Star. — London, England, 1805-05-21 00:00:00

P.4lt; MMENtARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MAY so. Counfel were farther beard relative to the ItilhAr pcal, Redington o. Redington, •iz. Mr. Romilly in cnitinuation, and other junior Counfel, on behalf of the Refposuicnt. The farther confidcration of the cafe u as adjoin ned till Wednefday. MOORE'S DIVOR CE. The order for the fecond Reading of the amended Bill to diffolve the Marriage between John Moore, Elq. and Barbara his no* Wife, being read : Counfeland evidence refpetiinv the fame were called to the Bar. On the former confideratton of this mea fore, we dated ac outline of the cafe ; this was, in a great degree, fulßantiated by the evidence brought 1, , t ward this day. As the neceffary fags of the mar r. ;Age proceedings, in tte Ecclefiaffical and Criminal Courts ; the endeavours to levy the damages award ed agaitaff the Defendant, Captain Dutnford the clop, mcnt of the Lady the endeavours to perfuade I.cr to return home, die. She was traced by a friend of the Petitioner's to a privatt; lodging-houfe at Aeon, where, it was proved, Vie was loon after vifited by Capt. Durnford. This was in July, 1802, and in the courfc of the fame month, it appeared, from the evidence of a female fervant of the Defendant, that Mrs. Moore went to Captain Durnford's hnufe, :n Berklhire. She then went by the same of Mrs. Durnford. She lived, in all refpeßs. as the wife of Captain Durnford, lay in the fame bed, &c. That, in oCober, .1803, they came to town for about eight or nine weeks; they re tided at Mary-la-bonne ; the Lady lay-in there fire Rill lived with Captain Durnford. It was Ratetithat the .ady had fince been delivered of a fecund child. After fome obfervatinns were interchanged between one or two of their Lordthips, and Mr. Adam, the Petitioner's Counfel ; . _ - Mr. Romilly, who appeared on behalf of the Lady, Rated, he had a few important obfervations to make to their Lordthips on the cffea of the Bill, in its pre font (late. He was aware thefe more properly applied in the flaw of a Committee, bur, with permiflion of the Houfe, he would then advert to them. He was not infiraled to oppofe the principle of the Bill, as meafore of divorce ; but there were one or two par ticular claufes in the Bill, which went on a principle, he conceived, contrary to that which had hitherto guided the Legiflatute on fuck occafions ; he alluded to the claufes, which went to take from Mrs. Moore all power and difpnfirion, with relpea to what was fettled nn her, for her own exprefs feparate ufe, and which her hufband would have no power over, did the marriage continue in full force. Tbey went to deprive her all . ° of that which was made over to her for het life, and for which a rent charge was dittinit ly affigned, without offering the keit costipenfation whatever. Thefe provilions of the Bill their Lord- Ihips, in their wifdom and jullice, would take into their krious confidtration. The LORD CHANCELLOR informed the Learned Counkl, that fuch ennfiderations were ex prefsly applicable to the Committee on the Bill ; for which Rage, thefe points, and form others relative to the difpofition of property, &c. were, after Tome further explanation with the Counfel, referred. The farther confideration of the Bill was adjourned till Friday. _ _ _ The Bills upon the Table were forwaried ltl t►eir rOitediee ages—Amona there the Land fax Commiihonen Name Bill— the In& Emit Fruits Bill, and t►e Property Tax Amendment Bi ll were read a fecond time. The left-mentioned Bill w.t. ordered to be printed. 1% Ir. Al. EXANDER brought up the Mae Duty Exemption Bill, and the lrifb Common Lands Penile, Bill. :it T. T. Mk:ITALFE brought •p the St. Pancras Work. boufe Bill. A few Private Bills were brought up by Mr. KLCK. General 'NUR Gan, and other Gentlemen. There Bala Were few:rally read a brit tune. IRISH COMMON LANDS PARTITION lIILL. On the oecafion of the Fire Readinx of this Bill, The LORD CHANCELLOR. felt it his duty to call molt emphatically their Lorelips molt ferious and cautious attention to the meafure. It was a Bill which went, or rather attempted, to divide and par tition, by one (weeping aa, the Common Lands of Ireland. It feemed to proceed upon an affumpticn, that it was as eafy a matter to parcel