Star. — London, England, 1812-01-30 00:00:00

r' THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TO CORR SPONDENTS. o leos must Dave seen is the STAR a number of Letters on o leos subject of Epaulettes. We cannot resume the discussion. • THURSDAY, JANITAP Y 30. fr o Commas TUE MARTY) , DOM.-1401143y at the P .. /tower, Bank, ( Lastlodsa and S.. ulls- Sea Houses. The Irish Papers of Monday last, rectived this yeen i n g, state the commencement of the trial of s t . Xntwor, one of the Catholic Delegates. In o r ea gerness for the success of the cause, the Dub bEAlitors give a colouring to the manner in which tie prosecution is conducted, which we think must be overcharged. The following is the language of te &Ma Evening Herald : " Second Edition. —Herald Office—Five o'clock. Monday, January 27. 1 'This morning the trial of Mr. KIRwAN cone roil in the Court of King's Bench, and this mo ot we have been informed that the following most greceden ted circumstance in the history of Trial jury transpired : • It appeared that Sir CHARLES SAXTON selected :o ber of Names for the Sheriff, to be placed on k il l ed which were to try the Delegates. • The circumstances that transpired were the fol. inn : w —The Crown Solicitor applied to Mr. She idigira for a copy of the Panne!, which he refused. f at hoing left it by accident in his office for one topy somehow found its way into the hands Oi seCnaturs SAXTON, who sent for and had a con fmee with Mr. rammts on the arrangement of the Jan' Dames. The original list contained 115 names, i t at -educed to 102; several names were transposed i n the Fst, and some erased from it entirely. Sir CflifILES SAXTON attended tie Court, but departed t h e refrom without giving any explanation to redeem h'schvacter or the Duke of RICHMOND's, whose Se. crttiry he is, from the foul and damning imputation of having attempted to procure a Jury of their own choice to try the Catholic Delegate's. Mr. ButtaowEs is now speaking to evidence on the lactsalich have come out on the examination of Mtssrs.kabus, sen. and jun. and Mr. Sheriff JAMES." The Grand Jury of the County of Dublin have ' voted Rescdatious in favour of the repeal of the Union. The following are the two chief Resolutions : t Resolved unanimously, That we are convinced, from the opulence of thirteen years, that the Art of Legislative Union keno Great Britain and Ireland, has been, and must continue tole, a close of Oppression to the Irish People—lnjurious to ~drCelamtrce—and Destructive to their Trade and Manufac ivo. _ _ " Imbed, That the Repeal of the Union Act, and a Grant tip Prayer of the Catholic Petition, are both necessary to sup. paths Strength, increase the Wealth, and to restore Peace, Or- Gsed.will, and Unanimity, to this Empire." -From private letters received yesterday from Awe. lice, by the Lord Hobart packet, it appears that the dr mania doefnot rage so violently as we have been, led to suppose; all those intiamm story resolutions htely brought forward, are probably only intended to sire a tone to popular feeling, till Mr. MADISON and his cotemporaries shall have finally succeeded in securing their future elections. It is asserted in these letters that the Administra tive have no serious idea of a war with this Country, bet vrish to keep up the war fever until Congress rises, taping in the interim to make a better bargain with Me.Fosrstt; at the same time it is the general °pi ton that the 4g riltrictive ustena" will be continued, sad no arrangement entered into with this Country, Elcss the "Repeal of the Order: in Council" are made the basis of the negociation. British manufactures [says one of these letters] allot so high here as are generally supposed ; fine cloths are very plenty, and in fact are a drug in the rarket- they have begun to manufacture in large 9 antitles, aid the quaiity of some are superior to :any usually ipinorted, which are afforded at prices eve? to any from England, and which bear well on craspatison.—Exchange is as usual, 16 to 17 per Snare Philadelphia Papers assert, that the city of trice had been stormed, and carried by the insur- Pls. This statement is not credited. Flom cur late files of American Papers, we ex tact the following interesting articles on the subject J 6e Carracas and the West Indies : " NEW SPANISH REPUDLlC.—Catracas Gazettes to ela November, exhibit more the appearance of he papers than any Spanish journals we have before 'tent and they breathe throughbat a genuine spirit anulependence. The Spanish Cortes are handled lib much severity; but they express good wishes la the triumph cf the Patriot Cause in Spain. Oc tal MIRANDA, with a division of his army, arrived kearracas the 28th October from the conquest of alencia, and was congratulated by the Supreme' Executive, as having deserved well of the country. 