Star. — London, England, 1820-11-03 00:00:00

crane) , sounded in their ears before they came to the determi rAon of this fatal inquiry. Its Lordship conjured the House— en his knees he would conjure them—to judge of the case of this unfortunate, this unquestionably long-oppressed and perse cuted woman—this generous, magnanimous, and liberal penal, who had been agonized in a manner not to be described by the institution of these proceedings—that they would do by her as if the case were their own, or as if it were a wife or dearest daughter on whom they were sitting in judgment.—( Lori si:iiisat dmrn amid loud cheers). The call was now general for Lord Hamtwoon. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that Lord Donough more had first caught his eye. Lord DONOUGHMORE said, he cheerfully gave in to the general call of the House. Lord HAREWOOD from the Ministerial Gallery now ad dressed their Lordships. 6' My Lords, it is not my intention to trouble your Lordships, were I even capable of doing so, at I,:rgth, or to enter at all into the evidence which has been ad duced at your Lordships' I3ar in this enquiry. The situation in •vhich I feel myself placed here is that of a member of this House, in the double capacity of Judge and Legislator. In that neint of view I am eiesirous before giving a vote on the question, , have It distinctly understood on what ground that vote is given. After listening to the whole evidence produced, I shall shortly state the general impression which it has made on my mind. I conceive that much of the evidence has been contradicted, that much of it rests on loose grounds; but other parts of it. I arn sorry to say, stands en i much stronger foundation ; and, on the whole, the impression of it on my mind is, to create at least a strong suspicion on the subject of our inquiry.— Due when I have stated that I must consider at the same time v. bat is the nature of that evidence, I do not for one carry pre-. *udices to the degree which is done by some persons out of doors. I do not think that because a man is a foreigner he is not therefore, to be believed on oath—a prejudice wholly irrational, and unworthy of a civilized country. But when I Ind, that the.' vidence chiefly depended on in support of this inquiry is foreign, .nd that it has been obtained, not to say improperly, but by ex raordinary considerations—when I consider too the impossi ility of having points, which rest on foreign testimony, cleared ip in the way that it might be crone in an ordinary English rial. 1 must confess that some degree of doubt is left on my lola. I have no right to charge any man with breach of )ath ; I only state what has been the impression made on me.— speaLing. New York Papers arrived this morning, to the 11th : October : they contain the following intelligence from South America : "flaw Yoar, Ocr. 11. '• The ship heaver, from Guayaquil, Callao, and Rio Ja r eifo, arrived here this morning, the Captain of which states, Buenos Ayres all was confusion : the citizens were in dvfendiog themselves against Alvear, who was outside the As.: with a body of desperadoes, and threatened destruction to place if be entered it, it was reported, however, that he •.c as worsted." • Yesterday Count MUNSTER had an audience of his 4AJESTY, at his Palace in Pall-Mall. To-morrow Prince and Princess ESTERHAZY will leave town, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess DE :;ZES, at their seat at Han-ow-on-the-Hill. Yesterday the Duchess of Gtoocssvaa and the Princess AUGUSTA rode to Chelsea, and honoured ady CREMORNE with a visit. The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER had a nu dinner party, yesterday. Yesterday the Earl and Countess of DERBY and MARY STANLEY, Pi! ived at his Lordship's house Grosvenor-square, from their seat, the Oaks, in esterday, Prince and Princess ESTUUAZY, en- Count and Countess MUNSTER, Baron -t, Baron JUST, Baron MALTZAIIN, a Neapo- In Nobleman, and a select party of distinguished -"rs, at Chandos-Houso. The Earl of DERBY'S stag-hounds will hunt again Tuesday last, the Hon. Mr. STANLEY left town for Continent. Yesterday, the Earl of WHITWORTH and the Du of l)oßsEr entertained the Duke of MONTROSE, Marquis of CAMDEN, Earl and Countess of PLY 'TH, Duke and Duchess of BEAUFORT, Earl of 'LAM, and a large party of distinguished Per; ..ges, at their house in Grosvenor-square The Duchess of KENT, and the Princesses FEODOR ALEXANDRINA continue on a visit to Prince LEO. ), at Claremont. Yesterday the Marquis of ANGLESEA entertained large party of the Peers at Uxbridge House. This his Lordship gives another grand entertainment Yesterday afternoon, the younger branches of their _ Highnesses Prince and Princess ESTERHAZY'S lily, with their attached suite, arrived at Chandos ‘use, from Worthing. This day their Serene High ,,es also arrived from the above place. Yesterday, the Guardians of the Earl cf ERROL, ' the Trustees of his estate, dined with his Royal ighness the Duke of CLAtitzncs, at his house in the Ible-yard. His Royal highness the Duke of YORE is also present. This was a dinner en, famille, pre -atory to the union of the Noble Earl with Miss .iii FITZCLARENCE, third daughter of his Royal ighliess. The marriage will be celebrated by