Star. — London, England, 1820-01-08 00:00:00

COVNTi OP LANAIIK MEETING. , Tuesday last, a Meeting of the Noblemen, Gentle men, and Freeholders of the County of Lanark, was held at Hamilton, to receise the answer, communi cated by the Lords •of the Treasury, to the Addre . 4s and Memorial voted at their last Public Meeting. Lord BELHAVEN was called to the Chair. A num ber of letters were read from Gentlemen who were unable to attend the Meeting. His Lordship read a letter from Lord Sidmouth, which stated that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent had given the j,., a l Address from the County -a most gracious reception. Another letter was also read, addressed to the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, which in timated, that the Seditious Meetings' Prevention Pill took place on the 4th instant, and the Noble cretary hoped that the Civil A'utliorities would see o c Jae! eat provisions of the Act duly enforced.— With respect to the County Memorial in behalf of the dist, e, cd operatives, the Noble Secretary intimated that the Gentlemen i■ England assessed themselves for the maintenance of their own workmen out of employ —ent ; and his Majesty's Government could r.ot, in justice, take the public money from those places which were assessed, and give It to relieve those places where there was no assessment for Usch an obp:ct. But if they had anrwish to carry on any local itui rovement, Government was willing to gram assistance, provided proper security was gifOn. NVith respect to Emigration, it could only admit of a slow• and gradual accomplishment. Lord BELHAVIM then moved, that I Committee should be appointed to receive such Plans of Local Improvement as should be transmitted by Road Tr tees and other Public Bodies. The LORD PROVOST of Glasgow thought it could tot be expected that Government would take the y üblic n.oney, and apply it• for the benefit of any panic liar part of the Nation. The City of Glas gow, for instance, had always to give security, to the satibfaction of the Commissioners, before Government ucuid advance any money. Mr. MossMAN seconded the MOtibil of Lord Bel• have.:, that a Committee be appointed. Mr. BIIOUN said, he was in the Highlands when great part of the country was turned into sheep-farms, by which change of system numbers of poor unfor tunate people %%ere thrown out of employment, and out of a home. He had had several interviews with the Highland Society, on this interesting subject, and k was the employment of these destitute people which chiefly induced Government to promote the High.' land roads, and the Caledonian Canal. Mr. Brown concluded an excellent speech with stating, that he eras confident the Governnient were as philanthropic, and as much disposed to relieve the distressed, as they were twenty years ago. When they had aided the poor Highlanders on an emergency, he saw no good reason wby they should not assist the workmen in the County of Lanark, in the same way. A Committee was then chosen, of which Lord Bat.- lIIAViN is Convener. Mr. HAMILTON, Sheriff, thought this would have a good effect, It would quicken those who had pro jects to offer; it would quicken the Committee ; and it would shew the suffering People that the Gentle men did every thing for them they could possibly do. The Meeting then covidered the case of the Vo lunteers. Those who had enrolled themselves as In fantry, had no allowance from Government. Lcrd BELHAVEN suggested that the County should pre vent the people fr3m being put to any expense, and make up the deficiency ; which was unanimously agreed to. The Meeting then broke up. Messrs. Gilbert M'Leod, Hugh Mliendrich, and William Cane, connected` with a 'Radical Paper, called The Spirit of Ilse Union, were, on Monday, ap prehended and lodged in the jail of Glasgow, on a charge of publishing libellous and seditious matter. They are to appear at the Bar of the High Court, Edinburgh, this day, to answer to another charge for contempt of that Court, at the instance of the Loan ADVOCATIL—(See the STAR Cg . Thursday). GLAscow.—The Clyde forms one sheet of ice as far down as Dunglass, and is covered with broken ice to Parklee, a little above Port Glasgow. Loaded carts have passed for some days at Renfrew, and foot passengers at Erskine. On Saturday and Mon day last, at eight o'clock in the morning, the ther t:ometer at Fleelaud House, Erskine, stood at seven k'egrees. On the night of Sunday last, a water-hen left Calder river, and sought refuge, from the seve :Hi of the weather, among the poultry of Lord lAVEN. fall of snow on Sunday Last was very consi te, though marked by a great inequality, bed Litchfield and Chester. The Holyhead mail •nday, was frequently stopt by the solid,thick rt snow, near Eccleshall, being nearly a tregular depth. In Stafford it was about eight ; and, in the vicinity of Litchfield, not more 'our. E SERPENTINE ItIVER.-.