out and divide th-le lands, as it would be to divide an elate between three or Imr members of a family. In the Bill before them, there feemed to he no attention paid to the rights of Lords of Manor ; no regulations with refpel tythes or modules ; nu provilions with refpeet to roads, or other inclolures, which, in this country, were uncn the particular cafes al-ding, made the fob jea of feparate Bills; no provilions for reference to juries, with refpe6t to contingent Ttellions of private ur individual property miring, in that molt of thole neceflary provilions or regulations which were uni fo: mly introduced into Bill 3 of the kind in this coon try, were omit:ed ; and this, in a general Bill, which pi °felled to do that, which was made the fubjett of dittinet and feparate Legiflative meafures in this part of the United liingiom. Theft were confiderations ullich their Lordliiipc wrnttri have moll ferioufly to attend to, when the Bill Ihould come to he read a ferond time. For his own part, he felt there objec tions to the meafure fo arongly, that he could not ;arra it to go even through its fat Rage, without ex- Fearing them. 'l he Bill iks over for a ICCOna reading. Thc. Earl of RADNOIt moved, th.:t the recent Mefflge from tht Commons (that wh , ch rcfpeas the attendavec of the Earl of St Vincent, on the Stet Committcc of that Houk) betaken into t , •,r,fi,!cration to-tr..rrcw. Ordered. An Adjournment then took place. Their Lordfhips !land to •morrow, for the general confil.ratinii of the cafe of Mr. foa, in a Committee of the *hole tiouk. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the motion of Colonel ST AN LLY, the Committee to Trlmen she affOrs of the Inc of M,n have been referred, were empow ered to report their proceedings to the Houle from time to time. Mr MER prefc cd a i`ctni n from the Freeholders of the County of Hertford, praying that the Ho•rfe would inveftigatc the apifr.: developed in the Tenth Report of the Commiffioners of Naval Inquiry, and inflidt juft punifhment en the delinquents. A firr 'kr petition wai prefented front Reading. Sir W. BURRO WES i•rought up the Report of the Committee on the Bill for the better fupplying of the Cities and Towns of Ireland with water. After it few words from Mr. KM! and Mr. Ate'. A the amendments were read and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time. Mr. CREED moved, that the Reports made to the Hoefe in 1999 and 1801, by the Committers on the t 'oal Trade, be referred to the Committee on the expediency of allowing coals to be brought to London by means of the Grand Junction Canal.—Or dered. The London Docksßill went through a Committee, and the Report wee ordered to to received to-morrow. Spanilh Wine Duty Bill was read a Iceond time, and order ed tr) be committed on Wedgefday., ADMIRALTY COURTS, Mr. CREEVEY moved for various Accounts of the Salaties end Emoluments of the Judge of the High Court of Mimic ilty, of the Resider of the Nigh Court of Admiralty, the Judge of the Court of Appcal, Thisproduced a converfation ,in which Sir W. Scott expreffed his willingnefi to accede to the motion, if it were thought con cnive to the public advantage. Sir W. Burrowes, Mr. Corry, the Attorney General, Mr. Vanfittart, Mr. Sturges Bourne, and Dr. Lawrence, refitted it on the principle, that fuiScient grounds for fuels a motion had net Seen afligned, and that the cafes were extremely different between the emolumenu of the great Officers of Juftice and thole of the Public Officers, through whole hands the money of the State paired. The motion was ti en negatived without a divifion. Mr. VANSITTAR poflponed his motion for a Bill to regu late the Police of Dublin, to Thurfilay. Mr. JOHNS TONE from the Office of the Chief Secretary of Ireland, prefented an Account of the number of Game Licences ilfued in that country, which was ordered to be printed. On the motion of Mr. FIUSKISsON it was ordered that there he laid before the Houle an account of the rums remaining uuap• plied, of the grants for naval fervlce in t 800, on the aft of Septem ber, in that year; and alto of the rums actually paid in September, Odober, and November, of that year; as likewile of I got . Mr. HUSKISSON prefeoted a Copy of the Orders given by the Lords of the Treafury to Claude Scott, Efq. relative