banns, ~; consequence of the parties being under age; and is said it will take place immediately. Saturday evening, as Mr. Bethell, who keeps the elson's Head, on the Hay-road, about six miles torn Hereford, was crossing the Wye on a pony, kith his son, from 'visiting some land he rented, wing to the depth of the water, and the rapidity oi o the current, they both perished. Mr. Bethell has left a wife, and six children fatherless, The horse ivam out. • A challenge of competition to spew 100 ewes from he Sussex flock of Lord GAGE against the same :umber from the sheep-walks of Mr. RICHARDS, of l'irle, took place on Friday, when the Judges decided la favour of his Lordship's ewes. Sunday last Sir G. SHIFFNER and his two sons had honour of Shaking hands with his MAJESTY on :11c Palace Lawn at Brighton. The Marquis of CHOLMONDELEY and the Hon. Mrs. DAstErt have given up all further proceedings in 'ale Courts of Law between them and Lord CLINTON. Accounts from Rome State, that the Pope has de clined the offer of the Emperor of Austria to occupy tae Papal dominions with Austrian troops. Yesterday morning a fire broke out at the house of 111r..flove- Inch, a broker, on Great Saffron-bill :by the prompt assistan:e f the neighb ours, and the arrival of several tire-engines, the, 'filt 4 were confined to one room. Mr. Bowditcb was ;Infos •,nately muck burnt, and obliged to be taken to an Hospital. FRENCH PAPERS. The news contained in the French Journals is siow confined almost.exclusively to the affair's of foreign countries, •and among them there is really nothing at all worth the attention of Englishmen, at a moment like the present. The Spanish Cortes have consented to relax the spirit of the proceedings meditated against the sixty nine Deputies who had addressed the King to over throw the Constitution. Instead of being prosecuted before the public tribunals, these offenders are de-, prived of all employments, pensions, honours, and distinctions, which they obtained either before or since the 4th May, 1814. The conferences of the Allied Sovereigns are, it is said, to be transferred from Troppau to Vienna. The Sittings of the Polish Diet, on the 28th of September and the 2d of October, are represented to have been stormy in the extreme. The President refused the liberty of speech to a Deputy, who had got up to prove that the Report of the Minister of the Interior on the State of the Nation was a series of fabrications and falsehoods. The Assembly, how ever, voted, after a division, and by a great majority, that the Member should be heard. He accordingly read his discourse to them. A Vienna Paper states, that the illustrious Baron Grimm has been invited by Mr. Brougham to give evidence as to his motives for examining Miss Bar bara Kress, of blue-cloak memory ! We find, how ever, that the illustrious Baron, like his acquaintance D'Ende, refused Mr. Brougham's invitation. The trial of Gravier and Bouton, charged with ex ploding a petard under the windows of the apart ments of the Duchess of Berry, was resumed on the 29th ultimo. The Advocate-General maintained, that the act was not a mere wanton act, as contended for on the part of the prisoners, but intended for the premature destruction of the infant to whom her Royal Highness has sii:ce given birth. The Sitting was put an end to by the following curious incident: M. Claveau, in pleading for Bouton, concluded with saying, " the wife of my client died yesterday, and her remains now repose in the grave!" At this.un expected intelligence, Bouton fell senseless, and was carried out of the Hall by the gendarmes. M. Cla veau, perceiving himself almost generally blamed, said he had only done his duty, in using every means calculated to save his client. It was ten o'clock at night when this incident took place. The Court then adjourned to the next morning, when the verdict would be pronounced. _ _ _ The following account is given of the effects of the late storms:—" The gusts of wind on the 20th and two succeeding days of the past month have occa sioned great damage to different maritime works in the arrondissement of Havre. At Fecamp, the slut cadoes for the security of the bridge of Seroile from the pier, have been destroyed, in spite of the precau tions taken in the course of the 2lst, to check the progress of the damage which had occurred over night, before and after the high and impetuous tide. l In the course of the 22d, a foundation of masonry, forming a part of the pier, and ready to receive its coping of granite, was swept away, and the works of the breakwater, for a considerable height and extent, have disappeared. The granite facings, at the en trance of the jetty towards the east, have been en tirely washed away; and several parts of the dyke, as well as of the jetty, have received much injury. At Havre, the sea, agitated by the violent winds, has swept clean away the stone embankment, from one extremity to the other. The duccadoes have been formed in three places. One of these being at the extremity of the sea-wall, near the Lazaretto, the sea has made two breaches behind, and in the natural earth; and by these apertures the adjoining lands have been inundated. It is calculated that the mounds that must be repaired present a surface of