Star. — London, England, 1820-10-27 00:00:00

-.--;- - , - v. - '__"__'•___ ~---,---.---- tatted up a servant to shut it, which meant would ptere, that he S.:VI her Majesty lying on the travelling bed. But, my Lords, where is the proof of this?—where is the evidence of that servant?—where is Hieronymus, if he were the man ? No doubt, my Lords, we shall be told that the terror and alarm in,pired by the cross-examination of lieutenant Flynn had so operated on his mind as to deter him from undergoing a similar trial. When I'am charged, my Lords, with not having proved the whole of my opening case, I think I am entitled to ask my I.:anted Friends why they have not p roved, not attempted toproVe tozirs ? N% hat stronger testimony could they have brought forward in favour of her Majesty than that which they thus tend:red, if they duvet have ventur. d to produce it at your Lordships' bar? And, my Lords, when yon find that her Majesty has the means of contradicting, if she cot.ld, what has been sworn by the wit nesses for the Bill, and does not use these means, is not the conclusion inevitable that the contradiction could not be esta blished, and that to have offered counter-testimony, would only have been to subject the witnesses to some unfortunate expo sure of defect of memory, or weakness of nerves? Well then, my Lords, as to the first eight at Naples, I think I am warrant ed in saying that De Mont stands either confirmed in all her testimony, or not contradicted when she might have been so it she had apoken falsely. In substance an d effect her evidence stands unshaken. But, my Lords, mark bow is. geniously my Learned Friends argue this part of the case.— If, say they, we disprove this first case which is charged, then the whole superstructure of the accusation falls to the ground; it is the keystone, on removing which the whole fabric tumoles down. I deny, my Lords, that this is the fact.— hven if your Lordships were to think that in this part of the case we had faded, the failure does not touch at al.' the remain , - der of the case. Whether the adultery was committed on that night, or on some subsequent night, matters not at all. There is ample testimony, there ate ample grounds, to justify your Lord ships in coming to the conclusion, that the adulterous intercourse took place, f not a, Naples, at all events long before Bergami at tained his unmerited elevation. " My Lords—We now come to the second case, the meeting on the corridor. De Mont swears that she nut Ifergand approaching the room of her Royal Highness in a state of undress. My Lords, I cannot help expressing my astonishment at the manner in which my Learned Friend, Mr. Denman, ensooetered this part of the case. lie said that this incident rather excited a saipicion of an illicit intercourse be twevu Ilergen.i and Lk :Mont. The fact is, my Learned Friends did net kuuw how to deal with this part of the case; tett y telt that if it stood uncontradicted, it would be a strong evi•lence of guilt against the Queen ; and they endeavoured by comments and observations to male up for the want of solid testi n coj the contrary. My Lords—the masked ball. A great deal hero said w do away the effect of 1)e Mont's evidence on this heed. But have my Learned Friends succeeded, of not? When your Lordship,[ examine critically and calmly the evidence they have produced, you will be satisfied that it does not furnish the_slighteet contradiction to the testimony of De Alma." The Learned Counsel here read the evidence which 1)e Moot had given on this subject—" That her Royal Highness did appear in the character or the Genius of History is undoubted; and that 514 did appear iu a dress which, whatever Sir William GeU may think, I believe your Lordships will agree with me, is not one of the most delicate, is equally certain." The Learned Counsel proceeded to make some remarks on Sir William Gell's description of this dress, in the course of which he observed, that• though he had not himself seen either the statue of Blinerva at Mr. Hope's, or the Ceriatidz at the British Mu seum, he understood that Sir William GeU's reference to thoir was most unfortunate. " But," continued he, " the Int p.)rtant fact which your Lordships find established on that oc casion is this, that the Queen retired to change her dress into that of 'the Genius of History; that she was attended by Ber gami; and that they remained a considerable time together. NEW EVIDENCE-IMPORTANT. At one o'clock, the ArroaNEY-GritEgAL, on the suggestion of the LORD CHANCEL:LOS, was on the point of withdrawing for half an hour, when . . Air. DENMAN said, his Learned Friend Mr. Brougham had a ♦rry imrortant communication to make to their Lordships, and, . . that although