to the fele of neutral prizes. CORNiLIUS GROGAN. Mr. MARTIN complained that tlTeartfw;to the order of the Houle for a copy of the evidence and proceedings bef:re the Par liament of Ireland on the attainder of C. Orogm, Efq. was coots pletely evafive. Ir was merely a copy of the Bill of Attainder,ae compat ied with a ftatement that the minutes of the evidence were not ' , refereed. and could therefore not be produced. This appeared to him highly criminal After a few words Irony Mr. FOSTER, who expreffeel his opinion that fuch a record as that required by the Honourable Gentleman did not cliff, Mr. MARTIN gave notice, that to-mor row he would move for the appointment of a Committee to en quire into the Rate of the Parliamentary Records in Ireland. COMMITTLF OF WAYS AND MEANS. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, which was agreed to. Atter fume converfation on the refolution relative to the Ramp on bankers' checks in Ireland, for fmall fums, and bills ordered accordingly, Mr. Fofter obtained leave to bring in fcveral bills tznderint more effeetual the duties on paper, horarths, coaches, hoiles. dogs, ferrants, dec. in Ireland. As likcwife, after tome obLrvations from Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Alexander. Mr. 1). Bourne, Mr. Orrniby, and Sir John Newport, for furl...sling the number of thz Conuniflioners of Excifc in Ire land from tint tta revrn. . - Mr. A NDER brought up the Report of the Committee en the Bill for encouraging the confumption of Heer in Ireland. Several amendmems were introduced, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time cn,Wednefday. Mr. FOSTER broogi t in a Bill for the better Regdlation of the Duties on hith Malt ; which was read a firs time:sod ordered to be printed and read a fecond time on Thurfday. The French Wine Duty Bill was read a third time, and patted. The funher confideration of the Report of the Committee on the Bill for regulating the office of Paymaftet of the Forces was poftponed to Wednefday. The Lint Diftillery Bill was read a fc:ond time, and ordered to Cc committed to-morrow—Adjourned. LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 21. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE : Cant* for money, 3811—Ditto, for arc. 58 I-- Reduced 341-onutium 3—Excheq. Bills Is. to as. diL 4 Per Cent. 7.3.4 i —S Per Cent. Navy 901 i.. PRICE OF STOOK.; YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 57/1 I India Bonds, 15. acs. ail. 3 per C. Cord Ann. s I.:v11,1. Bilk, t is. 4 per Cent. 739 Onmiusii, a; run. 3 S per Crnt. Nary, poi Englifhl ickets usi; (Nine. 1797, 98 C on f. for acc. 8.1, I Ann. 16 9- i 6chs This day, agreeably to our promife in the STAR of t cßerday, we Lay before our Readers a part of the iliplomatie Correfpondence between the Courts of &. Peter (burgh and St. Cloud. To-morrow we than give the conelufion down to the time when the Ruffian Minifier quitted Paris LA year. _ . Soria mutilated parts of dais interetling correfpon deuce appeared at the time in the Mossilear, but this is the fiat perfee copy that has been laid before the Public. It will be feen, from the nature of the demands made on each fide, in regard to the execution of cer tain articles of the fecret treaty concluded on the t ith of Oaober, 'Sol, that very great coi:ceftions mutt be made by one or other of the parties before a good underftanding can be re-eftablifhed between them ; and as the Emperor ALEXANDIR has infifted on no- thing but the execution of treaties, we cannot fee how he can puffibly recede from any of his demands. It is therefore probable that the million of M. Novo- SILTSKOFF has only for its objet to - put this Pimple queltLn—Whether BONAPARTE is (till refolved to perlift in refuting the demands that have been made by the Court of St. Petetiburgh ? The difficulties in the way of an adjuftment mull have been fincc much increafed by BONAP•P. ra af fuming the fovereign power in Lombardy ; for one of the articles in the Secret Convention was,-that the French Government promifed to eftablifh an inti mate concert, with his Majelly the Emperor of Rana for regulating the bates on which the affairs of Italy wei e to be fettled, and this article is one of thofe on which Ac axe NOSE exprefsly infifts. Yeilerday Government received