Star. — London, England, 1818-01-10 00:00:00

Leads or hands were either• le conspicuous place, where ror into the minds of fearful to some other town in the thibition. Indeed, there is d spot or public square in ne part of the mangled bo t adventurers. Some were for and Rio Janeiro, thence anishesi to Africa, and about prisons of Pernambuco and no doubt, soon to experience 'this nerreal Government," announced that the French t Memorials to the Govern e establishment of a system at the French Cabinet had sure into serious considera ason to believe that such are tertained by that Cabinet on 'pediments which prevent its as matters of great regret.-- of the Government are often r-operation of opposing in- Manufacturers, .and Commerce should •e Inaihkil ;h each would hati 'these' branches, according to their g interests. The first 'in: t to be restraints on the LID benefit the general cnl iiit would be glad to see all is implements, his tenantry, ithout restraint, is the Gleans :e the expense of production. at there should be no impedi of every article of sustenance eing the best means to reduce consequently to enable the as rivals in foreign markets. that part of their argument rhich should be admitted and raint---a pretty plain proof the prohibitory part of their her countries, as well as in npediment which - presents It on of that rational system ill the largest possible return tabling every one to send his best market, and thus pre human labour, arises from i they respectively owe, and g their complicated systems eously as to produce no de eipts necessary to meet their chum. ny attention to this compli aware of the magnitude of lie in the way of Finapciers, tem slow to encounter diffi way. But none who deserve thouldallow these to operate cause them to desplir •of -able m object. It may be le that the Irkole cannot be we than a city,,a bridge, or ) can be completed by merely, at till a beginning 4e made, lace. Lay they the founda: L part. Let a good undero shed among the, different Ca- r—nay the necessity of mutual the time when the mutual i ibute to the employment of >f capital, intellect, or labour, not to be expected, the laws in every thing that respects infallible in their issue—and. lan folly, unceasing and quick n attempt should therefore be :ertain branches, and in the should be making to hasten talogue as speedily as the un lace will admit :—remember e only sure way to overcome every unnecessary waste of ring to all the greatest nurn-1 nanciers can only draw from' of their industry, and when ceed this they increase their /um the people to poverty, mrselves understood as to the system of National n might be begun, we shall E.. Silk and Cotton Manufac and England should agree ; quite open. It is plain that nce are more favourable to ilk than of the Cotton Ma rra:, then her Silk Trade, would both be benefited.— otton branch she would gain e lost in the silk branch we m. Nay more : each would ; for in this umusnained m no change in the quantity' , except from the more pro h country finds to apply its in the labour is a proof that o the new than to the old em ge would not take place. make these observations, by mication from the Seine," in sterday ; but which reached us r any remarks. The cl.)c , tmems nvinication, have relation to alluded in the introdnetion ins. The desire of she French a free transit of Goods, is det us hope it will be listened ments will bend their labours icnt of a geucral systuu of as possible. THE ARMY. The Ist Battalion of the itth Regirmet of loot, after a tedious passage, have igrived at Cork, from Portsmouth. On its landing from on board the transports, it was to proceed to the head-quarters of the 2d Battalion at Athlone. The first division of- the 25th Regiment, which halted in Lambeth on Monday last, arrived at Chat ' ham on Wednesday ; the second division was to ar rive there this day, ,and the remaining divisiOns in refular succession. The 30th Foot are removed frwn Chatham to Can terbury, being replaced by the 25th Foot. Three Companies of the 544.11 Foot have been or dered from Sunderland to Hull, where they will relieve the 23d, removed to Nottingham. Monday 400 men, from the Invalid Depot at Chat ham, were marched off for Chelsea, and 100 foreign soldiers, principally Germans, were shipped on board a transport, to be conveyed to their own country. Same day a detachment of the 66th regiment, destined for St. Helena, marched into Chatham Barracks. Saturday a soldier belonging to the 100th regi ment, who is supposed to have lost his way, was found frozen to death on the Marshes near Upnor. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STAR. • . " Wootwica, Bru Jamiar, 1818. "" Six—Perceiving, in your Piper of yesterday, a paragraph of% the subject of an experiment which took place in presence of h General &own, respecting the advantage* possessed by the - - Bayonet Exercise, I request you will insert the following correct Bon: the Bayonet Exercise, the superior power; of which were so decisively exemplified in the late trial between detachments of the 64th Regiment and 90th Light Infantry, was not invented by Captain FADSN, but by Major Amos:lt Goitoom. Mr. Panes, accompanied by Major Tolman, went to Plymouth for the purpose of executively introducing the New System—but to Major GORDON belongs the undivided honour of inventing this decisive improvement in the Military Art " I have the honour to be, Sir, your very humble servant. " :axis r&Dar." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JANUARY 7. Wind S.W.—Arrived the Zelia, LANG, from the River Plate in 74 days ; she lost both masts in a gale on the 3d instant, in lat. 49. 40 N. long. 13. 30. W. after laying to five days, with the wind at S.E..at eight P.A. she spoke the John, CARR, of Prince Edward's Island, who took her in tow until P.M. when the tow rope broke. On the 4th, at 9P. M. she spoke, and was taken in tow by the Abeona transport from the Cape pf Good Hope, but parted a seven itch hawser twice. Put back the Java, Muta.ga, for Batavia ; Pallas, for the Isle of France ; and Anne, for Havannah. PLYMOUTH. JANUARY 8. Wind S. W.—Arrived the Young Phoenix, ASPLP.T, from Galipoli, and is under quarantine ; Policy, STE itirs, from London, for the South teas ; and William , and Mary, BARROW, from Quebec, leaky, and with loss of boats. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 9. Wind S. W.—Passed by for London, the Galen, TRACY, from Boston, in 24 days ; she landed her pas ;eager% here. Sailed the Medusa transport, for hat*D. DEAL, JANUARY 9. Wind S. W.—Arrived the Alpha, Lurrow, from Jamaica ; Woodburn, MAC,. from Leghosn, in 52 days ; Duke of York, Fmnsow, from St. Michairs in six days ; Oak, MARTIX, from "Oporto ; and the Bayne, FERGUSON, from Bengal ; spoke The brig Bril liant, from Pernambuco to - London, in lat. 45:14. long. ?.5. W. which vessel spoke on the SOth Minstrel, from Calcutta, also spoke Oft the 6th inst. 20 miles West a Scilly, the George,• of Liverpool.--'- Came down from•the River, the Cumbefland, for the South Seas, and remains in the Downs with the outward-bound. -The Barbadoes packet got on the Brake and lost hew rudder and anchor yesterday coming into the Downs.--Five o'Clock, a whaler is just arrived and broaght up, partie'ulars unknown.' GRAVESEND JANUARY 9 . Sailed the Felicity, Pritchard, for Cork ; Prince of Wales, Stewart, for Calais ; Yrow, Ouwekand, for Rotterdam ; Marsh., Richter, for Jamaica • and Henry, Jamieson, for Dublin.— Arrived the Briton, Richards, from Antwerp ; Charles, Mar and Grace, Stroughter, from Rotterdam ; Aletandrine, Boguai, from Rouen; William, Vidler, from . Bayonne; Ro bert Edwards, Sherburn, from Blew York. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JANUARY 9. _ _ - Sims mtratto brwnazni—Tte Olive Branch, Haves, from Dt marara ; Susannah, Peterson, from Lisboa& ; and 'Cornwall, Jor dan, from the Isle of France. Orrwaana—The Tontine, Turley, for Philadelphia ; Pilchard, Paprill, from Sierra Leone • Thalia, Coulson, for Pernambuco ;* Sarah, Harland, for St. Thmas's ; Prince of Orange, Ellis, for Rotterdam ; Briton, Cram, ftir Jamaica ; and Maria, Walton, for Cadiz and the Havaturah. Two French luggers arrived at Ipswich this week, 1, one from Boulogne, with fruit and baskets ; the other from Gravlines, with apples. ' The Society for the Aid of Destitute Seamen are,, proceeding with much energy : Officers in the 114fyall Navy are, *ith much patience and unwearied assi duity, examining the various objects as they present themselves. The greater number are men of war's men. Near 250 seamen have been lloused in a tern-1 porary lodging. Yesterday morning they breakfasted on wholesome porridge. It was a pleasing sight, and already these sons of distress have an' improved ap pearance, which is highly gratifying. Many have been enabled to remove part of the filth whichdhad accumulated about them, and their sense of grati-' tude is continually expressed by the pleasure they evince in their greater comforts. The Abundance store-ship is now off the Tower, and the utmost acti vity is engaged in victualling and other prepara tions ; so that when the other ships shall be up which Goverriment have promptly granted (and