Star. — London, England, 1811-12-24 00:00:00

attentve ccns:4ratton which it meats at this time. both on account of the value of the' information, and the nature of the political interest s to w hi c h i t rel tts. —The Cotton harvest at the Brazils may be tegulated as follow Mararlam, 60 to 63,000 Bags, or 14,60.00011* weight. Pernambuco, 40 to 45,000 ditto 7,200,000 ditto. Bahia, SO to 35,000 ditto 5,600,000 ditto. ..P . i..... ,-^ Total, 145,009 B ags , or 2/,360,000 lbs. weight. 1 and Catholic 1 Nobility, Gentry, and Merchants, en- Ceara, Pernaiba, Rio de J ane i ro , an d Mi nas ex - I tered the Rotunda.which was illuminated byseveral port also the same-article, but in a small scale. Per. hundred wa; tapers. On the centre table stood an elegant Transparencry, representing on tsne side the nambuco cotton is the best o f a ll B raz il s . A ccor d. Genius rf Ireland in a suppliant posture, presenting ing to the last adviccs, the ne x t year's harvest must the Ca el Petition to the Prince Regent, and on be very plentiful, and it may amonnt t 0.60,000 bags. :the other the figure of Pe ice, with the olive branch. This place only exported 10,000 bags 20 years ago ; 1 On the table where the C'airman, Lord Fusciata., and since the last 1,0 years, 0 0,Q00 bags annually. l sat, was place:el two figures, representing the state between Infancy and Manhood, in an attitude of Its soil is very proper for the cultivation of cotton, as muscular exereon, emblematic of the efforts which is a'isci Maranham and Bahia : but it is necessary that : the Catholics are making to nbtain Constitutieral its value In England should not be less than 2s. per Freedom. All the vocal performers, of eminence, in pound and above, in order to encourage the mild.' Dublin, attended, and an excellent band occupied the vators. orchestra. . % It should here be particularly itclticed, that the re- Lord FINGALL presided. The toasts were delivered of the net b Lord Final,and onnounced byCounsellor O'Con. turn proceeds of cottons imported into Eng.. Weill Immediately after dinner iVon Nobis Do mine land from the Brazils, is yearly made in &ids ex- was sung by Messrs. Spray, &c. &c. ported for the same country ; and it follows as a mat- t Amongst the most distinguished of the guests were, ter of course, that the more we consume of the Bra- The Marqtis of Downshire, the Ear's of Meath and Granard, zil cotton, the greater will be the export of our manu- Lords Lismore, Forbes, Dunaary, Cloncurry, and Rossmnre ; the fact red goods. 1 Right Hon. Henry Grattan, Maurice Fitzgerald, the Master of the Rolls, Geuerah Mahon and Cockbume, the Hon. C.ipt. Stan hope,Let it be also recollected, as often as this question is the Hon. Mr. Stanhope, the Hon. Jas. Butler, the Hon. C. agitated, that the Brazil cotton is equal in quality to Hutchinson, the Hon. A. Hutchinson, Sir Marcus Somerville, Sir any imported from the United States ; and that the Neal O'Donnel, Sir S. Bradstreet, Sir J. Meredith, Messrs. Rs La quantity added to that from our West India colonies, Touche, 3. La Touche, Parnell, Talbot, Hume, Warburton, from the Isle of Bourbon, and from the East Indies, Lambert, Henry, H. Grattan, jun. A. Henry, Gerrard, Rev. Kil dare Burrowes, Rev. Henry Ansley, Metge, Evans, H, Rowan is more than siifficient for all the demands of our ma 'inter, Lloyd, Fran:more, Trotter, Fitzgerald, M'Grath, nufacturers. All these countries are customers for Howard, Kavannagh, Litiwill, Wogan, Browne, Burn*, Driscoll; our manufactures : and they are the only open ens- eaurowys, P.i. v. Dr. Austen, Doctors Moody and Wells, Mathew terriers left to us, except Spain, Portugal, and a very RUIINSii, to Newry, &c. few ports in the Mediterranean. Why then, in the Atter the usual loyal toasts, ~ Mr. GRATTAN and tame of common sense, justice, and sound policy, Old Ireland" was given as a toast, upon which Mr. Gee ma.. returned thanks in a short and elegant should we continue to take cotton from those who speech, in which he took occasion• to say that the abo refuse, upon system, to receive back any part of the lition of all civil and religious incapacities w..s the same cotton in a manufactured state ? As they so- only and the best resource for the safery of the British licit non-intercourse, let them taste of its fi uit. Bank. Emp:re. . • rUptcy has already readied their . merchants—ruin Lord FINGALL. upon his health being drank, also addressed the company in an appropriate manner. and beggary Aiwa thee overtake their agricultu-: rists—and a return to reason and equity may be ex- "The Earl of HARRINGTON and the Army of Ireland," being then given, the Hon. Captain L. pccted to follow. 