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THE ARMY. t : That part of the 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, which were at York, have marched for New castle, Carlisle, &c. Tile gentlemanly conduct of all the Officers, and the peaceable demeanour of the men, have caused universal regret in York for their departure,—They are replaced by the .sth Dragoon Guards, from Manchester. _ _ Monday, the First West York Militia completed their twenty-eight days' training, at Doncaster, where the Regiment have acquitted themselves with the ut most propriety of condoct, and most satisfactorily to the inhabitants of that town, MILITARY PROMOTIONS. WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 25, 1820. 1121 Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain Geort:e Ultick Bar low, from halt-pay of the Goth Foot, tube Captain, vice George I.keel Dawson, «ho exchanges; George Feed, Gent. to be Conic t, by purchase, vice Taylor, who retires. 31 Regiment f Feat Guards—Hen. Chalks Beaumont Phipps to he Ensign and lieutenant, by purchase, vice Keppel, pr rioted ; Captain William Stockdak tp be Adjutant, vice Elcing:on, who resigns the Adjutantcy only. 16:h Regiment of Foot—Charles Frederick Thompson, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brand, promoted in the 73d Foot. 30th Ditto--Lieutenant John Blackall, from the 55th Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice 'Warren, who exchanges. 47th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet James M. Geddes, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Strettell, whose appointment has not taken elect.. 49 h Ditto--Gentleman Cadet Andrew Gammell, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Maclachlan, promoted. 6.'"th Ditto—Lieutenant Charles Warren, from the 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Blackall, who exchanges. 73d Ditto—Lieutensrt William Raymond to be Captain, with out purchase, vice Ritchie, deceased; Ensign James Brand, from the 16th Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice Raymond. 78th Ditton—Lieutenant John M'lver to be Captain, by pur chase, Bice Grant, who retires; Ensign Edward Twopeny to be Lieutenant, by purchabe, vice M'lver ; Gentleman Cadet Lord William Thymic, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, ViC2 Twopeny. Seth Ditto—Lieutenant George Stoat Jeffery, from half-pay of the Feot, to he Lieutenant, vice Henry D. Peers, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 81th Ditto—Ensign Peter Mansell to he Lieutenant, without purchaae, vice F..veleriek, deceased; Robert Blake, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Tcor.lon aod Westininstrt Light Horse Volunteers—Cornet Herr .% to be Lieutenant, vice Brooksbank, who re signs; Thontza Woad, Gent. to he Cornet, vice Harman. P.eyal Eait India Volunteers—William Astell, Esq. to he Colo eel Wigram, Esq. to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Geo. Esq. to be Major. To be Clptuiits—Henry Johnson, Stephen Samuel Cancellor, Charles 11'c.-:hi-ter, James Peppercorne George Collard, Wil- Caro Evans, NVaker Young, Edward L eslie, George Medley, ar.d Comellus Wheeler, F.sqrs. TJ be tient:slants—Joseph Allen, Mitchell Greenaway, George Eitherdc n, Hobert Smith, William Andrews Hunt, William Baker, John Kidded, William Keith, William Carter, George Parish, Charles Preston, and Gilson Browne Simons, Gems. 7 be Euaigns--Ituhert Fletcher, Willooghby Wigstun, William Dickinson, Peter Cameron, Francis Thum; son, Charles He bard. William lleathcote, and Edward Thornton, Gents. To he Adjutant (with the rank of Captain]—henry Dickinson, Eiq. I:,,mtuission in the Staffordshire Regiment of Yeomanry Ca valry, signed by the Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Stafford. V:).lliam lienry Liaytist Proby, Gent. to be Lieutenant. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Jots): TFMPLYMAN, Midshipman of the ALBION, is pro ;noted to the rank of Lieutenant. Lieutenant I'. Ju3rlC is appointed to the ALACRITY, vice Piessosi. or the crew of the Elizabeth, late Pr..s.nsoN. of Maryport, at I.ivzrpool from Demerara—only three men and A boy have sur vived the voyag , .. - - - - AunesT 27.