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w.-~-;~ papers he should feel it his duty to bring fotward a motion for altering the State of Representation in Scotland. Understanding, however, that the print ing. of the papers in their present shape would be attended with consideralfle expense, he should take time until to-morrow-to consider what parts it was most material to print. MISCELLANIES. Mr. P. IIOORE said, that upon further honsideration, he felt it proper to postpone the motion of which he had given no tice, with restect to an indemnity to Mr. Beckwith, &e. Mr. CAI.% SILT, adverting to the Order which had been made some days ago, for the production of the Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry, with respect to the conduct of the Solicitor of the Board of Oustoms, moved that this Paper should be presented forthwith. The motion was agreed to, after a few words from the Ctiats- CFI.: on of the Eocene/arse. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a Petition from the Solicitor for P...11ew, praying that the Divorce Bill which had been read a first time, should be read a second time to-morrow ; and that the Petitioner might be Allowed to serve a notice upon Mrs. Pellew's Solicitor, instead of being under the necessity of serving it upon that Lady herself, who was at present in Pembrokeshire. The prayer of the Petition was agreed to, after an examination at the Bar of both the Petitioner and Mrs. Pellew's Solicitor. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that leave be given to bri:ig in a Bill to regulate the negotiation of l'ronlissory Notes and Bank Post Bills hi Ireland. Sir G. HILL spoke in favour of the BM. Mr. LOCKHART complained of the extreme laxity of the Administration of the Bankrupt Laws, both in this country and in Ireland. &Ir. VESEY FITZGF.EALD tokk this opportunity of sta ting, that much of the distress in Ireland had arisen from issues made by a house to an extent which its capital certainly did not warrant. It was also in a great measure to he attributed to an Act passed two years ago for transferring stock in the 5i and S per cents. from Oka Britain to Ireland. Upwards of 6,000,000 of stock had been transferred to Ireland since that period.— Either this Act should be repealed altogether, or the power of transferring stock to this country should be given reciprocally to Ireland. In questions affecting the public credit of a country, alarm was always co-extensive with difficulty, •and frequently went beyond it. Ile begged therefore Most earnestly to call the artentior of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to this subject. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Upon the motion of the Cstascet.r.oa of the EXCIIIQUILR, it wcs ordered, that an tumble Address be presented to his Majesty, preying him to confs:r some dignity of the Church upon the Rev. W. F. Vane, Chaplain of the House. An Address to his Ma. Testy, that he would he pleased . to grant £l2OO to Mr. Erogden for his servic e s as Chairman of the Committee of the wholZ liouse,,and the other Sessional Addresses, were agreedto. Lord PALMERSTON moved for a Return of the Number of Officers promoted from Half-pay to Full-pay, not by exchange, since the Ist of September, 1815. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that on Blonday he should move that the House adjourn till Friday next.—Adjourned. TH 1 EVENING STAR.' , Lt )NDON. SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1820. THE FUNDS PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 221 per Cent. Reduced 69% 1 4 1 4 5 per Cent. Cons. ex. div. 68% 5/ s % 4 per Cent. 87 1 / 4 5 per Cent. ex. div. 102% 5 /s Long Annuities 18 1-16 Scrip 1% Exchequer Bills, 4s. ss. prem. Omnium V s pre. . Cons. for Opg. 70% 70 The House of Lords have refused to allow'the QUEEN a List of the Witnesses to be adduced against her ;: so that her MAJESTY, in a case reaching to even worse than death—to loss of character, and immeasurable degradation—is called upon to come down on the 17th of August to meet and repel, ?fir hand, a charge which it has Liken years of ferreting and collecting to get up—with * the particulars of which, in all that regards time, and place, and cir cumstance, she may be utterly unacquainted; and of the witnesses to be adduced in support of which she knows nothing—not even their names and resi dences. Her MAJESTY is to be led blindfold to the Bar ; at once the fillet is to Le removed from her eyes, and she is then and there to behold, for the first, time, the host 'of witnesses whonyher enemies have marshalled in array against her.