Star. — London, England, 1802-12-24 00:00:00

- . PARLI4,IIE A' Taßr PROCE6DINGSO HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, DEC. 24. The various 13.11 s before the Houfc were forwarded jn their tcfpedive Rage 4. The Nzvy Allures Bill was read a third time and paired, and the Eli I was ordered to he returned to the Commons, with a Meflage to that Houle, Rating that their Lordthips had paired the fame with Amendments. Sonic private bufincfs was difpofcd of, after which the Houfe adjourned till Mot.day. A Committee of their Lorcifhips afterwards fat in the robing chamber upon the projeccled improvements,to be made in the 1-ioufe, and which was attended by Mr. Wyatt, and Mr. Groves, of the Board of Works. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. laviNG from the Cullom.% brought up an account of the quantity of Flax, &c.imported for the kit tcn pears.—Or tiered to he on the Table. The SraAx ER acquainted the Houle, that the Petitioner for an undue ekdlion for Kingiton-upon-Hull, had not entered into the proper recognizance; and alfo, that the Freemen who had petitioned, had not entered into the proper recognizance, there fore the order for hearing the Petition was difchargcd. Tile SPEAKER alfo Rated, that the proper recognizances had not been entered into in the cafe of the Petitions from Newcaf tl!. under-1 4 ac, from Tregony, and from Seaford..—The order fur bearing tho'c Petitions was therefore difcharged. A new \V rit was ordered for Edinburgh, in the room of the Right Hon. H. Dundas, created Vifcount Melville. A new Wait was ordered fur the Burghs of Dumfries, &c. in the roost of C. Hope, Efq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds., Mr. NVIr.ZERFORCZ prefented a Petition from feveral Mer chaLts oL the City of Briftol againft the Tonnage Duty. Mr. J. SMITu prefented a Petition from the Maltfters of Pomfret !again ft the Malt Duty.—Ordered to lie on the Table. Lord GLaNIItaVIZ moved, that the Petitioner and the Sit ting Member for the County of Carmarthen fhould give in, by the f ft of February, a Lift of the Votes obje&d to en each fide —Ordered. A Pcrfon from the City of London prefcnted an Account of the Progrefs of the Works In the lfle of llogs.--Ordered to lie on the Table. A Meffagt frum the Lords Rated, that their Lordfhips had agreed to the Sugar Drawback Bill, the Navy Bills Bill, the Militia Amendment Bill, the irifh Militia Bill, the Malta Bill, the Cern Exportation Bill, the Dublin Baking Bill, and the Navy Abufe Bill. The Souciroa GENERAL moved that the Amendments made by the Lords in the Navy Abufe Bill mould be taken into eon :Mention on Monday.—Ordered. The Land Tdix Commiffioners Bill was brought up and read a firft time, and was ordered to be roads fecond time ou MoA day.—Adjutuned to Monday. LONDON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2S. CIIIISTMAS DAY.—Holiday at all the Public Offices. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock xll6 rt 7 Long Ann. 20 3-T6ll 3 per Cm. Red. Its 711 Imp. 3 per C. 69. 1 1 70 4 per Cent. '777 85 I Omnln st di . per C.Ann. ruff Conf. for opg. 7st 73 We have received P4ris Journals to. the 22d intl. A Mail from Hollandrhas alto arrived. The Mcwitair is almotl entirely filled with a plan of Public Education for the Italian Republic, cons. prehending Univerfities, Asaclejisies, Schools, So. cieties of Agriculture and Arts, Elementary Schools, Libraries, Academic Degrees, &c. &c.- There are to be Two Univerfities, one at .Pavia- and another at Bologna, each to have Thirtt ,Pro. fefors with falaries of at leak 124 &ding, sad a free-honk. _ By the Dutch Mail we learn, that on the t3th of December a body. of Danith troops unexpea edly took polliffion of the villages, which, by the pl s us of indemnities, had been affigned to the free city of Lubeck. The motives for this unexpeaed • proceeding are not announced.. The earthquake, on the 25th of October, Teems to have done more mifchief in Tranfylvania than was at fira believed. In one diarift all the ate. pies were dearoyed, and more than fist) , people were buried under the ruins of their houfes in one' village. DUTCH MAIL. ,171..Nne, Dec. 4.