they are daily expected\ the seamen may, tt is hoped, be all taken from the streets and on board by the end of the ncrt week. Thus the humane purposes of the bene factors to these dcserrlag men, are with astonishing celerity carrying !nto efAkt, by those who have from rr.orning to night devoted their valuable time and their best energies to relieve distress, which had nearly reached their highest pitch of endurance. The applications were so numerous yesterday, that the Committee, with much' regret, have been gbliged to s u l .p. m d krantiag temporary relief for a day or two, to give time for investigations of the cases aL-eady before them. L4W L.VTZLL;GENCE. COURY-4/4 0 1ANCZRY, JANUARY a. •;• Thi s d ay hazz e the Lour enAsestuakiiilla appointed for nts in various cases of -bank ruptcy, his_Lotallbsp said he was ready to dispine of them accordingly;,- but its much of what he had to state.was calculated for the special attention of Coun sel, who were not then in Court, and to whom he was desirous of affording opportunity for observations which they might think the interest of their clients would require, he should defer those judgments until, Monday ; reservin.his decision, particularly in such cases as stood in form of appeals, until he should hear what further observations the Counsel might have to offer. His Lordship then said, he should proceed with the judgments as the cases stood in the list, disposing of two every clay.next week; and con cluded by adding ; that directing his attention and faculties as well as he was able to the dispatch of the business before the Court, he thought that object would be facilitated rather than retarded by his not sitting there to-morrow. HIGH COURT OP ADMIRALTY, lAN. 8. TttE NANCY, AIONDZIPIP, MASTER. 'This was a suit instituted for the recovery of wages cluelb two common seamen, for services on board the above vessel, in which it was alleged that they hid been hired for a voyage to Honduras and back, but had been discharged, without any reason what ev,..l at Honduras, and left to find their way home as thiky could. They were, however, fortunate enough to get to gn g land ; and in the month of October last, Elerinstittited a suit in this Court against the Owners for the wages due to them, which, in their summary petition to th. Court, was stated to be be tween ineventeen and eighteen pounds each. The owners lied-made no tender whatever, as far as ap peared by the proceedings in 'Court; but finding that the cause was proceeding regularly to sentence, that the Proctor for the mariners - had given in their sum mary petition, which had been admitted, and a de creefor the examination of witnesses obtained which was about to be executed, they persuaded the men to act4pt, one eleven and the other twelve pounds, and to sign a release of all demands against them.— The release was this day brought into Court by the Proctor for the owners, who prayed that his party might be dismissed from all further observance of jultice. The adverse Counsel, however, objected to thus," until the Owners should have paid the costs legally incurred in prosecution of the just claim of the seamen. It was clear, he argued, that there was ju , st Claim on their part, as the owners had vsalunta fily paid a considerable proportion of what was stated to be due by the petition ; notwithstanding which they had made no tender in any regular manner, so as to 'be known to the practitioner, who stood )efore the Court defending the right of these poor men.— He submitted that it was the province of the Court to protect the practitioner, first in common justice to him, and still more for the general benefit of distres ied matiners ; for it was well known, .and indeed was a necessary consequence of their condition of life, that they could not pay legal expenses before hand for the recovery .of their rights. The practi tioner, therefore, was obliged to look uetbe condem nation of the ship-owners in costs, as the ot.ly secal `ritribe bed even for , zdte reimbursement of money' paidout of his own pocket. It was much to the credit of Gentlemen practising - as proctors in this Court, that they did not hesitme to encounter this risk, where they had reason to think the case was a fair one ; and on the other hand it was quite clear that they would not at their own hazard promote vexatious- litigation in an unfair case. It was, there fo*; particularly to be expected in cases of this =- tuft, that parties should act fairly is the view of the Can; and make such tenders as they. might think peeper, openly in Court, .all. such . tenders carrying costs with them, accordiog to, the constant practice, up to the time of the tender : by which means the (practitioner would be properly protected. He argued that, if the practitioner lost this protection, the con sequence must necessatilile, 'that he would desist from taking up the cap*. Of the very person who most needed justice, namely, the poor and destitute sailor=-and this valuable class of men, so peculiarly .the objects of the Court's vigilant protection, would, be left entirely . at the' mercy of the ship-owners.