—Arrived yesterday, and sailed for the; liver, the Princess Charlotte, BEAM' ; Fortitude, Maims.; and Westmoreland, Maim-musics. from Jamaica; Pomona, Gay, from Para; John and Sarah, l'ahroF, from Philadelphia for Hull; Amity, Gila Y. ftom Quebec; Neptune, SWAINSTO:v, from Tarragona; and some more, particulars unknown. Came down from the River the Boyne, Fercusos, for Fort St. George; Charles Forbes, Cuoss:, for Bermuda; Seneca, Dim., for Gibraltar; Amphitrite, Pm:Liles, for Jamaica; and Kum- Bang Jeatie, DELzate, for Valparaiso. Arrived to-day and sailed flr the River, the Duckenfield, Ham., and Beaufort, SAINTHILL, from Jamaica ; Lerd Nelson, DoNxis, from Nova Scotia; Lark, ARYLUER, from Cadiz; John, Eavesuncz, from Quebec; Alonzo Pertictr:s, from Bourcleaux ; and Levant, Passatosz, from B ergen tor Bristol. Came down from the River, the Thames, Pace, for New York; Rohart, QUISTOY, for Rio Janeiro; Kingston, BINIKT, and Royal Charlotte, FORD, for Halifax ; Orion. Bamiev, and John, WALICZR, for the South areas; and Earl Moira, ALLtsort, for St. John's, New Brunswick. FALMOUTH, AUGUST 25.—WindW.S.W.—Arrived the Prince Ernest packet, with a Mail from Lisbon in 18 days; Emery, Meows, from Petersburgh, in six weeks, for Bridgewater ; Nor folk Hero, Cv^:lizzarsox, from Dartmouth fur Flume ; and George, DAVIES, from Plymouth, the latter with loss of top-mast. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST V.6.--Put back the John, Hztatr.— Passed up Channel, the Aurora, Govan, from India, last from Salem, for Antwerp.. PoarFmourn, Aucusz C7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived yesterday, the Nautilus transport, from the Cape of Good Hope, sailed 4th June ; and the Courier, Dutch man of war, from Holland for Batavia. Passed up Channel, the Earl of Chester, and Count Bernstiorff, from St. Cruz for Copenhagen. Sailed, the Medi ti:rranean, Blass, for London ; and the John transport for Cork, with troops. Arrived to-day, the Chapman transport, from the G.ll:e of Good Hope; Quebec, Towns, from norm.: ; and his lkiajesty's ship Castr..zos, front a cruize. sailed, the Nautilus transport, for Chatham. Dorm, Auousr 27.—The Lilies, Aunzlisox, from Cadiz, got ;ground in coming for the harbour last night, by which she re creisiderable damage it, her hull, broke her anchor, and was nearly full '.t' water when she was got into the harbour. RAMSGATR, AticuaT 27.—Arrived the Traveller, CRAMP:, from Newcastle, with her mainmast sprung, fore-topsail-yard &c. aLti the Prince Regent, Ic.vaNs, from London, with bowsprit broke, and her cable much damaged. - - - r.siatrzu, Maori. 27.—T4e Eleanor, of Bridport, has been r. - .:. on haard of by the Albion, of North Shields, by which she carried away her foremast and bowsprit, and her hull is much dani;tged. Q collier, name not known, has been on the Barber band, any is being lightened. llur.t., Atreus: Cs.—Arrivedthe Unity, SHORT, from Green laud, with 15 fish, 500 butts. Cy-wom-liousit, ArcesT 26.- z —Ships Entered Inwards:—The Ctrinarthen, from Madras and Bombay ; Hoffnung, from Hu sum ; Isabella, from St. Petersburgh ; Fortuna, from Tonningen ; Kangaroo, from LeLhorn ; Hannah, from St. Petershurgh; Neisenger, from ditto; ;!pd Jonah, Ism% Archangel.—Cleared Outwards : --The Lord Gambia, tor Jersey; Margaret, for Vezice ; Aurora, for Cork ; Marsh.d Blucher, for Rotterdam ; Jokn, fur Elsincur ; Puke of Eent, for Rotterdam; Mnet, for the Cape; Spanish Patriot, for Cadiz ;.Atalanta, for Il an burgh ; 11-ipe, for Malta; Fos, for (blend; Ceres, for Savannah; John. for Purikirk ; Pursuit, tOr Ilamburgh; and the IlLrcury, for the South Sea whale fishery. Coaw-EICHAN3E, MArx-t.FM, ArGusT 2R.