Star. — London, England, 1814-08-30 00:00:00

IAPTBLLIGENCE. CAPTURES BY THE AMEPICANg. The Albion. ROBINSON, front Lisbon to Bourdeaux, was takcn on the '29th of July, by the American pri. vre:. , r David Porter The Esperance, \Timm from Bay Chalehrs, was tak,:ii, on the Slat ult. in lat 43. SU. long 14. 18. by the Whig privateer :—she was, on the sth instant, cri:i'zing in comrany with the David Porter priv iieer, The iatter intruded to continue at sea two months, rod then to proceed to Bourdeaux for a cargo. THE JAMAICA FLEET. The Middlesex, BARCLAY, from Jamaica to Glai gow, was spoke with, on the 21st inst. at sea :—she !:ad psited with the fleet the day before, at which time only thirty-five sail were in sight. The RATTLER sloop of war, Rolla transport, Lion • sehoetter, and a sloop, arrived at Bermuda the 23if of Jul}, from Halifax; the RATTLER was to have pro , ceeded to the'West Indies, but some of her convoy having patted, she remained at Bermuda the date above Mentioned. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 29. No arrivals to-day.-Came into harbour his Ma jesty's ship Boi,tr.—Sailed his Majesty's_ ships Cesr mutt, ALCESTE, GROWLER, and MISLETOE, f©r Ply mouth.--The outward tYnind still remain in St. Helen's roads.—Wind Westerly. DEAL, AUGUST 29. Sailed, the REOPOLE, sloop of war, with the Duke' or RicumoNis and family, for Ostend ; also sailed, a division of transports for Ramsgate; and another d:- vision for Dover.—Arrived his Majesty's ship FREYA from the westward, and sailed for the river. > A,MSGA'I'E AUGUST 29. Arrived the Pearl, '255 ; Heart of Oak, CD ; and the Mary; Victualling Transports, from the Downs. The Guards still continue their embarkation at this port. CORK S AUGUST 22. Yesterday arrived his Majesty's ship HORATTO, from Plymouth, and C.ortly id ter hoisted convoy signaller ,America. Sailed his Majesty's ships ErHaueirr and ,America. in pursuit of some privateers on the coast, one of which had the audacity to chace a me-chant vessel within IS or 16 miles of the harbour. . Captain R. O'Connor is promoted to the tank of Pmt Captain ; lieutenant W. Hall, of the Bellerophon, is promoted to the rank r. of Connander, and appointed to the saline, vice Captain Wrot tpky, deceased; Liens. Duff, Flag Lieutenant to Sir A. Coal rant, to the raak of Commander, and to command I.'E.poir. • Fifty nt the serliot Masters in tl.e Navy, are allow. Ed to retire on• eight shillings per day. . - Pie report of the loss of the Royalist, EDMONDS, rid of the Greenland ships belonging to Hull, has catised a deep sensation there. Out of 53 mu and oy , principallY belonging to Hull, 30 of them were married men ; and should they have unfortunately Suffered - , above 100 -children will be left fatherless.— Captain EnmoNns was a man highly respected for Lis ami:lble and humane disposition, and a good and sarettil seaman. Friday the PWIFTSURE, of '74 guns, bearing Vice. Admiral LA cGibtfttres flag, who held the cernmani. at Malta, arrived at Portsmouth from Malta, %%hence 'she sail d on the 21st of July. The NALTILUS, Swat.i.ow: and CEPHALUS, were. to sail for England -4rt a very shost.time from that date, with a cousi igerable:convoy from Malta and Gibraltar. At the time of the Swirrsuas's sailing we are happy in beig infortneds that island was quite free from any con- tagious disease whatever. She anchored at Mahon, a few hours, on the 4th, and at Gibraltar on the 10th . inst. The UNDAUNTED, Captain SNIIII, had lett Nahoti, to relieve the G ANYSIEDE, Captain Putty's, off Corfu. The ships were all leaving the Mediter ranean, except those which had been named to re: main tinder Admiral HALLOWELL. FIRE IN BOUT/iWARK.—The dreadful fire Which • blast forth so suddenly on Sunday evening last, and which has made a most tremendous chasm on Bankaide, cud continues, at intervals, to blaze out from among the ruins, and to require the .opetation of the two floating engines moored in ,front of the site where the various warehouses that have beef% eonsumed stood but two days ago. Un fortunately when the fire was first discovered in the .Thustard:staills,of Messrs: Lingard and Jones, it was nearly low water, and one of the floating engines, . which was moored below London-bridge, could not be worked up against the tide, and it was near nine o'clock before it could be brought into action, though it