—,General MACK has been here for Tome time, and has had feveral conferences with the Archduke Ch ALLIS. It is fuppofed that he will be 2lf ointed a Member of the Council of War: For Come time pall attempts have been made to introduce here privatel y,contrabandEng hill goods of every kind, but fuck meafures have been taken to prevent this illicit trade, that pro. petty to the amount of t2o,cco florins has already been fazed and confifeated. P. S. We have kilt received intelligence that his Imperial neje has ratified the Plan reffieft ing the lademnities. The Papal Concordat with the German Em pire, refpeEting th. Secularifations,and the changes thereby made in the Catholic - Church in Germany, will appear, it is expeaed, before the end of the preftnt year. Count Nam is ftill here, and lives very retired. Luasc. Dac. 14.—A corps of Danifh troops took poffeflion yefterday, unexpeCtedly, of the vil lages which, by the Plan of Indemnities, have born afligned to ;our city ; and which the Magif traces • declared, by a public proclamation, that they had taken polreffron of. We are anxious to know what will be the confequefice of this meafirre. HA*4BUIGH, DEC. 4. —According to letters from Tranfylvania, the moll melancholy accounts axe daily received there of the damage done by the lay -rtliquake, which olc place - thr 16th ' e: • FROM 'THE IMENCH PAPERS:• • h.. V 181,1114, DiCEMBta. 3.—Baron d' Envoy Eitraordik4 or, his, SW EDITH MAiIiSTIN to our Court, had., yeaeiday, an Audience of ge cep t idn from his MAISSYY4 and preterite(' his Credential;. The laa news received at Paris from Vienna ex prefsly contradia the report that the fupplemen• rary indemnities to the GRAND DUKE of TUSCANY had been finally agreed upon. The Court of Vienna has not adopted the plan of the Mediating Powcrs. It has, on the contrary, propofed a different plan, which is now the fubjea of difcuf (ion, and will probably be, to a certain length, adopted. It appears certain, that Auftria con nets the negociation upon this head with thofe for her claims on the Duchy of Parma. ROME, NOVEMBER 27.—The Imperial Miniller, Count •KIVENHULLEE, had an Audience of the Pop E on the aoth. VIRE, DECEMBER g.—The famous Dungeon of the Cagle of this place, built by the Engin in the tith century, fell down, in the night between the 22d and 23d of Nov. in confequence of a terri ble hurricane. Some trees which formed an orna ment to the place, were milted and deftroyed by its fall, but the houfes of the inhabitants of Vaux, though Calmed at the bottom of the mountain on which the dungeon was built, fuftained no damage. Five per cents. 54 fr. 90 c. Parliament did not adjourn for the Holidays yetlerday, as was intended. The Bill for COTTCa ing the Abufes in the Naval Department has paired the Lords, but as fome amendments have been made to it by their Lordthips, however trifling thefe may be, it is necell'ary that they receive the candlion of the Houle of Commons, for which pur pole they are to be taken into confideration on Monday.—Both Houfes will adjourn on Tuefday or Wednefday at fartheft. The Duke of You left town yefterday for-Bath. Lord and Lady BATHURST, Lord MALMSBURT and family, Lord and Lady JOHN THYNNE ' the Right Hon. WILLIAM Pirr, Mr. and Mrs. CHAMP,' EYS, and Sir RIC HARD HOAR*, have been on a jbootial party at the Marquis of BATH'S, in Wiltfhire. We are forry to learn that Mr. RICHARDSON, of 'Drury-lane Theatre, has been for fome days alarmingly indifpofed. The Daughter of a Lady of Fafhion, on Tuefday laft, eloped from her mother's houfe at Ifleworth, with an Officer in the Dragoons, on a matrimonial expedition to Scotland. The fairfugitivecan hardly be cleated on the fcore of juvenile indiferetion, as (he is on the wrong fide of thirty. Her military