—Her JESTY' may instantly discover them to be individuals whose evidence she could sbew to be utterly un worthy of belief ; but the means of :hewing so, she may not have at hand ; the proofs may be on the other side of the Alps—no possible exertion may be able to procure them on the instant: Yet to trial roust her Majesty go; and all the filth and falsehood which witnesses, not, perhaps, to be believed on their oaths, may vomit fortlCagainst England's Queen, is to go forth to the world, as the evidence of honest and uabought men, speaking without the least fear:, fa our, or affection ! how is this? Have the Committee of Precedents reported that such has been the practice in former periods of our history ? No. The Report of the Committee proved nothing of the kind—it proved n othing, in fact, either one way or other. Lord Ll vErtrooz. candidly allowed that this was a case which vould admit of no precedents, and that if it were consistent with substantial justice, a list of witnesses . ought to be granted.—And why is it not consistent with substantial justice ? Because, said his Lordship, it might give the accused the power of acting by. intimidation. It might be the means of stopping Justice in her course—of preventing their being able to- bring their witnesses fair a‘id free into Court."— Intimidation %Thal the deserted (by all that call themselves Great), the persecuted, the unfortunate QULEN Canouxn, have it In her power to intimidate witnesses who are backed by the whole weight of the most powerful Government is Europe! Most in credible supposition ! The late outrage on the cargo of Italians imported at Dover, was, no doubt, in his Lordship's mind, ~: r i " i lr 777 ; wi rgrlP . •••• when he talked so, and indeed we have, in a subse-' quent speech by Lord LAUDERDALE, Who supported the refusal of the list of witnesses, a distinct avowal that " it is to prevent the possibility of a still greater forfeiture of the national honour," than that which had occurred at Dover, that the list is refused. The out rage alluded4o is one which 'none but. the bas,est Of mankind could wish to defend, aod it adds another to the many lamentable illustrations which we are every day receiving of the injury - none by all ex cesses of the populace, even to the cause they mean most to befriend. But bow does this outrage bear on the QUEEN'S demand fora list of witnesses ? Her MAJESTY wants to know the names of the witnesses against her, their occupations in life, and the places where they last resided on the Continent,- in order that she may send to these places, to inquire among their acquaintances and neighbours what sort of persons they are?—what characters they bear?, how they have lived, aLd continue to live? &c.— Her MAJESTY, be it remarked, (we crave the parti cular attention of our Readers to this point), does not desire to know where the witnesses are to be lodged, while here, but wfi ere they resided when at home? How then could a mere list of the names, professions, and foreign or native residences of these witnesses enable her MAJESTY, if so disposed (which, gross as it is,. must be taken to be the supposition of Lord LlVER pooL)—how, we say, could such a list enable her MAJESTY to poiut them out as objects of popular intimidation here? • Although her MAJESTY had had such a list before the affair at Dover, it could have had no possible influence, either in causing or preventing that out rage: Nor, suppose she had now that list, and sup pose every witness against her were at this moment in the Metropolis, could a mere knowledge of their foreign residences enable her to trace and point them out here, as objects for a repetition of the like outrage. It is a mere waste of words, in short, to dwell on the supposition. To intimidate would be impossible; to have time and fitting opportunity to inquire into the character of the witnesses, is all that her MAJESTY demands ; and this it is which has been denied to her. The Requisition for a meeting of the Common Council of the City, to whicliwe alluded on Thurs day, has been presented, numerously and respectably signed, to the LORD MAYON, and his Lordship has been plea►ed to appoint the Meeting to take place on Monday next, at twelve o'clock. The object of this Meeting, as our Readers have