---Our market was but thinly supplied with Wheat this nioriling, among which av :re several samples of new Wheat from Essex, chiefly of in ferior quality : notwithstanding the unsettled state of the wea. thtr the trade was very heavy, even for the finest description of old *Wheat, at the price of this day se'nnight. Oats are Is. per quarter cheaper than to last Monday, put the sales were rather brisk at Friday!s prices. /leans and Peas are 53. per quarter lower, and Barley met heavy sale, and in small quanti ties, to Corracluurdler:., at a decline of full ls. per quarter. .., -e\ FRENCH , Fretich Papers of Thursday arrived yesterday. They contain very little additional information re specting the recent plot in Paris, or those that were engaged in it. M. Grandet, the Jugs d'lnstruttion, continues with rapidity the proceedings against the individuals ar rested on the 19th inst. and on the following days. One of the persons, who was employed in the Public Treasury, is kept in solitary confinement in the prison of the Concieigerie. The following article respectinj some of the wit nesses against the QUEEN of ENGLAND, appears in the Journal des Debats of Thursday. It is dated Augs: burg, the 17th instant, and is stated to be extracted from the Universal Gazette of that City : " The Vienna Court Gazette and the Austrian Ob server have inserted a contradiction of the English Ambassador of an article in the Universal Gazette of this city, relative to some witnesses against the Queen of England. The following are certain facts : Theodore Majocco, formerly groom, Luigi Majocco, formerly domestic, and their father, Battista Ma jocco, formerly courier or postillion in the service of the Princess of Wales during her residence at Como and Milan, arrived at Vienna in 1819. They alighted in the suburb of Wieden, at the inn, the sign of the Three Crowns; they then took a private lodging in the suburb of Leopoldstadt, where they resided till their departure for London, in the house of the Sieur Radel, the master of a fishing-boat, No. 6, near the baths of Diana, in the first floor. According to their own statements they had received, on the part of the English Ministry, appointments or indemnities ; they had also been promised pensions for life, for them selves and for their families, who remained at Ccmc. The facts which Battista Majocco declared could be proved against the Queen of England are very serious, and would cover her with shame. What we have learnt with respect to Battista Majocco is, that he Went to London last spring, as a courier.— Theodore Majocco has declared, that the pensions of their wives are paid at Milan, every month, by the Advocate, M. Vilmarcati, the English agent, residing at the Contrado Crucifisso, in the Casa nizonica.— We derive these facts from the declarations of the family of Majocci.' THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THIRTY CAPITALS—TWO OF X2c,oco, &c.—ALL IN MONEY—ONLY 5,600 TICKETS—EACH TO BE DRAWN SINGLY—ALL ON WEDNESDAY NEXT. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1820. PRICE Of STOCKS Tills DAY AT win o 9 cLoCk Bank Stock 220 i 2CI-3 per Cent. Reduced 88/ 3 per Cent. Cone. 68 671-4 per Cent. 861 87 5 per Cent. Navy 103111 —Long ALns. 18 1-16 Exch.itter Bills 3s. 3s. pre.-omr.Lm 1 dis. Consols for Account 671 THE QUEEN'. It will be seen, by an article copied from the Uni versal Gazette of Augsburg, and given above,. among other extracts from the French Papers, , that the examination of Majocci before the -House of Lords has not yet brought out all the truth respect- 1 ing the money paid, or to be paid, to him and his re latives, to obtain his or their evidence against the QUEEN. At whose expense are these emoluments and pensions to be paid ? The remuneration paid to the witnesses has cer tainly been calculated by some scale with which common people are not acquainted. The sum of 750 dollars a month was all that Captain P_ Arta.za received from the QUEEN for the fi eight of his vessel, to pay himself, his crew, and the tear and wear of his vessel ; bttt, by his new speculation, he gets a thousand dollarS a mouth ! net ! clear of ex penses, without any deduction for wages of his crew, without any tear and wear of his polacre.