advices that Lord NE tsoa pa(red the Straits of Gibraltar with his whole fleet on the 24th ult. The AMAZON frigate fpoke them on that day under a prefs of fail. Difpatches were this morning received at the Ad miralty from Lord NELSON. His Lordfliip, we un deraand, being of opinion that the combined fleets of the enemy are deflined for Ireland, has placed him felf in fuch a fituation, that in the event of their di• reeling their courfe thither, he is in hopes of falling in with them. It is, however, probable, that before this time his Lordfhip has been informed of the re turn of the combined fleets into Cadiz. We have not yet learnt the date of there difpatches. Intelligence has been received from Sir Roast? CALDER, and the fleet off Ferrol. It is Rated, that the enemy attempted to come out on the loth inn. with twel►e fail of the line; but upon Sir Rosary CALDER, who had no more than half that force, mak ing fignals as if to an outer fquadron, the Spaniards thought proper to return to their anchorage. Nothing farther has been received from the fleet under Lord Geannea. The IsTarruot, the Rimy, and the A oatmestmou, have by this time joined his Lord(hip, Thz divition of feven fail of the line, under the command of Admiral Cowticwoon, ftill remains in Cawfand Bay. All the (hips, however, are now ready for any fervice on which they may be ordered. The men are all to be paid fix months wages, if there be time enough to go throngh this bufinefs. Yefterday there was a very great buftle at Portl mouth among the tranfports bound on the expedi tions. We expea loon to hear of their failing. We mentioned yefterday the arrival of JERoras BONAPARTE'S lady at Dover. It is fume time fince we announced that he and his wife had arrived in a neutral veffel at Lifbon, and that he had landed, but that his wife had remained on board. The vcflcl (tl►e Erin, from Baltimore) afterwards fail ed to the Tezel, but the mna pofitive orders were there given to prevent this unfortunate Lady from landing, and all communication between the Ibip and the chore was prohibited. The Erin left the Texel on the 17th, and arrived in Dover Roads, on the 19th. Madame BnnerARTE was accompanied by her brother, Mr. W. PATTERSON, a Lady, (Mrs. ANDERSON) and Dr. GARNER, a French phyfician. She was, we ►►nderfland, permitted to land in confcquence of an order from Government, and is now in Dover. It is Paid that when JEROME landed in Lifbon he was ar relied at the defire of the French Government, and fent a prifoner to France. This day Admiral CORNWALLIS left town for Ply. mouth, whence he will immediately proceed to re fume the command of the Channel Fleet. On Satnrday afternoon the Prince'', of WALES ar rived at Windfor from Blackheath. Her MAJESTY'S Birth•day was celebrated yellerday evening, at Windfor Cal le, by a Concert, Ball, and Supper. The Concert was the Oratorio of Attarse. It commenced at about nine o'clock, with a molt excellent orchestra, including Madame 13:ANCHI and Mifs TENNANT, from London. The day was ufhered in with the ringing of hells, and the whole town was all Wile from an early hour with the arrival of the vifitors, who continued pour ing in from the adjacent country and London, during the whole of the day. His Royal Highnef s th e Prince of VALES paid a vifit on Sunday for a (hors time.-- The reit of the ROYAL FAMILY were prefent. The dancing commenced in the ball-room, which was fplendidly fitted up liar the occafion, at nine o'clock, and continued when our ezprefs came away. —The Ball Room was crowded with Nobility and Gentry. A letter from Windfor, dated yeflerday, fays : " We are again all alive here : the approaching Fete at the Cattle has filled all our inns, as well as the !mules of the Noblemen and Gentlemen in the neigh bourhood. The PRINCE Of WALES, the PRINCESS of WALES, the Duke and Ditchers of Yoke, Lords DARTLIOU TH, UXBRIDGE, with feveral others of the Nobility, Generals STAVELY, Goerratr, PRINCE, BROWN RIG s, and many other General Officers, ar rived yetterday. The Prince returned to Bufhey Park to dinner with the Duke of Ct.ae NCE.