Star. — London, England, 1820-06-17 00:00:00

u BER 10,394. STAR LIFE ASStlEth NCE COMPANY. A GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS of .1 - 5- TEN SHARES and upwards, will be held at the Office, is, Cork-street, Burlington-Gardens, on Tam:soar July 4th, at Twelve o'Clock, to receive the Report of the Directors. i Ey Order of the Court, JAMES MITCHELL, Secretary. The Cha!r will be taken at One o'Clock precisely. ALL FOU IL - of - £30,000 ! 58 other CAPITALS, Etc MUST BE DRAWN NEXT FRIDAY—LOTTER? FINISHES. TIAZARD and Co. Contractors, beg to impress 11 upon the Public, that the annals of Lotteries do not furnish vch a:lather instance as the present MAGNIFICENT WHEEL 4 - Prizes of - £30,000 4 - - - - . 1,000 500 400 10 - - - 300 . - - £OO, &c. &e. Money and Consols, and ALL IN ONE DAY, NEXT FRIDAY. 'Codravrn Tickets and Shares are on Sale at HAZARD and co.'s Offices, Royal Exchange Gate; 9.6, Cornbill; and 324, Oxford-street, London; and at all their Agents in the Country. 11 A ZARD and Co. Shared and Sold in a recent Lottery, All the Prizes of £30,000 !!! And in the present Lottery, No. 2,313, a Prize of £10,000! Consols, besides NINE OTIIER CAPITALS. FINISH OF THE LOTTERY. rr 5.000 Tickets were drawn First Day. 2,500 Tickets were drawn Second Day. .500 Tickets were drawn Third Day. 12,000 Tickets remain to be drawn Ntxt Day. BISII respectfully acquaints his best Friends, .1. • the Public, that the State Lottery finishes NEXT FRIDAY, 23n INSTANT, • Ou which day all the Twelve Thousand Tickets now in the s heel must be Drawn; as must, also, the Four Stuck Prizes of 630,000. the Forty-four other Stock Capitals, and the Fourteen AloncyCapitals.__ _ _ _ BISH' OFFICES are remarkably fortunate when 230,000 Prizes form part of the Scheme, as he has sold and shared as many 230,000 Prizes as all the other Office-keepers combincd s and his are the only Offices that ever sold in One Lottery, ALL THREE PRIZES OF £30,000! Warranted undrawn Tickets and Shares are selling by T. BISH, STOCK-BROKER, No. 4, Cunihill, and a Charing-Cross Vl° has already sold SIX CAPITALS In the present Lottery. •.• Furious apparent indocements have been held out at diEerent periods of this Lottery, by which persons were led to imagme that great advantages were to be obtaiced; and, by the wording of the Advertisements, &c. it appeared that they were to be had only at particular Offices : but such has not been the case, for BISII's Customers may rest assured they have had, aad will have, every advantage the Scheme play be said to pos sess, although 111511 is NOT the CONTRACTOR, nor has any cm.cern in the Lottery or Management ! !! In a few days will be published, price 2s. 6d. A LETTER to the KING on the Situation and Treatment of the QUEEN. " Strike, but hear !" Printed for Robert Stodart, 81, &rand. THE CORONATIO.V3 . COURT OF CLAIM& Yesterday Sir JOHN Maim presided. The Dblee of CLARENCE sat at his right hand, and frequently questioned the petitioners and the different agents ,siio put in claims. The Court was uncommonly crowded by a report that a Gentleman of one of the first families in Ireland was to put in a claim to wait upon the King with a measure of potatoes, in a olden i'tiugh, and, of course, to receive the trough for his trouble—a claim said to have been established at the last Coronation. The claimant, however, did not make his appearance. .' Petition was presented from Thomas Ware, as Lord of the Manor of (itou:estershirv, claiming the honour to wait upon his Majesty at the Coronation with a basin and ewer of gold, con taining water, and receiving the same as a reward for his service. A Petition was presented by llilMn, F..sq. Barrister at Law, -from a Gentleman and relative of the same name, who is in foreign service, praying to be allowed to act as Lor d High 11 , anibeilain at the Coronation. _ _ air Patrick Walker presented a Petition, praying that he alght he allowed to perform the service of Usher of the White Rod at the Coronation, and have the usual fees. ' James Edward Devereux, of Carigmenen, in the county of Wexford, Esq. • presented a Petition, that as heir to William Ikeereux, the second Earl of Salisbury, he might be permitted to perform the service of bearing the Golden Rod, on the sum mit of which is the Golden Dove—(Virgala moron habene it 4 .anrneitrde Cala ahem auremit—Haverov)--before our dread So vereio and Lord the King at his Coronation, in the sante man ner as the said Golden Rod was borne at the Coronation of Ri chard the First by the beforenamed William Devereux. And he also prayed to be received to carry the silken canopy, supported by four lances (Pcunbas scricus, rah tis lasaceis :twerp,- .00.—HovErsrx), over our dread Sovereign and Lard the King, al his Coronatiou, as the clew was borne over Richard I. at I. a.cond Coronation, by the said William Devereux (the King 0:* that day bearing the seeptre.surrnounted with the cross in his r:lit hand, and the golden rod, surmounted with the. golden e , ae, in his left hand). Aial he also prayed to be permitted to perform one of those by deputy. 