— However respectable the, latter class of men were, as, a body, it could never be endured that individuals among them should be invested with the means of taking advantage, -in any manner whatsoever, of the neceSsitlei of mariners. Of this the Court would be partioirlarly jealous, at a moment when it was noto-. riots what numbers of distressed seamen there were in the Imetrepolis, and how great a pressure of mi ,sery they might . be under, so as gladly to accept the most xnadequate compensation for their demands ; nor could it be surprising that a person se situated, who-ia October last, instituted a fair demand for 181. should by the following January be glad to take 121. to keep him from starving. It did not appear in the preleet case how, or by what means, the poor sailors were iliduced to sign. the release; nor did .he (the Conned) mean to , impute any improper npotiee to the. Owneis, in a transaction of which he really knew nothing more than appeared on the face of the paper. Neither was it necessary for the Court to go on any presumption of civil intention ; but merely to look to the consequences which would result to the prac litionete to the general interests of mariners, and to the due observance of justice: Costs were always a matter within the legal discretion of the Court, and the release could' not preclude the 'Court from taking inso view all the 'circumstances of the case. If that irstianknt stas ifonclusive, as between the parties I simply, let the owners be compelled in the first in stance to pap cosis' in the manner most. conformable' to the proper administration efjustice here, and leave them m their remedy*over (if they have any) against these individual 'sailors, in some other Court. He therefore concluded by moving, that the otvners should be condemned in the costs of the suit. The Counsel on the part of the owners replied, ,thikt 110 objection being taken to the release, it was conclusive on the parties ; that their Proctor only , stood before the Court as their representative, s and could not separate his interest from their:s. The Learned Counsel observed, that the papers were but that moment put into his hands, for one of his Learned Brethren who was unable to attend ; and that he had therefore not lusd tide to refer to de cided Cases ; but, he belie.veil it would be found that this point had 'been decided in the practice of the Corot of ring's Mich, against the right of . a Soli citor to costs from the adverse party, who had been exonerated from them by the Solicitor's client. . The Count said this was a matter of some impor tance ; and as a. case had been referred to in the prac tice of another Court, although not necessarily . bind ing pi this, and perhaps not applicable td the parti cular case of seamen's wages, it should like to hear more of the case alluded po. It further observed that there were some circumstances which might require explanation, relative to the demand of • sailors. There was at pretene nothing before the Court re specting that demand, but their affidavit to lead tke vracrant, on the first institution of proceedings, and their summary petition subsequently brought in. In the first, the' men. respectively made oath that the owners 'were indebted to etch of them " fifteen pounds and upwards in the Tatter, they stated an engagement for a sertain sum per month, and a ser vice of a certain number of months and days, mating the debt amount by computation to between 171. and 181. to each. The Court wished to know how it hap pened that they had not at first set out in their de mand more exactly in conformity with the petition. Subject to these considerations, the Court intimated that it should be inclined to afford all possible pro tection, on the grounds stated in argument, to the practitioners in the Court. Costs were certainly al ways within the discretion of the Court, but it must be a sound, legal discretion, directed to views of ge neral utility anti jusdre. UPOn'the whole, the Court said it would be ready to hear further information on this question, on the first day of Term. DUBLI.V, JANUARY 