Star. — London, England, 1817-03-07 00:00:00

V f 4 PARLJAMEIVTAR r PROCEEDINGS. notTcE OF LORDS. MARCH •. Witnesses were examined in Bailey's Divorce Bill. Dr. Mill ais' A N Lecturer to the Middlesex Lying•in-lloapital, gave his testimony ritt professional matters c cted with the case. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that In caws of that tia• tote, it was usual to confi.le •he rivet-awl rte the second reading of the Bill to thr person occupying the Woolsack for the time Iwing. Ile present CA e, however, was so delicate and Sib new, that be felt it neces , at y o hie aid to have a haler 'attendance of th• Nouse• Tbr wao. of the ver.lict of a Jetty, did not appear to hie to fornidi a -ninceti- reason for rtfustng the Bill under eonsiderat on, and he Isia..w of many iiis , asc...!4 in which the re medy now at.plA for had beea ranted, under circumstances wh•ch did not perfect:y eon! wi•h the evidence of the profss sianal G-ntletnen who wrre r :minted in the present case. He was fir from itm-r.ling pledge him-elf as to Ike vote he should uhinta•rty give own, the 11.11; but from his impression tit the case of the Petitioner, !,• it.Tord a int every facility for the put luction of evidet:ce • by to , stponing the second readieg. It was the peculiari yof the pr, sent ca-e, that the dissolution of the niimage *mild at the same time has ardize the child. A pre cedent existed, iu wii.c't the child having been born dining A fifteen nownlit abwnce of the husband, ern& red it impossible to suppose lilm the pare. t; but in the lot ehu tase, she child WAS born six months and a half after the r..toro of the husband, and she qu-stion was, whether, under a:I the rocumstances„ the child s'muld he tonsidoiesi the clfspring of the husband, er rot sortie seducer > it must be the wish of their Lordsh'a.s to paid relief in such cases, but they would MID act with caution is alter ing the slater iw midair of any Individual With this view, and for the purproac qdeciding with due solemnity and consideratim on a use of Utah importance he should move that their Lord ships be summoned for !stun:lay next.—The House was ordered to be summoned accordingly. The Army and Navy seduction, and the Treasonabk Practices went through the Committees, and the Reputts were tat d.red to be rece,ved to-nturrow.—Adjournetl. HOUSE OF COMMONS. This day the Se AAAAA aren:ed at the House, and Prayers being read, he proceed,d , o count the House, when there ap• pear ."1 to he only 39 Members pre.ent—the S therefore rieeueueett the tioeft to stand adjourned wan to-morrow. WILL OF IHE LetTE EARL STANHOPE. This is, Ike. of rne Cot ARLES EMI S l'AheinPZ, which I of Ace this 2241 clay 01 November, 18u5, la manner following : I direct my , executors hereinafter named to pay all my just debts and (uncial expenses. and I desire that triy.luaeral miry be conducted without the least tAtion, as if I were to tie a very poor man. Whereas, some Tears ago, my wile Lpuisa did, with my consent, engAge hits. Walborga Lid:lw to Kite up giving lessons in music, ard to agree not to play at conceits tor money ; and whereas that was a great sActidce on the part of ..he said Mrs. 1.--ackner, 'I give her the sum of OStlik) of lawful wavy of Great Biitaiti, and also an my music books, or6alts, and other musical ins . ruments wilatevi.r. Vats() give to my most excellent atld truly Irene• table mother, 41000. Tu Mr. GAT:or) V Jelly, of Chevening, Kent, selooo, and all my tools, machines, machinery, in., struments, mathematical and astronomical, chymital and mechanical, .save and except such only as are Isegueathed• to-Mr. Robert Waltzer. But in case the said Mr. Varley should not survive me, I give the said before-men/10m d 41000 and said tools and ma , chinrry, to Miss L. Varrey, eldest daughter of said Samuel Varky ; but in case both of diem should not I survive. insert the said AlOOO. tools and m ictintery, to' go to Jaoe Varley, second daughter of tbe' said Sa muel Vise:el - . To Mr. (kluge Dyer, B A. 0100, _ _ ,'".'w '!' to Mr. Laval Stone, surgeoei;seffuslClaliloo. Tomy (rend Lord Hollandi r *pfiktsse .,........ , 'painted by Mr. °pie.. . To my friend Lord Grantley, DIY picture repro., sesting.a picture genet y ; nay picture of Dr. Trots. Ghia. of Geneva,. painted by Liotard ; and my pie. 4 . - SIM ei Madams Trussing, Of Gomm. which Was •,- painted by myself. . ,* .. .