1 STANHOPE, his Lordship's son, returned thanks in a - most eloquent and energetic speech ; in the course 'Yesterday; about unlit past two - O'clock, the Pruett of which h is voice was repeatedly drowned amid Reorarr tot* an airing in Iris tannage in the Parks. ' thunder. of applause. We stop the press us soot, tsar-his Rayal Highness Captain Scat:nom in the course of his speech, cb else Duke of CLAIM/4CE WAS this day appointed ?id• v od " I know of no motive, I know of no act, tairal and Coninianiiettim.chief of the Fleet of Great' b y *n • ' . cn the Commander of the Vbtfes has merited Britain and Ireland, . in the room of the late Sir '. w h ic h t- A your approbation— y3ur censure,-indeed, he has not plena rARKLIk b I The PIIINCK Racurav has intimated hisleasure •: de s erved. He has not travelled out . rf h;s way to ir emate the Soldier, or to provoke the Citizen ! But that the Biahninicsof Oxford shall be given to his old I does not an officer, in preventing such evils, deserve Tutor, the Rev. Dr. W14.1.1A51 JACKSON. . I *eau thanks ? My father did but obey his orders ;he Lord MELviLte has taken the White House 'in ' did but follow what I humbly conceive to be, a great Patk-lane, formerly the residence of the Martini! principle of morality and a great law of Nature—that /Wettest-cr. -.-. • , of allowing every man to worship Goa according to. It is reported That Mr. W. Por.z, tun. :will be , *IP. ' the dictates of his own conscience." printed a Lord of theTreasory, in the room of Mr. i The healths of the Earl of Dosoocumone and the Eliaoi, who is expected to resign. . 1 Marquis of DOWNSGIRE were next given, amid simi- The Anniversary of the Society of Schoolmasters, . tar tokens of approbation. held on Friday last, at the Crown and Anchor Ta- 4 , The Master of the Rolls" (Mr. Cunitaw). . vein, was very numerously attended, and the accession Mr. CURRAN observed, that .. 'from the dawn of new Members much greater than at any fhrmer through the meridian, and even to the setting of die sleeting. TEe benefactions subscribed by persons evening sun upon life, he had felt with sympathy and sot of the profession were likewise considerable, and i pain for the oppression inflicted on the Catholics of the Treasurer's Report of the state of the Society's Ireland, not only in respect to their reli g ious but to Funds, and of their Annual Donations, was highly I their civil liberties. From the humble situation of his satisfactory and auspicious. The great success rf this youth to his attaining the high judicial office in the benevolent and useful Institution must be truly gra- 1 State which he now filled, it had always been the most Crying to every real friend of literature and humanity. i ardent wish of his heart to see in the full enjoyment of CoV ser-Genpee.— Coriolanus was last night re- i their claims- that great majority of the Irish nation, on ... presented with the most fine and impressive effect.— Mr. Kum Li and Mrs. Stoooss out-did all their former out-doings;" and on the whole, a more sublime theatriCal treat was perhaps never presented to the adnriring amateur. Tile House .was crowded to an °veal )W in every part. , • • • LYCEUM THEATM.E.- , -The play called The Stranger was performed last night.. A lady, Mrs. 13nettrrom, appeared as Mre. Railer. - Her figure is good. her enunciation clear, and her . general style void of.. ftnce. We apprehend that her powers, however, cm. I.ot be fairly said to the above •medlocrity. A new. pantorainie followed, called the White Cat; or, liarh., ruin in Fairy Wood, under the direction of Mr. Knott: —This evening's exhibiti , n was called a rehearsaV merely because a little start had been taken of co, vent-Garden in the production of the Pantomime : every resrcct it was a performance, and one that en.. tendered much mirth and laughter. No expellee •:eetos to have