Star. — London, England, 1818-03-19 00:00:00

NING STAR. N DON. MARCH 19, 1818. FUNDS. DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK 77i 78--Cons. for Ac. 78t Ivy Aitnuities 10.511 7 ,- -.—Exchequer Bills 11 18 pr. of the Lank DirecOrs took the Bank, when a dividend of trcd, which will be paid on new Bills brought into Par-1 hemselves, some of which are some discussion, it seems pro s', of the year will be gone Election shall take place. learn from what was said last OMAGH in the House of Corn nment of the Netherlands have right of search with regard to gaged in the Slave Trade, with Jal abolition of that inhuman 'reaty for this purpose is nearly of the ExcHEQuen stated, that lnsolidation of the various Cus losed since 1809, now before the es are to remain unchanged, and ce place in the duty on Timber, on manufactured goods is to be 0 per cent. and the duty on un• from 30 to 20 per cent. The ed coastwise are to continue in , xcept those on stone and slates, ered more simple. The duties are to be assimilated to the du- imported from other parts of the He considered it advisable that on Sugar should be reduced to his would be a subject for future Lowever, the proposed fixed duty Lst India Sugar would be subject ions as West India Sugar. The India Trade, since its being laid , excceded the most sanguine ex. concerned in it. presented to the House of Corn n of Mr. TIERNEY, it appears that k-Notes in circulation on the nary last, was £28,945,580 - 28,846,780 - - 28,216,600 28,248,120. uases Bill for the purpose of re- t of Poor-rates, and of checking, rnerous evils which flow from this ra..es a subject of first-rate impor ting the interest and happiness of )mmunity. If, however, the error it is now generally believed, lies actual administration, which, by Litution of things, must be defec ndamental principles, any amend sils, however specious, will be of ressing the grievances which it oc tmunity. The Act of Queen Eli he basis of the system, extends re d the infirm, and, as generally in- Lkes also to provide work for those ae for themselves. Upon this law the system of profuse and indiscri hich has produced such deplorable e is obviously no way of remedy t by restricting this charity—by ct to its original objects, namely, infirm, and by excluding from its e-bodied labourer. making Parish Officers find work for t find it for themselves, is manifestly re is a demand for labour, every la mplcyed ; and when labourers cannot lemselves, this is a certain indication ; and by what process is it imagined, Officers can remedy this evil? Have of creating any new fund, either of istence for the employment and sup itional number of labourers. If they ower, is it not plain that they take the mouths of one set of labourers, and give hey employ some by setting others idle; !y were the wisest and most upright they could not do otherwise. Flow suppose, that by correcting the can be remedied? Is it not evident ile must be changed—that the vicious ae expelled from the system before .ndment ea,n be restored ? The ob the plan presen-ly proposed, is, that ers with the evil—it is a half mea -1 directed against the system ; and he: is for the professed purpose better effect that absurd provision ZABltTli'S law, for enabling the pa ide work fcr poor children. This ate the evil, by giving a new and tivity to an impracticable project ;,-- r far better to let those schemes rest ssible they may languish In salutary improve ar.d renovate them into ac- The present plan seems, like many re been proposed, to be merely calcu lie evil a new form, and it will pro• e, be allowed quietly tic siLi into the and nealact. FRENCH PAPERS The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday arrived this morning. M. D'OnsoN, Envoy Extraordinary from Sweden, presented to the Kinu at a public audience on Stin: day, a letter from his Sovereign, notifying the death of CHARLES XIII. and his own accession to the Swe dish Throne. The French Court has gone into mourn ing on the occasion for three weeks. The Duke of WELLINGTON had on Sunday morn ing a long conference with the Duke of It ICIIELIEH, the Prussian Ambassador, and Baron MoNNIER, Pre sident of the Joint Commission for the liquidation of the foreign claims on France. The King of DENMARK, stimulated probably by the expedition which this country is fitting out for the Northern regions, is also equipping a vessel for the same destination. It is to sail in the spring. The Madrid Gazette contains an official account' from the Viceroy ofikls.xlco of the capture of Mix*. It differs in nothing from the details which have been already before the Public. The VICEROY has ordered to the troops who took part in the action against MINA, a medal with the device Concluyo con la inva sion (He has put an end to the invasion), and to the soldier who took MINA, one MICHAEL CERVANTES, a similar medal with the motto, Prendio al traidor Mina (He took the traitor Mtn A). Nothing is stated as to the subsequent