efiort is only nineteen. In the ;ilia of the various Amufements in the Fa(hionable City of Bath, none are more followed or momadmired than the inimitable Mailer and Mifs Salim DKR S : the intrepidity of the former, with the moll foft, engaging, and prepodeffing figure and manners of the latter, render the Performances of this matchlefs Brother and Sifter the admiration of all Ranks of Perfons; the Amphitheatre ishigh ly crowded with the firft Fafhion, and on Monday Evening next Mr. &WTI DI MS'S Company will be graced with the command and illuftrious prefence of their Royal Highneffes the Duke and Duchefs of Vox'. A few days ago the largeft ox that has been lien in Exeter for force time, fed on the grounds of the Right Hon. Lord Cone rem, was flaugh 'tered by Mr. GEORG! ENGLAND, butcher. Its , *eight is about 16 hundred, and it. meafures full I eight inches thick on the breall. The Prize Sheep, bred by the Duke of BEDFORD, called the South Down, weighed is ftone, the !boulder i 21b. the leg 161 b. The principal Prize Ox, bred by Mr.WESTCAID (who won the prize latt, and feveral preceding years) was• bought by Mr. CHAPMAN, of Fleet :market. It was by much the fineft ever feen in England, and all the 'principal graziers in the country came to town for the exprefs purpofe of Peeing it before it was cut up. The whole weighed 300 (tone. Each leg weighed 22 pounds, the buttock too. A fingle rump (leak weighed (even pounds, which, at two fhillings per pound, coil fourteen °linings, PARISH or Sr. BRIDE'S—This parifh has long been divided by a conteft for an equalization of the Para Rates ; and a Committee was appointed to take a Survey of the whole Pari(h, in order to carry it into diet. On Therfday night the Report of the Commit tee was brought before a Public Veftry, at which , Mr. WAITHINAN, Mr. GRANT, and other Gentle men on the Committee, contended, that nothing could be more juft and equitable, than that every hourekeeper should pay equal to his neighbour, ac cording to the extent and fituation of his premifes, and on this fyftem the Committee Paid, they had impartially aded in making their furvey. In the courfe of the debate, which took place on the occafion, it appeared that one boufe, at the corner of I'7eet-11mo, was rated at 311. per ann. whil(t the houfe at the oppofite corner of the fame Greet, which (lands on two-thirds lets ground than the former, was rated at 1701. Many other abufes were proved. A ftrong oppofition was, however, made to the Committees Report by many of the old inhabitant% We have long enjoyed the ad vantage of the old fy aim, and a motion was made that • the Refolutions of•the hit Ve(lry be re rcinded,"‘ which was carried by a (mall majority. The Refolutions alluded to, went to adopt a more equal fyftem of Oat% the Parith Rates ;—. hich now being refcinded, leave the abufes to remain as before.- • Mr. Bah, poulterer, in Aldgate-ftreet, jeflerd,ay fold a Illosfaik4urkey.for tufo guineale,lo a gentle man.'_ fize;menfurins , _ 7• INCi . INTELLIG PLYMOUTiIk DECStagit 33. This afternoon failed with a fie& breeze at N. E. the Dutch chip Dolphin, Capt. MATHYSS, of and from Amfterdam, bound to Surinam, laden with fundries, and having on board t7o aldiers ; the Dutch Chip Rordes Welvaaren, Capt. THOMPSON, of and from Amfterdam, laden with fundries, bound to Demerara. Came in the Dark, Mum, and William, HE,,. LAW, from Sunderland ; alto the Princefs Royal of London, Capt. KITT H N, from Africa and Ja. maica t bound to London, with fugar and coffee, 9 weeks patFage, all well ; the French brig Loire, Capt. MA It INCOCT R T t from Martinico, bound to Dunkirk, laden with fugar and coffee ; and the fchooner Sportfman, of Bolton, from Seville, bound to London, laden with fruit. GREENOCK, DECEMBER 2I• The Nancy, BAIN, arrived here yefterday from Quebec ; left it on the t 2th November ; the Argo, from Liverpool, had arrived there on the Bth of that month, and the Callicut Caftle was expeCted to fail