1/paa the prayer of the Petition being read, Mr. D. etas de ''.red to say, generally, what was the nature of the proofs he had to adduce? lie stated, that their I.ortlships would see in his Petition, that his claim was rauaded upon historical evidence aad authentic documents; and that it was supported by proving, ii the first place, that there had been no lathes on the part of his aucesturs, in claiming those honours—and, in the next, that if there had been ai:y lathes, that was no bar to his claim. Upon the Riches being mentioned, his Renal highness the Duke of Clarence asked Mr. D. whether he was not a Catbolk Upon his Lein..! answered in the affirmative, his Royal Highness said, that possibly it raight be upon this ground that the non laches were pleiclacl. Mr. D. begged leave to observe to his Royal Highness, that it was also on other grounds. The Lords then said they would take this Petition into con sideration on Monday. Adjourned till Friday next, the 23e1 instant. • Ills (lentil:saw. was one of the Delegates who presented th e Petition of the Catholics of Ireland to his late Majesty, at Jamee's, on the 13th January, 1793 ; for his services on which occasion he received a piece or plate, value one hundred guineas; Jed he has always, even when detained a prisoner in France, been elected a Catholic Delegate. RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and. Co. respectfully ae ec-tint the Public, that the Last Day of Drawing L. Lit:cry will Isc 23d instant.—State of the 'S : Four Prizes of £7.0,000 Four Prizes of £l,OOO Four Prizes of £5OO Four Prizes of X4llO And 46 other Capitals, Consols and Money. T.. • and Shares, warranted undrawn, are on Sale at RIM. CoomxcxCo: , and Cos Oakes, B ank-built s, Conihiß, .r.cl Charing-cross. . •N. 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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MAY SLAVE TRADE. • Mr. MERCER, from a Select Committee, made a Report on the subject of the Slave Trade generally, as brought to the notice of Congreis by the Memorial of the American Colonization Society, which Report was referred to a Committee of the whole House.— Mr. MERCER also reported a Bill to incorporate the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. Resolved—By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President be requested to consult and negotiate with all the Go vernmenta, where Ministers of the United States are or shall be accredited, on the means of effecting an entire and immediate Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Resolved.—. That the President be requested to enter into a stipulation, or formal declaration, with the several Diaritime Powers, recognizing the independence and permanent neutrality of any Colony of the Free People of Colour of the United States, which shall be established on the Western Coast of Africa. Resolved—That the President be requested, in such use as he may deem it expedient to make of the public ships of the United States, to afford every aid, not inconsistent with the public wel fare, to the efforts of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States upon the Western Coast of Africa. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ' COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE. IR. THE WING V. C. WHITWORTH. The • defendant was brought up to receive the judg meat of the Court, having suffered judgment to go by default, in an information charging him with pubi lishing a certain seditious and inflammatory libel,. The defendant, it appeared, was a schoolmaster at Birmingham, and was Chairman of a Society, called the Union Society, and the libel in question was con tained in an Address agreed to at a Meeting of that Society, and was published, and the walls of thetown placarded with it, the defendant's name being signed as Chairman. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now prayed judgment on the defendant ; and the Court sentenced him to six months' imprisonment, and to enter into security for two years, himself in one hundred pounds, and two sureties in fifty pounds each. The defendant said, he should not be able to find sureties; the sentence would, therefore, operate as one of imprisonment for two years. The Cows" observed, in the term of imprisonment which the Court had named, they had also taken into consideration the security required. The defendant then enquired whether the court would not allow him his expenses from Birmingham to. town? Me CWEIP Joanna- 4 ' Oh, by no means r TO THE EDITuR OF THE STAR. PATILNT CRAM CAILK offiCto BILLITER-SQUALL " SIR—By inserting the folloWing letters in four Paper, at your earliest convenience, you will oblige, your obedient servants, " SAM. BROWN and Co. " June 111, 1820." " JOHN KNOWLES, WAVY-OFFICE. " Reavrlce, June 10, IWO. " Sin—Observiag in the Star, of the 26th of May, the Pee& Ledger, of the '27 th , and in other Papers, an account, stating to be a report of a trial, Brunton v. Harks, respecting the right of a Patent for Iron Cables, in which my name is introduced much to my disadvantage, especially that part of the evidence said to be given by you respecting a trial which took place in May, 1816, before the Commissioners of the Navy, between twisted Cables made by me, and plain link Cables made bj Messrs. Brunton and Co. from the result of which it was insinuated, that my twisted Cables having proved deficient in strength, the Commissioners had discontinued their orders to me; may I re quest that you will have the goodness to state, as nearly u the substance of your evidence, and to say whether the Board did discontinue, or haie