not then in the 'louse, he would instantly appear at the Bar. Mr. Baoucn .as—" My Lords, while his Majesty's Attorney Genera has been addressing your Lordships this morning, and has stated we have proved nothing against Ompteda, I at that very moment was put in possession of some vastly important documents. I have, my Lords, received letters from this Ompteda, proving him in correspondence with the servants of the household of her Royal Highness, attempting to seduce the servants, and to procure false testimony against her Royal High ness; these important letters, my Lord, are in the hand-writing of De Mont, and are addressed to Marlette De Mont, then in the service of her Royal Highness." The Arrourizr-Gmtstutt interrupted, when The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that this was certainly not the stage of proceedings in which the letters could be received by their Lordships. Mr. B&OI7GRAM said, that Wise bad not made the communi cation to their Lordships the moment he in possession of the documents, he conceived he should notsave done his duty to their Lordships nor to his Illustrious Client. Lord HOLLAND.—" Whatever proceedings the House may afterwards adopt on this important subject, I think this is nor the time; but no blame attaches to the Learned Counsel, Mr. Brougham? Lord LIVERPOOL did not blame Mr. Brougham, but only said this was not the tim,. The I%larquis of LANSDOWN was of the same opinion as his Noble friend Lord Holland. Lord DONOUGHMORE doubted whether, when the evi dence w•as closed on both sides, tbisnew evidence could be ad mitted. Ile considered the application of Mr. Brougham, as an intrusion on their Lordships. _ _ The LORD CHANCELLOR moved, that Cotmsel should withdraw; and then stated, that k would be for the future cos c.leration of their Lordships whether this evidence could be ? Yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of WELLINGTON gave a grand entertainment at Apsley House, to Their - Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Esterhazy, Duke de Fria*, Duke of Rutland, Duke of Montrose, Count and Countess Lieven, Earl and Countess of Harrowby, Lord .C.stlereagh, Earl and Countess of Bathurst, Count and Countesi )I•tnstdr, "Baron Fazel, the Marquis of Camden, Marquis of Ansk.ea, Duke and Duchess Decazes, M. de Nieman, Baron de Solna, Count and Countess de Bourke, Baron de Maitzahn, Ste. —Upon which occasion•his Grace displayed the bril liar.t se: vice of plate presented to him, as a tribute of grati._ucle, by the King of PORTUGAL, for his merito rious see vices in the Peninsula. At the sight of which, his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador, and others a ho had not before seen it, were highly gratified. We have received Demerara Papers to the 7th of August, which contain advices from several other Colonies in the West Indies. The Governor of Tri nidad had been absent for about ten weeks, on a cruise for the benefit of his health, but had returned; and several Addresses had been presented to him, one of which was to request his Excellency to advise his MAJESTY'S Ministers to extend to that Colony the in estimable benefits of a British Constittition and Trial by Jury.—The accounts from Tobago mention that tae 4th Regiment has suffered very severely in ()S -eers and men by malignant fever, which raged in the Garrison with great violence, and is not yet to tally subdued. His Excellency, Major-General Sir F.RowNsou, took every precaution, on its first ap pearance, to prevent its spreading. The Legislature having been applied to, also took measures to pre vent its introduction in the town and amongst the &Lipping, both of which are in a healthy state. i -11 C, -Jr,: •IM • FOREIGN INTELLIGIINCE. 'The Paris Papers of Monday last have arrived• with the exception of The Joistnal des Debats, of which (from some unexplained cause) no number has reached this country for several days past. The Manila& contains a Decree, stating, that some of the young soldiers, called into activity, in pursuance of the Law . of 1818, for the recruiting of the Army, have volun tarily mutilated themselves to avoid military service. It therefore enacts, that such persoas so misconduct ing themselves shall be enrolled in one of the com panies of Pioneers. M. Coluna d'Ornano, a Judge of the Civil Tribunal of Ajaccio, in Corsica, was assassinated when return ing from Bastia, where he had been eaquiring into A case of double assassination. He was it the time escorted by four gene-d'armes, and was accompanied by two Officers of his Court. He was struck by two balls, and died in half an hour. He is the third Ma gistrate that has been assassinated at Ajaccio. His assassins are not taken. They Constitattionsel