-The skaiters increased ty in number yesterday. We observed many old performers, but none of the leading N o - Mr. DENNISON eclipsed most competitors in r:ead eagle, and the half figure, backwards; xicur excelled in the Turk's cap ; and Messrs. ,INSON, NEWTON, MALLET, RODENTS, and AT oN, also figured most gracefully. There were rings foriped around the best skaiters contigu , the northern bank, and the carriages, were with elegant females. Owing to the keen A-eastern blast, few Ladies ventured on the ice. two till half•past four, the River was covered persons partaking of various amusements; and 4,lders of refreshments had a rapid sale fur their Aniodities. Towards evening the ice *as greatly Ip. No accident of a serious nature occurred. Lysn BELHA The t:erable tween of Moi Less of fcot in inches; titan fc Tut; greatly . : t the I t,:esse. the apr l'lr. K WILKI hree r .11s to filled firth-I mom I ith p he vg, omnt tit kEEDS, JANUARY 6. _.. 4 . " ' e • • Tlli: ARMY. Since iny'rait, Very extensive orders have beeb re:. (fi n . . the 4th instant, a detachment of rl Officers and ceived far wobllen and stuff gOods, both for t the 22') men, of the Bth and 11th . Light DragOons, 17th, • American and Medlterfanean markets ; and, in con- 24th, 39th, 67th, and 87th Regiments of Foot, un sequence, there has been much speculation among he the .charge and command of Captain LANE, of the 24th Foot, embarked on board the castle Hunt the merchants and lttaplers ; but, from the vast stocks ley, H. A. Dauustouu, Esq. Conimander, to joiti of manufactured goods of all descriptions on hand, • their respective Corps, stationed in Bengal. it will be some time before the numerous unemployed Two Corps of Volunteers, one Cavalry and the vilarkmen can reap the benefit of the re-action which other Infantry-, to consist of 300 Members each, are appears to be now taking place. Several of the mas- now forming in Leeds ; and nearly the whole numi ter-Inauufacturers are, _however, taking on their old her required have already enrolled thei r names.-aa *TWIN HARDY, Esq. the Recorder of Leeds, is ap- LW:, at a small increase of wages ; and there is pointed Colonel-Commandant ; and Cunts•rornsa every,prospect of a further improvement in prices. . BECKETT, Esq. (the present Mayor, and brother td • Most of the coalmines, in this district, are again the JUDGE ADVOCATE), is appointed to the rank of in full work. The masters having remained sted- Major. The other Officers have not, as yet, bees fast to their original determination, not to make any nam e d. Captain JAMES Hunsols, of the Royal Invalids, iugmentation in the wages of the colliers, nor to em- died last week, at Exeter, in the 84th year of his ploy any who would not abjure the Union Societies, age. This Gentleman had been a Commissioned a great proportion of the men have complied with Officer 63 years, and had served in all the four quar this c•ndition, and returned to their work i—the tors of the world. He was at the taking of Belleisle, in 1761 : at Martinice, in 1756 ; at New York, in places of those who stand out haveteen supplied by• 1770, where he was severely wounded ; and at the labourers from other avocations. battle of Bituker's-hill, in 1775. 'Yesterday, the Duke of CLARENCE visited the PRINCE Raoaar, at Carlton House. The Duke of Yam left town, yelterchir morning, for Windsor. NAVAL INTELLIGNNM ilamacacti, DICerMBER 61.—Above eighty *lips lay at Cux haven, not being able to come up to the City, on account of the ice in the Elbe. Yesterday, Prince LEOPOLD cattle to town, from Clireinont, and paid his-respects to the Pitmen Re (Myr, at Carlton House. His Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of CLARENCE. The Duke and Duchess of RICIIKOND have left their seat, Malcolm, Sussex, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of ANGLESEA, at their seat, Beau Dysart, Staffordshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of CROLMONDELEY and Lord HENRY CNOLNIONDELEY left Cholmondeley House, on Thursday, for Brighton. The Earl of Rocksnwics left town, on Thursday, on a visit to the Honourable Mrs. Linn, at her seat, near Kingston. The Earl Gant has taken Lord ANSON'S house, in St. James's-square. The Dowager Lady Aszson has left Shugborough t in Staffordshire, on a visit to Mr, Cone.. PLYMOUrn, JAN. N.E.—Arrived the Integrity, BARNICII, from Chatham; and Mercury, Iron, from Salo for London. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind E.—Arrived the Barton, COR NISH, from Warseilles and Palamas; she has been on the rocks off Scilly, but got off with trifling damage. Sailed his Majesty's ship Lassoes, for the East Indies ; Weymouth store-ship, for the Cape of Good Hope ; and Dorothy Foster, Sownax, for Bar badoes ; the latter has brought up at Cowes. DeAL, J*x. 7.—Wind N.E.—Came down from the River, the Lady Popham, JINCINS, for Madeira. Leon, JAN. 6.—The brig Acorn, from London for Malta, which was stranded on the west side of Dungeness on the 17th ult. has been got off, and proceeded for Dover : nearly the whole of the cargo landed from her has been forwarded to London. Haawscn, JA2417111Y 7.