—This morn ing we had an excellent review of that fine regiment the Staffordthire Militia, by the KING. The day was uncommonly fine. Hii MAJFSTY was dreffed in the uniform of the relent of Horfe Guards ; he was attended by the Dukes of YoaK, KENT, SUSSEX, CAMBRIDGE, and a numerous concourfe of General and Staff Officers, in the Little Park. The Terrace was covered by a fine difplay of beauty and fafhirm. The King was very much pleafed—at the conclufion he &fired Lord Uxbridge to intimate to the regiment thlt his Majelty longed for this day, to fee a regi " ment aft, who had for fo many years fatisfied him " by the extreme propriety of their behaviour, and " cirTednels of their difcipline, and that he had new " p!cartirc in naming them his own regiment of Mi " ti: is ;" on which the men gave three cheers. • "The ball and Copper to be given this evening, are expeCted in tafte and magnificence to exceed every thing hitherto teen here. Among others of the com pany with which our town is to-day thronged, I have leen Mr. PITT, Lord and Lady HAWKCSEURY, Lord CASTLEREAGH, and the Hon. Colonel STEwART. Titere is to be a drawing room at Liven in the even ing, beittre the ball. "'l'o-morrow there is to be another review. The regiment of Horfe Guards will be reviewed in the Great Park by the Ktsic and Duke of YORK. 44 It is fail that there is to be an encampment of cavalry near Windfor, in a fhort time. I have heard that the 9th and 14th Light Dragoons are likely to be two of the regiments." By the Avtacr floop of war, which arrived a few days ago at Portfmouth, with the convoy from Gibraltar, we have received letters from that quarter, but not of a recent date. We mu/et-nand that DntlorKeastNa,ofthe Royal Artillery, has arrived in England with this convoy. This is the Gentleman who Cult perceived the difeafe to be contagious, and who ;:loste had the wifdom and flrmnefs to maintain that opinion, in oppofition to all the rell of ►he faculty, prefent at the celebrated meet. ing of the tsth or Sept. where they all, himfelf ex cepted, declared the difeafe to be neither malignant or contagious. It is very fingular that the fame cir cumilance happened at Malaga : the faculty there, with one exception, giving the fame opinion, each time the difcafe broke out in the years 1803 and 1804. —Dr. KFNNING comes home firongly recommended to Government for his fervices du , ing the Fever : re port Pays, that he is to be examined by the Pricy Council and the Medical Board, refpdling the nature of the late difeafe at. Gibraltar ; and no peri;,n, from his fituation, can be better qualified to give them every neccffary information on that head. We learn by a pafreager in the fleet from Gibral tar, that information had been received there, that the Court of Madrid had riffled orders to all the lea port towns, not to make any exchange of prifoners with the Englifh—a circutullance which caufed con fiderable regret. GIBRALT.gR, APRIL 5: General Fox is extremely alliduous in adopting every meafure for preventing the appearance of the late horrible pellilence here again. All the bedding that had been in ufe by the troops was this day thrown into the fea, and two clean blan kets ifrued to each man in the room of it, but no other bedding is to be given to the troops till the summer has paffed without the fever appearing again. A few days ago the houfe of an inhabitant, who had ncgleaed to whitewafh and purify it, agreeably the late proclamation, was furrounded by a par ty of the troops, and burnt to the ground as an ex ample to others. By every account from Spain, and the different ports of the Mediterranean, it has been very dearly Afcertained, that the fame difeafe which appeared at Malaga, was communicated to the following places on the Coafl. of Spain and the Mediterranean : Cadiz, St. Mary's, Algefiras, Velez, Malaga,Province of Gre nada, Alicant, Carthagena, Leghorn and Ragefa, in the Gulph of Venice, all the intermediate towns and country totally efcaping, a tlrong pooof that it conli not proceed from any general Elate of the atmofphere. It was alto carried to the Spanifh fort of Alhucema, oppofite Malaga, on the coaft of Africa, where it deftroyed molt of the garrifon, and the conviCts who are kept there. From Malaga it fpread inland to Antequera, 15 miles diflant, where half the inhabi tants perifhed by it, and it even fpread to the city of Grenada, firty n.tiles 14. E. from Malaga ; luckily, however, fo late in the feafon, that only between two and three