for Clyde about the t 4th ; the Dalrymple, Hero, Mary, Agenoria, and Chance, all for Clyde, had failed before the Nancy, which paired the two lat ter veffels in the river St. Lawrence ; the Nancy was detained three weeks off the banks of New foundland with calms and light winds, moilly from the eaftward. The Phcenix, Duxceta, of this port, failed from Hamburgh the 28th ult. for Liverpool, with con trary winds, and bad weather, was put into a good harbour in one of the Shetland Ifles on the gth intl. and was fafe there on the 13th by the Cap tain's letter. The fchooner Diligent, JoHN PORVERS mailer, on her voyage from Iktlebec to St. John's, New foundland, was ftranded in the River St. Law rece, about 3o leagues below Quebec, on the 9th of November.—Part cf the cargo will be faved. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. DEA L i Dsc. o.—Remain in the Downs the Mips as per Taft.—Wnid E. N. E. blows hard. The night before laft, about half paft eight o'clock, the 'hip Trojan, Capt. John Mann, of London, from. Shields, bound to Jamaica, got athore on the Main, where the now remains, and there is little or no profiled of her being got off. GRAVESIEND ' Dee. 24.—Paffed by the /Einem, Brood, and Saturn, Long, from Amfterdam; Two Brothers, —, from Calais; Three Brothers, —; Hope, —; Wilhelml na, —; Two Brothers, —; an the De Free, Plege, from Rotterdam.—Sailed the Falmouth, Sims, for Junaica ; and the St. Jean Baptifie, Arrant; for Whoa. On Sunday the tsth intl. a Whale, meafuring in length upwards of as feet, and fuppofed to ex ceed a ton weight, being left by the fea in a low part of a beach in St. he's Bay, was obferved by fome people to make great efforts to extricate him- Alf, and to blow up the water to an immenfe te i tt. - They loon after approached the fill], and (words, and other weapons, decided its fate, ' l and next day, diffeiting it in (mall pieces,conveyed them with carts and horfes to manure their eflates. A letter has been received by Sir R. FORD from a gentleman at Kefwick, by which it appears, Marl Rolisjoa, the ci•droato maid of Butterraere, declines profecuting 114eld for the Bigamy, as the is now very far advanced in her pregnancy, although the expreffes the greatetl detellation of his anions. She Pays the certainly married him under an idea of his being Culcnel Hors, brother to the Earl of HoriTouta, with a view of bettering herfelf and her familiy, who, however, have been injured by him in every way, as he left a very confiderable bill for board, lodging, &c. at her father's boufe unpaid, when he went off. No. 16,230, drawn the laft day Of draining a :Prize of One Thoufand Pounds, was .thared by HozllssY and Co. in One Quarter, Onaighth, and Ten Sixteenihs: No. 7228, drawn . a Pri;t orFive Hundred Pounds, the Side- day of data/Mg, was glib shared by HORNSBY and Co. in One Half, I One 1Q after, One Eighth, and Two Sixteenths. • MIDMURsT Et.sc TIOW-FIRST DAY. -After the cuftomary procefs had been gone through,. Ed mund Turner, of Stoke Rochford, in the county of Lincoln, gf q . was propofed by Mr. Pruett ; I upon which Mr. cLIFFORD propofed Thomas Holt White, TS+ of Chafe Lodge, Enfield. Mr. PELL, the Counfel for Mr. Turner, ob jedled to this nomination being. received, on the ground that Mr. Clifford was not an Eledor of the Borough. After much private coaverfation, the nomination was allowed. Mr. CLIFFORD then, in the name of Mr. Thos. Holt 'White,- as his Counfel, required the qualifi cation of Mr. Turner. To which his Counfel ob jeeted on the ground of his not being prefent and capable of taking the oath. To which objection the Returning Officer acceded. Mr. CLIFFORD then prefented a paper to the Re turning Officer, which he defired him to read, as a notice of the dirqualification of Mr. Turner. Mr. Turner's Counfel objeCted to its being read, on the ground of its being a libel on Mr. Turner and Lord Carrington, for publi thing which the Re turning Officer might be profecuted, and