says—le The Newsthongers and Politicians have experienced for several days a Eteat sterility of news. The tzial of the Quaint of NGLAND, which 611 s our columns, has taken a turn which leaves no room to doubt the issue which it ought to have." These are the only articles of news in the Paris Papers worth) of notice. A private :t tter horn Paris, dated the 23d instant, says:—" The e is at present a considerable change taking place in the Army, though little is said about it. There have been fifteen hundred Officers dis missed, or t.ut upon half-pay; indeed, it is confi dently reported, that the number first proposed was six thousand, but the Illustrious Personage in whose final decisitn it lay, drew back. in affright at the magnitude of the proposition, and would only con sent to a lesser number—probably the thing is to be done by instalments. After the Ist of January next, the uniform of the Infantry is to be changed from white to blue, and the denomination of Departmental Legions is to be changed into the simple one of Re ginient,, solely distinguished by their number. It does not require a very sagacious look-out to see the drift of those measures. Although the Chamber of Peers is fitting up tor the trial of the supposed con spirators, yet it is very generally believed that no-. thing of any great consequence has been discovered. There have been' no criminatory writings found, and no overt acts committed." Spanish Papers, containing intelligence from Ma drid to the 13th instant, have arrived. The follow ing are extracts : MADRID, OCTOBER 12. At Cadiz, the deaths from the yellow fever, from September 27 to October 1, have been twelve; new cases, seventy-seven; recovered, fifty-eight; total number of patients, one hundred and fifty. At Xeres de la Frontera, from'the 24th to the 26th, deaths, twenty-five ; recovered, forty-five ; new cases, one hundred and thirty-nine; total number of pa tients, two hundred and seventy-nine. In the Sitting of the Cortes of the 10th, the Report of the Committee of Finance was read on the proposed Loan of 200,000 real s. The Committee think the Loan necessary, and the proposed amount not too large, LERIDA, OCTOBER S. The publicity of the discussion respecting the Monks has occasioned a loss tip an immense amount in the Monasteries which we have in our view, namely, those of Poblet, Seala Dei, and Escwrpe ; from all innumerable waggon-loads of effects have been car rying off for some days past. At Poblet the Monks are not able to carry off anything for their use) for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, seeing the pil lage that was going on, came up for their share of the booty, and spoiled all those who came leaded out of the Monastery, besides gathering their vintage, cutting down their woods, and doing other consider able damage. At Seala Dei they have sold the flocks of sheep, the wood, the mules, corn, &c. The good ' Monks, dedicated to a contemplative life, aid not accustomed to labour, have been hard at work for some days to effect this hasty and peremptory trans fer of property. Nobody has said anything to them; and the consequence is, that the public Treasury will obtain only the real property, while the moveable property of various descriptions was worth many millions. Letters from St. Thomas's of the 9th of Septem-' ber, state, that Admiral BRION' had experienced a defeat in the River Magdalene, and was obliged to retreat with some loss. BOLIVAR had succeeded in ' cutting off some supplies going to Santa Martha. The Jamaica packet, which arrived yesterday, brings Papers to the 3d ultimo. By them it appears that the negotiations between the contending parties ea the Main had broken off, and both were prepar ing for war as soon as the season would allow. A previous correspondence had taken place with the Spanish General, on which the Royal Gazette makes the following observation :- 41 The Spanish Nation has held out the olive branch to the Spanish Ameri cans. They have, in return, put themselves in high estate, disdainfully rejected all overtures for re-union and peace, and replied to the letters transmitted to them with : scoffing and abuse." The Insurgent troops were preparing to attack Santa Martha, finding Car thagena, which place had been supplied with provi sions, too strong. For the defence of the above two points, the Ceres, 28 guns; Fernando, 20; and Ma ria Francisca, 24, were expected from Havannah ; and it was stated several other vessels from Spain bad already arrived at Porto Rico. JAMAICA, SEPT. s.—The schooner Abestos made Fan attempt to communicate with Carthagena, but was prevented by the blockading squadron, which were in twu divisions, one off Bocha Chica, and the ,ether off Poiut Canoa. They held an intercourse. with each other regularly every day by boats, and sometimes were within gun-shot of the batteries.