- ~ ~ . I give to Mr. Dew traahlia Walker. of Weu . minster, sun of that vainabit. sun Adam Walker, . ' . the . Lecturer on Phdosophy, my picture of Dr. Ben . jaunts Franklin. . ! give to Dr. Hutton, T.R.S. toy origisal picture of the great Sit Isaac Newton. . • . . I give to the Secretary of the Society of - .Aos, Mita nnfactures, and Commerce, in Westruiristerobe pia lyre of my most worthy and most excelleat father, palmed by Liotard. - - - . To my steward 11000. .,.. To RoberoValker, of Vinthertreet, 'Piccadilly, mya printing-pressinaker, se2oo, andlikewise all tools and s instrusueuts.belonging to me which shall at the rigs* of my death be in his possession. • To Ur. A. Murray, of SyMond's-ion, Ciunceryr , line. Nl* . . to W. finer, my under-butler, to W. Morsaisti ' sny footman, -to Peat, my carpenter, to Matthews, any plasterer, to his son George, and to Martin Tye # , anrinne-butnet, ,or to such of the before-•rentiOned six -persons as should be employed by use at the time of my . decease, 0.511 each. I likewise give and devise unto the said b.rtl liol-' land. Lord Grantly, Geo. Dyer, the Rev.Chrrstoptstr Wyvill, of lledale, 0; Yorkshire, the Re*. John Rn. Linton, of Halstead, Kent, Joseph Jekyll, Ebg. M. P. of .Spsing-gardens, the Rev. George Gregory, of ' B e d;or,torve, 'the Rev. James North; of:Saffron-Wal- ---- . _ :den, Estes, the Rev. I)avld Stone, and. Dv. E. f3tod win, M.P. of Ashdeu, Esser, and to their Mini' all my snessuages, lands, tenements, hereditarnents,' and real estate,. which I shall be seized or entitled into, either in law or in equity, and which I ham the sight to dispose of, subject to the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses, and the legacies mole said, in case my personal estate shoulJ not be suln• (inn to pay the mime. - And I appoint the said last-named ten worthy per sons executors ; and I give and bequeath unto MY said executors, or unto such of them as shall, within twelve calculus. Months alter My death, prove, at . Doctor: CernmOns, this my will, or act as executeri its the execution hereof, all the remainder and residue of ay personal estate and property whatswevsr 3 'lad 1 beteby revile and annul, & c . (L. 6.) (Stifled) atuttiors. ' , 1 TUOLI•S COU vit. . Va.' - . ighimmoso Homo oaAwi &a nos, Coo 'Ts Taorn.a. p rov jint die it4lo ken Haftkbard Viola Lard Holloisd, li the aiLt Hoe. %Mina% 1 Wasik,. Geor ge D I ,. F n . Poi. Llidooplar Wyvill,.c Joseph Jtiyll, fr... 1 dm Ric /Alp Noitit, time, David &dm, Est and kolatunJ oodwi n _ leoefor,of Ildlodscioe, doe aunt,* koccoso!... p rj ",l pm : perifsouna uskrier .4112,600- . CRUELTY TO BRITISH SUBJECTS. The following are authentic particulars respecting the steps taken by the Briti►h merchants at Cape Henry, in consequence of the shameful imprisonment of Mr. Dsmosi by the H tltian Govern:nem, whose case was detailed in a Petition presented a few nights since to the }tome of Commons_: _ _ " After the imprisonment of Mr. J. Dtvivm in the common .1 id of Cape Henry. on January 20, 1816, fur the insertion of what this despotic Govern ment was pleased to call political intormation, in a letter addressed to the master of a British vessel, then lying in Port Plata, in the Spanish part of the !bland. The Baron Ditpuy, in conversation with a British merchant, affected to regret the necessity of adopting so harsh a' measure. He justified himsell, however, on the ground of keeping Itimralf secure, and as serted, that if the letter in question, with the obnoxi ous paragraph quoted in Mr. Davison's Petition, had received his seal and signature without his perusal, and had been read by any of the King's officers in its progress to the Spanish territory. that his own head would have been infallibly forfeited. 