been spared, and we can assure our • young fri...nds who visit the Theatres at this festive season, tilat they htse a gre4t treat to enjoy in the White Cat. The music is good. The scenery super -1 itively beautiful.. All the scenes are pdrnted in just ..uid elegant proportions, and none of them would dis 7race higher pretensions than pantomime decorations. ••icec -cl. it yo_b. 4 whose industry, and on whose strength the wealth, the prosperity, and the protection of the British em pit e in a great measure depended. He then adverted to Mr. Grattam's declaratioi;s, which, he said, must have made a deep impression on every auditor's mitul.— On those principles he had long thought and lonz acted. He held them true in every particular ; ttnd he adopted them with the fullest and most implicit reception of confidence and approbation. would therefore be superfluous in him, on the present occasion, to dilate upon those principles ; they were they result of philanthropy, of liberality, of justice, and of policy. He had acted in public, he had consulted in private with the Right Hon. Gentle. man (Mr. Grattan) on the great question of Catholic Emancipation. In the chamber and in the Senate they had thought and they had acted in unison, and while he possessed intellect, his exertions in every situation should be to support the Catholic Cause, which he considered not only the cause of Ireland, but also the cause of Great Britain." The ltev. Dr. At STLN next addressed the meeting •itie tricks and changes, too, must be mentionet -crms of the warmest praise. The most prominent were, the changes of a row of old trees into the word 64 FAMY"—a villa, to the Horse Guards— lbank, to a bridge and boat on the water—an f, in •kea, A great variety of clever 2nd novel transform 4- tiOnS, too numerous for specification. The White Cat and her fah* tabb'es are all ftersoaattd by dam isels of the company, or whom very little is seen. —A burlesque elephant, with an infant Lascar, was among the drolleries of the night, and crea ted much merriment ; a bull in a china-shop ;an animated figure, drawn by the Cows w ith chalk on a painting ; a statue to Ilesrleguin ; and a grand concluding scene of a subaqueous translucent tem ple, were also much admired and applanded.—Kie- Int played the Ck Iva, and *as so humorous. that we did not even wish GRIMALDI in his place. Mr. }IARTLAND, Xarlegain; Mt. BARNES, Pantaloon; Miss Columbine; and Miss POOLE, Asboreils, were severally excellent. Da F.An.—There being no Court of Aldermen this day, the Lord Mayor, after inspecting the Retuins, o rdered it tv rein at povsent prices. irilimilar terms. - The licilths of the Earls of MOIRA and Mum, the Bishop of Noitw:cir, the Duke of Liat:srzn, Lord LlNStorm, Sce. &c. were then drank in succession, amid bursts of NOTTINGHAM, DECEMBER V. His Majesty's Government has at length thought proper to issue out a Proclamation for the apprehen sion of any person concerned in the outrages in this town and neighbourhood, with a reward of £5O to the informant, on conviction of the offender ; as like wise the same reward and free pardon to any one of um depredators whe may impeach his companions. The Corporation of Luis town are also adopting the most vigorous and determined measures to put an end to the riotous scenes ; they have passed a vote of Hall to appropriate 42000 out of their chamber-purse approbation. Mr. Luowuz, the Ex-Magistrate, on his health being given, entered at considerable length into the merits of the Catholic Question, and JosePH LA.:- cAsreit, the Lecttuer on Education, who was pre sent, also delivered his sentiments at some length. Both speakers were greeted with loud applattses. At 10 minutes past two o'clock on Friday morn. ing, Lord FigGALL left the Chair, when Major BitvaNt was called to replace his Lordship, and the last of the Company bad not retired before half past three o'clock. A decree has recently passed in Denmark, which presents a most gratifying . proof of the superiority of British Courts in the administration of justice. By this measure, which is dated the 15th instant, his DANISH MAJ ES TY decrees, that a certain proportion of the proceeds of all prizes Is to be set apart,in order to its being distributed, during the war s