Was silly a minute and an half alter i. came in front of the fire before it btgan to pour forth its showers, at the rate of a ton, per ininuye. The extensive premises . of Messrs: Lingard and Imes were Ole first which were demolished. The fire in a few ft:inures after it got to a considerable head on these warehouses, was seen to extend its horrific approach both ways, and continued to spread each way with equal iwy till it l reached the Bout warehouses of Mcssrs.Thell and Steel, which, fortunately, being a new and very substantial erection, with a very thick party wall, prevented the *antes from extending themselves further eastward, . and saved not only those warehouses, which were full of flour, belonging to that Company, but a great many others between them and London-bridge, which, had they caught fire, must have inevitably shared t the same fate. Mr. Hammock's corn warehouse, in which were immense quantities df various kinds of grain, and a large portion of fine old beans, and those of Mr. Resden, which adjoined them, we are sorry to be informed, were all burnt to the ground.— ' Messrs. Clark and Myers's hop warehouses, and those of Mr. Evans (in the s:ime line), followed next.— Messrs. Ball and Jones's . iron foundry, Mr. Ayres's corn warehouses, part of the premises belonging to an eminent dyer, and a great deal of stabling belong ing to Thell and Steel, were totally consumed. Se. , . )reral of the warehouses near the river side, appear stn= to contain a volcano uf fire within them, as their wa ils are not consumed witi.in three or four feet of . t h e f o undation . ; and we should not be surprised if it should be some days before the engines can cease front their labour: they are now playing upon this burning and thickly smoking pile of ruins, and on the desolated walls still remaining of the adjoining houses. On viewing the extensive scene of devasta tion which this frightful ci a ssm presents, it is a source • of the highest consolation to learn, that, after the most minute inquiries, we could net find any one who had heard of a single life being lost, or even that any material accident had occurred to any one who en deavoured to assist the Walker% L 4i9 INTELLIGEiVCIS: COURT OF CHANCEItr, AbOLIS r Ex-PARTE ithimtnr: The Loan CHANCELLOR desired that Mr. Limbrey. :night be introddeed into his private room. his Lord ship there proceeded to converse wi.h him. In abciiit half an, hcur. Sir S. ltommuy and Mr. 11AnT were caked in. On their return, The Loan CHANCELLOR said he had had authentic information that the Commissioners o: o,llege of Physician: had vbited Fisher's llouse, • and he hail reason to believe that they concurred in t'ie opinion of Dr. Monro, that the state of this Gentleman's mind was such as to render him au object of atten doh. He should recollect the request made to him for a further visitation. He apprehended it was a duty he could ex( rcise at any time. With respect to this perscui's mind being in a state that required him to i.e under some custody, he should feel himself in a painful filial:akin if he differed from the sworn opi nions of the medical men. Having conversed uith Mr. Limbrey, he should say that in his judgment —Goo knew he was liable to err—he was an object that required custody to guard him against the con sequences of his own acts. It was his wish to make that custody as lenient as possible—but a great deal must always depend in these cases upon the pecu niary circumstances of the party. With respect to Dr. Leach, on whose certifiCate Mr. Limbrey had been confined, he appeared to be a person who bad known a great deal of Mr. Limbrey—he was be sides a Doctor of Physic, and a Member of the College of Surgeons. Whenever a question should arise on the clause in the act of Parliament whe ther a person not actually engaged as a physician, surgeon, or apothecary, was within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, he should decide the ques- tion. He thought that it would be prudent for Dr. Monro to certify his opinion to the Commissioners, that there might be a certificate, of the validity of which there could be no doubt. Upon the whole, the proper mode of disposing of this case would be, as he was authorised by a precedent adopted by Lord Mansfield, in the case of a lunatic brought into Court upon Habeas Corpus. He should postpone the return of the writ till the first seal, with liberty for all per sons to apply for an earlier return. He wished that those who were interested in this pet son's happiness would consider whether any other house than that where he at present was, would be preierable. He should be open to any application during the vaca ticn ; if not in tow..n application might be made to a AUG. 29.