defired him to tear or burn it. The Returning Officer returned the notice, and refufed its being read. Mr. CLIFFORD then faid, that as the Returning Officer had refuted to allow that notice to be read, he would give a verbal notice to the lone effeCt. Mr. pp', then faithhat the RetUrnipg Officer hid a right ,to adjourn thO,Rpll, aqd begged he would do fo. fitaikedAlt.4liifoyd it. be would propofe it ? who anfiverhtVol prdpoft nothing, I obleEt to every:Ails." - • .17•7*. • Mr. CLIFFORD then tendered th!reiMiers, who* declared they polled for Mr. Holt, With*. The Returning Officer refufed to take their names, and immediately adjourned the Court to nine o'elock the next morning. No votes 'Were tendered for Mr: Turtter.—Mr. - Clifford-congvatulatedate Eliators , on the- recovery of.their in&pendenetworaduffured rharn Ant U.. Clara...-. the late earthquake s whiei took place.on the 26th eif ClitAr.. kr til i Mages in Hamm &Leek, i ral the intia , • Szeckler,. ro w . • „ J •.t, • • &fag r, ;. beettleff attding At r, ' Ann Asti pert , 101 LAI, INTELLICBNCE. O. HUNT. the d e . COURT OF ICING's BENCH, DEC. 1 4 . :11:nanior. PtaretnPlaricailittla. WILLIAM LINCHCARMIMTH.IIC°I'NOU. NCER -merchant Mr. LAWE s opened the pleadings, from h. • Tower.ftreet. The Deftetndpaienaotreirseylopu w e r a i t a i p o p s ea w re if d e_t tha h t at th t i h s e wa rl s ain an tiff aa is i fondant for Criminal Converfation wgiathinfthw n a e hle and fo the houfe of Hopley and Co. wine -merchants, i n the defendant in Mr. fadr it e ß ftr ow e . e_t. may Gentlemen, it gives me teat g fatisfaetion Lordship,. fo h i;f p ub la rn in i t t i t e ed c t o o m a pl J a u in r s y intelligent. You would learn from the c th au at fe t Pleading s that be has debauched his wife. A m complaint, you will readily allow, it is o . re Seriou s for any man to make in a court f • 1 . "111)°11)1 '' o jut ice. In th age in which we live, from the melancholy ere, quency of trials of this nat ure , t h e principl e s which they ought t o p rocee d are fo com e 1. r 12 • effablifhed, and fo generally known, that Very little is in the power of the abl e C ounfel but to (late the circumfiances of the particular car he is called upon to op en . My Learned c which Friend (Mr. Erfkine) has long enj iyed a monopo ly ;droning a the wrongs of inju re d p l. • inti If s. T hofe who write the hiflory of his life (I pray that it may be late before fuch a talk devolves upon an y one) will not fail to menti on w i t h applaufe the earn& exertions he has made on filch occatioits in favour of religion and morality. Notwithfland ing all that has been done in this Court, and elfe where, daily experience thews us that this vice is not exterminated. On the contrary, men feem to become more profF gate in proportion as they are drawn into public view, and the public indignation is direCted againft them Till 11,1)1v fome more effeFin applied al remedy (h a ll b e * 1 a is therefore the duty of Juries to vifit, • 1 wit eeene plary damages, the violators of the marriage tie that are prefented to them. I would by no means confound all cafes orthis kind in one undiftinguifin ed mars. That a wife has been reduced is net a fufficient ground for a levere verdirff. In fome in (lances, where an effimate is to he formed between the injury and the recompence, it cannot be taken too high. In others, as between man and man, the complaint does not deferve to be heard, and the plaintiff ought to be turned oat of Co u rt i ; !, i n . famy. To day we prefent to you a oiCe of the taut enormity on the part r f the defendant, and the molt fpotlefs purity on the part of the plain. tiff. I challenge my learned friend to rinack the life of this unhappy man, and to thew a fi ngie cir. cumflance which fliould letfen him in your esteem, or abate one Jingle (tilling of the damages you will award to him. My Learned Friend has (Ilea faid, it is eafy to trace the adulterer's courfe. As foon as he has