at least 600 metres. The gale had not subsided, and further disasters were apprehended. At St. Maloe's the hur ricane had been equally severe, but the extent of the damage bad not been ascertained." A Mail has arrived from Hamburgh, with Papers to the 28th ultimo. The Emperor Fa* Ncts was ex pected at Troppau on the 19th. Among the Peti tions presented to the Polish Diet, was one praying, that the importation of English manufactures should be prohibited, as long as the Corn Act remains in force. Letters from Trieste positively state, that ALI Nona held out in the citadel of Janina, so late as, the 22d of September. The place is said to be of great strength, having 900 cannon mounted on the works ; and it is supposed that, if he could hold out until the end of October, the blockade would be , abandoned, as the Turkish armies usually break up on the approach of winter. The Hanoverian Diet is Ito meet on the Ist of next month. Letters were received yesterday from Palermo, dated October 9, the first that for a long period have passed through Naples. We are happy to say that tranquillity is again established, and the Two Sici lies once more on an amicable footing. This event, however, has not taken place without a most severe contest, and an intermediate state of dreadful anar chy and disorder. The populace of Palermo have taken the chief part in the resistance to the Neapoli tans, and it appears evident that the better class of citizens had more to apprehend from them than from the invading army, as they openly avowed their in tention, if victorious, to exterminate " the Jacobins," a name applied by them indiscriminately to all per sons of rank and property. None of the English re• sidents have suffered any injury, having been equally respected by all parties; but the greater part of them thought proper to retire for safety into the country, or on board the ships in the haibour. A convention between the two countries was signed on board his Majesty's cutter Racer, Captain THURTELL, then lying off Palermo, on the sth of October; by General FLORESTANO PEPE, on the part of the Nea politans, and by the Prince of PATERNO, acting President of the Junta on behalf of the Sicilians.— This Treaty stipulates that all the forts shall be given up to the Neapolitan General : that a majority of votes of the Sicilian Representatives, legally con vened, shall determine on the unity or separation of the national representation of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The Spanish Constitution is adopted in Sicily, with the modifications that may be made by the united or the separate Parliament, for the public welfare. The arms and effigies of the King to be restored, and all past events and acts,of indivi duals to be buried in cblivion. ' The Di erous d Yesten ady MA Grosv, rrey. IYesterc rtained FUEL, tan Nob areigner The 11 0-morro' Tuesdi , he Conti Yesten he.s of e Mars MOUTH, ERULAI napes, The D d ALE: OLD, at Yester large p , ay his l Yester erene F v louse, fi ?..lies Yester ad the ' :Ones! :able-y; as also aratory I;LIzA liahnes: COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, a Court of Cosirmon Council was held, to take into consideration the propriety of rescinding the Vote of Censure passed at the last Court upon Sheriff Parkins, and for the dispatch of miscellane ous business. Mr. PiARSON was proceeding to comment on the Vote of Censure, as described; stating, that had he I not been unavoidably absent, he should undoubtedly have opposed that &Solution. The speaker was here called to order, and some discussion took place as to the regularity of the course adopted by him. The LORD MAYOR being called upon, was of opi nion, that the Minutes of - the Court were read over for the purpose of correcting any mistake or inac curacy that might have crept into them, and that they could not be made the subject of de bate. • Mr. PRARSON bowed to the authority of the Court, and stated, that he had intended on that day to have moved that the Vote of Censure passed upon Mr. Sheriff Parkins should be rescinded ; but, as he un derstood there would be an unanimous Petition to the Court from the Livery of London for the same purpose, he should reserve what.he had to say on that subject till the Petitioners appeared at the Bar of the Court. BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES. Mr. FAVPLL rose for the purpose of giving a con tingent notice. If it were probable, he might almost say if it were possible, that the Bill of Pains aid Pe nalties now pending against the Queen, should pass the House of Lords, he should feel it his duty, along with those who entertained the same sentiments with himself on that subject, to sign a Revisition to the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of calling a Common Hall, in order to petition the House of Commons to throw out the Bill, and to secure the . tranquillity of the country. SWORD-BEARER'S TABLE? Mr. Dixon brought up the Report of the Com mittee relative to the proposed abolition of the table kept for this Officer. The worthy Member entered into a variety of details on the subject I.f . the com pensations proper to be granted to those Officers who 'had a right to dine at the Sword-,bearer's table; the total of which, at