-IN THE IqATTER OF LEITH, A LUNATIC. The LORD Cuasekaaant said, that in this case an application had been made to him by petition from Mr. and Mrs. Leith, relations to the lunatic, praying that he should find out that which had been referred to the Master, in March last, and of which no report had been made to him. It was to say, what increase should be made to the allowance of the lunatic, as to her comfort ; namely, whether she should be allowed £loota a-year, and be removed from Fisher's house, Islington, to the louse of Mr. Leith, it being disco v,.red that the establishment at Islington was not a proper one for the care cf Miss Leith. The LGRD CHANCELLOtt said, that du: discovery of the unfitness of the place of confinement for the luna tic had been made since he had referred the inquiries respecting the situation of the lunatic to the Master, and whitt ground there was for it he could not find out. If they grounded their application for a change of the lunatic's place of confinement, on any thing that had transpired in a recent casenhich had been before him (that of Mr. Limbrey) he could say, that no thing had transpired in any of the affidavits in that ca-e, to fix the least imputation on that establishment. On the contrary, he had beta told by the Commissio ners appointed by the College of *Physicians, that there was not a better estaltbstiment of the End in this country. As to the application of the petitioner it furnished him with no account of the procLedings before the Master, and he was convinced that the ne cessary information had been afforkled to that Gentle man. This was not a way in which a Master of drat Court should be treated in so important a case as that of a lunatic's situation. Neither was it n proper way of treating him in a matter of this kind, which le (wired the earliest relief and attention. All he could say was, that he would refer to tt►e Master, during the vacation, to say what•was to be done in the case of the lunatic, so as to add to tier comfort by any addi tional allowance, or change of place of colifinement. The Solicitor for the others, nest of kin to the lu natic, stated, that the Master (Simeon), had offered to stay in town to receive any information that could be laid before him, as to the situation of the lunatic. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was aware that no Master of that Court would act otherwise in such an important case as one of lunacy. IN THE MATTER OF l'ltiCE AND JUDSON. • The LOAD CHANCELLOR said, tins was a case of two eminent Tutors at Oxford, who had been put in custody of a Serjeant at Arms for a supposed con tempt. The Lord Chancellor said, be had looked into all the affidavits on both sides with the utmost attention ; and had found that die defendants should be immediately discharged, which he had directed. The two Solicitors, (who he understood to be most respectable men) had sworn as oppositely as it was possible for men to do. He had looked in the affi davits for some of those minor circumstances which would enable a third person to judge of the. real facts between 'two others, each cf whom swore, he had no doubt, according to his conviction. But of these Minor circumstances he could find none in any of the affidavits. He could not, therefore, direct any costs to ba paid in this case; but let each party pay their own. EXPARTE STEIN AND CO. IN Tilt MATTER OF KENSING TON AND CO- The CHANCELLOR yesterday pronounced judgment in this case, which was an application from Mr. Lip trap, of the late house of Stein and Co. at White chapel, to be released from the obligations of an Agreement entered into between him and the assig nees of Kensington and Co.. with reference to a debt of R 291,000 proved by the latter, in the bankruptcy of Stein and Co. and upon which his Lordship had directed au issue to try whether or not the debt was aftecttd by usury. It appeared that there were two houses of Stein and Co. in Fenchurch-street, and Stein and Liptrap, distillers, in Whitechapel. Since the bankruptcy of Stein and Co. Mr. Liptrap had putchased all the et. fects of the other hotise, and now stood, both as to debtors and creditors, in the Situation of Stein, Sm:th :tad Liptrap. In the cot rs of the dealings and trans actions between Stein and Co. and ltensingtons th bankers, the debt supposed to be usniions had been contracted . and the assignees of Kensington now trtld eight bills of &MOO° each, drawn by the house in Fenchurch-Street, and accepted by Stein, Smith, and Liptrap, which had been lodged in the hands of Kensington and Co. as securities for their debt.