amongst such of the Judges and other Public Officers, whose reve nues do not exceed one thousand or twelve hundred crowns ai nu illy. ..ippropriaL. being subject hereafter to be called to an account as to the manner which such Committee may have thought well to apply it. ad' Notwithstanding the . loption of such cogent mea sures, two frames were last night broken at Arnold, a village only four miles from hence. Rioters, and individuals who have collected money for their support, are daily brought to prison: one of whom has given information against several of his de luded companions. Just as this Riper was going to presi we were in formed, that List night, as one of the Police Officers was on the lock-out for the person or persons concerned in the murder of Mr. M.sattand &roily, he followed two sutpicious-looking persons into a public house in Rateliff-highway, and, after a conversation, took them into custody, when one of them turned evidence, and infermed of four more, all Portuguese, that committed the horrid murder of Mr. MARK and family. We have heard that the s:x Portuguese sailors above mentioned have since been discharged out of custody, no sufficient proof having appeared against them. , _-, I.M.' - • AINNBI2OF TEE PRISArDS TO PELIGiOIIS NAVAL IittI'RLLIGENCE. THE MURDERS IN GRAVEL-LA*. LIBERTY IN IREL,IND. _____ , ..--..1 Teit.l3AY, DECEMBER 22. PriLICE Orrice, WUJlTCHAPPl.4—lrestetday wits As-- Sailed his Maiesty's ship Cccoplapra, with a con• brought u,i for examination Artude a Porturue -, Thursday last a grand Putilie Dinner took place I at the Rotunda, i n D u bli n , For the tirpose o f ce le.i voy of transports, &c. for Lisbon ; and his Majesty's on suspicion of being concerned in the murder abfr. heating t. 6 late acquittal of the Catholic Dekgates. yy ' ship le Tltati!. for off L'Orient.—Wind N. E. Ma. r's f ,mily, and to be an accomplice with LeSdrie Up' ards of eight hundred sat down to dinner. PLYMOUI'H, DECEMBER Vit, a•td Barn ird Jovie, who have undergone tw9 rai n ,belts, aid art lodged in sepatite prisms. Iliworlfla.. At half past seven &are! Dinncr WAS served, and Arrived the LAUREL, from Portsn,outh.--Sailed tin being given at the above Office, that A tteonie had the Earl of Fr:GAL', at the head of the Protest-tut 1 - • ___• -- - - -Ted - - ~. '~ the MULLETT, far America, with dispatches for /ir. let, tt.e noighbourho •d, and enter . onbnatd an East Indianian, the Magistr itelthfnediatell dispatebe4lll4. FOSTER, our Minister there; al s o the MAINS!, for officer to the Nore, where the ship w is. The Islillie Portsmouth ; ALDIUN cuter for Bascine Roads, Mott piled permis,,ion of the Admiral for a bat to Irlf ' fttsroo hirid brig, for Swansea, with a slit ill convoy ; off, and found Anomie, who was recovaited by a mon and HERRING to the Westward. The Phcenix trars- whim the officer took with him front London. Aa port, No. 427, which got aground at Mutton Cove oar toitie was .brought up to town on Sunday morning s and yesterday, between eleven and twelve o'clock, Me Friday last, in corseqrience of missing stays, must it is feared, be broken tip: she has broke her back, underwent an examination. flev.:ral persons were w!titing to identify his persan, who st-ted that lee WSII• got a large hole in her bottom, and all h e r knees are A w n along wit', I.e Silvio and 13arn .rd Jovi , , abaft loosened. 1 the time Mr. hl ,IT'S mister being ce,mmitte.d. It PORTSMOU PH, DECE.M DER '.'..3. appeaed that Anionic, the next morning, or the Enna Arrived his Majesty's ship DlArn:st, from Lisbor., ceding day, etrered o:i board't!ie vessel, which car ated a suspicion that lie was concerned a the above last from the Westward; N:4 81 :, from the I)t,wns ; and the AIIERCROSIIIIE, from Plymouth. Wind N.W. horrid dmi • and the woman whorn he cohabited with had prevaricated in her arswerc, the Magirradle DEAL, DECE: tnri. 2t. , was induced to cause Ant nie to he apprehended.— Arrived the Indefatigable, PAM', from Berhke.— Anten'se did not g;ve a Satisfisctnry account at Lime • Came down six sail of merchantmen.—The outward- sell, and the hlag; , tra-e commitled him for anothee hearing. Le Silvle and Barnard Jdvie an bound remain.