1 , " Oa Monday, January 22, every merchant, so per-cargo. master of vessel, and in short every stran ger, WAS summoned to appear at the Governor's pause At two o'clock. in order to hear the contents of a letter received in town that morning from his Ma jesty. The number assembled at the appointed hour consisted of about forty. The Governor soon lifter entered the room, attended by the Baron Dam and the Under Interprettr. The Baron addressed the company by informing them, that he had received a lam that morning from the Ring, and at the same time a sttict order to communicate its contents to the strangers resident in his Maj:sty's capital; and that in conformity to this injanc!ion, he would proceed to read it aloud. He then read the letter in French, the contents of which were as follow s--. , That his Majesty had detected a letter written by Mr. J. Da viom, a British merchant establishei in Cape Henry, Lis capi..l. containing information, not relative mins own commercial affairs, but to the political transac tions or his dominions; that the paragraph which had come under his observation was perfectly false, in the representation of the failure ta his Majesty's arms against his enemy ; that it . was highly reprehensible for a merchAsa to iuterfere with politics, and to spread reports prejudicial to the G 'imminent which pro. tecret his person an.l property ; that every exertion imi been used to induce Mr. Davison to reveal his authroof for the information he had communicated to hi , vorespondeut, but without the desired effect; that the only inference to be drawn from such cop ' duct and such obstinacy was, that he must have some secret conuectiun with the enemies of his Kingdom,; and that he had estate to the determination of trying hint AS a common spy and puitialting him according to the laws of the country. " Alter the Baron bad. finishe4 the letter it was suggested by some one present, that it was desirable the litter should be translated into English, as there were several persons in the room who were nut suffi ciently conversant with the French language to com prehend its contents correctly. This WAS accordingly done by the under interpreter. ' tt It would be difficult to describe the surprise Of the British Merchants present at this meeting when .they heard the manner in which his Majesty deter mined to proceed against their countryman, whom they locked upon as one of the mot respectable of their number. They concluded, huweves, that no thing could be done at that moistest, as it might be' dangerous to commit themselves, without mature consideration, by an avowal of their opinion, in a ' country where the moot barbarous tyranny and %no. 1 ranee, entbried by the bayonet, prevail over common striae and common right. It was, nevertheless, re solved, upon the breaking up of this meeting, by the principal merchants, that they would proceed to the house of Baron Dopey that same afternoon, and re monstrate in the roost unequivocal manner against the determinatiou of hte Majesty, and that some strong representation should be made to effect Mr. Davi sou's release. A deputation accordingly waited upon the Baron, composed of the five following Gentlemen s Messrs. Bradock. lehoolbred, Richardson, Rawlin son, and Marsom. Therfound the Baron in his of fice, and he immediately requested theta to silt into , a room upstairs. He followed them, accompanied o l fty Baron Vastey, a tool employed by th e K ing to I write fur the Royal Gazette, and to support bas atro cities and oppression by the most bare•faceel false hoods and sophistry, a task, for which a most de pravad heart and the most savage disposition have ' peculiarly qualified him. T:sey commenced by ex pressing their concerti at the imprisonment of Mr. Davison [ and at the measures which his Majesty had determined to adopt against him; they imagined that .Lis respectability and correct conduct during his residence lathe country would have sheltered him from his present disgrace, and from the imputations that had been coat upon hit character ; they declared in a respectful, but in a firm and resolute tone, that the events communicated in blr. Davison's letter, And which had provoked his Majesty's displeasure, were perfectly known to every one of them, and had frequently formed the. topic of common converse. ciao among theuvaehres and 6therforeigners ; that if they should notormnately ,find themselves in Mr. Distrison's situation, they must remain in prison to r.trisity, if the discovery of the original authors of the report were the sole condition of enlargement ; that though the report . of the failure of the expedi tion against Jeremse aught be false, yet