— In one word, he is enriched for life ! The highest rate at which the services of this Captain, his Mate, his crew (including their provisions and the use of the vessel), can be valued, is, as established by evidence, 750 dollars a month ; but his new em ployers pay him and his Mate alone 1,800 dollars a month, leaving him also all the profits he can make by the use of his vessel elsew here, during the time be is engaged in his English expedition. Are we sure that we are yet made acquainted with all the gains which this business secures for the Captain and his Mate ? As to Barbara Kress, the chambermaid, her re gular wages were twelve floiius a year. She acknow ledges to have had given to her, at one time, thirty one ducats—that is more than five years wages—in addition to all her expenses borne, with that of her brother. The evidence of such witnesses should, and no doubt will, be properly sifted by the Lords, before the conclusion of the trial ; and this is the more ne cessary, as it seems not at all probable that, in the common Courts of law, witnesses, who were so highly paid for giving evidence, would even be suf fered to be examined, were the fact known. HOUSE OF LORDS-TENTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. At ten minutes before ten the Lotto CUANCELLOR took his scat on the 'Woolsack. Prayers having been read by the Bishop of WiNT CII ESTER, and the roll called over, The Earl of LAUDERDALE rose andddressed their. Lordships with great force on the improiscieti of allowing Counsel to be heard on the point of prac tice, left over for discussion on Saturday. Ilis Lord ship thought that, on reflection, one and all of their Lordships must be convinced, that had they adopted that line of conduct which they were abput to adopt on Saturday, they would have done a thing not only gnpresedeuted in the usages of the Pothe, but ut early derogatory to its dignity. It was certainly most prudent that the House should come - to some lied —intim as to the course to be followed in the eta minatioe of witnesses; but to leave it to Counsel to argue upon and suggest to the House what that , come should be, was a thing without example in the House of Peers. To put it to five Members of the House of Commons (for such the Counsel at the Bar were), to suggest to the House of Peers what mode they should pursue in a judicial inquiry; was contrary to all constitutional usage, and insulting to the dignity of their Lordships. Looking back at the proceedings which had taken place, his Lord ship thought that the whole. difficulty in which they were now supposed to be placed, arose, not from the want of a fixed and perfectly correct rule on the subject, but from a misunderstanding of what that rule actually was. The general practice in Courts of Law, he believed, was, that after a witness had been examined in chief he should be immediately cross-examined, and if at a future period either of the parties could make out a case, to the satisfaction of the Judge, for calling up a witness a second time, the Courts were in the use of allowing it, subject to this condition, that the questions on the second exa mination should be suggested to and put by the Cour: if approved. And was not this the very practice which the House had, up till Saturday last, followed in the important case pending before them ? After Majocchi, the first witness, had been examined in chief, he had been cross-examined by the Counsel for her Majesty at great length, until, indeed, they said they had no further questions to ask him.— Yet afterwards an application was made by her Majesty's Counsel, to the House, to have this witness called up a second time, and having shewn sufficient cause for the demand, the House had been pleased to grant it. Was it not perfectly evident from this, that the C,.,unsel on both sides were quite aware that the House were following in this case the very course of proceeding which would.have been followed in a Court of Law ? Where then was the difficulty in which the House were supposed to be placed ? Ilis Lordship, for himself, could see none but what had arisen from a misunderstanding cf the existing rule, and an indiscreet attempt to depart from it. The credibility of witnesses might be affected in two ways, ether by circumstanees arising out of theirexamination in chief, or by witnesses to be afterwards produced. This was a clear line of distinction, which there could be no difficulty whatever in observing. The Coun sel for her Majesty should proceed instantly phis all that arose out of the examination in chief—(Hear, hear)—and the House had said, that after the charge bad been closed, they would give her Majesty full time and opportunity to procure witnevos in farther impeachment of the credibility of the evidence ad duced against her. The House, his Lordship must again repeat, were in r.o difficulty but what arose from a misunderstanding of their own rule—(Hear, hear).