discontinued their orders to me; and whether my Cables' are considered inferior, either in form or quality to, or are in imitation of any that are made. . . • " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, • " SAM:. BROWN." " TO CAPTAIN SAMUEL BROWS, " Sta—ln answer to your letter of the 10th inst. I beg to in form you, thet the evidence stated in the Public Papers to have been given by the on the trial of Brunton v. Hawks, is (whether designedly or not I cannot say) but a garbled account of what I said upon that occasion ; but if you wish to Wave it word for word, I must refer you to the short-hand writer` who was em ployed. I never, however, could have said or insinuated, that the Navy Board has at any period discontinued their orders ko you, for nothing could be further from truth. Indeed, the form of the lirjts of the Cables now supplied to his Majesty's Navy Was submitted by yet*, and I have never heard any other Opinion, than that your Cables are at least equal to those manu factured by any person.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, • Navy-Office, June 16,1940. "JOHN KNOWLES." !'ARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. PRICE SFA'EN -PE ‘' t. E. In compliance with the wish of Messrs. Bacown and Co. we have given insertion to the foregoing letters. We have, however, to remark that our Report of the Trial was perfectly correct. We have nowhere, in that Report, made Mr. knowLss to say, that the Commissioners of the Nary S had discontinued their orders to Mr. Brown; but that they had ordered " that no more chain cables on his construction, " (composed of twisted links) should be adniitted for " the service of the Navy, but only, and exclusively, 46 chain cables, with broad-ended stays in the links; Is and the links having their substance in the same es plane." This we gave, as stated by Mr.KNOWLES, and this we say is correct. We did not say that the Commissioners "had discontinued their orders to Mr. BROWN ; but the faCt is, that all the chains ordered from Mr. BROWN, since the experiments of the com parative strength of these two modes of construction, have been ordered to be made with broad-en ded stays in Me links, and Ilse smAis....— ..4-.l_ .• ,• Ni isle Friend been taken, which was to ascertain; in .the first instance, the opinion of the other House, the Nouse would have been sped from those embar sussing circumstances, out of which it could' not now escape without disgrace. ,The Order was then discharged, and the meeting • of the Committee appointed for Tuesday. _ ROYAL MAILI3IAGR ACT. Lord HOLLAND rose to move the first reading of ake Bill for repealing the R o y a l M arr i age Act. -1-le said he was anxious, that the first reading should take place without delay. According to the usages and courtesies of that House, he was aware, that no oppo sition could be given on the first reading of the Bill. He would not, therefine, choose that time to enter into the discussion of its merits, but would be con tent with merely explaining acme points, which cir cumstances made necessary, and he would do it in a few words. The Bill, which he had the honoar of leeseating, went only to the simple repeal of a sta tute, which was now the law of the land. That sta tute was passed in tl:e 12th year of the reign of his late Majesty, and was commonly called the loyal Marriage Act. Their Lordships knew, that the Act to which he relined, had a preamble, that recited a Message from the throne; "Whereas Royal Marriages are of great importance to the State, ancrit is proper - to regulate them as they are hereby regulatesi." It then went on to say, that no descendant of his late Majesty, George 11. should be allowed to marry, without the donseot of his Majesty, or his heirs and suc cessors, or if such marriage should be contracted, without the coasent of the reigning King, it was to all intents null and void. Next came a provision, which said, that if any of the descendants of George 11. should attain the age of 25 years, and it; with out the consent of the King they made-known their intention of marrying to the Privy Council, in case their notice lay one whole year before the Council, without the interference of Parliament, that the mar riage after that term should be valid. There was another clause, which enacted, that any person, so lemnizing er assisting, or even being present at such marriage, should be liable to the penalties of a pra m:mire. Such was the substance cf the Act. He did net mean then to give its history. He would reserve. that and other considerations tor a future stage. • He would, however, state, that the Act passed through • that House with extraordinary precipitation. In the Commons it was not even printed ; yet it was severely debated upon ; and more was said against it, and less for it, than was recorded of any other Act upon• the Statute Book. This argument he did intend to press. But he was sure that lie should be able to prove to their Lordships, that the Act was ariunnecessary in vasion of natural rights—that it had a dircct ten dancy to produce immorality, an d to involve the Na tion in both foreign and 'civil wars. Another objec tion, and one still mote deserving of being dwelt upon, was, that it was calculated to render the mar riages of the descendants of George 11. unhappy._ This was one cf the reasons for presenting