the rate of 7s. 6d. for each dinner, was stated to amount to £1456 annually. It ap peared that many of the Officers so entitled preferred the continuance of the table to the proposed com pensation. He concluded by moving that the Re port, which recommended the continuance of the table, should be agreed to ; and he did that the more readily, as the abolishing the table would be no saving to the City. Mr. OLDHAM moved an Amendment, to refer the Report back to the Committee, for the purpose of, deciding the question of compensation, and to re port upon the same to the Court. The motion and the amendment gave rise to a discussion of some length, but of very little interest, in which several Members participated. At last, it was agreed that the Report of the Committee of the 29th of April, 1819, which recommended the abolition of the table, should be confirmed and acted upon. INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS. Mr. }'AVELL rose, for the purpose of calling the attention of the Court to the inflammatory placards that covered the walls of the Metropolis, and stated his intention to submit a motion to the Court upon the subject. A difficulty being started as to the ques tion of order, the worthy Member moved for leave to make a motion. Leave being granted, Mr. Favell moved, that the Court should recommend to the Lord Mayor to offer a reward for the apprehension of Franklin and others, who might be concerned in posting up anonymous inflammatory placards. As to the criminality of such proceedings, there could be but one opinion. All present must recollect the statement made at the time of the Smithfield Meet ing, by the late Lord Mayor ; and it was not un likely that that statement might have been made in consequence of the seditious placards that were then everywhere to be seen.. Independently of more im portant considerations, those placards tended to put the City to considerable expense, by the swearing in of extra Constables and other arrangements relative to the Police. As to election squibs, John Bull, from immemorial Usage, was apt to conceive that he bad a legalized right to them ; bat that right was to be carried no farther. In the motion he had submitted to the Court, he was in unison with the Government of the country, and also with the opinion of the City. The worthy Member then moved a Resolution— " That the Court, feeling deeply interested in the in flammatory placards, that both poisoned the public mind, and struck at the comfort and security of ho nest individuals, recommended to the Lord Mayor and the Magistrates to offer rewards for the appre hension of their authors." The LORD MAYOR, in answer to a question put by a Member, stated, that the Court of Aldermen had not thought it necessary to offer any reward', on ac count of the large sum that had.been- offered by Go vernment ; but had given instructions to the City So licitor, in consequence of which, a true bill had been found against Franklin, at the Old Bailey. Mr. DIXON did not think it fair to allude to thei late Lord Mayor in his absence. He could nht see that election placards should experience more indul gence than any others. At a late Election he had been (as he believed) in imminent hazard of his life. After the statement just made by the Lord Mayor, he saw no necessity for proceeding any further. • Mr. FAVELL would agree to shape the motion so as to make it palatable to all. He then moved, that the Court, feeling deeply interested in the inflcmmatory placards that struck so directly at the happiness and the peace of the community, heard with great satis faction the statement of the Lord Mayor, relative to the steps taken by the Court of Alderthen for the dis covery of their author. . . After some observations from different' Members, the Resolution was agreed to, and ordered to be pub lished in the usual manner.. . • The LORD MAYOR adverted to a person That had been brought before him on - the preceding day, for printing a cditiotts hand-bill. He had not then fined him, but would fine him £2O if he did not give up the author. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY vindicated himself from having neglected his Magisterial duties for a week. He had only been absent tor two days, and should take care such a circumstance should not occur again. Mr. PLitsurtk, who was lately elected a Metiibet for the Ward of Farringdon-Within, was sworn into his office. Mr. Alderman RaTHWILL returned his acknow ledgements for the unanimous Vote of Thanks of the last Court, for the manner in which he had dis charged the important duties of Sheriff. The Committee appointed to consider the present state of the London Workhouse, presented a Report on their having inquired into the same, and recom; mending some measures to be adopted for putting it iu a more useful and beneficial condition, which was agreed to, and afterwards. referred back to be carried into execution. The Watch Act was paned for the year ensuing. The Court agreed with a Report from the Naviga tion Committee, for preventing alienations of the City's Watermen's places in future. The Court broke up at four o'clock. SPANISH MAIN. EXTRACT or A LETTER DATED PORT OF SPA ' TRINIDAD, AUGUST 27, 1820. " I have great regret in announcing to