7. Monday his Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT re turned to the Vice-regal Lodge from his Grace the Duke oil*LElNstEn's seat, at Carton. Yesterday his EXCELLENCY gave audience at the Castle to several of the Nobility and other distin guished personages. Monday Mr. Secretary GREGORY returned to town from Carton. To-morrow Sir EDWARD and Lady ELIZABETH B. BAKER will enter*in at dinner several personages of the fashionable world. Sir Grip, BECKWITH, Bait. the Commander of the Forces, give a grand dinner, at his residence, Royal Fl ital, on Friday, to his Excellency the Loan LIEUTENVI.NT. A large number of the Nobi lity and Fashionable Word are invited, to meet his Excellency. Friday the Marquis and Marchioness of Down mak arrived in Belfast, and, after changing horses $t LINE'S hotel, passed on to BSllyleidy, the seat of Lord Durrsats ; and on Sunday they returned, and proceeded to their seat at Hillsborough. Sunday, after Divine Service, a number of the tenants of the Marquis of DOWN SHIRE assembled in the Manor Court-house, at Hillsborough, 34al entered into a very liberal subscription in aid opt the fund for erecting a 'cenotaph, or monumen4 to' the fhemury of the ever -to-be-lamented Princess 'Cu A ntorre- The domestic establigitriedf at Kensington Patact' are d. ily expectiast.'the arrival 'of the Priucesi of . . WALIS• ,• p" Lo d SOF left totsit.iiiterday for his seat; FT*lir Lord Lassoocit arrived on Thifrsdity it his seat, . . Cosgrove Priciry, Stoney Stratford, from a visit to Mr. Coat, at his seat in No4k. Tie Archbishop of CANrigliony and family Teft Lan beth Palace yesterday morning, for Kelharn, Nottingham, on a visit to their brother,'Mr. Joint MANNERS SUTTBN;for a fortnight. Colonel Finite left the British Hotel, Jerznyn strts t, on Thursday evening, for Switzerland. N. r. and Mrs. KIINNAIRD SMITH left Warren's Ho tel, Charles -street, St. James's-square, yesterday, for their seat, Cheangrove, Kent. The Hon. Mr.. and Mrs. GEORGE LAMB arrived yesterday at Melbourne House, White-hall, from Bt ocket-hall. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. VANNECK left Thoinas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, this day, for their seat in t'uffolk. • Mr. and Lady CA/emil' Cocas are arrived at their father's, the Earl and Countess of HARDWICK'S, house in St. 4arnes's-square, from the seat, Reigate Priory, Surrey. Mr. and Mrs. Groncr BYNc are expected in ems.ti this day, from their seat itilierts. . - Mr. and Mrs. Mogrsotte BURGOYNE arrived in town yesterday from their seat in Essex. Arrivals at Jordan's hotel, St. James's-street— General EUSTACE, from his seat in Ireland; Mrs. and Miss FaAsaft, and Mr. Com from the East Indies. The 'Marctis and Marchioness of WORCESTER ar riVed on Thursday, at •their house in Upper Brooli street, from a "Visit to the Earl and Couhtess of dila- SEY, at theitseitt.Middleton Park, Oxfordshire. The Martinis - and MarChioness of LANSIDOWN and family are expectiq in town on the 29th inst. from their seat linwiadad Pail:, Wilts. • • The. Marquis' of sAxissuivit left toiht rillber4ars for his seat, Hatfield.. - The Countess DE GIST is arrived at her house,le. James's-square, from /Pytney-heath. The Earl. and e r sintneis Of BESSBOROUGH are ar rived it t rir teat 4oehampton, from Earl SILNCER's seat, AI orpe, sorthainptonshire. The Earl and Countess of HAROWICKK are expec ted in town next week, from their seat, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire., The Earl of SEFTON, bylccounts received in town yesterday, was somewhat better. The Countess of WrsTurartt has left town for the Marquis of SALISBURY'S seat, Hatfwlct. The Sotictroa-Ggicut.u. has succeeded in his can vass for the Recoidership of Bristol. The other caa didates were Mr. CASBERD and Mr. Serjeant PELL. A person, genteely dressed, put %if, at the Star Inn, Maidstone, on Friday se'nnight, and slept and boaxdt d there, till Saturday morning, whet about nine o'cituk he decamped withotit paying his W. Boannts.--A match for Sp gniaant was made on Tuesday for a new candidate for' milling laurels to fight Purcell on Tuesday week.. The name of the new man is McCarty, of Hibernian Pared, and a pu pil of the phenomenon of the day, *Rawlali.--Screk` Otis matched hinnelfon Tuesday night to fight Ford for 100 guineas, oh the Ist of April, but he declined making a light stake qn Tuesday otelain& and the mutt Lis off. ! ' i i . IC, t . ‘, •1 1 . 1 • ''l` IHt . : i , 1. 1 1 , I 1. 1 ' o 4 . !I \I ~iii I, ‘ . 4 ; , . .t 4 1 4. : gi il4: r •,,, 11 1 !0.1 . fit, . 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