4 Executive is composed of BaLTAZA, PADKON, VIIHSTOVAL DR MeNnozn, and JOHN ESC. LONA.•—• Tile declaration of independence had been read and sZognized with pomp throughout the Confederation. loe general Congress was in cession ; all public acts i a,re dated the I st yeat o f i n d ependence ; an d l ong "s of patriotic donations are publisbed."—Co/um iift,Der. 10. " PI-TTLADELPHIA, DEc.ll. " BY Captain 111oFrarr, frr in St. Bartholomew's, welearn, that the English men of war are continually I taking the Drougers, who are bringing sugar from Cuadaloupe and Martinico to St. Bartholomews, it berg, as they term, a contraband trade. They have c°l , dtmned no less than five at St. Thomas, and se.. ver.,l at Tortola ; one of w hich, a brig, was taken t of the harb our cf St. Bartholomew's. The fate of the Planters of the captured French i:lands is hard 'if they send their produce to England, it must b.: l!tr)red for exportation, not being consumeable in Eng and ; and if it should after a time get out of the wand, it is ten to one but the West Indian has to rut up with a heavy loss for store - A . 1,cl &c.".. ALARM AT GLASGOW. We are con:erned to state, teat A most serious alarm was last week excited at Glasgow, originating in the distresses which have for a considerable time been experienced by the Operative Weavers in that city and neighbourhood. It is but justice to these men to state, that the patience with which they have long borne the severe privations and penury to which they have been reduced, has been highly examplary, and furnishes a striking proof of the benefits which a community detives from the proper education of the lower orders. Nothing but the force of good prin ciples derived from education, could possibly have produced among the men, to whom we now allude, a sense of propriety, and a firmness under adversity, which in England, where the education of the poor has been too much neglected, would have been reckoned a phenomenon. For about a year past, the Weavers in Glasgow ,and neighbourhood have been without full employ ment ; anti those who have been able to procure work, have had their wages so much reduced, that few of them have been able to earn more than seven shillings per week, though many of them have large families. About ten days ago delegates from these men, waited upon the Magistrates of Glasgow, to repre sent to them their distressed state, and to solicit their attention to the misery of their families. What was the result of this application we have not learnt ; but in a'day or two after, circular notices were sent to all the operative weavers fur many miles round Glas gow, inviting them to assemble at the public Green as on Thursday last. The Magistrates, alarmed for the possible consequences, invited the Delegates to a conference, represented to them the dangers that might be apprehended from so large an assemblage, and induced them to circulate new notices, prohibit ing the proposed meeting. The Magistrates, we understand, have paid parti cular attention to the representations of th:•se men, and we have no doubt, from the decorum and temper which has been exhibited on all hands, that ,publi c order will be maintained. The Master Manufacturers have been required by the Magistrates to have a meeting upon the business, and we doubt not, that they will see the propriety of giving an increase of wages to those they employ. It cannot be denied that it is an extreme hardship to workmen, whenever there is a scarcity of employment, to experience at the same time a great reduction in the price of their labour. NOTTINGHAM RIOTS. NOTTINGHAM, JANUARY 29.—1 t is impossible to convey a proper idea of the state of the public mind in this town, during the last four or five days : The constant parading of the military in the night, and their movements in various directions during both night and day, give us the appearance of a state of warfare—may we not have it more in reality ! The destruction of more than twenty frames, at Lenton, on Thursday evening last, within a few hundred yards of our barracks, and two being cleanly carried away in a neighbouring hamlet the same night, heightened the state of alarm ; and the operations of several subsequent nights have given it an additional increase. On Saturday night the frame-breakers crossed the river Trent, aod broke fourteen flames at Rudding ton, and twenty at Clifton, leaving but two whole in the latter town. An express was sent off to Not tingham for a troop of the Hussars, who went with all possible speed ; and as many of the Bunney troop of ) -eorriaary as could be collected, (they being in the neighbourhood