fate of this unfortunate victim for liberty. The Officer entrusted with the fitting out of the Russian Fleet for America is Admiral VALUES, who was lately in disgrace at Alicant for having, when Governor of Cadiz, published in that City the Con stitution issued by the Cortes. French Five per Cents. Saturday-67 fr. 45 c. SOUTH AMERICA. PRIVATE LETTER. " TRINIDAD, JANUARY 1. " The Royalist forces are now besieging the Independent army in the City of Angustura, situated about 300 miles up the great river Orinoco, and where the latter party appear to have concentrated their greatest strength, in order to oppose that of the enemy. Admiral BRION'S squadron are also laid up at this place, and the crews of these vessels will most probably be em ployed in the defence of the City, which Is not a fortified one. It is not more than six months since this very place was taken by the Independents, after a siege of six or seven months dura tion; probably it will take about the same period to reconquer it. The two parties have already had an action, where the Indepen dents were surprised, some distance from Angustura, with the loss of 300 men and officers. In consequence of the Indepen dent squadron under Admiral BRION being laid up, the cruizers of the Royalists are swarming in the Gulf of Paris, at the two great Bocos that lead into It, and at the different mouths of the Orinoco, all of which places are in a state of blockade. Their cruisers have captured several vessels belonging to merchants of Pert of Spain, in Trinidad, on the principle, that they were front a port belonging to the Independents; and as most of these vessels were laden with bullocks, it causes often a great scarcity in this place, as the inhabitants depend mostly on their supplies' of beef from the 'Alain. " The Royalists have possession of the Caraccas, Barcelona, Cumana, and, in fact, of most of the places in this quarter; and certainly their affairs are at present in a much more favourable and prosperous way than those of the opposite party. In a few months, possibly, the tide of good fortune may change, and the Independents may claim the superiority. " We have so little communication with any othir part of the Continent of America, that we seldom hear much of what passes in a distant part of it. We learnt, a few months since, that the Chillans had been vkry successful in their efforts towards pining their independence, and that but a very small district of that extensive and rich Province remained under the Old Govern ment of Spain ; that the revolution at Pernambuco, which had been suppressed by the activity and prompt measures of the Count de Aaass, Governor of Bahia, was likely to break out again an the first favourable occurrence. " A greaenumber of individuals have lately arrived in diffe rent vessels from England, with the avowed purpose of joining the Independent service In this quarter ; but they have been most egregiously deceived, it appears, by an Agent in London, who pretends to very high rank in the Independent service, who It seems found all the necessary means for transporting them to this country,- at the rate of 301. and 401. each,*badly accommo dated, and indifferent living. They were promised, on their re porting themselves to any of the Generals on the Main, after ar riving here, the sum of 200 dollars each in advance, to have Of ficers' commissions, and regular pay. They can get no pay es. apt plunder. A number of them have 'died at Trinidad, a very few have obtained situations in the different islands, and a very few have persevered and joined the Independents, but the greater part have resolved to return home. " Neither services in this part of the Continent are respec table. Their troops, both Officers and men, are composed chiefly of a mixed race, between the Spaniard and native InH dians—the Spaniard and Negro, of which latter they Wave some, as well as all the intermediate grades. " Although the Royalists appear prevailing in tats part of the country, yet the opposite party, I am led to believe, are getting the ascendency in general throughout America. It is not now a question about Ferdinand the Seventh on one side, and Inde pendence on the other—but merely of two parties, contending for power and plunder. " Should any respectable European Power declare in favour of the Independents, and give them a little assistance, the cause would very soon, in my orinion, he determined hi their favour; and even without it they will ultimately succeed. " The different Islands are very healthy at present—the last, Which was visited by that dreadfol scourge of this country (the Yellow Fever) was Trinidad—it is but just abated. The pro bability is, that this country will not again be visited with it for fiseveral years. The Army and Squadron are very healthy." O Yesterday Morning the Duke of YORK left town for Windsor. Rumour says, that at the interview which the Duke of CLARENCE had with Ministers on the subject of his marriage