it had been so conarnoa, that It would be impossiWe for any of them to trace it to its source; they hoped, that un der these considerations, his Majcs.y uvula no longer consiOes-their countryman in the light of a common spy, a character so rarely found among Englishmen, but that he would be pleased to order his itnmediate Wit:anon. They then requested the Baron Dupuy to elm his influence with bis Majesty fur the attain ment of their wishes, and soticited him to lay before bins the r presentations they had made relative to 'this unhappy affair, in whkli they felt so detp an in .. ' terest. He replied, that he would that same evening mo h toff a &patch to the King, with a fall account tit what had been represented., After a few txpres ; sionsof regret for Mr. Davison's flotation, on the "art of Baron Dupuy, and an absurd attempt on the Ipart of Baron Vaktey, to prove that a merchant h a d no right, upon Any pretext whatever, to introduce 'political information into his correspondence, a doc trine too cootradicwry . to cosmos awe for retina , tion, the Deputation took their leave. perfectly sa.l tisfied with the propriety and literaltis of their conduct. " Every person at all acquainted with the affairs of Petion and Christophe, it IMAM Of the truth of the staterni.nt in Mr. - Davisun's letter, respecting the failure of the expedition ut the litter against Jeretnie. It his been men:itmed in all the American Papers, and one of these paiwts, in which tl:e circurnstmce was stated, was At Cape Henry at the vary in.! of Mr. Davison's suffering. The report wis spread immediately on the ieturit from Juit.lnte of the ve,- eels which had carried the troops there, an.l although none of the natives dare mention it in general con vets iti )))) , they made no secret I it in talking with Englishmen, on whose honi:or th-y cnuld rely." PARIS, M.fRCH S. PRIVATE LETI ER. IThe /11orritere of to-day annotmces, that Prince Talleyrand resumed yesterday the luoctions of his I place of Iligh Chavalxrlain. The Moniker does nor mention. but it is certain, that he had yesterday morning a private audience of his Majesty, which I.oted above half an hour. Same say thlt foreign influence was employed t.) procure his ie.aihaission to Court; others suggest, that M. de C. having strong reasons to suspect one ot his colleagues of intriguing against him, had it intimated to the Prince, that it he wrote a letter to the Premier Gentilliornme, his exile would be revoked. It is certain, that the letter was written, and the Prince received permission to return to Court. It is .3 1 ..0 certain. that all the Wends of the colleague above alluded to speak very contemptuously both of the talents And of the charac ter of M. de 0.; and it is not to be supposed that they do this without being authorised, at least, by the silent consent of their patron. Tois bring the case, it is very natural that the Minister of Police should think that the readmission into the interior circle of the King, of M. de Talleyrand, who is ac quainted with the whole history of the rival in ques tion, (and who cannot be supposed to wish him well, alter his late denunciation of what the Prince had said in a private company), must effectually prevent this latter Gentleman front gaining any cootidence with his Sovereign. 6' It is a great misfortune for M. de C. 1114 he has no partisans on whom he can rely : he is all posacr ful for the present, but his power depends on perso nal favour ; he was never till now in a position to have any adherents, being favoured neither by birth nor place ; no one is accustomed, by long habit, to look up to him AS a leader. With the system he pursues, he is forced to employ revolutionary tools; but these very tools are habituated to look upon those who are now wing to attack him as their natural chiefs. Never did A man possess greater power than he does. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is become mere cipher; the Minister of the Interior is entirely under his direction ; or if ever he resists, he is forced instantly to yieli ; the other klinistes obey clay his mandate; ; the Duke of. Feltre alone has sornetimei resisted with success. There WAS. there days ago, a report, which still exists, that M. Pour) 'di Bore was on the eve of befog recalled, and that M. de Marcoff was to replace him ; however that may be, ha was very near meeting with an accident Oa more serious nature. " On Saturday, in the middle.of the night, as M. Pose° di Bosso was going through the Place Ven dome. rinse part of the hanseu of his horses broke, and th • set off at full gallop. It appedri that he completely lost his presence of mind, for though the danger on such an occasion in a four.wheeT carriage in a town is extremely tonal!, he prefentd jumping out of 'the carriage; the consequence naturally %Vint that he fell on his beat!. No limb was hmken, artd foctouately the contusiom are not so violent as mi.:ht have been expected. He has been bled several trines, bet no danger is appreended.—l waa near forgetting to mention, that every body says that M. Pasquicr voted Ageing his collisiiGoe, the Maisie:. of Koine, on the questign of the Nay, Budget.u... tt.e. ivy t&N i.vO•STAK. LON1)014.. Mt tea bag our best thanks, and kla farther favours are earnestly Intr.-med. FRIDAY, MARCH 7. 1817. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s Reduced Aut —Cons. Rio. 99i—for ace. 49} 4 per Can. abet --S per feat. Navy 99 Esebequer BED Ida. pr.—lndia •39 40 pr. On.,the propriety of reviving and rendering per pima the Act fie preventing and punisking attempts to eeduce 4is• MaJerrv's forces from their allegiance; there 'can be but one sentiment among the friends of order,- good government. and the constitutional re ft4matibnif abuses. We think it impossible, how ever * much men of equal honesty and good intentions might,. differ on the expedietcy of swpending the Habeas Corpus AM that any man of a sound mind can offer an objection to a law calculated to preserve Irons taint the minds-of-men whrrowe so Moly duties' to the community as our soldiers and sailors. ; That men acquainted kith human nature should Gave been fearful of the mischiefs and inconvenience which might result from dr:omitting too much power to the hands of petty inthorities, was not surprizingr . ' and the value of the Amendments produced by this cautious fear is becoming Ranifest already. The Magistrate on whose .warrant the people accused of treasonable practices were arrestea at Glasgow, may be a person of the cadest judgment and soundcs: discretion—a second AfiIiIIOPHILL ; but it such a person could be imposed upon, how great the danger to the subject where the Magistrate might be of a different character—not only innocent but meritori. out Characters might have been ruined in health and in reputation, with hardly a potsibility of obtaining redrets. The Glaszew Chronicle of Tuesday states,. that Mr. *Titan; the Teacher recently apprehended on A Charge of Treason, who has been, says that Paper, liberated for imamate," bas received from twelve respectabls Gault:atm a public testimony to unifortn loyalty. A copy of this testimonial Is pub lished in the News.paper alluded to. We calm.* insert it entire ; but we make tram for enough to chew, bow cautious petty shoutd acting upon secret information—i,.f rmation always to he suspected as flowing from malevolence. The testimnnial, after mentionine the feelings of i deep astonishment an , l regret t-itts which the subsci:- bers learnt that Mi. *Titan find been apprehenderr:- on a charge of being conntcted with R Society formed with trensanable designs, says—. , From nut full and ." 1 intimate acquaintance with that G‘ntletnan'a cha racter as a man, a citizen, and a chri,tian, we have the strongest conviction t h at such a siulation ot the' lawt of Gin and man as this charge inv e lio, la alike abhorrent to the dictate: of his undetriand,og and the feelings of his heart. It is impossihl fr:.r , had so many opportuaities of knowiii7, dirt the I..ve of pence and order decidedly preclmninates in his mind, to refrain from expressirg our sincere reertt that any I ertw: should hare been found ta frat,': cf anin-1:•ng his nacre to an association so critsainal in its nAtu;e." The WU for the more eirectullly preventing Sed:• thins Meetings and Assemblies, of which . we gave the hem's, has rvc:-ived the toll.,vcris in the Committee : The number of hers^.ns not permitted to meet to . gether on political grievances. without notice WI g given by seven housekeepers in the