of the scene of action) were imme ' diately mounted—one party pursued the depredators, while others seized all the passes over the Trent for the space of four miles, under a full persuasion that the Luddites could not escape ; but, such is the ge neralship of the latter, that they seized a boat which nobody else had thought of, and repassed the river in two divisions, in perfect safety, and escaped. The same night a frame was broken at Bulwell, while a Serjeant and six men, belonging to the Berk shire Militia, were employed to watch it—the parties exchanged shots several times, but it is not known that any one was wounded, though one of the Lud dites lost a shoe and his hammer. On Sunday night 45 frames were broken at Selson, Bagthorp,- and the neighbouring hamlets, about nine miles from this town ; and the same evening, about seven o'clock, a circumstance took place at Basford of the most daring description ; for, while three sol diers were in the house of oneWm.Barns, to protect three frames, a party of Ludeliter entered the house, and immediately confined the soldiers ; and while two of the party stood sentry at the door with the soldiers' Muskets, others demolished the frames ; and, when the mischief was done, the muskets were discharged and the soldiers liberated, and the depredators wished them a good night. On Monday evening, three more frames were broken in the same village, one of which was taken and fixed (ft the top of the round-house, or village prison, and there left as a public spectacle, which was seen by many. These things are done almost in the face of eight Officers from Bow-street, an immense local police, and three regiments of soldiers. The last mentioned night 26 frames were demo fished at Cotgrave, a village sir miles South of the Trent ; and the depredators again escaped across the water w i thout detection. And, notwithstanding. the number of men who have been taken up, it is the general opinion, that not one real frame-bre.aker has been taken ; nor, from the best information I can ob tain, has any thing like correct evidence been drawn from any of the prisoners. Tour prisoners were yesterday brought in, with treat parade, by three several parties of military and civil officers ; two of whom are persons who have had frames broken in their own houses, and another is a well known Maniac of the name of Waplington, who is at the present time a pauper of St. Mary's parish, in this town, and who has for years been in the habit of wandering about. It excited much laughter to see g Bow-street Officer, with this poor creature con fined in a cart by his side, driving furiously along the streets, and guarded by about half a score Hussars. It is supposed the maniac has been caught in one of his wandering excursions; and, as usual, refused to give'an account of himself. THE ARMY. COPY OF A CIRCULAR LETTER FROM THE DEPUTY SECRE- TART AT WAR, TO THE SEVERAL AGENTS. " War-Office, January 9, 1812. " It having been discovered that remittances of Bank Notes and Bills are sent to Agents, under the Secretary at War's sower, I am directed by Lord Palmerston to desire, that you will issue the most positive instructions to Paymasters, and others, to sits continue this practice, and in fwure to address such remittances directly to you, through the ordinary channel of the General Post-office. I am, &c. ( S igned) " w. MART." The Bombay Courierof the 29th of June contains tle following curious General Order : . _ .. . gg The Honourable the Governor in Council is pleased to direct, that the construction and supply ,a Coffins for the European soldiery be committed to the Agent for Supply, inctead of Acting Superintend ing Engineer, as notified in the General Order of the 2Uth ultimo." Colonel MULCASTER is about to embark as Chief Engineer at the Mauritius. I-11 is accompanied by :t train of Engineers. General COLE, Lord E. MANNERS, and General MURRAY, landed on Monday at Portsmouth, from his Majesty's ship LEOPARD, in which they came pas+ sengers from Lisbon. Major-General WHEA TLEY, of the Guards, has been appointed to the command of the different detach ments of light troops stationed at Ashibrd and Bra bourne Lees. The General and his family leave toms eat ly in the ensuing week. The Officers of the Royal Marines recruiting in the London District, gave an elegant dinner on Mon day, at the Tower Hotel, Bond -street, to Gener.tl BARCLAY, Major-General Sir JOHN DOUGLAS, Colonel LA NBRECHT, of the Royal Marines, and a large party of fashionables. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JANUARY 27. A transport, (one of the HYACINTH'S convoy,) has arrived.— The Prince Ernest packet, for Gibraltar and Malta, has gone this evening into the Roads : the Arabella packet, for Lisbon, is also in the roads, and both will sail the first fair wind. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 28. Arrived the American brig Paulina, of and from Charleston, Captain FISHER FIELD, with a cargo of timber to this port, for orders, 39 days' passage, and very stormy weather.—Came in the Champion trans port, from Lisbon ; sailed the 14th instant, ur.der con voy of the HYACINTH sloop of war, with 45 sail is; company.—Arrived the ACHATES, 18, from a cruise. —Sailed the TYRIAN, 10, for Portsmouth.—Wind S.W. blowing a gale. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 29. Arrived his Majesty's ship Tit lis from the Coast of Africa. The MINERVA frigate is released from qua rantine. The Lord Eldon transport, was this morn ing obliged to cut from her anchors and come into port. —Wind S. E. blows very strong. DEAL, JANUARY 29. Arrived his Majesty's ship CONQUEROR from Ply mouth, and the Spartan merchantman from New- York—the latter has sailed for the River. Several of the cruizers are driven in from their stations hr the strong southerly winds. The East and West India men remain.—Word South, and blows strong. The Fortitude, HURDLE, from Dublin to Cadiz, foundered at sea.the 20th instant —crew saved. Tt is confidently reported in the higher circles, that the Marquis WELLESLEY is appointed Governor-Ge neral of India. INDIA HousE.—Yesterday a Court of Directors was held, when the Right Hon. Sir EVAN NEPEAN, Bart. took the usual oaths, on being appointed Go vernor c)f Bombay.—The under-mentioned Captains were sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz. Captain A. GLEDSTANES to the Sir WIL LIAM BENSLEY, for Madras and Bengal; and Captain C. B. Tanaurr to the APOLLO, for Bengal direct.— captain W. HAWKEY, the ship LADY CANNING.. TON, took leave of the Court, previous to deputing for Bombay and Bengal. The JULIANA and PRINCE REGENT were taken up for one voyage in the Com pany's service. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow. _ _ Yesterday morning the Judges met in the Treasury Chamber of the Court of Klng's Bench, and chose their Circuits for the ensuing Lent Assizes. MIDLAND.i.Ord Ellenborough—Mr. Justice Bay ky. N rc Chief Justice Mansfi.l.l---Nir.Jnbtice Heath. liostr.-1..0r41 Chief Baron—Mr. Justice Grose. NORTHER N.—Mr. EZIVII Thompson—Mr. Justice Le Blanc. Ozroan.—Mr. Justice Lawrence—Mr. Baron Wood. Wart Lan.—Mr. Justice Chanibrc—Mr. Baron Graham. Saturday next is the day appointed for the Judges to hear arguments on the po►nt reserved for their consideration, in the Katio LAW INTBLLIOENCR. COURT OF ICING'S BENCII, JAN. TO. bISSENFERS. THE KING, AT THE PItOSECO lON Of ELLINGTON, W. Till JUSTICES Or SUEPOLK. . This was a conditional Rule obtained by Mr. Gun.. NEN on a former day, for a Mandamus to the 'nitre( s of Suffolk, directing them to achniniver the oath, and permit the prosecutor to subscribe the articles end perform theothernecesc try qualifications as a preacher and teacher ef a Protestant Dissenting Congregation at Melledori Hall, in that county, purstraht to the provisions of the Toleration Act. By the Bth see tion of this Act, all persons applying for a licence as a Protestant Dissenting Minintsur to any ccngr;ga tion, were required to prove, that they v ere duly 'p.. pointed the preacher if such congregation, and OE ciated in that capacity ; and by thilsth section re the same Act, it was required, that the meeting.' ewe r I such congregation should he licenced and regis e•eci. The A - reorießY GENERAL, in she wing cause rg I this Rule, o'eserved, that it was by no means di. w 1: of the Justices of Suffolk, to threw any unnecessary impediment in the way cl this Gentleman ; but so • many applications of this nature had been made •to them by different persons (not meaning any allusion particularly to this Gentleman, who was most respec table), many of whom were found to be wholly iee i ligible, that they were under the necessity of adr.p. ting a practice which was found highly expedient, and j this was, that the person applying fo r a li cence as a !Teacher or preacher of the Gospel to any Dissenting ' Congregation should produce a certificate from sense of the leadOg Members of such Congregation, testifying that he had been duly appointed as the I Minister of such Coegregation. In the present case, the Gentleman who applied '•ifor this Rule refused to comply with the established practice of the Justices of Suffolk, in producing such certificate of his appeirtrnent. It certaialy was true he had I sworn that he was duly appointed, and offered to sub. scribe to the articles and other qualiticetirms provided by the Act ; but he (the Attorney General) was I sure the Court would