— These securities; joined to an overdrawn cash. ac count, and a sum due to the ast:gnees. constituted an entice debt, to Which Mr. Liptrap had incurred the liability, of .4114,40). In discharge of this and all other clainis whatsoever, Mr. Liptrap had offered a compromise, and agreed to pay the sum of .16.3,959,', subject to an meat. of excise duties, amounting to', £20,000. This agreement had been drawn up, and was now in his Lordship's possession : the quastion, therefore, was--Whether this agreement was bind ing, the debt for which the bills were given as seen.' rities being to be tried at law as an usurious contract ? The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that it was clear that Mr. Liptrap, who had become liable in the place of Stein and Co. could have become no farther or otherwise liable than they were ; and if their debt should prove tainted with usury, he who had suc ceeded to that debt must be equally discharger; frem it; nur could the bills be withheld from him, the ac ceptor, as against the drawers. But t!.e. point here was—Whether, whilst this question was depending, Mr. Liptrap was not competent to enter into an Agreement, by which he should bargain, that, instead of abiding by the. r.: -alt of that trial, and in order to secure himself against what might be its event, be should pay one-half or any other proportion of the sum. 10 him it appeared, that whatever might be the equities between Liptrap and Stein and Co. such an agreement : , ed all the requisites of validity, AL.: that there was no recessity for placirg Stein and Co. in mrdio, to impede Y. execution of this agreement on the part of Liptrap. It was neither more nor less than the purchasing off a tea .t'i'. By a provi.su in the agreement, this ci)inion of his derived great ton e firmation, fie it was therein stipulated, that this agree ment should affect no akin of Liptrap against any. other party. It appeare! to him, therefore, that he could cot make the order prayed for, but that the pe. tition might be reheard after p;:yrnent. COUNTY OF DOWN ASSIZES. • BARON )I•CLELLAND'B ADDRE , S TO ALL THE PRI. SONELIS ON PASSINO SENTIViCE. At the conclusion of the Crown btitiness, Baron Weeeleetxo ordered these prisoners who had not already received their sentences, to be set forward ) . — His Lordship addressed them in a very energetic speech of considerable length, previeus to the assign. ing of their several punishments. Of this cogent address we cdllected the following short abstract— which, however, forms but an imperfect sketch of his Lordship's admirable and impressive speech : Addressing himself to some of the most turbulent of the ccr;victed rioters, his Lordship said, he should select the first in point of delinquency, and the most eminent in the riots which had lately disgraced this county. 'nese, hii Lordship observed, appeared to have risen out of a party spirit, which unhappily agi tated the county, and destroyed the peace of soc4ety. Unfortunately, at the last Assizes, a Juror falling sick had suspended the operation of the law againtt the rioters at Seaford, in September last; and in the mean time a second, and, if possioe, a still more outrageous disturbance had takee I.lece at that town : this sheaved th elle same party spirit still raged there. Betli li . om these riots, and the disturb ances et the Down Races, it evidently appeared that they were the result of previous combination in the parties with whom they originated, for the purpose of disturbing'the public peace, and destroying their opposers: This, however, was not conducted with so much secrecy, but that it came to the knowledge of the Magistrates in the latter case, who had the military prepared to protect the peaceable part of the community. His