newspapers, ft.. is filed m 1 .4 and upwards. No Meeting, held in virtue of such previous notice, to be adjourned to any future day. The Act not to extend to Freemasoss' Lodge.; nor to Declaration approved by two Magistrdte: ; nor to any Meeting or Society of the people com monly called Quakers; nor to any Meeting or So ciety assembled for purposes of a Religious or C I ,. ritable nature only. All Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures, exceeding se2l, incurred under the Acr, may be recovered by acti a of debt within three mouths after being incurred. No person to be prosecuted nosier this Act, fcr having been, before the passing of this Act, a Mem ber of any Society or Club declared to be an unlawful combination and confederacy, if such person shall not in any manner have acted as a 'Member of such So. ciety or Club after the passing of the Act. N ► person to be prosecuted by virtue of this Act for any thing done or clmmitted contrary to its pr, visions, unless such prosecut.on shall be commenced within six calendar months after the offence. EMBASSY TO CHINA. la a former Paper we stated._ that the Embassy to China under Lord Amman, disembarked at Tien- Sing. in the gulf of Pv-tche•Lee,nn the 26th of July, after a remarkably quick passage up the Yellow Sea. A letter from a Mr. Damn, one of the yourig writers at Canton, states, that in Septemb..r they were still in Pekin. and that rumours unfavourable to the hopes of the Mission were circulated among the Mtn. darines at Canton, io consequence of our e late espe dtti.in to the Nepaul territory. Mr. BPSNERNIAN, another Writer on the Establishment, considers these rumours. and he is probably right, as the we .? idle gossip of a set of den disappointed in not getting the Ambassador into their trammels, ar.d training Itirn for the Court. The Chinese were perfectly aware of the whole transaction respecting Nepaul sir Inonstis before the arriv sl of Lord AMU/MT before Niacin. ' where he received the most flattering invitation hods the Emperor, to which his reception at Tien-sing coy responded; Whence then comes this sudden it st jealousy concerning Nepaul ? That si.me s might arise with regard to the humiliating ceremony which the Chinese demand from all foreign A tuba.- sadors, may be readily conceived, for such have in variably happened ; but as the Chinese are much addicted to precedents, and they have the recent one of Lord MAcntrisrav before them, it can hardly he apprehended that any very serious difficulty will arise on this point of etiquette. We have to add. that no dispatches or letters of any kind have yet been received from Pekin, tit, er from Lord Aminntxr, ur from any of his ; Anl that at the India House the highest hopes are en tertained of a beneficial tesult from this expens;ve Embassy. Last night's extra Loariors Casette it, as before, filled with Addresws of Congratulation'to the rm.( c. REOENT on his late providential escape ; the tit: being from the Established Clay of London Westminster, who declare that they catinot •• reica.n from rngre'particularly expressing their horn r r! persevering endeavour to poison the sources of virtuous sentiment, by means of blasphemous public:4l°r., adapted to the capacities of the ignorant, for the To-- pose of bringing contempt on Religion, and thus pre. paring the way for the commissi“n of the worst of crimes." Among the other Addresses are those Iron' I The Clecgy of St. Asapft. the Boroughs of Wallingford r.t of Newry, the County of Dumfries, the Bergh of Ltri-013, cue Burgh of Arbroath, tke Uunreisity of Aberdeen, the Boruuzh Tatuesurtholie Magistrates of Burialsland, :h.: C••rrraeoo of Carrickfergus, the County of Forfar, the Liiirough of lertiN the County of Berk*, the Cowry of I.inlithsi.w, the loon of Itc,:k. • dole; the Inkahitaists of Haves -rig :ate bower, a:id t‘e &rue eh of Klug:a Lyons. " —folk. 'those A dresses are expres.rive of the mo , t ardent atttchuma to t,:e Throne. We arc scrry to tied, tb.it the Court • f n could not determine whether the Le it" Nieu be• nevolont mode of disposing of ael.Othi wag Intivrt ihr not, tliAn the usual expenditure ot it in the Egipc4 l Hall ; and moteover, that the Couit should hare bees anattiniously seiaed with &Li. of Ili J• ril 19 T 1 th