—Arrived die Beaufoy packet, with a Mail, from Cuxhaven ; Elizabeth, from London for Sunderland, with loss of an anchor ; Helena, Fiume, from Teneriffe, leaky, and in want of provisions; and Fanny, ADAM, from London for Newcastle, with loss of anchor and cable. Put back, the Lord Duncan and Lady Nepeon packets. When the Beaufoy left Cuxhaven. there was still a great quantity of ice is the River, and the ships frozen fast, and had every appearance of continu ing so, as the wind had set in Easterly Bzt,r.►sr, J 4. TheVinc, of Kincardine, from Beau mari► to Berwick, struck yesterday on the rock Patrick, at the entrance of Strangford Harbour, and is likely to be lost. Lord and Lady Issisox are enteiuining a large par►ty of fashionables, at their seat, Shugborough, in Staffordshire. _ _ Mr. COKE has a large party of fashionable visitors, at his seat, in Norfolk. Preparations are making at Ingistrie, in Stafford shire, the seat of Earl TALsoT, for the lying in state of the remains of the late Countess, on their arrival from Ireland, previous to their being deposited in the family vault there. - The .lion. BERKELEY PAGST, brother of the Mar quis of ANGLesaA, and one of the liirds of the Trea sury, is appointed to the Collectorship of the Cus toms, at Demerara, valued at L:4.000 per annum. Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when JOHN FEWDALL, Esq. was appointed a Previsional Member of Council, at Fort William, in Bengal; and Captain SAMUEL LYDE was sworn into the command of the ship Dorsetshire, consigned to St. Helena and China. According to accounts, received in the United States, from China, a Russian frigate had arrived at Canton, and reported, that the territory on the coast of California, which was about 800 miles in length, had been ceded by Spain to Russia, in payment for the assistance afforded by the Emperor ALEXANDER to his CATHOLIC MAJESTY. EAST INDIES . CALCUTTA, JULY* We continue to receive statements regarding the hreat severity of the late tempestuous weather, at the ead of the Bay. The Feniscowles, Captain Humble, after leaving the pilot on the 2d of June, met with nothing but most heavy gales, which experienced no abatement as she got to the ilouthward. At last, in lat. 12. 54. N. and 90. E. she had her bowsprit car ried away by pitching in a tremendously heavy sea, and was obliged to.bear up for Coringa, in order to repair damages. She reached that place on the 19th ult. and expected to be able to quit it soon after in prosecution of her voyage. It is to be feared that her cargo has sustained some damage. The letter which gives this report, also mentions, that a French or Dutch ship, which left Calcutta about the same time with the Feniscowles, had been obliged to put into Coringa, in consequence of most serious injury sustained in the same gales. On referring to our shipping list, it appears probable that this vessel is the Danish ship Antoinette. Wednesday, a report obtained circulation, stating the discovery and apprehension of the person who had employed himself in forging notes against the Bank of Bengal. On hearing thii, Mr. Morley, the Trea surer, directed inquiry to be made without delay into the truth of the report, and found that it was substan tially correct, the plate from which the forged Bank Of Bengal notes for 500 rupees had been taken, hav ing been discovered, and the owner of it (a native weaver), with his supposed accomplices,•having been confined, under the authority if the Judge and Ma gistrate of the twenty-four pergunnahs, before whom the matter will be thoroughly investigated. As every piece of information which relates to re gions of India hitherto little known, but now brought immediately under British influence, must be deemed interesting, we have pleasure in communicating to our Readers the substance of a further communica tion from Nusserabad, under date the 21st of June. It states, that the country of Ajmeer is abundant in game, such as deer, hares, stc. and that excellent sport is to be had within a short distance of the cab tonments. Scorpions and snakes are, however, equally numerous, and not so agreeable neighbours, as some of the latter are very venomous. Tigers are to be met with, at times, very near to the cantonments. What appear to 'be most complained of, during the preva lence df the hoe winds, are the immense clouds of sand collected and driven along by whirlwinds, so as to darken the air, and sometimes, even to make it necessary to light candles at Before the arrival of the British forte, the country about Ajmeer was much infested by a set of wretched looking fellows, likeTakiers, who were dextrous and incessant in the commission of robberies and murder. It is not likely that these ruffians can be long able to continue their lawless occupation, and their suppres sion cannot fail of being regarded as a most import ant benefit by the peaceable inhabitants. . The Boston Patriot says * We take pleasure in informing the Public , that Mr. JOHN ELLEY, owner of the Macedonian, has