--... The Congress, Independent schooner, captured a i schooner going into Carthagena on the 10th ult. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The ISo . wager Countess of Lansdale, from her seat, Drone house, Surrey. The Countess of Waldegrave, at Greilion's Hotel. Lord Osborne, from his seat in Cambridgeshire. Lady E. Lowther, in Bmtonstreet, Berkeley-squares Lady Gage, from her seat in Sasses. The Gnaws of Carnarvess, from Hampton Coast him* ~w,~.~:...-.- - ... •r ""`"- - 7-7.7rwrir7.7 - ,/ .1 ; - .I 1.4 W EVTALIGENC.L. , .—.....r..1i0 ...YON.. • dileae ~ -4 POLICE. ' . .. , COURT OF KING'S BliaTcli, Gerollita 96. • -"--- now-srioret.—Yesterday two prostitutes., calling . RILL AND•OTHBO,V. MANTIELLI. themselves Mary Baker and Catherine. or Kit Baker, The plaintiffs in this cause were the owners of a ship were brought up . from St. Martin s watch-house, named the Princess Mary, chartered from this coun- I under the fol l ow i ng circumstances :—lt appeared try in 1817, for St. Thomas's and St. . Domingo, on b tike outloo • y the evidence of a host of' witnesses, that between these conditions:—the ship was to tons ' three and four o'clock yesterday morning, the whole cargo, to be delivered at the above-mentioned islands, f neighbourhood of Vine-stree, Chi idos- street, was freight free, and in compensation was to be freig hted ala r med by dreadful cries of " watch r " murder!" • home with coffee, at a certain stated tonnage.; The Ike. accompanied by the sound of windows breakipg. brother of the defendant went out in the ship as Su- These cries continued for nearly a quarter of an hour, percargo. When the vessel arrived at St. Thomai,'s, and no watchman seems to have come near the place the Supercargo shipped• on board 7bs.cases of mer- during that time. At length a man was seen hanging chandise, *lrish were taken to St. Domingo; and from the second fl iop window of the house No. 4., the action was brought to recover the fleight of the Vine-street, with his head downwards, and in the next cases. The defence rested on the cross-examination moment he fell upon the pavement. Two watchmen of a witness, which entirely failed; and the plaintiffs had by this time arrived, and whilst some persons bad a verdict in their favour : thedamages to be .conveyed the' man almost lifeless to the watch. settled out of Court. • house, they forced the door of the house, and proceed. evidence or not, it was allowed by the Court to 2 in g to the room from whence the man had fallen, they *mad. It contained a full admission, on the part of fo und there the two prisoners, in a state of great dis. Bennet, of the fact with which he was charged, and order and agitation, and with their clothes much torn. his earnest request that the Company would not The story these women told was,•that he had wil prosecute, as he had already been sufficiently punished fully thrown himself from the window I—and one of by the consequences of his misconduct. them asserted that as he was getting out she caught ' Mr. CHITTY contended,• that no conspiracy had hi • m by the leg and held him, calling " watch I" with been proved against the defendants; what the result all her might till her strength was exhausted ; and might have been had they been indicted separately, she then was obliged to loose her hold, and he fell. he should not take upon himself to say ; but there Several of the witnesses, however, deposed that he was no proof that they had acted in concert, and con, p a__ ared to be strug gling very much with some per quently could not have been guilty of a conspiracy. sons before he was completely out of the wiudow 1. Mr. Justice Batter told the Jury, that the ques- that all the cries,of " murder !" and " watch!" were tinn for their consideration was, if a conspiracy had uttered in a moan's voice; and that, as he fell, two. been proved or not? If they thought the defendant women looked out after him, without uttering any Fos was not guilty, they must also acquit the other alarm at all. The evidence was heard thus far in the defendant, Bennet, as they had both been included forenoon, and the prisoners were then remanded till in the same indictment. the evening, in order to obtain from the man him. The Jury withdrew for half an hour, and then ac- st.lf, if, possibl e , some account of the transaction; and, quitted both the defendants. notwithstanding the dreadful fall he experienced, he COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCTOBER 25. ' , was able to communicate the following particulars : LAURENCI V. ABERDEEN. —His name, he stated, is