thoufand died of it. The difeafe broke out at Algefiras, a town five miles from this, on the oppofite fide of the Bay, about a month after it began here, where, however, it was loon put a flop to by the aCtivity cf the Spanith Ge neral, cutting off all communication with the infeCt ed houfes, not above one hundred dying of the dif cafe, though it is a larger towel than Gibraltar. The fever never made its appearance at St. Roque, or at the Spanith lines, only a mile from the gatrifon, and it was univerfally reckoned to hare been the healthieil feafon ever known in all the neighb3uring country. This goes by the AVENCRA Mop of war, which fails the hill fair wind with a convoy for England. The Rittowm, with the Amphitrite Spanifh fri gate, and the Abundance florefhip, fails from this in about three weeks. The following is our latcfl intelligence from Cadk : " CA DI Z APRIL 4. —Gen. MORE•U is Gill hervyand is much,confulted in all our movements. He laid, the other day, " That if he could not take Gibraltar, he would render it not worth the keeping to the Eng lifh ;" and we expeft that fome ferious attempts to burn the town and the flipping will be made in the courfe of the fummer. ~ About 30 gun, mortar, and howitzer boats are getting ready for that Ration, and if the fever Ihould appear there again, we (hall probably reduce the garrifon to the lait extremity ! t" NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, MAY lg.—This morning arrived here the ACTIVE, of 36 guns, from Lord NELSON, with difpatches ; they were forwarded by ezprefs immecti. ately for London. The Amy' left the fleet of Sardinia on the 19th April, and at that time el peaed to pals the Streights. Oa the 3oth following faw nothing of the French fleet. Paffengers by the Acrive were the Honourable Lieutenant Colonel CULVILLI, Captains CONN, FARQ3JHAR, and CURTIS, of the Royal Navy ; and Lieutenant MARYLAND. Alf° art ived the ./EoLus, of 3: guns, with difpatches from Admiral GARDNER—nothing of the contents have yet tranfpired that deferves any credit, but they were immediately forwarded to London ; the Espy 'How, of 4o guns, from Portfm-uth. Sailed the ACASTA, of 4o guns, on a cruize. Came in the Hed wig Magdalina, Captain Huxcit, from Salo, with wine and brandy, for the Navy. PORTSMOUTH, Max 2o.—Arrived the John and Macy, KILO, bound to Gibraltar ; Sir Joh n B or l a f e Warren, and the Bellona tranfport from the Downs. Palled by for the Downs the Beatriz, —, from Gi braltar, and fev:ral other vtfl'els from the Mediter ranean. There is a great buftle this day among the tranfports bound on the Expedition. The Tan:Tarn man of war has made a fignal for the Weft Indies. —Wind Eafterly. DEAL, May zo.—Arrived lalt night from off Ca lais, and failed again this morning for Portfmouth, the JAMAICA frigate. Arrived the BLAZER gun brig, from a cruize, and remains in the Downs with the tfoxitacit, UTRECHT, and DIOMPOE men of war, ALERT and flonps of:war, VOLCANO, ZEIRA, VESwelus,!DiscovEr,And DEVASTATION bombs, and feveral gun brigs and tranfports. Wind N. E. FROM LLOYD's LIST. GRAYS SE ND, MAY 20.—Paffed by, the Counters of Limerick, —, and the. Two Brothers, Moore, front Norway; Backman, from Stockholm ; Sanderherg, —, from Gottenburg; Faris, Mallis, from Stockholm; Crockery, Malkin; from Croc kery ; Vrow Bike, Haunta, from finhclen ; Friendfhip, Lotiplen, Reward, Page, and the Hawke, Roberts. from Plymouth.—Sailed the Briton, Morley, for Gibraltar ; Naney, Gills, for Tonnin3en Drirdicheden, Aloe-m(ons, for Norway; Anna Dorothea, knfon, for Roltock; Onniibu-, Dirk; Anna, Plug, and the lien:lnca Ja cobs,--, for Eruhdcn. A letter from St. Vincent's, of the 2711 March fay., 4 4 The ELK 111 ig of %vat, with about 70 fai7- f veffels under convoy it , nt Jamaica, which (tiled from Bar badoes on the r Bth instant, paff:d this in tnd only two days ago, and were clearly ken from St. Luck, on the 22d. They were becalmed for four days in light of dn. ifl trid. The French lquadron, confining of five fail of the line, three 44'., and two or three 'loops, were icon on the 23d, from the heigh- - - ileering W. N. W. by W. at different can be ni, doubt but that they were in And as littic of their taking at leaft ha-If ;hts of St. Lucie, it times. There purfuit of them, tall of thezn.". Imo