—Let them adhere strictly to that rule, and there would be no occasion for calling in Counsel— for proceeding in a way that could not but seriously compromise the dignity of the House—( Hear ). Lord L MANNERS said, the difficulties which were said to exist would disappear upon the assurance, that if Counsel omitted to put questions in the course of the cross-examination, a suggestion to the Lord Chancellor would be strictly attended to ; and con sequently all the purposes of a second cross-exami nation would be answered. The plan upon which the Judges in Westminster-Hall acted was precisely this—all knew, that if a Counsel omitted to ask a question, the Judge immediately called the witness back, and put the question upon his suggestion Their Lordships were disposed to give her Majesty every opportunity of benefiting herself; but the, House could not adopt a course directly a: va riance with the practice of the Courts by which they had pledged themselves to be influenced. The re fusal to grant a list of witnesses had been con demned, though, in hii opinion, their Lordships had acted with the greatest propriety in proceeding as they had done. It had been said that the peculiar circumstances of the case demanded a peculiar in dulgence; but, foe his part; he could not see that any argument could be advanced in proof of the authority of such an emergency. His Noble Friend (Erskine) had acted inconsistently, when he said their Lordships ought to be bound by the practice of Westminster-Hall, and by itnmeoliately advising a violation of that prac tice. The Noble Lord repeated, that the interposition of the Lord Chancellor, in cases where Counsel omitted to ask caestions of a witness, would, in his opinion, fully answer the ends of justice, and moved, a That the Noble Lord on the Woolsack be directed to In form-the Queen's Counsel, that they would be entitled to call back the witnesses, after the case had been dosed upon the part of the Attorney General, to be examined as to any new facts, such facts being proved to exist to the satisfactionof the House." Lord ERSKINE. said, he had anticipated the diffi culties which had been already prov s ed to have arisen from the reftwil of his motion. Since man was born of a woman, never had the time their Lordships had taken to consider a difficulty been more completely thrown away. It had been said by a Noble Lord that no difficulty existed. If that was the case, surely it would have been his duty_ to oppose the adjourn ment on Saturday—(Kear, hear). He (Lord Erskine) should pow state to the House the only course they could, in his opinion, follow, after having refused the list of witnesses. It w'as distinctly understood by the House, that after the Counsel for the Bill should be heard, and the witnesses exam hied and cross-examined, as far as they could, under existing circumstances, be cross-examined, a reasonable time should be given to the Queen' to prepare for her defence—(Hear, heart This was the ordinary plan upon which Courts of Justice proceeded. . How could Their Lordships agree to let the examination of witnesses go out to the world in an Unquestioned state for two months, or Whatever time might* be required by the Queen fin. the preparation of her 'defence ? Constructed as thc human mind was, 'such a course must have the effect of prejudicing her Majesty's cause. It should be per mitted to her Majesty's Counsel to ask whatever questions the nature of the case demanded at the pre sent moment, as far as an opportunity occurred, and when the case should be advanced, to resume the cross-examination. The interruption given by the Attorney-General to the question put by Mr. Brougham, was an interruption to a question which most naturally arose out of the course of the exami nation. Cross-examination should, in fact, be with out limits. The Counsel for the Queen were in a very difficult situation, and should be assisted, in stead of having impediments thrown in their way,-- He thought the only manner in which the House could now proceed, with the view of doing impartial justice, was to allow the Queen's Counsel to pursue what line they pleased, and go on as far as they pleased with the question as it at present stood. The question then would be, what was to be done when the ad journmeLt concluded? Sufficient to the day was the eei! timed: Whets the House met again, let the Queen s Counsel cross-examine again in an unlimited manne:-, and if any thing in the regulations should occur, which could not be said to assimilate to the practice of tbs. Courts below, let the House be governed by feeling.; of humanity—Wear, hear, hear).