been apprized, is to take into consideratiotl the propriety► of either ad dressing the KING, or of Petitioning both Houses of ParliaMent against the proceeding adopted with re gard to her Kinprry ; and we have no doubt that Meetings of a simliar description will be as general throughout the country as is the feeling which has prompted that in the City. Extract of a Letter from a Correspondent at Bou logne, dated 14th July, 1820: An Agent of the Government arrived in this town on Sunday last. The object of his mission is to prevent the other detachments of Italian witnesses against the QUEEN (said to amount to about 300) from proceeding to England, byconducting them all to the Hague, whither the two former squadrons, we learn, are now gone. What will the Dutch say to all this? The French are indignant enough that the Italians have been marched through this country." The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore noon. They are almost wholly filled with the de bates our own Parliament on the question as in teresting almost to foreigners as to ourselves, respect ing the QUEEN ; and with the Report of a warm dis- . cussion which took place in the Chamber of Depu ties on Tuesday, on a Petition complaining of the machinations of a certain Secret Directing Committee, which is said to be a sort of imperium is imperio in the present political state of France. The Chamber passed to the Order of the Day on the Petition. Five per Cents. Tuesday, 79fr. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Address signed by six thousand persons, was yesterday morning presented to 'the QUEIN. The following was her MAJasTiem most gracious Answer : " With greet iedsfaction I receive this Address from his •Majesty' dutiful and loyal subjects, the inhabitants of New castlaupon-Tyne and its vicinity. 44 I accept with thanks, and return with sincerity, the affee- I donate expression of your wishes towards myself, and towards that Illustrious House from which I am descended; and the' , true honour of which, as it never has been, so it never shall be' tarnished by me. " Whatever I possess of wisdom, courage, and magnanimity. has been fostered and strengthened by the example of this dis cerning, generous, and gallant nation, on whose unalterable at tachment to the principles of justice I firmly rely, under Dtvpix Psonosser, for support under all my unmerited afflictions, and for protection against the machinations and violences of all my enemies." The Lottery finally closed on the 12th instant, in , which J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT, with their usual good fortune, Sold in Shares, Ne. 9814, £20,000, and No. 12,313, £lO,OOO, and •arious Minor Capitals.-- A New Lottery is expected to be contracted for in a iew days: if J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT should happen to be the Contractors, they trust to produce a Scheme which shall be as •derservedly popular as any of those which have met such superior approlaation.of the Pub. lic, that in every instance whete they have been Con tractor), the Sale has nearly doubled each preceding Contract—unlike the Scheme just concluded, in the gaming and management of which they have simply to state they had no concern whatever. ;r .77 7 ' 7 • 77 THE ARMY. . • This morning, at nine o'clock, his Royal'Highaess. the Duke of Yont, attended by the Duke of Wm." LIIIGTON and several - General Officers, entered Hyde Park, and reviewed the Ist and Sd battalions of the Furst Regiment of Guards.. The Regiment received the Duke with military honours : they afterwards passed in line before the Duke in slow and .quick time; formed again into line, and went through every manoeuvre incident to a review, much to-the admira tion of a numerous crowd of spectators.—ln Park lane, a horse being frightened by the firing, reared up, threw hip rider, and broke his arm.—At the ten clusion of the Review, the Duke and bis suite rode through the ranks, and expressed great satisfaction at the conduct and appearance of the men. Friday se'unight, a small detachment of the HMI. East India Company's Artillery and Infantry, under the command of Major HAy and Captain SOMER.. mix, marched fmm Chatham to Gravesend, to em bark for India. Wednesday se'nnigh i t the 22d Regiment of Light Dragoons arrived at Chatham, after many years of distinguished service in India. The Regiment will be disbanded in the course of the present month. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal, by the ships Providence and Timandra, were closed at the Kan India Ilouse, deli vered to the Commanders of those ships. The Sir Andrew Ilamilton, HALES, which arrived off Mount's Bay from the South Seas, left the following Whalers at the Galapagos in November last: Poliey, Cretan, Spring Grove, Reynard, Nelion, Lydia, Wildman, Latona, Earl of Morley, Countess of Morley, Charles, George, Anne and laiza, and the niza Frances. • FA [MOUTH, Jery 1/I..—Wind E.— Arrived the Aimwell, Wareox, from Cadiz, sailed the 28th May ; she spoke, in lat. 43. !3. long. 4. 45. the,Christian, of Peterhead, from the Bay of Cadiz for London. Sailed the Blucher packet, with Mails for Halifax and New York. PORTSMOUTH, Jinx 14,—Wind S.W.—Sailed his llajestra brig RaDrout, on a cruize ; Spring, Koitz, for St. Petersburgb ; and Briton, l'oaxaa, for London. - Ps.rwoure, Jutv 13.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Amphitilte, PAALSTIIO34 from Gefie.—The Malvina, Biases, arrived at Rio Jatwiro on the 12th of April, from Plymouth ; the Bristol, MAMIAMAN, at Miramlchi on the 18th May, and the Latona, Rosman on the 20th ; the Robert Fuse, Burwm, of this port, has Irrtved at Naples from London. The schooner Dart, from London for the South Seas, on a sealing voyage, put in here on Sunday last, and sailed again on Tuesday. The CruNcr, Capt. Biesmarr, which arrived last week from the Irish station, is ordered to be refitted for foreign service. lavearoot., JOLT 12.—Arrived the Tobacco Plant, BALDWIN, from Virginia ; Hantonia, ROLLINS, frcm New Orleans • Jonge Wilhelm, Palmas's'', from Rotterdam ; William an d Jane, HATAFIXENS, from Zurick Zee; tnmas, CUNNIDGIIAIII, from St. Petersburgh; Amity, Perot, from Bayonne ; and Kitty, —, • from Smyrna. Munro JULY 14.—Arrived last night, the Thetis packet, with a Mail from Gottenburgh. nett, JULY 14.—'Wind N.R.—Came down from the River and sailed, the Almorab, Waxen, for Cork and New South Wales; Albion, Houtson, for Mirarnichl ; Richard, Wurocx, for Africa; and Baltic Merchant, Lunautort, for Valparaiso: the latter remains for some of her passengers. Passed by the back of the Goodwin Sands, the Financier, Dans, from St. Petenburgh•for New York. Asareno•—At Hclvoet, the Britannia , Brown, fronr Riga. At the Tend, Corso, from New Orleans Rousseau, from Charleston; and Harlingen, from Surinam. At Demerara, Herstilling, Boctes ; and Vriede, Stark, from Amsterdam—, At Surinam, Alida, Hester ; Aurora, Ahlers ; Speculation, Peters ; Sandina, Cornelia; and Henrietta, Schmilka, from Am sterdam. At Bremen, Betty, Wedgwood, from Bahia; Ann, plumed, front the Havannah ; and Joha.n Carl, Lutjes, from Cuba. At Cuxhaven, Stafford, Rogers, front New Orleans. At Hamburgh, Uran ia, Bock, from Bahia. At Delaro, Com mercium, from America. Corrots-Hoosa, Jute 1 4.—Fattred Inwards: The Perse verance, from Hamburgh; Bromley, from Odessa; Singleton, and Nonsuch, from Stangate Creek; Vrow Hassje, anti Verwagting, from Rotterdlutt ; Fly, from Portsmouth ; the Success, from Newport - Vicr Gebroeders, from Worcum • the Graham, from St. Peter:burgh ; and Hibernia, from Rotterdam. Entered Outwards: The Joseph, for Aatwerp • Westmorland, for Demerara; Betty, Doane Castle, and Ha rrier, for Ham burgh; London Packet, for Limerick; Salamanca, for Malaga. Cleared Outwards : The Porcupine, for Rio Janeiro; Speed weli, for Jersey; Suffolk, for Stettin; Tiber, for Liamburgh ; Union, for St. Petersburgh; Pacific, for Santander; Duchess of Bedford, for St. Pctersburgh. Yesterday, his MAJESTY, attended by Sir BENJA MIN BLOOMFIELD, rode on horseback. The NINO met the Duke of WELLINGTON in the Ride in St. Jamees Park, and his Grace joined his MAJESTY in his ride. Yesterday, the Earl CATIICART had an audience of his MAJILSTY. The Dukes of Yonic and CLARENCE visited the KING yesterday. Prince LEOPOLD left town yesterday evening, for Claremont. Tux Lerramtv Guxrrr.