the Bill now. When he originally gave notice, he thought that circumstances would have obliged him to dwell longer upon it than he found they now did ; but the same reason which had induced the Noble Lord- to postpone the Committee beyond to-morrow, induced him (Lord flolland) also to defer entering into those arguments which were connected with the very pain- ' ful basiness a which he hoped would disaprear from Parliament altogetber. lie would merely add, that if their Lordships found his assertion to well founded, in saying, that the effect of the Act was to • render Royal Marriages unhappy, they would, of . couvse, perceive, that in the necessity of dissolving such marriages, their proceedings were not to be re gulated exactly as in other cases. The peculiar effect which the Act had on such marriages talc them out of the-reason of the general rule, and mate the pro per mode of treating them particular, and not such as any Sovereign could afterwardsvote as a prece 'dent. His Lordship then said, that he had been in- • duced to give this explanation on account of various rumours which had spread out of doors, connected with the subject of his notice, and which proved that his iutention had been completely misapprehended. He concluded by moving, that the rill be read a first time, and by stating, that he would afterwards move that it be printed, and that in about 'eight of nine days more he would introduce it for their Lordships' farther consideration: Lord LIVERPOOL said, he wiihed to correct an error into which the Noble Lord had fallen.. It was not the case, as he seemed to think, that a Bill might not be opposed on the first reading. It bad been, no doubt, • the general * practice and courtesy of the House to let the first reading pass without opposi tion ; but thak did not take away the right to oppose. Upon that oiSurtesy, however, he would always act, unless where the case was so gross and timpropei as to excite immediate hostility. But although he would not oppose the Bill in its frit reading, be had a decided objection to its principle, and Would feel it necessary to state the reasons of his objection aia future stage. Lord HOLLAND, in explanation, said dust . bi had not claimed any right to having the Bill read a first time without discussion; be had distinctiy-h.. pressed himself, as relying upon the usages and.cour tesy of the House. 'The Bill was then read a first time.—Adjourned to Monday. • HOUSE OF COMMONS. This day ate Gallery Was opened at Half-past Two o'clock, and idle Senecas took the Chair at a Quarter to Four. The Qerk of the Crown was called is to amend the Writ for Ipswich, substituting the lame of T. IL Leonard, Esq. ia. further eer retu rn attends n Comm i t te e for appo int ed abr ed outhsa‘ to the room of Crickett, Es_q.decLuednottobedulyebtete4. • cs On the motion of Mr. N. CALM; Lord Maton vas tryexcusede nit. ki t t he port f momsn and a t o i l e adn the s Petition order tl2 ; u a r da g b a y i in consequence of the death of a near relation, whicliTequips his absence. Lord FRANCIS OSBORNE brought up the Report o f t b e Select Committee appointed to inquire into the merits of Petition complaining of an whin return for de Ben g t of HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE i6' ' 44 •• Lord Mtnnerraft and the Bishop of Roomy:stook the MIAs led their seats. Counsel were finally heard on the Appeal Calm, " v. Cahill."—Judgment postponed. The Mutiny Bill was brought up from the Commons by Mr. Dunne:nom and others, and read the first time; as were several private or local Bills, presented by Mr. Bassoon, Mr. Fissure, and other Members. Lord ALTMORPE and others, brought up the Insolvent Debtors Bill. Lord GROSVENOR made some observations upon the ne cessitrof introducing a clause into the Bill for the purpose of af fording relief to persons suffering long imprisonment, under a committal for contempt of the Court of Chancery. He was aware of the legal difficulties in which the subject was involved, and mentioned some cases of great hardship, more especially that of one man whose confinement for contempt lasted 35 years. Ile, therefore, wished to have the opinion of the Learned Lord on the Woolsack as to the practicability of constructing a clause so as to meet cases of this peculiar severity, and give them also the advantage of the humane Interposition of the law. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that he would be al ways willing to receive from the Noble Lord, or any other per son, such suggestions, and information upon this subject, as Ni g ht tend to relieve it from the difficulties with which it was, la some respects, at present connected. He would briefly state hie own opinion, In compliance with the request of the Nobie Lord. It should be observed, that contempt of . Court was of two kinds, essentially different from each other ; one arose from the non-payment of a sum of money ordered by the Court, the other from a refusal to do some act fixed by the judgment. The committal in the former case, was to be looked en as in the light of an execution for the non-payment of a debt, and be hail no objection, that those who were imprisoned for such contempt, should be provided for by the law in the same way as debtors Is colter Courts. With respect to the other sort of contempt, he scarcely knew how to look at it. There