Star. — London, England, 1814-03-10 00:00:00

IVINDSOIt, illi4Rdl! ' Monday Dr. HEBERDEN arrived ak the Castle, Eo be in attendance on the KtNa. The weather being s n very cold, together with the fall of snow, the Royal raniily do not leave the Castle. Yesterday the QuEkN, accompanied by Dr. HE aims:, went to the King's apartments in the Castle, to see his MiJESTY. In the evening the QUEEN had a select party to tea. Yesterday, about three o'clock, Baron DOREN !WIWI', the new Hessian Minister, was introduced to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House, by t 11,.! Earl of LIVERPOOL, officiating as Se cret iry of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Mr. CHESS It, the Assistant Master of the Cere, monies. Fl!s Excellency had a private audience of hi s Royal Highness to deliver his credentials, and was most graciously received.--Mr. Faqtu., on his return from Holland, and another Gentleman from Holland (the Baron VaxmttnowN), were introduced to his Royal Highness in a similar manner. The Cihinet Ministers dined yesterday with Vis count MEL-rita.r.:, at his house in the Admiralty. The Earl Conntess of Sr.t,MF•ottD and family are expected in town in a few days, from their seat, Enville Hall, Staffordshire. The Duke of KEN r honoured the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER with his company to breakfast yester day morning. The infant son of Mr. POLE TYLNEY LONG WEL... LESLEY, is to be christened by the names of WILLIAM RICHARD AILTIIni, after his rrrandfather Mr. WIL• /Am,' POLE, and his uncles the narquisses WELLESLEY and WELL IYGTON. MAY() Et.EcrtoN.—Total, .55th day, March 2 : Mr. B;:OWNE. 4388 ; Mr. ICtitwAhr, 4321 ; majority for Mr. BROWNE, 67.—.N1r. KirtwAN had not polled a roan for the last three (tar, and it was expected that on Friday the election would close. The faowing is said to he a literal copy of an order directed by Marshal VICTOR to the Mayors of the towns in the districts occupied by his corps, in the middle of January, and is given as a proof of the shifts to which BovapanTe and 1-is agents have had recourse, to secure the obedience of the people, by exaggerated lepresetations of the forces which he was about to bring into action t Mr. MAYOR—His Excellency the Marshal Duke of BELLITNO charges me to announce to you, that he Ins received official intelligence of the sign•sture of a treaty of peace with King FERDINAND VII. ; and that 200,000 men, of which our armies in Spain con. 'fisted, are in full ma rch towards Paris and Lyons. His Excellency invites you to make this intelligence (Signed, &c.) Four lkssels, - vii. two sloops and two gun-brigs, which have been formed for the Lakes in America, were on Saturday put on board some transports ; the greatest exertions were used to complete them—they ate to be ice-formed on the Lakes by shipwrights, who Pte to accninfrany them, and they will be taken over land, piece -meal, to their destination. By a private letter from Helvoetsluys, of the 2d instant, we )earn, that the undermentioned transports. laden With ordnance stores, are totally lost at Goree, Flaxton, 545 tons, marked J. J. Mathwin master; and Mary, 204 ditto, Robert Smith. Several others were in imminent danger of sharing the same fate, particularly the Neptune, marked J. V. James Dicey master, whose cargo consisted if two iron 10. inch mortars, with their stores complete: and 250 barrels of gun-powder; all of which, with the ship, would most inevitably have been lost, but fol. the Hon. Captain King, of the Jason frigate, by whose intrepidity and exertions she was brought through the ice into a place of perfect. safety, after having lost her rudder, and sustained other damage. A Sub-CoMmittee having -been commissioned to examine the documental papers and other sources from which Mr. Ackermann's Narrative of the most remarkable events in and near Leipzig, &c. is com piled, as some insinuations have been thrown out that much of what is therein related is rather exalt gerated, and Mr. - Ackermann having furnished them with the said papers, they were found to consist of— 1. A Pamphlet, printed at Leipzig, entitled, " Leipzig, svihrend der Schreckenstage der Scillachten, ina Monat Octo ber, 1813; als Beytrag zur Chronik dieser Stade." (" Leipzig, during the terrible Days of the Battles in the Month of October, 1813; being a Supplement to the History of this City.") 2. A printed Advertisement of a large Work, to be accom panied with Nine Plates, the Advertisement itself giving a brief tut comprehensive account of the battle of Leipzig. 3. A second Advertisement, giving a similar description of these ba'tles in German and Preneh. 4. A I.etrer from Count Scbonfeld to Mr. Ackerniann, de scribing the dreadful condition of the villages In the neighbour• hod ut I.eipzig, especially of those over which the scorns of the battle pavied. 5. An Official Paper, signed by some of the principal Bankers and Merchants at Leipzig, containing an appeal to the benevo lence of the British Public, in behalf of the sufferers. 6. An Official Attestation of the truth of the statement made is the said Appeal, signed by the acting Burgomaster of Leipzig, with the City Seal affixed. 