—With respect to the interruption given by the Attorney-General, t. was his opii.loa that the examination should be re sumed at that point, and that the question ihould b,! put to the witness by the Noble Lord on the Woe' sack. The House would, he trusted, agree in hi. views :to proceed to the cross-examination where the Counsel had left off, and that the question which hal been so iinproperly interrupted by his Majesty's Attorney-General, should be immediately proposed. There would, in his opinion, be an end of the inten. tion of all Courts of Justice, if the public opinion did not, in some degree, preside in them. The Noble Lord concluded by staring, that the House wiA bound to pursue none but that course which wod;tl lead to a just conclusion; and assuring their Lord ships that he thanked GOD he had acted as he hiki done as the investigation proceeded. • Lord LIVERPOOL argued, that it was contrary to the universal practice of the Courts below, by which . the House had pledged itself to be directe to adopt the course suggested by Lord Erskine. —Whatever disadvantages there m'zht be attending the course that had been adopted, they were com. pensated by greater advantages. The delay granted for the Queen's defence would enable her to dome to it with a full knowledge of all the facts and circum stances charged against her, and afford her the beet means to rebut them. The Noble and Learned Lord seemed to labour under a mistake, when he thought that it was left to the option of the Counsel for the Queen when the cross-examination should take place, since, so far as he could recollect, no such intimation was ever given—( Hear, bear, hear), He would allow a greater latitude in this case than is the Courts below ; and if, in the course of these pro. ccedings, fairground should be shewn by the Coun sel for her Majesty for calling a witness for re-exa mination, he did not doubt but their Lordships would readily permit it. Up to Saturday last, the Rowe had been under no difficulties—everything had gale on quite regular. The witnesses were examined. cross-examined, re-examined, and then examined by their Lordships; but on Saturday the Attorney-Ge neral for the Queen wished to put off the cross-exa mination, except so far as to ascertain the name and residence of the witness. Now, if the cross-eaasnina- tion was to be deferred, it ought not, that, to have proceeded so far. Its object was evidently to im , peach the credit of the witness, by questioning her as to what sums of money she bad received, when and where she had been examined, &c.— If their Lordships had committed any error there could be no difficulty in retracing their steps, were it essential to the obtaining of substantial justice. The question is, whether the cross-examination shall be put off altogether until the defence ? If so, their Lordships could not examine a single witness, and in the course of these proceedings the most important inforination had been elicited by the questions asked by the Peers, who had viewed both sides of the case, without the party-colouring of Counsel. This was not the only inconvenience: their LordAlips could never call on the Attorney-General to say 1 . .; case was closed, when other witnesses might bete cessary after the cross-examination. His Lordship thought it a strong reason why a list of witnesses should not be given, because, in the course of the pro ceedings it might become necessary to call other wit nesscs than those originally intended to be examined. Under all these circumstances, his Lordship thoughts with reference to this case, for the convenience d their Lordships, and for the ends of justice, it wai highly necessary fait their lf. l ordships should proceed as in ordinary cases, viz. by examination, cross-exa mination, re-examination, and examination by t! r