received a letter from the Hon. QUINCY ADAMS, Secretary of State, informing, that he had submitted Mr. ELLEy's Letter, and the documents accompanying it, to the PRESIDENT, and that he had directed him to inform Mr. ELLEY that a vessel of war would be dispatched immediately to de mand justice, agreeably to the Laws of Nations ! Thus," adds the Patriot, " will foreign nations be taught, whether they belong to the Oki World or the New—whether they style themselves Royalists or Patriots—that justice to our citizens, and respect to our flag, is what the United States will enforce and command !" Speaking yesterday of the Official Statements of i Revenue and Expenditure, an error escaped in our second paragraph, as our Readers would see by com paring it with the Account. We said that the Re.. venue 44 . fir the Year just ended"—we should have said fir Me Quarter, exhibited an increase of £60,447. The / Total Revenue for the Year ending sth Jan. 1819, was - - Ditto, ending sth Jan. 1820, %vat X 48,964960 48,156,815 .. Difference - - • • 826,145 In the former year was included the Receipts upon Property and Unappropriated War Duties, amounting to - - - In the latter year they amounted to - £566,639 • 166,001 From whole Revenue sth Jan. 1819 Deduct the Property and War Duties X 48,982,960 • 566,639 Revenue, exclusive of these £48,416,321 From Revenue at Stk Jan. 11120 Deduct these Duties £48,156,815 - • 164,001 Itevenue, exclusive of these £47,990,814 Difference between these years, exclusive of Pro► petty and unappropriated War Duties - - ,E4SE,BIY/ RICHARDSON, GOODLUCS, and Co. respectfully acquaint the Public, that the State Lottery of 10,000 Tickets, with Four Prizes of 490,000 Money and Consols, will begin drawing NEXT WEDNESDAY..- Second and Last Day of Drawing, the 29th instant. Tickets and Shares are selling by Ricnsaissom, Gommdolt, and Co. at their Offices, Bank-buildings; Cornhill, and Charing-Cross, who sold, last August, No. 710, a Pize of £36,000 Consols. ENORMOUS ROBBERY OF THE BRISTOL MAIL Coscn.—.On' Tuesday, four men took places in the mail coach at Bristol, for Loudon, and proceeded in it to within four miles of town ; two of them alighted at Hammersmith, and the other two at Knights bridge. On the arrival of the mail in London, it was discovered that the locks of the seat had been picked, and every parcel therein taken away. It is feared some. of them were of considerable .value ; but the amount has not been yet ascertained. tidings have transpired of die plunderers. The negotiations between this Government and that of Spain, for the further supply of ten millions of dollars from the South American Colonies, are not yet terminated. It is stated, in private letters from Madrid, of the 22d ult. that FERDINAI4D hesi tates to make the cession to England, apprehending that he will require large amounts of specie for the use of the armaments which are preparing for the subjugation of the revolted Provinces of South Ame rica. It is understood, however, that Messrs. DICK add PARK, our Conamissloners at Vera Cruz, who were engaged in transmitting silver from Mexico to this country, last. year, have received instructions to continue there, under the etpectation that the Spa. nisk Government will ultimately allow the amount of specie sought for to be sent to England. AW INT . tthobki. COURT OF RINGS BENCH, JANUARY 9. • . • • • PAUL! v. sivitz. This *is an issue directi•c. by the Court of Chan: cery, tb try whether a weighing-miehine, for which `the defendant had procured a patent, called " Max ryott's Royal Patent Weighing-tnachine," was an in fringeilnent on a patent obtained by the plaintiff for a weighing-mathine of a similar kind. By the terms of the order the defendant was obliged to_ admit that the plaintiff's invention was a new one. The plain tiff's machine consists in >t small metal case or box, near the sides of which are placed t‘N o springs, stand• ing nearly perpendicularly ) and fixed at their bases to the bottom a the sides of the box ; across the tops of these springs is fixed an horizontal piete of metals to the centre of which is fixed another bar, which 'passes in a vertical direction through the base of the box, and terminates in a book, to which the substance to be weighed is appended. When this bar is forced down by the weight, it depresses the horiaiintal bar, which bar presses upon a rack, which communicates with, and turns a circular pinion in the centre of the machine, whereby the perpendicular motion is turned into a rotatory one ; to this pinion is affixed ari index, and this turning with the pinion, points out on a cir cular plate, like the dial of a clock, the number of pounos weight of the appended substance:, The defendant's machine also consists of a box, to the top of which is fixed .an oval or endless spring ; to the I bottom of this spring is attached tht bar that carries ' the weight ; and as the weight depresses the bir, the spring is drawn down into a shape more approaching to a circle, and the