Lordship said, he should hate imagined, that at present no one would have dared to commit such outrages, but by the case of Denvir, tried for the riot at the Race Course, it appeared, that the moment the carriages were ?one, attacks on the military and insults to the Magistrates commenced. His Lord ship pointedly observed, that, in the eye of Goo, every man who took an active part in that riot was guilty of the death of the unfortunate men who be came victims of their infatuated opposition to the civil and military power ; and, although they may escape arraignment at an earthly tribunal, will have to answer to their GOD for it hereafter. Had any Magistrate or soldier lost his life on that occasion, he would have the painful task of condemning to death those who had been found guiltrof that riot. His Lordship said, the body of one unfortunate yOut.g inan was borne away, he was sorry to say, not with :iecoming emotions of grief, but in a kind of triumph, as if it was intended to be a standard of se dition ; for the very people who were bearing the corpse, baying Met a party of yeomen, rushed out and attacked tnem, crying out, " Damn their mur dering, Orange, heretic souls!" What kind of mind, said his Lordship, must those persons have who could dare to make use of such language as this ? They deserve not the name of Christians; nor ate they worthy of the privilege of the Christian Reli gion, of the principles of which they themselves are totally destitute. Can you, said his Lordship, ad dressing hithself to the person wile. uttered those words—can you imagine that the Roman Catholic Religion inculcates the destruction of your leilow creatures, merely becae.e they diff2r from you on same inferior points of religion, and which even do not affect its essential truths ? 'When I meet with such coadoct arising out of such principles, sanction ed by the name of religion, thus prostituted to serve ' the vilest passions of human nature, I shall always visit it with the severe.t punishment. I now come, said his Lordship, to the outrage committed by the I'rctestants, and I am happy, since offences have been committed by them also, to have both before me at the same time, to shew that the law mikes no distinction of party in the administra tion of justice ; hut the man who outrages the law, whether Catholic or Protestant, shall be equally pu nished, without respect of person. of professions.— I know, said his Lordship, that some persons have spread reports, that the Roman Catholics could not obtain justice in the Courts of Law : I shall this day shew . them the contrary, and let every one see, that imtice is administered without prejudice or with-ut _ _ _ The Yeomerl and Orangemen at Crosrgar behaved io badly as to call for the interposition of a Magi 'trate; Who very properly took a bayonet born Yeo who had presumed to draw it upon that Arate's son. He was light in refusing to num, it under the then existing circumstances. 11 s Lord ship considered some GI the expressions used on that occasion egkibLy violent and improper will those used by the evitholics 'on the Coute. As he told the persons of that faction who had been convicted before him, so he would teil those Yeomen, they were equally a disgrace to their religion, who har bour such sentiments as were indicated by their in: temperate expressions. And he would tell the Pro. testant, that he considered him more liiyhly ctripab:e in using such language than es-en the Roman Catho lic ; for the Protestant was, or might be instructed in the benevolent orineil,les of that Religion, which was the essence of benevdlence, and incap.ib!e of being pressed into the diabolical syttem of persecu tion. You have heard no such principles from your Pastors; poll have net derived them from your creed. If the Protestant thinks his religion sto,:erior to t%ax of the Catholic, let Lim, from thit eminence on which he stands, exlAit a more digniti;:d and bezoniii.g conduct ; and it there is any contention, let it be only who sh.til act most worthy tit the reli:ior. he • professes; and outdo the oiler in acts of b:,:evolence and virtue. His Lordship regretted.that lie felt it necessary to impose severe punishments upon those pers,tis whit had thus presumed to Las tage the laws, viol :4 w the peace of the country, and who had dsgraced Hie re ligion they proiessed t it might