers. As to their avarice, he believed that it would be defeated. Their intended imposition could never be carried into effect. (Loud applause, and cries of never I never 0 One of the Managers (Mr. Kemble) hid the insolence to pretend, the last night he addres sed them, that he really did not know what they wanted. Alt the statements which had been made on the part of the Managers, were false assertions.— He was sure the very performers must, in their hearts, wish their tyrannical Manager to be defeated in the present contest, and if the public persevered as they had hitherto done, they must ultimately defeat the Managers." These and some further observations made by the same Gentleman, were heard with ap plause. The call for Mr. Kemble now became greater than e , ever, and at length that Gentleman presented himself' amidst the tumult of applause and disapprobation. Having procured an interval of silenze, he spoke to the following purport : i .~ " Ladies and Gentlemen—lt is with sincere regret I find that any part of my conduct should be consi dered as bearing the character of disrespect towards you ; and I trust a due examination of it will be the means of removing any such imputation from me.— To my conduct, as an Actor and a Manager, for up wards of five and twenty years, I appeal as an an swer to this most painful charge, and trust, during the whole of that long period, it will successfully plead my acquittal in this respect with all whorl's I have n3w , the honour tdaddress. [App/awe.] • 44 The Proprietors, I sincerely assure you, Ladies 1 , old Gentlemen, are most anxious to do every thing I s in their power to allay any ferment that may have been created, and- to restore the public tranquillity.— Orval applauses.) They arc willing that a Commit tee of disinterested Gentlemen should be appointed to, inspect the state of the concern, and from the pro!ts thence derived to, say, whether the old or the new prices were the most fit •and reasonable. (Here - he was interrupted b y cries of " iso, no—No looks—No Committer.") The Proprietors, Ladies and Gentle men (continued Mr. Kemble) thought they could not do a more gratifying thing to the public, or one which could'more completely satisfy them of their wish 'to act liberally and fairly, than by giving them an op portunity of participating in the knowledge of our affairs equally with ourselves. (General applauser.) If this proposal meet your approbation, Ladies and Gentlemen, as it appears to me it has, I pledge my self on the part of the Proprietors, that to the decision of such .Gentlemen as may be approved of by the public they will cheerfully submit ; and further, that until their decision is known the theatre shallbe shut up." ( Universal awl repeated wiz use.) Here some Gentlemen in the stage-box called Mr. REMBLF, and after a short conversation he thus re. sumed " Be assured, Ladies and Gentlemen, no time shall be lost in thus proceeding to the strictest investigation of our accounts, and that whatever the result may he, it shall be immediately communicated to the Public. —As to Madame Carai.Ast (continued he), I have only to say, Ladies and Gentlemen, that Mr. HARRIS, in entering into an agreement with her, was actuated' solely by a wish to evince his attention to the public gratification, by engaging for that purpose a perfor mer whose talents were acknowledged to be ttanscing , dant—(" No Italian squallers on a 11ritiek Feeling, hswever (said he); that this env has proved to be not congenial to the public mind, the Managers have been induced to alter their arrange ments inaltis respect, and I have now to assn.: the . • P -,. -~~-~"T'~_ _ +l' 1 .". •--- • • = 1104. t • • f • atit€ ••ata Ittb sBlftagertierif ‘ it •Jl e t i. 4 " 1 ) • epd reiEcrotted applatt<e :arid IW - ugh the tipnr.e.AL As renewed/tit Ivett4d6'4 . retiring ! . tIW - apphtilding yoices . v.emertl dee/4611r te predominate beer the nun-content s: "7 The.unpleaSttilt dispattrs at tOvent-Barden The'dtte4 have, as yeti prevented the Appd of Mr*: CLARIC.4 the young LALIT.,,ivho Fittricted :ice at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, and of vrhani tame has spoken in the most liattetirg terms: tie' attn., it is said, w;11 be in tit! Griciaa Dauglike: She is ossar in her 19th year, i:stv..t..:*l:' , l‘l ::c lIF I I 111 ‘• 1, • - : , -OLD BAILEr, • ......_—.-.......:.. ' On Saturday eleven prisoners were tried; third Of whom were capitally convicted; vie-- 77. /17,,i,!, kr stealing a black galdingithetrioPerty of Mary Hinran, spinster Wi//iceii Skpfieed stood indicted fur kliobibtisiy ut tering as true a certain receipt, knowitig the same to be forged, for the purpose of defrauding one Mordy. , It appeared from the evidence in this mei, that the prosecutor, Richard Moady, was a gentleman's so .1 vant, and having by his industry and ecoliOrnfsae• d some money, he employed his brother, Thattrab•Mor y, to get 201. vested in the 5 per cent. Stoeks. Th.ni i t Merdy, therefore, in the month of January, went to 'the Lank, and meeting with the prisoner, of whom 11'. lhadiorne slight knowledge, and who was a kiAld of 'Tothng-broker, gave him the '2Ol with instructions V** it was retie vested, In 2 short - time afterwards the prisoner broUght. hins.a.receipt purporting to i)e 'the receipt of a person named W. S. West, for the transfer of 201. 