with Miss WICKHAM, they stated the objection that there was to the Royal Assent; but in timated that to an union with a Royal Princess of a Foreign Protestant House', the assent of his Royal Highness the PRINC2 RT:GENT in Council would be given. The Duke of CLARENCE consented to this arrangement, and an offer of an alliance with a youth ful Princess of Hesse ha., been transmitvid by a spe cial messenger. HIGH dOtritt JeattetAit st6fLAA3: Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders took leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz,—Capt. T. Witan, of the Fairlie ; and Capt. J. P. ANSTICE, of the Henry Porcher—for Bengal and Bombay. The brig Leander, Fins, 256 tons per register, of and for fildelds, from London, in ballast, being driven northward by the late furious gales, found himself embayed in the dreadful storm from S. E. in the night, between the 4th and sth instant, and soon after struck, about one a.m. an outer rock on that dreadful pert of the coast at Longside, near Slain. Castle. The vessel being thereby.throvni on her beam ends, fell with her gunwale un der a shelving rock on the main land, on which, at this awful mo ment, two of the crew jumped, and had with difficulty only just secured themselves, when looking round they found their unfortunate vessel, with all left on board, (eight men, and a young woman passenger), had totally disappeared. Left in this nearly hopeless situation, the survivors, Andrew George and James Durward, (young men, and the only two on board unmarried), clung to the rock, exposed to all the horrors of that most tempestuous and dreadful night, in vain expecting the dawning day to bring the prospect of their deliverance; for at the return of day-light, they found themselves under an im pending precipice of prodigious height, from which there was hardly a possibility of their being seen from the land, or of their escaping from their perilous situation but by the ocean, into which, after passing the day in a state of despair not to be ex- 1 pressed, the poor seamen, although much exhausted, threw themselves ; and swimming round a point, got to an accesdhle point of the steep cliff, and with the greatest exertion pined the summit in the evening, relating the melancholy particulars all the disaster to some fishermen, who could hardly believe the tale, until confirmed by part of the wreck discovered afterwards. A letter of the 12th, from Amsterdam, states, that on the 6th ult. Hendrick Manche, broker in that city, had been outlawed by the Court of Assize, for hav ing committed a fraudulent bankruptcy, and having fled from his creditors. His property was ordered to be sequestrated. The same letter states, that a per son, who, in the beginning of last year, under the name of Lambert Sablon, set up a mercantile establishment in Rotterdam, without any capital, and swindled Messrs. Pierart and Magnin, and several other firms, out of considerable property, has been sentenced, by the Special Court of the Province of Limburg, to be branded as a rogue, to stand one hour in thel pillory in the market-place of Maestricht, and to be imprisoned during the remainder of his life.— Sablon is described as a swindler of the first order: be was tried at Amsterdam in 1799, upon a similar charge, but was acquitted for want of legal proof. He was they declared a bankrupt for 24,000 Dutch guilders. A few years after, he contrived to set up tn the North of France, but fled on account of for ng some bills of exchange, for which he was out - 1 [awed, and sentenced to four years' imprisonment in irons. This sentence was pronounced par contu mace, on the 18th day of January, 1803, by the Special Court of the Department of the North.— In the mean time he set up in the vicinity of Paris, I where, for a new forgery, he was sentenced on the 13th of May of the same year to be branded and im prisoned six years in irons. This sentence was carried', into complete effect. On being liberated he again, opened a shop at St. Poll, in Artois, under the name of Laurent Sablon, whence he soon fled on a charge of several petty frauds ; he was, in his absence, sen tenced in March, 1813, to six months imprisonment. He again set up, however, at a short distance from i the French Capital, under the name of Delille, but upon being pressed for the payment of some forged he ccatrived to effect his escape, and finally quitted France. In the beginning of 1814 he com menced business at Brussels as Delille, where, having circulated bills to a considerable amount, he thought proper to decamp in December, 1816, and shortly after made his appearance at Rotterdam, as above stated, uncle: the name of Latte)trt 3ablon. On Wednesday, the 4th instint, the .Couri suet itts advise a bill of suspension and liberation, whit an = swers thereto, presented fhe William Taylor, Esq: bf Nethermains, then a prisoner in the jail of Greenlaw, in Berwickshire. The circumstances of the case Wei* briefly as follow t—A