--The two Quarterly Parts for the first LW of the present Year are now ready for delivery by all Publishers and Nevnunders. These contain 416 pages (1248 columns of entirely original matter; including Reviews of above one hundred new Publications, giving a fait Report or Analysis, with full and adetkuatl Specimens of each; a regular Series of Criticisms on all Exhibitions in the Fine Arts and Dramatic Produedoos and Performances; above three hundred Commu nications upon subjects of Science, Discoveries, Inventions, and genteel Literature; Original Poetry (weekly) by several of the most Authors of the present day ; Sketches of So and , Anecdotes, Jeux d'Esprit, and Miscellanies; sbe of distinguished Persons dece ased within the pe riod, and the Correspondence of Eminent Men, procured for this Work, front every quarter of the civilized world. The La vinia av Ganrra is pubikd in single Numbers, Weekly; in Parts, Quarterly ; and in Volumes, Annually; and, for com prehensive and various Information on the matters of which it treats, the Proprietors fearlessly affirm, possesses advantages over any Journal of the kind ever offered to the Public, u affording a view of the Literature, Sciences, Arts, and Polite Amusements of the times.—Literary Gazelle (gee, 302, Strand,Joly 11,1820. BOXING. A well-contested match took plate _yesterday, in a meado w belonging to Captain HEINSIIAW, near Fern.bill, in Surrey. The combatants were John Meadows, a farrier, from Warminster, Wilts, and Stephen Tank, a butcher, for 25 guineas a-side, of their own money. The first round lasted ln initiates, ail occupied in real milling. They first made counter-round hits on the neck, which for a moment dropped their heads. A rally next followed, of the most gallant description ' until the spot where they st oo d to hi t was deluged in claret. At Length the combatants closed from temporary distress, when want of acir nee at fighting was made •up by a skilful wrestling match, In which , Tank was thrown a heavy fall upon thaback, enough to split him.-2 to lon Meadovrs. 2. Meadows was floored at going in, by a nssix.-fer, which rent bimbangints Olemesay, and spo il t hi m for the third and fourth rounds, and Tank (who ones had a trial at the Fives Court) had ,decidedly the best of it; but both were bit hideously. The Sth round was never exceeded in true courage, and Meadows, who bad got out of Lao's pound, dropped his. aslver sary by a tremendous round blow on the listener, which spoiled bim, after a give and take rally of eight minutes. • 6th and last. Both were led to the scratch, and at fit they went again, closing and breaking away, until Tank was thrown a somerset, which won Mea4ws the fight, as his antagonist , could not conic again. . ~, 4., ~~ • • coin* OF VINO'S BENCH, JULY 14. • • cam. CON.--;CAMEZELL E. DELMONT. • In this case James Campbell, Esq : was plaintiff, and Frederick Delmont, Esq. defendant. It was as action for criminal conversation with the plaintiff'; wife, and the damages were laid at 020,000. Mr. Serjeant COPLEY stated the cas.. The plaintii is a Colonel in the Chatham division of the Royal Marines ; he married, in 1802, Miss Mawbey, daughter of Major Mawbey, who was Barrack-\la:.tcc at Chatham, a Lady, of whom he did not L the slightest degree exaggerate, when he said that sl:o was possessed of every grace and every accomplish ' ment that could constitute a husband's happines•. From that period down 'to her introduction to th e defendant, they lived upon the most happy and de lightful terms, and never did there exist a huballt: more confiding, and, as *Vainly thought, beloved. There was one solitary circumstance winch he wished to state; it was, that the plaintiff had not been blessed with children: but since the period of Mrs. Camp bell's elopement, no offspring had been predered from her guilty intercourse with the defendant. The defendant was the son of a crentleman deceased, 'possessing, by his father's &mit, considerable landed property in Lincolnshire, and large personal propel t His acquaintance with Colonel Campbell comnieact.d about the rear 1802, at which period he seas a subal tern in the same regiment with the Colonel, pleased with his manners and general deportment, invited him to his house, and admitted him to his table. The defendant soon after lett the country, and was absent until the sear 181 h, when he again joined his regiment at Chaliam, anti the former intimacy was renewed. Ile was incited • - a great favourite with the Colonel, and 'continued so nail January, 1819. He did not mean to say, that the friendship bstsiven them then terminated, but he referred tothat date, be cause it was then that the defendant was placed vita half-pay, and as it was therefore necessary that he should return to Chatham to settle his affairs, Col. Campbell invited him to take up his resideace at his house during the period that he might be detained by his arrangements. .lie did reside there for three or four