7. Several private Letters, entering more or less into the d_tail. The Sub-Committee, having read and considered the chief parts of these several sources of information, were unanimous in their opinion, that far from any txaggeriition of facts having been resorted to, in pre. senting this Narrative to the British Public, facts have been suppressed, under an idea that they might shock the feelings of Englishmen, who, in general, by Gon's mercy, have so imperfect an idea of the aorrqrs of a campaign, and the unspeakable suffer ings occasioned by the presence of contending armies, that, to hear more of the detail 'contained in the said papers, might destroy the effect of exciting compas sion by creating disgust, and doubts of the possibility of the existence of such enormities. The Sub-Committee were likewise fully persuaded Cut the acceuuts contained in these official and print ed Papers could not have been published at Leipzig itself, without being acknowledged.by all as authen tic, as they .vnitld otherwise have been liable to the censure of every reader and reviewer; and therefore, comparing them also with various similar accounts, received from other places, they feel ng hesitation in .►xprtssiug-their opinion, that the Narrative published by Mr. Ackermann is a true and faithful represerita ti,n of such facts as came within the Reporter's own obsery 36 at. REV. WM. ICCP:HI. REV. C. F. STEINICOFF. )UV. DR. SCHWABE. Rk.V. C. J. LATROBE. buteff POtITICAL CoMTITI,77O7V. THE HAMM, MARCH s, item tt We, Wtt.t.tmn, by the grace df gm), Prince of Orange Nassau, So vere i gn Prince of the United Ne therlands, &c. " Invited to the Sovereignty of these States by your confidence and your attachment, we from the first declared, that we would undertake the same only under the guarantee of a wise constitution, which might secure your freedom against all possible abuses ; and we have ever since continued to feel the necessity thereof. " We regarded it, therefore, as one of the first and most sacred of our duties, to summon together some men of consideration, and to charze them with the weighty task of establishing a fundamental code, built upon your manners, your habits, and corresponding to the wants of the present time. " They cheerfully took upon themselves this office, performed it with zeal, and have submitted to us the fruits of their uninterrupted labours. " After a careful examination of this work, we have given it our approbation. But this does not sa tisfy our heat t. It respects the concerns of the whole Netherlands. The whole Dutch people must be re cognised in this important work. That people must receive the strongest possible assurance, that their dearest interests are sufficiently attended to therein ; that religion, as the fountain of all goad, is thereby honobred and maintained, and religious freedom dis turbed by no:hing of temporal concerns, but secured in the most ample manner ; that the education of youth, and the spread of scientific knowledge, shall be attended to by the Government, and freed from all those vexatious regulations which oppress the genius and subdue the spirit ; that personal freedom shall no longer be an empty name, and dependent on the ca prices of a suspicious and crafty police ; that an im• partial administration of justice, guided by fixed prin ciples, secure to every man his property ; that com merce, agriculture, and manufactures be no longer obstructed, but h►ve free course, like rich springs of public and private prosperity : that, therefore, no restraint be -imposed on the domestic economy of the higher and lower classes of the state, but that they be conformable to the general laws and the general go vernment ; that the movements of the general Go vernment l not palsied by too great a zeal for local interests, but rather receive from it an additional im pulse ; that ihe general laws, by means of an harmo nious co-operation of the two principal branches of the Government, be founded on the true interests of the State ; that the finances and the arming of the people, the main pillars of the body politic, be placed in that central point, Jpon which the greatest and most in valuable privilege of every free people—their inde pendence —may be firmly fixed. Which of you can doubt of this truth, atter the terrible experience you have had of a foreign tyranny, which acknowledged no right when it wanted means for its own mainte nance by violence ; after having sighed, of Tate years, under the most oppressive yoke that ever was imposed since the Spanish times ? " Now at least you know the true value of those precious rights for which our fathers sacrificed their property and blood, of that happiness which they be-. queathed to their descendants, and which we saw lost through the adversity of the times ! " Following, therefore, and deriving encourage ment from their example, it becomes my duty, in imitation of those whose name I bear, and whose memory I honour, to restore that which is lost : it is your duty to support me therein with all your efforts, that under the blessing of Divine PROVIDENCE, who summons us to this task, we may leave our beloved country completely reconquered and re-established to our children. We have for that purpose appointed a special commission, who are to choose, out of a numerous -list given in to us, six hundred persons, in due to portion to the population of each of the now existing departments. " Honoured with your confidence, they shall, on the '2Bth of tnis month, assemble in the metropolis of Amsterdam, to come to a determination upon this weighty business. 