you the loss of important dispatches, both from the President at San Chlistobal, and the Government at Angostura, which left the latter twelve days ago, - in a DatCh schooner, which was taken within musket-shot of the shore, by a Spanish flechera, with 15 men, between Point ilicacos and Point La Brea. The whole were, fortunately, thrown overboard, as well as all the Ga zettes of Angostura and Bogota, which accompanied them. We, however, leaf n from the passengers, the brilliant success obtained by the arms of the Repub- • lit latterly in New Granada, and the very decisive answers of General Bolivar and the Congress to Ge neral Morillo's overtures on the part of Spain, or . rather of his royal master, for as yet the Cortes are to decide. All these details were contained in the papers. I will give you such as I have received from an intelligent young Englishman who was a passen ger; but I am sorry I can neither fix the dates,. nor be exact in the topography of many of the events. For these they trusted to the papers of Bogota and Angostura, and have preserved little more than the simple facts they had collected from those, or what • they learned from the President's dispatches. " Ist, They state that General Valdez, with the Army of the South, was on the confines of Quito, after beating the Spaniards in twenty actions; and was pushing on victorious for that capital. In tyro of these Caizada had been severely defeated; " 2d, That Mompox was taken. The Englishman says two Officers and several privates of the Regi ment of Albion fell on' that occasion. "3d, That General Bolivar writes, that he had no doubt, at the date of his dispatches, that Santa Mar- Lira had fallen to the force sent against it. " 4th, That Colonel Montilla, after the evacua tion of Rio Hacha, had occupied another post nearer Carthagena, and that his junction with the troops from the interior marching to join him was consi dered secured. " sth, They say General Urdaneta was moving upon Maracaybo. " Gth, That the President remained, with 8000 - men, at San Christobll, and the ranks of Cucuta, • ready to act in Venezuela, or New Granada, as cir cumstances may require, and the season adwit. , " 7th, General Paez's head•quarters were at *Sin Juan de Payaro; his Guerillas everywhere: 750 Bri- tish in his ::rmy ; these - are in high health. San Juas ; de Payaro ;s praised for its salubrity. " Bth, General I3ermudez's head-quarters are at Santa Clara. " 9th, General Soublette gives universal satisfac tion for his military arrangements at Guayana, and his civil administration: an Officer of his talents and experience was very necessary there, and has inspired that confidence of security so necessary to trade. " 10th, Our valuable friend, Mr. Roscio, is re established in hii health, and continues your locum tenens as. Vice-President of Columbia. Penalver and all the rest are well, and steady at their posts. " 11th, General Bolivar has identified himself with the Congress in his answer to Morillo. Absolute in- dependence as the basis on Point de Treve. Pate ' .contesto, que pertanecia aun ierno, y que a este le .tocaba tratar con et gobierno ' anol. All the other Generals referred Morillo in lie manner to the Go vernment. Thus his plan, ' Divide et isepera, was disappointed. Never was the Government and the people so united on any one point, as against all union with Spain or dependence on her. " 12th, Duane, Cires, and Escurra, Morillo's Com missioners, were at the Oronoco, but were not allowed to proceed beyond Guayana (O'Los Castillos). Their .. ., answer was, that no Commissioners could be received, who had not powers to treat on the basis of the so- vereignty and absolute independence of Columbia as a sine qua non." S a tu r n, which • ossed the meridian on Thursday evening, about half-past ten o'clock, may now be viewed in a clear night with great advantage, by help of a good telescope. His ring is seen at present a little obliquely, and consequently of an elliptical form, quite detached, on two sides, from the body of the , planet.a Jupiter, which is farther to the westward, . crossed the meridian on Thursday evening, two mi nutes bef‘re nine. LATE FROM I NDI A.—We have received Papers from India (Calcutta), dated June 22; The Christian . Missionaries have obtained per- Mission to establish themselves in .the dominions of his Majesty the King of Ave-, provided they do not . divulge their opinion of spiritual matters. se News' from Manilla, 50th May, state, that a • strong reinforcement from Europe was daily expected, as the Governor had received a communication from the Patriots in South America, threatening that place, and one of Lord Cochrane's frigates had been dis• - patched' for that purpose ; but soon after she sailed, she captured a vessel with half a million of dollars on board, and had Walther into Valparaiso, but had • she continued her'paSiage, she' must have fell in witla.• the two ships which arrived there in May from Aca. pulco, with two millionrof dollars on board. As there was no military ilirce at Manilla, it was the re.' solved determination of the Governor, if he received no assistance from his King,. to surrender it to the English Government; and had dispatched a message to Bombay to thateffect." A .