Frederick Wilmot, and he ' The plaintiff in this case effected an insurance in is a journeyman shoemaker. He denies all acquaint. December 1818, upon seventy head of cattle, which ance with the prisoners , but states that he met w ith were ship ped at Cork on board a vessel 'named the them accidentally in Vine-street that same morning, Edward, for Barbadoes. The 'ship sailed on the when, partly by persuasion, and partly by force, they 18th of January, and on the 26th of the same month got him into the house, and eventually into the front she was overtaken by a violent storm, and driven room on the second floor. Here they locked the room into Mount Spain, in Cornwall; and at this period door, and demanded something to drink ; and he, be. 'there were only nine head of cattle suaiiving, name- coming alarmed at their manner, told them he would ly, three oxen and six mules, the rest having been go and fetch something, in the hope of thus making killed by the agitation of the vessel during the his escape; but they peremptorily refuses! to let him storm, which she had with difficulty weathered. The go, and began to search his pockets fol. Money. He day after their arrival at Mount Spain the three oxen resisted, and their violence increased ; upon which died, in consequence of their wounds and bruises, he ran to the window, threw up the sash, and called and one mule died afterwards on the voyage to " Watch !" The women instantly followed, and en- Barbadoes. There was a clause in the policy of in- deavoured to drag him away from the window, but surance, stating that the underwriters would not be he clung to the sash, and they pulled at him with. responsible for any loss occasioned by mortality, and such violence, that, all the lower part of it gave way e upon the application of this clause the question arose. and they all fell backwards into the room. He now It was contended for the plaintiff, by Mr. SCARLET?, struggled with them several minutes in different parts that the term mortality did not apply to that death of the room, he crying out " Murder!" all the time; occasioned by perils of the sea, and in support of and at length, having broke away from them, he this construction he cited a case from the Ist 7'ertn again rushed to the now open and shattered window, Reports, " Jones against Small," which was a case with the intention of reiterating his cries for assist. of insurance upon slaves. Ii that case there was a alum, and whilst he was in the act of so doing, they similar exception, and yet it was held that the under- came behind him an d bot h to g ether forced him out. writers were liable for deaths occasioned by mutiny. —The prisoners were again bronght up in the even- Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, contended, that ing, when a certificate from the man s medical at even independent of the special clause, the under- tendants was put in, stating that he was in too dan. writers would not be liable for death occasioned by gerous a state to be removed, and the prisoners were disease, and therefore, if it had any meaning, it was, in conseq uen c e remanded for a future examination. that it should protect the underwriters from any risk —One of the prisoners is a very fine woman, and except such loss as was occasioned by shipwreck, within these two years was one of the most dashing and in support of thii he quoted the premium paid courtezans in London. on this insurance, namely, one and a half per cent. Mr. DUNN, a Gentleman raiding at Pimlico, ap. and without that clause, and with a view to that plied to the sitting Magistrate yesterday for a peace extensive liability which the plaintiff now sought to warrant against Mr. John Smith, a Gentleman who attach to the.defendants, they would not have con- has a house at . Brompton. He made this Ipplicatiou, seated to receive less than from ten to fifteen per he said, in consequence of the " bodily harms" which cent. on the value of the cattle. he apprehended from the said Mr. Smith. Mr. Justice Bur said, that the word mortality, The Magistrate accordingly issued his warrant, and both as used in the policy and common parlance, in about half an hour, Mr. Smith was brought in cus implied that death occasioned by sickness or disease. tody before him, when Mr. Dunn, with much nit:- • He therefore thought that the Jury should •find a Lion , deposed—how that Mr. Smith bad committed a verdict for the plaintiff, with liberty to the defend- violent assault upon the son of him, Mr. Dunn—boar . ant to apply to the Court of King's Bench on the that be had prosecuted and held him to bail for the said propriety of that opinion, and in case they set it assault, and how he,thesaid Mr. Smith, had ever since aside