6 , They shall in like manner, with the letter of con vocation, receive the plan of the constitution, that they may be able to prepare their decision thereon with maturity and calmness of deliberation; and for the more effectual attainment of this object, a copy of the same shall be sent to each member previously. 64 And as it is of the first importance that these Members be possessed of the general confidence, • we drder that a list of the persons chosen for each de partment be made public, and that to all the inhabi tants of the same, being housekeepers, an opportunity shall be afforded, by signing his n tme without any other addition, in a register which shall lie .open in each canton for eight days, to disapprove of any such person or persons as he may deem unqualified. " No inhabitant is deprived of this right, with the exception of domestic servants, valets, bankrupts, persons in a state of nonage, or under accusation. 6 , When it shall appear to us, from the summing up of the registers, that the majority are satisfied with the persons thus submitted to their election, we shall consider them as the representatives of the whole Dutch people, call them together,'appear in the midst of them, and salute them as constituting the great assembly, representing the United Netherlands. 66 They shall then commence their labours in freedom, and give us an account of their progress by a committee appointed to that effect ; and as soon as the adoption of the constitutional code is the result of their deliberations, we shall make the necessary ar-, rangements for taking the oath prescribed to us by the constitution with all due solemnity, in the midst of the assembly, and after that be installed in state. " In the adoption of thesr measures, worthy coun trymen, you must feel convinced, that the welfare of our beloved country is my first ind only .Object ; that your interests and mine are the same; and how can they be more manifestly promoted, than by the intro duction of Constitutional rules, in which you will find the guarantee of your dearest rights ? They will fur nish me %t it)) the advantage of conducting, on fixed principles, the charge and responsibility of Govern-I ment, assisted by the best and most inulligent of the citizens ; and will secure to me the continuance of that affection, the expressions of which rejoice my heart, animate my courage, lighten my burthen, and. bind me and my house for ever to our regenerated country. 44 Given at the Hague this 2d of March, 1814, and of our reign the Ist. (Signed) 66 W uwie. . LAW imPELLArifyc4. ------ • 7 .....r.r;T? COURT OF CHANCERYi` MARCH L e OREGORY 114 THE MATTER OP ARUNDEL, # LoNaitc. Sir AnTon PIGOTT mated the Court oil the part of the two Mr. Gregorys, who are cousins to the lu natic Arundel, stating the following facts :—The father of the lunatic died thirty years ago, leaving a sum of money that vested in the funds, produced an interest of .€2BO per annum, which was to be applied to his support, and the petitioners, the cousins, %vete, left in remaindership to the lunatic, in respect of the principal. For the last seventeen years the lunatic had been in the custody of a Mr. Power, but his sis ter, a Mrs. Downes, had lately sued out a Commis sion of Lunacy, in order to have him placed with herself. The petition was for an order to prevent this, and it was represented by Counsel, that the nettle had been very comfortably siinated in Eh! care of Mr. Power, that he was not likely to be so untier the care of Mrs. Downes, who was married to a matt of a morose temper, and one who,-on a former oc casion, had refused to let the limatiC hive wine or ale at his meals, though noway conducive to the ex• asperation of his disease. The lady was herself, to ), quite inadequate to the charge she socglit, as she la boured under the infirmity of body consequent on the advanced age of six:y, aid had inoucover been her self insane. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY said, that this was a petition j of a most improper nature, tending, as it did, to re-' vive the memory of certain unfortunate circumstances relating to a respectable family, which had long been buried in oblivion. Mrs. Downes was a most respec table woman, and every way fitted for the charge she wished to undertake ; she was, though ad vanced in life, in the full possession of her facul ties, and married to a gentleman who was an officer in the Gloucester Militia, and to whose character the most respectable testimony was brought forward. Mrs. Downes had never beets a lunatic—the follow ing were the circumstances which had given ground for the assertjon of that calumny : —When a young woman, about forty years since, she was in love w ith a gentleman, to whom she was to have been married, but the match having been broken off, it so affected her mind, that she was placed under the care of a Mrs. Minchiu, her aunt, who kept an asylum for lu natics in Worcestershire. She was with this lady for six months, but never confined or put