were cases to which ti could not see how relief could be extended ; suppose, for in stance (said the 'attuned Lord), the testator gives me an estate le trust, to convey it to the Noble Lord. He calls on me for the conveyance, and finding me not willing to execute it, de saands it in a Court of Equity, having no remedy in a Court of Law, the estate being judiciary, and not legal. If then, instead of conveying the esette to him, according to the intention of the testator, I refuse to execute the trust, and neglecting the deci don of the Court enforcing the performance of this judiciary obligation, keep possession of the estate, and receive the rents and profits, how could relief be extended in such a case, without giving to the offender the _benefit of his own wrong' As long as he continued in contempt against every principle of conscience and justice, so long it was right that the Court should make him feel that he could not be unjust with perfect impunity. But even after a com mittal on such grounds, if the prisoner ex pressed his readiness to relinquish what he had no right in equity to retain, then there was no doubt but he would be relieved. There was always, under such circumstances, even an ener for wardness in the Court to give all the relief that was conststent with justice; but there was no remedy when a man chose tuse justly to per sin in withholding ftoaranother what he had only received for his benefit ; such a person had no right, while con tinuing to disobey the law, to complain that the process of law was too rigorous • but still be (the Lord Chancellor) was al ways glad to recei ve: information on particular cases.—The Bill was then read a first time. On the motion of the Earl of ROSEBBRRY, the Order of the Day for the committal of the Bill for regulating the Election of Scotch Peers was discharged, and the Hill ordered to be com mitted on Friday next. The Marquis of LANSDOWN moved for certain. Papers re lative to Foreign Trade, for the purpose of being laid before the Select s in Me links, and the substance of the link in the None plane, instead of being twisted, and with sharp "(tinted stays, as he nude them beforethat period. We have now the Short-hand Writer's Report before is, add it agrees with our statement. THE QUEEN. The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose to move that the Order of the Day for the meeting of the Secret Com mittee to-morrow (this day) be discharged ; and that the time of meeting be further postponed to Tues day. His Lordship stated, that the same reasons were still in existence which had given rise to the for. mer adjournment, as explanations and communica tions on the important subject to which it related, were still actually pending. The Marquis of LANSDOWN animadverted upon the course pursued, by Ministers in this transaction ; he said, there was too instance on . yecord v. here a communication made from the Throne to the House, and referred to a Committee for the purpose of con sidering what measures should be adopted upon it, had been deferred fsom time to time without any fur ther communication from the Thkine to warrant such a procedure. But this awkward consequence was the result of the injudicious . conduct of Minis. ters in the onset, who had recommended a mewao e to the House, of which they now experienced the dif ficulties. As for his own part, he would not oppose the motion ; he thought, on the contrary, that there' were cogent reasons for acquiescing in it. But Itti nisters were not there 4 exculpated from the blame s of the embarrassing situation in which their precipi tancy had placed the House. He hoped it would again suggest to them the necessity of taking more considerate steps in future. Lord DARNLEY expressed similar sentiments to' those which had been uttered by the Noble Marquis. He said, the dignity of the House, of which it was usual to say so much, had been injured by the pre sent mode of proceeding ; and he -trusted it would make Members anxious to weigh well, at another, time, the grounds of a proposition on which they were invited to vote by his Majesty's Miniiters. He hoped and trusted, what happened now would be a warning to them in future, and prevent the House from being again placed in circumstances of so much difficulty. Lord.LIVERPOOL said, it was not his intention to say a word on the question, if the Noble Marquis had let it rest. He had before shewn that Govern megt had no alternative: and as .to the situation of the House, he had fully explained it on a former night, when he stated that the adjournment for which he then moved was in reference to delicate ex planations and disclosures which had been just opened, and the result of which might possibly ... render the la bours of the Committee altogether unnecessary.--, There was nothing in the mode of proceeding now pursued which militated against the dignity of the House. It could not be at variance with its dignity to postpone the Committee from Saturday to Tues day, upon the. same grounds which had induced it to agree to the former postponement from Tuesday to Saturday. Lord DARNLEY, in explanation, said, that the postponement would not have rakes place if the Mi ' nisters had not discovered that the House of Com mons was not likely to entertain the question.in the 'manner which they desired; bad the•whrice .of his ,- i . , I