—Wind N. W. l ong exat niaati.ns, and were both carom= YARMOUTH, DEC. 23. another investiation. The woks in that Barnard Arrived the Revenue cutter —, Capt. DEANS, Jovielivci wit h,, was also brought from the Ho•ur Of with upwards of 100 halves genera, which he picked Correction, Cleikenwell. She - had said,on the two up at sea. Yesterday, P. M. a gun-brig, with a con- prior examinations, that Jovie was in bed at ten o'clock, on the night M:. Mares family were mur. voy, passed through these Roads from the northward. der m ; b ut. yesterday, she said it was past one Sailed the CHANTICLEER, Capt. Senoras, to attend a o'clock on Sin:why-mornings She is therefore to at. Court Martial in the Downs ; and the PROSPERO and tend the next hearing. • Pounds on a cruize. Remain in the Roads, the ' MAillailluimil-srotea'rr—Juha Bane,',..; a merlin- Solebay, Ranger, and British Fair—Wind W.N.W. ' n ' ic war examined on his own c mkssion • f having I been soiree' fled in the late atrocious minders. It ape NAVAL APPOINTMEN fS. I pared in evidince, that the prisoner had said in a pub. CaPt Pbmpin, of the Abercrombie, 71, to the Royal Sove.' to, at Plymouth, vice Capt. John Harvey ; Lieut. Wrot- Jac house, that he was able to develope the whole erne reign, I telly has twenepromoted so the rank of Commamier, am; ap. ' cumitances of the murders I het at the examination. pointed to the Onyx, and not J.ieut. Squire, as %tat, d its our la-t. he denied having any knowledge of such ci.cona. Lieut. W. Croker to rite Varicose ; Lieut. Montgomery, to be stances. and attributed his conduct winebriation. Toe ' not of the Vengeur; Lieut. Macoarnare D.onellan, late of the prisoner was remanded ter another examination. Berwick, to be first of the Maidonn; Lieuts. Wyatt and Clark i Sylverlri Drivel!, who is now in con fi nement in to the Cumbeeand; Lieut. Sir C.W.Chalmers, Bart. to the Pricce ' of Wales; Lieut. Tupman to the Bulwark; Lieut. t C. W oo f.- . Cold Bath Fields prison, will be brought up for &r -ootles to the Providence; Lieut. C. Nicholson to the Egmont ; titer examination to-morrow. A gentleman in the Littv. Wooded!' to the 'Thunder bomb ; Lieut. Evans to be fire Commission attended yesterday, and stated to the. Lieutenant to Commodore Cockburo. Mr.T. Berry of the Mt- ,,,, i . es o r nroaur, to be Purser of the Duncan ; Mr. Hosea.= of the DO ll.' IM a i sle Shadwell Office, thit he had Made nroaur, cast, to be Purser of the Minotanr ; Mr. Hutchins to he Purser ! particular inquiries with respect to spirituous liquors" of ;he Belliquoux ; Mr. Ford of the Tyrian to be Surgeon of the found upon the prisoner, which occasioned his appre. Mercury; Mr. Charles of the Mercury, to be Surgeon of the Ty- . hension, and he had ascertained that the prisoner had clan. Mr. Stuart, Assistant Surgeon of the Cumberland , to be . correc Surgeon of the Swats cutter. Mr. Turnidge to be Carpenter of , tly and truly accounted for such possession. the Cumberland. 1 A brother of the late Mrs. M mt., a hackney-coach - DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MO N EY. . ; driver, has been priritely examined twice Maim: till Magnet, for the Die Hoffunng and Die Harmonic, on the 27th l the murders. It appeared that he had not spoken to lost.; and the Patriot, for a Matikanalse boat, for the property's !his sister f ar meta l ye ars past ; and whit led to his Harlingen Zyl, a mull, a privateer, and same-property remitted 'exam i nation Rout Heligoiand, this day, all at 28, Norfolk-street ; recalled :' ' was, that he had confessed driving a fare' ' ' from Cheapside to within a few dews of Mr. Marrs, Tuesdays and Fridays. 1 Tribune, for the Stephen and Huron, Die Snanie, and Eliza, l on the night the murder Was perpetrated. at 12, Upper 'Thames-strevt, on the 27th lust, and there recalled. On the nigltt of the murder in New Gravel-lane, a Hound, for the Fama and Soettmien, oa Saturday, at 22, Nor folk •street, and there recalled. carman. named Brown, who occupies part of a house Apelles, for the Somnambule and Friend!, the 31st instant; re- in the second turning in Spring -street, which bad been called Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 23, Surrey-street. I clivided into two, overheard, throogla the thin pun., Seagull, for the Hope and Union, the 14th January, as above. 'Lion, two men ter, .say-.