under any re gimen as an insane person, or ever considered as such. Under all the circumstances of the case, he conceived that it was much more_proper that the lunatic should be placed under the care of his sister than that of relations so much farther removed. The LOltD CHANCELLOR said, that if the lunatic had been well circumstanced under the care of Mr. Power for so long a period as seventeen years, he conceived that it was an unnecessary reduCtion of the funds of the lunatic's estate to sue out a com mission. He would direct the Master to inquire as. to the eligibility of Mr. Power for the trust he had undertaken—and if he was found a proper person, the lunatic should remain with him ; the funds out of which he was provided for, he should direct to be placed in the hands of the Accountant General. EXPARTE GIBBS, IN THE MATTER OF GIBBS. There were two petitions from the Bankrupt Gibbs, the one for permission to surrender under the corn mission, a warrant having been issued for his arrest, in consequence of his not having done so in due time; and the other for the superseding of the bankruptcy, on the ground, that not having been in the trade, he could not legally be made a bankrupt. He had been described by the petitioning creditor when he had sued out the commission as a dealer in horses, but he never had been so, having merely been led to the pur chase and exchange of those animals, as incidental to his proper business, which was that of a farmer and grazier. The petition for leave to surrender under the com mission was backed by the affidavit of a Mr. Barrett, a surgeon, in which it was stated, that Mr. Gibbs was extremely ill, in consequence of his (Mr. 13.'s) having pertra med an operation on him for a tumour, insomuch as to make it probable that his death would be the consequence of a removal to prison. Mr. MONTAGUE, for the asiignees, said that it was not their wish to incarcerate the bankrupt, but that they had already sustained great injury from his eva sion, and he expressed a hope that his Lordship would not authorise any proceedings which might in crease the delay. Mr. HEAI.D having engaged that the bankrupt's residence sheuld.be made known within an hour, His Lordship, with the acquiescence of the Coun sel for the assignees, directed that the warrant should not be executed for a week, to allow time for the re storation of the bankrupt's health. There were fit. teen affidavits brought forward to resist the applica tion for the superseding the bankruptcy, and as there was only that of the bankrupt himself in the support of it, Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY contended, on the part of the assignees, that it could have no weight, inasmuch as Gibbs, the notoriety of whose habit of dealing in horses had prucured him the name of Jochev Gibbs, was a person not worthy of credit—his evidence would be taken on no other occasion. He had been tried and convicted for stealing hay, and sentenced to six months imprisonment, and had been imprisoned fur 14 days. His Lordship said, that undoubtedly a farmer had a right to sell hay, and exchange horses, in the course of his business, without thereby becoming liable to he considered as a horse-dealer ; but it . he exceeded certain bounds—if he derived a portion of his rains directly from a traffic in horses, the case was other wise. The act of bankruptcy for which the•commis sion had issued had been clearly proved. Gibbs had collected all his property, undoubtedly, with a view to defraud his creditors and leave the country ; but whether he ever had been a dealer in Lorses, was a question, he conceived, not for him, bnt for a Jury to decide. Under these circumstances he must re fuse the petition ; but the bankrupt would be compe tent.to bring an action against the assignees, to try the question of his liability. The demand is so great, in consequence of the ex traordinary richness of the Wheel, that greAt doubts are entertained whether a Ticket or Share could be procured on Saturday next, at any price. The draw. ing beg* very early ou Monday morning. • -4•CHELMSFORD ASSIZES, MARCH 9. 1 • CROWN SID.E. Charlt: Mud. a poling lad, servant to the Rev. Mr. Tuffnel, of Wormington. in this minty, was in ificted under Lord Eilenborough's Act, for cutting :Uld stabbing Mary Dalton, with intent. to murder her, or do her some bodily harm. By the evidence of Mr Tufrael and his servants it nape ired, that the unt , rtunate prisoner was clearly insane. )for several days previous th the transaction in question he had been talking u' a most incoherent style : that the IYrvil was always conversing with hint—that he had made a voyage round h e ll ; an d, a day or two b4Ore, he broke into the parlour, and shewing his master kindle of his knife, on which was the figure of two 'wining hors-s, he askei him if he knew what that was? Mr. Tuffrivi s lid, 44 Two mail horses," H. replied, " No, it was himself heat nig the Devil. ard sl a t he should get to heaver."