weeks, and when he had settled his .dtaits, he left the place,und was absent for several months. He wrote, however, at the e pirition of that period to the Colonel,..cnmplaining of the disagreeable man ner in which he passed his time, and requesting that he would procure hidgings for him in Chatham, where he would have an opportunity of enjoying the society of his former friends. The Captain proceeded forthwith to Chatham, and remained in the house of the plaintiff until lodgings were obtained for him. Ile continued there until the month of* March, 181!), treated by the Colonel with attention, and invited every Sunday to his family table. Up to that period the plaintiff had not the slightest , suspicion of the in fidelity of his wife, and it was not until three or hour days before her elopement, that any circumstance cc curred from which he could have 'brined any such opinion. But on the 28th or 29th of March, on Sun day, while he stood expecting the return of Mrs. Campbell from Church, he saw leer, foHowed by the ,defendant, pass through a gate leading from the 'Church-yard,' and upon his observing the plaintiff, he shrunk away and appeared altogether embarrassed and confused. The plaintiff determined fram that time not to admit him to his house. It appeared, however, that a long. attachment had existed be tween the defendant and Mrs: Campbell, and she determined at once to leave her husband's house.— She continued there, however, for some days, during which she contrived to send several articles of her dress to the lodgings of the defendant, and ;wailed herself of an opportunity that presented itself, what her husband was absent on duty, on the 6th of April, to join Captain Delmont, and proceed with him to London. On Colonel Campbell's return from duty, he was, as might naturally be expected, overwhelmed with grief at the departure of his wife; his surprise and astonishment were great indeed, when he found a letter in her writing addressed to him, complaining of his:conduct, and at the same time couched in such terms, as made him. regret exceedingly that he was prevented by the course of la* from E ovin g its con tents on that occasion. He was, as they would easily suppose, thiown into a state of agitation little re moved from madness; and as soon as he had suffi ciently recovered his senses, he• dispatched messen gers to ascertain what course they had taken. They were traced as far as Storey's -gate, Westminster, whet e they left the carriage and walked on foot through the Birdcage-walk, where all traces of them weie lost. They proceeded to the Continent, and were seen at Dieppe, Rouen,Und afterw=ards at P,aris,where they resided under -the names of Captain and Mr.. Delmont. It was not until October, 1819, that the defendant returned to England, and that instant the plaintiff instituted the present proceeding. Witnesses were called, who proved the whole of !the case; but the servants of the plaintiff, on cros - examination, admitted that the defendant toed to S i t up with. Mrs.. Campbell- in her dressing-room, wiA plaintiff's knowledge, after the latter had gone to be.'. Mr. ScArmarr addressed the Jury for the de:L.:- dant, and commented on' the imprudenco of the plaintiff, in affording the Opp:infinities which he !nil done-for the consummation of his dishonour. II: called upon the Jury to look at the respectives arts of these parties; the husband sixty-two, and the v. thirty-five! Could loie exist between them ?---T's Learned Gentleman concluded, by calling on t'a• Jury to make due allowances for the infirmity of man nature, and be was quite convinced that his clie.a would receive at their hands no severe visitation. LAW INTELLMENC?. i The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the evidence in a clear and perspicuous manner; and the Jury, after :1 few minutes passed in deliberation, found a Verilc: for the plaintiff. llama Bes, Five Hundred Pounds. This day se'nnight, Earl FORTESCVE returned, after an absence of twelve months ou the Continent, 211 w.is welcomed by the inhabiTants of South Molt. in the most enthusiastic' manner. Monday the whole of the prisoners in the County Gael of Litchfield, ►ix in number, made their escape, but were all Chi afterwards re-taken. • HIGH- W ATER ai LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOR ROW, 11 c ruing - - U 6 minutes after S Alttrabrou - - 43 -- 5 LO' UON : riluted atial publiabrd by LtriL K • Place, "(mirk-Bar. I . E