- ,, Douce the Om, and let us be off." This (both Irish), of very se tpicions charac ter, was soon after the murder was committed. Theft men have been neither seen nor heard of since fors ' day night. Since Friday night numerous paroles, well armed. have kept up constant watch during the whole night, i . and apprehended every susp'cions person who could not give a satisfactory account of himself. ' The inhabitants of Portsmouth have held a Meeting . on the Ittbje-ct of the atrocious murders in RatclitT Highway and New Gravel-Lane. In order w assist in the detection of the murderers, they have forwar. ded to the Magistrates of the Shadwell Office, a copy of their resolutions, tether with the amount of the additi ,- nal reward offered by them, viz. £5O for tire a 7- - and conviction of any one of the mur. _ _ apprehension to the apprehension and prosecution of the frame- . &errs of Mr. Mare and his family, and the like sun, breakers ; out of which sum the most liberal rewards for the discovery of any one of the perpetrators o 4 the are offered to persons who may give even the most . murder of Mr. Williamson and family. The total distant information which may lead to the detection sum already advertised amounts to £1533. of the offenders, and the names of such informants , Yesterday morning an express arrived at 'Worship are to be kept a profound secret, with the exception ! ! street Office stating that a man of suspicious appear lance, dressed in a smock frock, much stained with of those who may be necessary to appear in Court as ' blood, was in custody in Hertford gaol, and request i evidences ; and such persons who may thus come for- ing that some Officers might be sent down to escort ward, in the face of threatened danger from the de- ; him to town ; accordingly Armstrong and another predators, are promised a reward of £5OO on convic- ' were instantly dispatched in a post-chaise, but on their arrival they learnt that in the course of the night tion of the offenders. A like sum is offered to any the object of suspicion had put a period to his exist• person whose information may bring to justice the ; ence by strangulation. writer, inditer, or sender of an anonymous letter to I ANOTIIRR SANOUINA Rl' OUTRACILA fresh in the Mayor of this town, threatening him with death, . stance of brutal ferocity occurred on Sunday night, in and his property with destruction, if he does not corn-. For-lrne, Shadwell :—A young man named Mellish, ply with certain conditions therein named. The Cor- ' clerk to Messrs. Swain and Stevens, solicitors, in the Old Jewry, was sitting with the nephew of the land. poration have obtained the sanction of his Majesty's • lord of the Three Foxes public-house, in For-lane, is Government for choosing a Committee of Secrecy for the back parlour, when suddenly they heard the watch -the a; ration of the above sum of money, without . - Man's rattle, and a of ,8 Stop the Murderers !" ..... cry. They immediately died out—" My OoD, there is more murder!" Both young men armed themselves with a poker, ran out into the street, and joined• in the pur suit of the suspected persons. Young Mellish could -- with hi but tollogred him not keep up is companion, , as fast as he could. At the corner of the lower turning in Spring-street, he met three men running; two of them were remarkably tall, ill-looking le:lows, and the third a very short man. Supposing they were the men against whom the hue and cry had been raised, he said—. , You are the villains, and I'll have at you." —He instantly levelled a blow with the poker at the head of the little man, which, however, had no other effect than to stun him for a moment. 'the almost immediately recovered himself, and discharged a pistol in the face of Mr. Mellish, the contents of which, being small shot, distigured him in a shocking manner. he miscreants all ran away, and flouting since has been heard of them. The young man has comp'etely lost the use of hiseyes, and remains at the Three Foxes public house in a vtry precarious state. Yesterday a respectable tradesman, who has a shop at Charing Cross, received an anonymous letter, telling him to be on his guard, for that two families in that part of the town would be murdered in the awing week. N gisiIMMI