rotatory motion is produced by a perpendicular rack and pinion acting on an index in the same manner as the plaintiff's. The plaintiff called several engineers, who titre ft as their opinion, that the principle or the defendant's tnachine was precisely similar to that of the plaintiff's —the aim of both being to produce a regular per pendicular descent, by pressure oti the spring, by forcing it inward ; and that the effect produced was precisely the same in both, notwithstanding any va riety in the - shape bf the spring: The SOLICITOR-GRNIRAL, on the part of the de fendant, said, that althou?h by the order of the Lord Chancellor, the plaintiff s invention must be admit ted to be new , yet that must not be intended to apply to the general principles of the machine, but only to the particular combination of the two upright springs, and the cross bar. He said, the invention of ascer taining weight b)' means of the action of springs, was a very old invention; it was first effected by gradu ating the bar to which the weight was fixed ; -this was found to be inconvenient; and afterwards the perpendicular motion was converted to a rotatory one by means of a rack and pinion, in the same way as in the present machines. In the old invention the sprin g was not like either of the present ones ; it was a half circular one, in the shape of aC. The plain tiff could, therefore, claim originality only for the peculiar combination of the springs used in his ma chine, of which the defendants was not an imitation. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICR said, there was a diffi culty arising in this case float the older of the Court of Chancery compelling the defendant td admit that which, to him, seemed not to be true namely, that the plaintiff's was a new inventions The SOLICITOR-GENRRAL then called Mr. bonkin and Mr. Brunell, two eminent engineers, who proved the invention, upwards of 30 years ago, of a machine such as stated by the Learned Solicitor in his speech; and they gave it as their opinion, that the spring used by the defendant was not an imitation of that used by the plaintiff, and that it bore no more re semblance to if than the necessary resetiablance which the action of one spring must always bear to that of another. The LORD CRlEFJurrice asked the latter wittiest, whether, supposing the.plaintiff's machine to be a new invention, he thought the defendant's was a piracy of it ? The witness said, he thought not, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then so/timed-up the evidence to the Jury. He said, that it would.have appeared to him, that if the plaintiff's had been a new invention, the defendant's would have beerran imitation and a piracy ; the mere difference in the shape of the springs would is that case, he thought; not make a material difference. The defendant's wit nesses, who were men competent to fnim an accurate opinion on that subject, were of a different opinion. He said it was for them (the Jury) to decide accord ing to the evidence of the witnesses. 'fhe Jury found a verdict for the defendants WESTMINSTER SESSICINS, _ Yesterday, John Gyms,- was indicted for picking the pocket or a Mr. Francis Davy, in Piccadilly, of a pocket handkerchief, value ten pence. This offence was accomplished by the prisoner while the prosecu tor was looking at two monkeys and some white mice dancing upon an organ. The prisoner was obseived, by a Constable,.by degrees drawing out the handker chief, and when he had completed his purpose he was seized, and the property found upon him. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to three months impri sonment. John Kemp and Thongs. Woolley, two were indicted for a similar offence, at the bottom of South ampton-street, in the Strand. The prosecutor was walking whit a Lady, and felt a hand* his pocket; he turned round immediately and found the two pri soners close to him ; be collated them, and took the ski into a shop, when he was informed that a third boy, an accomplice, as was supposed, had .picked up the handkerchief, and hod run off with it. The prisoners were searched, but nothing was found upon them; they, were, however, committed at Bow-street.—The. Jury did not think the evidence sufficient, and ac quitted the prisoners. The CHAIRMAN told the boys that they had had di very narrow escape. Woolley had been convicted only at the last Sessions, and if now found guilty, he would have been transported. William Jackson, aged 13, *as sentenced to six months' imprisonment - fot stealing two canisters Of confectionary, from a shop in Piccadilly. When leav ing the dock, the young delinquent thre.ttened to shoot the Constable who' took him w hen he recovered bis.riberty Upwards of IS tubs of giti were oil 'Wednesday sennight lodged in the Excise store, Woodbridge, being the cargo of a smuggling cutter, wrecked off Hollesley ; the crew of which, eight in number, is supposed to have perished. • !I 1 1 It the id: ha irit Per' f el - : dui >Ted It is Echs Dow ;avy 9 SI yes) i i .1 I ,