petition had been presented th the Court, in name of, and signed by the Solicitor General, stating that some proceedings, in which Mr. Taylor was a pa.ty, having depended in the Court of Session, and which were afterwardt referred to John A. Murray, Esquire, Advocate, Mt: Murray did, in the month of November last, receive a very abusive ar.d threatening letter from Mr: Taylor, dated Dublin, and challenging . him to fight a duel, in the event of his not performing a certain fact, and that Mr. Murray did receive another letter from Mr. Taylor, dated sth February, Hip, from Nrwcestlet upon-Tyne, again challenging him to fight, and id the event of his refusing to do so, threatening that he would come to Edinburgh by a certain day, pest Mr. Murray in all the coffee-houses, and bestow per sonal chastisement upon him, wherever he shoul4 meet him. The petition prayed for a warrant LS apprehend Mr. Taylor, and the Lord Justice Clerk granted a warrant to apprehend him wherever he. could be found Within Scotland, and carry him before the nearest Sheriff or Justice of Peace, to be dealt with conform to law. In virtue of this warrant, Mr. Gene Williamson, Messenger at Arms, proceeded tt New castle in quest of Mr. Taylor, and having get the Lord Justice Clerk's warrant backed by one of the Justices there, he apprehended Mr. Taylor, brought him to Scotland, and carried him before the Sheri substitute at Dunse for examination. When before the Sheriff, Mr. Taylor refused to recognise the letters as his hand-writing, and indeed to answer any questions at all, alledgmg that the arrest was totally illegal; that although born a Scotclunan, he was domiciled in England, was a Member of one of the Inns of Court for fifteen years, and bad been a Member of the House of Commons for an English Burgh, and that in these circumstances be could not be apprehended in England upon a Scotch warrant, for an alleged crime, which, if it did exist, had been committed in England. The Sheritf-Sitbsti tute therefore ordained Mr. Taylor to find caution to keep the peace towards Mr. Murray, under a penalty of WO/. and in default of finding such caution, to be committed to the jail of Greenlaw, and it was of these proceedings that Mr. Taylor now complained by bill of suspension and liberation. The SOLICITOR-GEStRAL and Mr. Joun CLERK, appeared as Counsel in support of the arrest, and Mr. BRODIE, as Counsel for Mr. Taylor, against it. Their Lordships severally delivered their opinions against the arrest and subsequent binding over to keep the peace, and the bill of suspension was conte quently passed. They were of opinion that the cri!r, was of a heinous nature, and that Mr. Taylor, if found within Scotland, was liable to be laid hold of, and bound over to find caution to underly the law in an. indictment that might be preferred against him ; an. as to the question where the crime was committed, although that was not before the Court, it was ob served that whenever a letter was put into the Post- Office it became the property of the person to whcm it was addressed. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL immediately applied for a new warrant, which having been granted. Mr. Tay lor was a second time apprehended at Falkirk, and committed to Linlithgow jail, and has found bail f. his appearance. The Court seemed chiefly to form their opinions on the illegality of the arrest, on the ground that the Act of Parliament only authorised the backing Scots warrants in England, in cases where the COM- , mitters of crimes had fled into England to evade 1 justice. of Four Hamburgh Mails arrived to-day, but neithet the Letters nor Papers brought by them had been issued from the Post-Office when our Paper went press. An English Nobleman (Lord S.) is said in Paris Papers to have been arrested and sent to , prison of Saint Pelagie for a debt of 40,000 francs The following Order has been issued at the Ilea, quarters of the British Army at Cambray " Cambrai, 2d March, 121 " Gamusox Mzumtaingust—The Mayor of the place, wi view to prevent the destruction of Game, having issued an At desiring-the Officers of Police to seize all which may be offt for sale—if Officers observing Game in the market or in the shop would give information of the same at the Commandant's Office, it would be the means of the offenders being punished. (Signed) 11. G. Sstmt, Lieut. Col. M. de Place: Lord Derby's hounds will bunt on Saturday at Catterhr.nt Common, Croydon. GRAND FOOT RACE BETWEEN OLD TOM A RAYNER, FOR 200 GUINEAS A SIDE Yesterday a great number of the amateurs assembled at I denhead Thicket, a distance of 28 miles from London, to ness the race of 15 miles between the above celebrated pei trians ; among whom were Captain BARCLAY, Colonel BARI Mr. HARRISON, &c. RATNER was confident, but OLD complained of a cold in his head-2 to lon RANNeIt. The was contested on the turnpike road, one mile out, and one in. The men started four minutes to one, and the MRCS Lull by RAYNZIL