5 per cent. to the name of Richard Mordy. Is the month of July, Richard Mordy ap plied at the Bank for his dividend ; but on presenting j - the receipt, was informed that go such Stock had been transferred„ nor was there any person of the name of • , 1 -West employed in the Stock Office. An Inquiry was then set on foot respecting the broker who had tram ' acted the business, and the prisoner was pointed out. The Directors of the Bank sent immediately for him, and he was interrogated in their parlour by Mr. Kaye the Solicitor. He then said there was • a running ac count between him and the prosecutor ; • but at a fu ture eamination he confessed that at the time Thomas ' Mordy had applied to him, he was mach distressed in pecuniary affairs, and that he was induced to ap propriate the sum he gave him at that time to the liquidation of some pressing demand ; but with a full intention of purchasing the stock, when his Circurn• stances would admit. On being questioned as•to the receipt, he said he had given that merely as a memo. randum, and that having a friend whose name was West, his name occurring to him first, while he was writing it, he put it at the bottom ; but begged it -*tight be understood ho had not the most distant in lention of defrauding the prosecutor. ' • These facts having been proved, the prisoner was • ailed on for his defence. This he left to his Counsel ' Mr:Guar:ix and Mr. ALLEY, who called several most respectable witnesses to his character, who all spoke: in the highest terms of his exemplary conduct, and of his filial duty, having supported an aged mother by his industry, for thirteen years. . . The - Learned Judge, Baron HEATH.. then:summed up the evidence to the Jury with great perspicuity, dwelling on those parts which were likely to be fa vourable to the prisoner ; but at the same time signi -1 fying his conviction of the prisoner's guilt. • i• The Jury, after some consideration, returned a ver dict of Guilty of the fraud, but not of the forgery. The Learned Judge, in reply to this, explained to the Jury the nature of the laws rerPecting forgery, and said, that in the present case, the.fraud depended wholly on the forgery. ' The Jury then begged to withdraw, and, after tieing absent nearly twenty minutes, returned with a verdict of Guilty—Death. Thomas Rose, a letter carrier in the Two Penny Post Office, apparently not '2O years of age, was tried for secreting aid embezzling two of £5 each, on the Ilrli of August last. Mr. Thomas Smart, clerk to Messrs. Warrington 1 and Co. bankers, at Altriegham, near Knutsford,•in 1 Cheshire, on the loth of August last, put the two 1 notes in question in a letter, which was sent by the regular post, directed to Mr. John Gen. Green, Vir. gin place, Bowling-green-buildings, New Road, Pad dington. The letter reached London on the 11th, and was sent from the General Post-Office to the Two penny Post-Office, it; Gerard -street, as this place of delivery was within the limits of the latter ; the . Paddin:rton Bag was given out on that day as usual, and the place of delivery was within the prisoner's ,walk. .There was some difficulty in- prOvmg, that ' that identical letter was given into the hands of the ' prisoner, but the deficiency in the chain of evi dence was made up by the testimony of his sister Sa. [ rah Rose, an innocent looking girl about 18 years of i age. Whetianit ipto the witness box she wept bitterly, land was with the utmost difficulty prevailedrapor; by repeated -questions, to state, that she had receiveci a note from heebrother, some time about the 11th of 1 -August, and had changed it with.one none, .altublie can, in Westminter. The publican gave it along with others, and in pap a ment to Mr. Johnston, clerk to Messri. Barclay ni • Co. Brewers.—Verdict—Guilty, Death. I Thomas Ric h ardson, a letter-sorter in the G4tie j ni, 1 Post-Office, was capitally indicted for having ititisils 1 from a letter, which came into his hands eu Satarectai I the sth of August last, ten Bank post bills, oithnat.a t 1 : lue of £lO each, with intent.to defraud Messes.*aeo and Co. of Fleet -street, bankers. ;,1 r - ck Mr. Thomas Law, clerk to the abtife; '•house, deposed, that on the sth of kogast 13 . i . AC *4, by the General P eaa o to s .foo t w l a le soto tte nstn ri no ccd u.a7oliree t py 7 vsomi4 r; no r irdpa sli ss ia t n :vertedb; r 7 H e th i e tc n h - r o e y f d ll A tl ' i u e t g c p e u l l st i a ' : and she inratioclia tige tea , aecoutit y akisethi t mu ou d ie f yi dh)e d i r ecte d togeth er. ' for his wife, changed two of the bills • the .Prtsoner The insufficiencya an acquittal of evi - on ' this Le charge arnect , deuce,. aad ,thelaisolier was accordingly pronounced , •••41 4 4-It Crailtlf.. •-' • ' &1 17 pr e iso - n iffern er wa alur s Ch7g 6 e v d e w o • I first c i th th e t r h i e nd co re m tm m en is : i s o , n in of e s •h im ic i h .. of these, v a e d r v y ic c e o o n f sid b e is i•a c b o le urise am i o , u th nt e . P 'l , : i. o o h e e r pleaded Guilty, and a verdict was entered accorrie ilitgly. ' • • . i . .. ~ . . • ...., ..• .••• • .44..7'