fucceeded in his diabolical plan, he fearches about for every little fad and every point of law which may fcreen him from the juftice that his crime deferves. Here the victim of his liber tinifm is under the defendant's protection. Hay. • in g loft her innocence/ haeving dilgraced her fa mily, being an -outcaft from the virtuous part of • her fex, the only ray of miferable comfort to lighten her defpair muff come from the author of her ruin. With the affiftance of the wife then let the condat of the hufband be Scrutinized. Among the molt . affeßionate pairs it will happen that oc caliOnarwaywardnefs on the one fide will produce a temporary difguff or. the other. The conjugal felicity of the plaintiff was not even ruffled for an intiant, till this unprincipled feducer infinuated himfelf into his confidence. I know what has been faid out of doors, and the profligate threat that has been held out to terrify the plaintiff from pub hely meeting his adverFary. I court the menaced inveftigation., confcious that it will only ferve to place the virtues of my client in a ftronger light, and to icnprefs upon you, Gentlemen, a deeper fenfe of the injuries he hasifuflained. I proceed to a brief statement of the fat% that will be laid be fore you in evidence. Mr. Linghan) is a young man, junior partner in a moll relpeCtable houfe in this city. On the 16th cf August, tBco, he was married to the young Lady whole mitcrndust is the fubjeet of the preknt action. She was then but nineteen, uncommonly beautiful, and highly accomplithed. Mr. Hunt lived in the lame thee, and was in the fame lint of brifieeltr. His Lady was an amiable woman, %% horn ever y new mart led man would be anxious that his inexpetienced wife Should affociate with ; as the was retrial kably do meftic and attached to her children. A arid in timacy thus arofe between the two families. In March 'all Mrs. Hunt died in child-bed, leaving her infant behind her, unconicious of the lots it had fuffered. Mr. Hunt teemed deeply affened, and (hewed all the fymptoms of the molt poign.int difirefs. He particularly deplored the lielpleis (late of his child, without a mother to watch over and to proted it. It was impoffible to lee him without compailionating his lunation, and his con nexion with the Linghams was drawn defer than ever. As Mrs. Lingham had been the liknd of his deceafed wife, it was natural that he mould with her to pay fome attention to s the child, which otherwife muft have been left . t.otlie negligence of fervants. He, therefore, entreated that, b , r the fake of its mother, She would freqviently vifir and fee that it was treated with all the ten•!ernefs it could receive in its forlorn condition. The oirie quies of his own wife were feat cely celehiateJ, when he formed the diabolical parpofc to Seduce the wife of his friend. The plaintiff had not the flighteft .ground for fufpicion. His '. it.: had always marked the warmett affeCtion for his per'on; her habits were dometlic, and:the man into wl'arte company he admitted her, mourned for an invalu able woman whom he had juts 101 l in the way troll calculated to wring with anguilh the heart of a hat band endowed with the fmallett portion of fehli;)ili tyd-On the evening of the Bth of July the Pl.iintiff returned to his houfe . after the bufinefs of the day, • exckeaing the fame folace from his anxieties waaa home,had ever afforded him. Mrs. Lingbani was 'not within. She ufed to make flnirt viiits, with out any notice, at his father's and mother's ; Ifs dV____not appear. The weather was very bad, ~and 11M fie 'imagined that (he was - One u hope at tem pt t e ftconc hi s mil inent a from ti dova friend Upon ( knee ( being ; crime.. is This • - $r— Inott mi annot it is imp realY (clf and Wh knov whit I have f. in an Lon& gnd in 'vice inerch their 1 the fai balue the he tlemel the E your tions ; If evil have yitnei I am brillia Frieni fond, Th , Plaint AlOg Jorepl 6 - pp 411 for all 14 li an of tip ha asAte