_ He then asked Mr. T. it he saw- any letteis ? /Or. T. said, " Yes, there was lVilson, thr mskei's name." He Said, t‘ No. it was Cantu' saying to him—Wells s 1" Mr. Tuffnel said, he was sot - prised at his . conduct, as he aiways had conducted lii!riselt as a resp.xtful. sober, Ana diligent servant. A nizht or tau aftvrwards, just as they were gnios to bed, the e; vants heard hint muttering :es if in'a conversation between himself and the Devil, and in a short time he burst into the nursexy, and before they could screen themselves from him, he unfortunately stabbed the housekeeper, and cut her with his knife in seventeen places.. The Jury found him Not Guilty; but, according to the Act of Parliansent, ieturnlvi, that they acquit ted him on the ground W insanity. He was accord ingly ordered to b 2 continued ill prison, and not dis ch.trtied. CIVIL SIDE. • BRUNWIN v. MAY )lEW. TI'S came occupied a considerable portion of the day, but possessed no interest. It was an .fiction of trespass for entering the plaintiff's close, and the de fendant justified, as having a right of way over the place in question.. _ _ _ 0:1 the p:trt of the plaintiff, a. great number of u ;messes were called, who proved, that for a long se ries of years the plaintiff had always exercised acts of ownership over the plate in question, and that hela.d repaired the hedges, cleansed the ditches, &c. For the defendant, also, several witnesses were called, to prove a continued way by the public from remote times. They did not, however, prove it to the extent, but merely that the plaintiff and his father had frequently permitted persons to pass that u ay. Verdict for the plaintiff. FROST V. HARVEY, GENT. This was an action by the plaintiff against Daniel Whittle Harvey, an attorney, to recover the sum of £970, received to his use. Mr. Sevjeant BESr stated, that the present cause was undefended, and therefore he would not-say all that otherwise he should feel inclined to say of Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey ; but he would say that this action would shew conduct on the part of Mr. Har vey, which was extremely dishonourable, and ren dered him unfit to be i member of an honourable pro fession. The plaintiff, Mr. Frost, employed Mr. Harvey as his attorney to sell an estate for him, and, he accordingly agreed' to sell it to a person of the name of Skeingley for the sum of 41450, hut he in. formed his client that he had agreed to sell it for .nly £950, and this latter sum only he paid over to his client, or rather he did not pay it over, for of this he only paid £7OO. He was also the rent gatherer of Mr. Frost, and in this character he had also Isis conductedhimseif, for he had received rents, but be had forgot to pay them over, and he should shew that the balance due to the plaintiff an ounte.f to 4970. The purchaser of the estate proved, that he agreed with Mr. Harvey to pay him £14 , 50 for the estate, and that when they met, the plaintiff, Mr. Harvey, and himself, he paid to the plaintiff £9Y), and as soon as Mr. Frost had turned his fmck, Mr. Harvey took from him the other £5OO. He asked for some me morandum to shew that he had paid it. Mr. liar. vey was very reluctant to give him any, but at last he gave him an acknowledgment for that amount. Mr. Baron lticitAnos said. that as this was an un defended cause, he should not have been inclined to have said any thing, but merely to have stated the amount for which the Jury ought to find their verdict,. it it were not for the shameful conduct of Mr. Harvey. His Lordship then severely animadverted on the con duct of the defendant : he lamented the Jury could not give greater; damages than the money he had actually receives. Verdict for the Plaintiff—llantages £970. An instance of most barbarous cruelty has been discovered near Eton. A poor bay, of the name of Meats, whose father, on going abroad (his wife being dead), left the boy in the care of Mrs. Hughes, for which he was to pay fourteen shillings a week, there is every reason to believe was starved to death, in addition to the most cruel and severe beating and treatment. The place she allotted him to sleep in was not considered fit for a dog or a rig. H e ha s been seen by her neighbours, when his hunger was very extreme, to go to a hog trough where pigs were feeding, and take out raw potatoes and eat them : on another .asion he went to take some cheese out of a mouse-trap with which it was baited, when the trap went off, and hurt his finger extremely. He died * few days after this circumstance happened. She was about to bury the body in a very private manner. without the knowledge of his friends, but Mr. Trigg, a neighbour, who had been a witness to her cruelty. interfered, and applied to the Coroner, who sumnione.t a Jury. They sat twelve hours in deliberation, wires the body having been opened by a Surgeon, who stated that he died of wounds and bruises which he had received on his head, and other parts of his body, the Jury brought in a verdict of Manslaughter against Mrs. Hughes. She was in consequence taken into custody, and conveyed to Aykstnu y prison on Mon day. At the time she was taken there was such Art immense crowd opposite to her house, waiting for her, that there was every reason to believe she would have been put to death in the street, if they could have got at her ; she was therefore taken throu g h a field She was afterward s di scovere d soot acit i t e , beck on her yw a. way to prison, and wa s pelted wit's t s w every thing that could be procured by the byys sad women. • •