to enter a nonsuit. With respect to the mule continued to persecute him both by word and deed. that had died on the voyage, he conceived that k He rode by his house every day on purpose tq insult could not enter into the present question, as that him; loaded him with the most opprobrious epithets , question was confined to the cattle destroyed by the and bad, on one occasion, actually dismounted from violent motion of the vessel. ' , his horse, taken off his coat, hat, and spurs, and of for the plaintiff—Damages referred. fered to fight him, in the middle of the street, either as a gentleman or a blackguard—that is to say, with fire-arms, according to the laws of duelling, or in a fair ' stand-up set-to, a-k-Crib I He (Mr. Dunn), bow.. ever, having no taste for either mode, declined this " wager of - battle," though he assured the Worthy Magistrate that had it not been for his hawing a silver plate in the roof of his mouth (from a halt) he should have let Mr. Smith know that he was no coward... Mr. Smith, in reply, stated, that the assault upon Mr. Dunn's son was this :—He had seen that youth beating most unmercifully a boy much less than him self, and feeling angry at such cowardice, he had . dismounted from his horse, separated them, and apt plied his horsewhip to the shoulders . of young Dunn, and for this the father had never since ceased tripur. sue him with the most inveterate rancour. He ado mitted the having challenged to fight in any way most agreeable to Mr. Dunn, but be did not do so till provoked past bearing by the irritating language of his adversary. The Magistrate (Mr. Boum), after entering his protest against all stilling matches, of whatever den scription,l-whether the spontaneous tarn-sop, or the more elaboratepilched battle, directed Mr. Smith to find sureties to keep the peace. The Earl of DERNY, on account of the coming of age of his grandson, the Honourable E. G. SMITH STANLEY, gave to the Dispensary at Preston 1.30, to the National School £5O, to the Methodist School £25, the. Roman Catholic School £25, and to the Ladies' Charity 125. A few nights since, the dwelling-house of J. bra tun, Esq. of Beggars'-hill, Norwood, was entered by means of a ladder applied to the library window. The thieves happening to break a square of glass, which awakened Mr. biotin' and the servants, they were compelled to make a precipitate retreat, taking pith them only a few articles of plate, and some linen. Mr. INoLuat pursued them by the light of a dark-lantern which they carried, as far as the Croy don-road; but the thieves, finding their pursuers gaining on them, their leader gave orders to douse the glint. , The light was immediately put out, and Mr. Iwousu and his assistants, being left in the dark, abandoned the pursuit. The following is an extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated the 14th of July : tg We have had some dissensions here. The Cus tom-house had been shut for the last fortnight, but t is now open for the entry and clearing of ships. All business is at a stand--the town in a state of warfare --cannon and soldiers placed at all quarters—and communication with the country nearly stopped. The people here seem determined not to allow the others to enter, which may easily be prevented, at every house is a fortification of itself. It is reported that the other party have promised their followers to give the town up to plunder for a week, if they can but succeed in entering. The country is in a disturbed state throughout. and there have not been less than seven or eight Governors within these ten weeks.— Freights here are £6 to £7 for hides, as every one is endeavouring tp send off what they can, and little appearance of anything being settled." The new half-crowns, the first coined since his Mk* JESTIN accession to the Throne, were this day issued from the Bank. Coss Itsczatesa, idaszsAni. Oct. s7.—.Several vesseb from I the Suffolk coast have arrived since Wednesday. and fine When being in demand, sales of that description were readily effected. at an advance of Its. per quarter en Monday's p4ces• Buie!' le is. per quarter lower than on Wednesday, havint 'rod vppl this morning from Norfolk and &droll., Oats continue biavy side, except for fine fresh corn. which obtained Monday's pricer. In Beans and Peas no akersdea. f5312111/Ml.ll Maser:, Ocs. s7.—Beef, Si. ad. to Sa. ed. per state ; Matson, Is sd. so 4s. id Veal. rea Otto Ss. Pork, &Ad. to 6s.od. Lamb.oo4d. to 0s at /haat Beasts, WO ; . Calves, ISO; Mop NW; Pillistee o4— • Kay, ALM*. to 4i. 40. Clow, IL 10., SOX. 10%, tiovr, IL 10., t. ii. lets. .; Aril .-z-- -~ T--=,r---- . , - a ~~~'" ~ I P. Is lets the tint tess. nose, rtes. the rhea .~. _: ' l 7l"' 7 ' , , s II ~~~