not compel the Justice* of Sof folk to forego this most useful and necessary regula ; tion, without some stronger grounds on the part lof this Gentleman, patticulatly when he might, ' with so much facility, prectire the testimonial they required. And although this might not be the um vernal practice. yet it was one attended with so m uc h ! benefit, even to Dissenting Congregations themselves, •he was s aisfied the Court would pause before they would compel these Justices to dispense with it ; and ' this for the most obvious reasons. The Justices of Suffolk had no objection whatever to the character of . this gentleman ; he had sworn that he was the offi cienne Minister of this Congregation for six months • ; previous to his eppicaton, and that he had been duly appointed as thee- Past T. Ihe Justices had no doubt of the feet ; all they required was uuutormity in their proceedings. He did not mean to cast any reflections whatever upon this class of persons ; he had know.) many Dissenting , Clergymen, whom he highly re spected ; but the Calve would see the necessity of ad. hering to the principles these gentlemen had laid down for their gureence in all such cases. There was also another objectien to their granting the pre sent application ; the 15th section of the Act requires that all Dissentieg Meeting-houses should be Leen ced and registerej. In this cue it only appearee that the Meetinghouse ht question was licenced, but Lot i registered ; and upon such an applicai .n ..s this the Court would expect that alt the provisions of the Act were complied with. For these reasons he hoped the . 'Rule would de discharged. i Mr. DAMPIER, on the same side, contended, hat I this objection of the Justices might be easily Cirri ited by the production of the certificate they irqu'red, ' which this Gentleman could find Go Jrffieul: y in pre. curing. It was, therefore, an ungracious coatentioa i on his part, and when the Coart perceived such a Jis. position on his part, they would not so /caddy lend a favourable ear to sear an epslication. 1 Mr. Gunteev, in support of the Rule, contended, ' that this Gentleman had fully complied with the pro ' visions of the Bth section of the Act, under which alone he grounded the present application. He had sworn that lie was duly appointed to this Coagrega den, had officiated, was ready to take the necessary oath, and subscribe to all the necessary qualifications provided by that Act, which did not requite him to produce the certificate. As to the 15:1) section, it had nothing whatever to do with the present question; and as the practice cf producing the certificate, not be ing g eneral, he trusted the Court would trot refuse the motion on that ground. , Mr. Justice BAYLEY said the Act required, that it should be a house or place of meeting certified and registered. He did not observe that it appeared on I the face of the prosecutor's affidavits, that the place of worship, in question; stood in this situation; of course, it did not appear that the question came before the Court in such a shape as justified their interference, by this extraordinary exercise of their authority. Mr. GUIS EY contended that he sufficiently fOrtified Ihimself under the Bth Section of the Act, which re , garded the quali tica t ions of Preachers, Teachers, arc. I Mr. Justice BeYeer adted —Did not the 19th Se c . • tion of the Act quality the Bth, by requiting that the house or place to which such Preacher or Teacher ' i was appointed must be registered ? A fact which did not here appear in evidence. . ' Mr. GURNEY being tillable to satisfy the Court on this head, Mr. Justice Ls BLit= sa'd, ihe prosecutor's ' skewing, that he was preacher or teacher to a Con gregation, without also skewing that the Congtega. tion to which he had been appointed was a legal Con. ' I gregation, by the house or place of meet-ng haying ' been certified and registered as required by law, was I not sufficient to entitle the Court to issue this Prero , . ' gatrve Writ, Lord ELLEtrsonevon lamented, that when the ' course to be pursued was so easy the're should be a disinclinetinn to comply with it. As parties chose, • however, to stand on the extreme point of right, his Lordship could not prevent it. Ao present he did not find it necessary fur him to determine, whether the Justices were correct, in demanding the certificate, ' or the patty, in supposing that his own oath was suf ficient. It was enough for his Lordship. now to see that it did not appear on the face of the affidavits that this was one of those houses or places of worship dis senting from, the forms of the Church of England, which the Bishop would have been called on to give the necemary sinAlificatiuu.—[ Rule refused.] IN •