probably tiling tutu s an themselves and distress on their famili.s, bur they had themselves only to blame. Mere) to them, he was sorry to say, wneld be se. vet ity to the country, and, lice vcr.4, t.::vaity to them . would be mercy to the community. he it-listed the kaample he should make that day would s.ttii•fy both Firties, th it the name of rAigion, degraded by being used az a to is!: tor the o,nrdge of the law, only ag gravated the crime. his Lordship hoped the people wonl.l now tefleet tlicir conduct, and oil the state o f t h e p r i soners , with, ie.stead of crijoyi:er,th.2ir liberty and following o:Lir iadustry, would be •ibl;taal to languish many month; 10 a gaol, will:: their tamilies were suffering the want, pertain, of the necessaries of lifir. He ttust&l, however, tile punislitu-nt would not be lost upon the safferers, but Ott t:iey would c:2ane ont of prisla ref , tu , d, asid cured of Ova in tempo ate co., fact whizh h td ()bilged film to sen.•..tce them to a long and con:inc.-neut. /A'QUESP. Yesterday afternoon ar. adjourned inquest waslield at the Star and Garter, near Kcw.bridgt, GEORGE HociosoN E , sq. Coroner for Middlesex, on the body of a new-born male infant, found drowned in the river Thames, near Strand on the Green, on Monday, the Sid cf this minth. Oa the following day an inquest was held on the body, at the Bull's Head, in Strand on the Green; and, from the evi deacc then produced, suspicion fell on a Lady of the name of Roger:, an inmate in the family of Doctor BowEN, who occupied a rea. l .y-fuzili,hed huuse.— Mr. Rogers and Dr. llcNCn's family, in which she resided, h iving suddenly quittod that neiglitaour hood, the Jury, from the cause of suspicion Against her,. %vial the consort of the Coroner, adjoarned the inquest totil yesterday, to give time to make every necessary inquiry. George Cairs, a fisherman, deposed, that he lived in Strand on the Green; that, a!mut six o'clock on the morning of Monday, the ‘22.1 ot this ninth, as he was fislim.; iu t!i river Trim:., oil Strand on the Green, he drew up in his IL•1 a co:ton b.ig, con taining something, as Lich, on exaniiiiing,• he fouad to be the body ot a new-burn nt.te child. There was a rope tied round iv. body, to which there was a stone atlached, for the pu:puse, as he supposes, to sink the same. Jane Ashley deposed, that on the Wed,iesd ay mor ning preceding the body being found, ls DIU:, in com pany with another woman, was pas.ing the house where Dr. Bowen lived, she saw, it ditch, some marks of a woman's accouchencrit. Ann Hayes, a laundtess, deposed, that she was employed frequently in that capacity i.i the house of Dr. Bowen, in Strand on the Green ; the family con sisted of Mr. and Mrs. Iltwen and cook—Mary Price, a nurs..ry-maid—Fanoy Hayes niece to witness, who was house-maid in the family, and a Mrs. Rogers,- an inmate in the family—and Maria R. Suster, a mulatto, servant to Mrs. Riters, which witness learnt she purchased as a slave, at the age of six years, in St. Croix; there eras a Child's bed-gown found near the ditch, which, • %siren !hewn to Mrs. Bowen, she acknov:ledged to be bee pro perty. On the night previous to the tlyiiii.z.being found in the ditch, Mrs. Rogers was confined to, her apartment through indisposition; Mrs. Bowen - and the mulatto servant, and Mary Price, atterrdeerher, all of whom have since Lit the pLice, and *tailless did not know where they were gone to. Fanny Hayes deposiAl, that she was hssre-maid in Dr. Bowen's family ; the other savants, she un derstood, accompanied them from America. and shit heard them taik of going to Pails. Oil Tuesday night preceding the body of the child having been found, Mrs. Rugets was taken sudJenly ell, as shu undtrstoud from her servant, throu,;ll fright, s..ying she was alarnvd at the noise of sine persons bleak ing into the house; site continued ill all the night. Xs . etness was told to go WO empty a dirty p.iil in !h., privy, which was at a distance from tlie hiius • ; she Oil not know what it contained,. as the other setsant refused her a candle, nod the night being se r ; k and wet. Witness emptied the patl in the ditch mutts the thing was found. ion l;h a e n J d ut a •y b , le af c te : Lse , ze t r r n , l m ha t u !, r e s' c it u iv o c i st i : s s , :a t r i c o t sons unknown. 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