in the following time 1 Miles. Minutes. Seconds. Minutes. Seco: 1-5-59 8 - 6 - _ 5 - 56 9 - 7 3 - 5 - 45 10 - 5 - 4 - 6 - 45 11 - 6 - 5 - 6 - 10 12 - 6 - 6 - 6 - 29 13 - 6 - 7 - 6 - 30 At the end of 10 miles RATERS, vras ahead 300 yards; an. tween the 12th and 13th miles, OLD Toss gave in. RA' then walked and run the remainder in a great coat. The sec mile was a dead beat, both the men having put their feet ther on the scratch. The pedestrians wore calico shirts, dray and pumps. Great surr.s were lost respecting the time, the being backed to perform the distance in ono hear and 32, and 34 minutes. The race of four miles, between the Behr end the / 1 , turned out rather indifferently, the Brazier having given the end of the second trite. CORONER'S It'uttseT.—All Inquisiticn was taken last before Hums Lewis, Esq. Coroner, at the Ore Tun, Coventry. court, Hay-market, on the body of Mr. Mu. Deity, a Gentle. man well known in the sporting world, who was killed on Tees day afternoon in the Haymarket, by a horse in a break taking frizht, as stated in cur paper of yestarday.—Verdiet—Accidesstal Death—Deodand 101. on the horse a.. , c1 10s. on the break. In the beginning of last week, a farmer, near ling, having an aitercation with his servant girl _ account of her refusing to do what she was desired, he in a rage threw a pair ofloogs at her, which missed the servant, but struck hiic own child, s girl about fourteen years of age, oil Coe head, of which she ' sew aftc:. INTattotiveis FALMOUTH, MARCH Wind W. N. W. strong gales and squally.--Ar rived off this port the Mary, Minisaws, from Naples, bound to Rotterdam. DEAL, MARCH IS. Wind S. We—Arrived and sailed for the River the Pacific, Ettas,from Waterford; Blenheim, SOUTHER, from Yarmouth Roads, for Honduras, and remains. Came down from the River the Prince Regent, 11.tn ate, for Madras, and remains with the outward-bound as before. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 16. Arrived the Hero, FOWELL, from Lisbon ; 2nd Esther, La FURE, from Oporto, DEAUMARIS, MARCH 17. The Sarah, ADAMS, from Liverpool, to Corunna, with a cargo of tobacco, put into this port yesterday. The George, —, from Liverpool, to Waterford, was lost on Wexford Banks, on the 13th Crew saved, COWES, MARCH Is. Arrived the brig Aurora, ASHER, from the vannah, with sugar and coffee, having been at sea ever since Christmas. PADSTOW, MARCH IC. The brig Harvey, MILLER, from Youghall to Poole, with provision and oats, got embayed near this place, has been boarded by some pilots, and is now at anchor in a very dangerous situation on the coast. but if it moderates, hopes are entertained that she will be got into Newquay Creek, or into this harbour. GRAVESEND, MARCH 18. Arrived the Eliza, Wren, from Ostend; Diana, Roberts, from Mogadore ; Royal Sovereign, Gibbs, from Rotterdam; Adolphus Fredericka, Bartells„ from Wolgast ; Sisters, Wil liams, at Stangate Creek; and Johnson, Best, from Rotterdam. Sailed the Darlington, Brokenshaw, for St. Domingo; Star, Gardner, for St. Vincent's; Mary, Puddicombe, for Dominica; Friends, Lavh.on, for Win. and Smyrna; Riga, Foster, for Ilavannah ; Telemachus, Topping, for Cork; Christian, Fother ingharn, for Antwerp; Salus, Thompson, for Ifamburgh ; and Jane, Wood, for Rotterdam. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH 18. Slurs Estrzarn Isrwaans.—The Eliza, from Ostend ; Deke of Kent, from Rotterdam ; Union, from Harlingen ; San Jose, from Bliboa; King George, from Mouse Surd; Sally, from Waterford ; Two Brothers, from Ostend. Ourwmin.—The John and Isaac, for Gibraltar; Susan and Caroline, for Rotterdam; Levant, for Belfast ; Albion, for Genoa and Leghorn; Briton, for F3sineur and Petersburgh ; Shakspeare, for Richibucter, and Caledonia, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; James, for Cork ; Travis, for Rio Janeiro ; Wear, for Pernambuco; Speculation, for Bergen; Flying Fish, for Ostend; Mary Ann, for Fort William; Leander, for Boston. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Lee, in sight of the Lion revenue cruizer, on Saturday the 2111 Instant, on board the Lee, at Plymouth. Recalls at No. 22, Norfolk-street, Strand. The Granicus, for the Witch smuggling-boat, on Wednesday, the 18th instant, at No. 12, Upper Thames-street. Recalls same place, every Tuesday and Friday, for three months. The detachment of the 10th Regiment of Foot, the Royal Artillerf, and Staff, under the command of Lieutenant-General Lord William Cavendish Bentinek, for the Island of Ponzo, on Tuesday, the 24th instant, at No.lo, John-street, Adclphi. Re calls same place, every Tuesday and Thursday, for three months. • r • k • 1 „,1 i ' I I 1 , • i r 1 , . - , ii i I I 1 't', li , : " % ..,, . . • . , Il t t . • ; • . ' . 1 I ' • ! t I),i- -$ '7 ; ' • . i 1 r • I 'l ; . . . r t • I ' l ' 7 • i • . li ';) ? . i ' '', : i ' ill ! Ir „t ' i• %7 i MU tl, , , I ( 1 ) ' r 1 1 1 II: 4 i i I 4 1 i . 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