Star. — London, England, 1814-11-03 00:00:00

tedT reeehitrkalk %Pt SirbasittP4Tir. trbadoes: cers 4 the Amy ke thealbsvrokee it Docemberi up thly, as hefeco.- •esigoed the tern to Lord Mu. ou ordered to.ricA4 Timent, it AS; . I . ‘ itdoier dlstiic n to Mi . thifiei*. .ginient embarked 1117 transport: n. MVItR4Y, it tS e immediateir.- s were dispatebej atan2on Sir JOHN Ito has been for of the 11)40* - 43 : of Fort . Erie;,. uaimoso,k.sq, 'a state by thel44l n died in'the'te the sd Regiment join his corps ia with detachmen6 Icier the command a.tenci, put into ie 24_1)Atia". and drunia t „ _ 14. Tey,_ a Bremen. I their-rolliC s isptil 4 611 r ,Artmiv 44% Pin*. embark Orilorijkla erred from the dii. ult. are prooseding ons on lore-104th ,mouth : the lefh, I Indies; 224,10 r braltar ; 31st, for , and 50th for Ito. addition of abuie strengthening that • , 'GOV*. at IA 2... rd's Clinaluner, Sot. lei. r. Shaisapku's Osprey. • t earry . iag 'alk K. C. °tat 'llM **F.; 3 . 00 - 6 ) tape id piece oolf Sir•elds iad upWards • , 4 tv.toit3 toz;ctitt , tr ski placevalftWig humidor is matched. 4 :4 at tbeSecood WOX I . 14 ft. hid ALtiol.lol4liN r 200 gs - • • , vening her Ittsat, he Dukaa Kaarr'a ived at the Catde.. ck. The Pachasa (Tn. Elwyn to-asorroiii heveley. expected tryAminir ils =obi - "fi%ivr Ls,. Bin romomori t od all the principal, gland, are to be in on Tueidirnerx.. t. retershurgh,:;we s of his Eogelkiwir lot at the Conn df by the gtepereeof . h marked kindness rith dieGrandCor hich the Star and i further presented his Imperial 0. ect, (Senn), the the Loan CHAN. e REGENT'S appco ear ensuing; Annual Sermon estmiester, accord ailed the Oatelted vidows of that a sermon, 21-13d the officers uf:the es at the eateriain oatmeal pudditig, hat greatrigitinsia r • .I'. ogiiskorn;arPacio r—..the• Frenchmen ;tsid"doe cop ithof i Nmistnefebiosne- Ord.*? suessuens wefer.tork Sasti6or. fainherwiiii‘filvi BRAnIfIrASTE, eleiage;.w.ta soar iniepstsess,. Cam - ankh, hie was so a of U* ktßowall . 2 / , • • A'APAL INITCLIGENCP. The Jane, Gtonca, from Liverpool to New Brun swick, was taken on the Stli ult. by the General Bul man privateer. The Samuel Cumming, DoxAcnsow, from Trini dad-de-Cuba to Liverpool, has been taken by the Pike American privateer, and lost off Charleston. The Ceres, BURN ) from Liverpool to St. Do. *lingo; put back on Sunday, having sprung a leak. The Lord Nelson, FORT ; Better Luck Still, Do- SEDER; and Irvine, GREEN. from Malaga to London, put into Lisbon the 14th ult. The Wilhelmina, WAGNER, from Stralsund, arrived at Yarmouth with damage, having been on shore, and must discharge. MILFORD, OCTOBER 27. Captain BINGUAM, of his Majesty's ship MYRTLE, has informed our Collector of the Customs, that an American ship of war was seen on the 18th instant between Waterford and Dungarvon. PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 1. Came in the ROYALIST and Foxstousn sloops of war, from a crnize. The LEONIDAS frigate, with the trade frosts Portsmouth, passed yesterday for Cork. The IPHIORNIA frigate did not pass with the above as stated, but came into this port to take the ships that might be waiting, and sailed this morning with them to join the LEONIDAS at Cork. Arrived the Ellison, RITCHIE, from Petersburgh, and a few other ships. PORTSMOOM, NOVEMBER 2. Arrived his Majesty's ship ACBAR from Plymouth. Nothirg sailed today. Put back to St. Helen's roads his Majesty's ship BOMBAY, bound to the Downs. DEAL, NOVEMBER 2. Arrived and sailed for Sheerness his Majesty's ship SaattAeOt7TA• Sailed the MERCURIUS sloop of war, for Calais. Remain in the Downs his Majesty's ships REDPOLE, OLYMPIA, RATTLESNAKE, SWAN, and SCOURGE.—Wind N. E. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. Captalh Mould, to the Mutine, vice De Courcy. ( Lieutenants Andow to the Chatham, Davies to the Amaranthe, i.abe to the Moine, Stuart to the Leonidas, H. E. Temple to the Sapphire, J. Wall& to the Leviathan, and Edw. S. Cotgrave to the Jaunt. Robert Gamble, Esq. late purser of his Majesty's ship Victory is appointed Agent Victualler at Halifax. Mr. Wilknott, Clerk of the Rope-yard, at Woolwich, is ap. pointed Clerk of Survey, at Sheerness; and Mr. Peake, the brother of Sir Henry, the Surveyor of the Navy, is appointed to the Rope-yard, at Woolwich, in'the stead of Mr. Wilmott. When BONAPARTE visited Holland, he addressed Admiral K. who said he did not speak French. The Emperor became irritated and exclaimed; I suppose you can speak English, to which Admiral K. an swered in the negative. BONAPARTE, .being a little, pacified, asked him why he had not learned French ? to which the Admiral replied that the French language was not taught at sea ! 'MADISON cries out against American traitors fight ing in the British ranks : and yet one of his grounds of war was the pretended right which British-born subjects have to throw off their allegiance and fight in the American ships, as Americans, in virtue of his Mama", which he calls a , naturalizationP'—g , The ge neral pacilkation of Europe," it is true, makes it now convenient that he should not insist on this principle; but it is equally true, that of the 11 MOUSOM11" [for `Elsetsiansle read tsar l Of seafaring citizens" impressed into our service, service almost the whole were British-born; W and tbat the rig ht of search was indeed indispensable. by the open avowal that the United States would protect them as naturalized subjects. _The following is the Narrative of the Captain of the Golden Grove, which was supposed to be lost, but .fortunately got into Newhaven, after having been for •some days beating about on the coast of France. on Thursday last. She was bound from Archangel to Cork Sailed tram Archangel on the 11th of Sep tember, in company with 14 sail of other vessels, on the night of the 13th suffered much under a heavy E Cress . the North East, between Knock John and Island ; the night being very dark, hove-to until day-light, when the ship began to make water. During the gale many heavy seas struck the vessel, and made a breach over her ; in the night missed the leer; bore up at day-light for Archangel Roads, but the wind having driven me from the South West, found it Wrinkle to fetch the Roads ; then fell in with five sail; bore away, and proceeded on my voyage ; got through the passage, with a good offing to the north east of Cape Sweet Nose, when a mend heavy gale from the north east obliged me again •to heave to, and the water increased ; in round ing the North. Cape, had to encounter another severe gale, sod, owing to its freezing and snowing inces santly, could not use some days of the first of this gale.. Supposing myself to be a little to the south east of the Cape, and no wn to be seen, the vessel suffered accumulated distress, and gained water upon us very fast ; these three gales were all foul winds, and alone sufficient to have ruined any ship whatever. After rounding the North Cape by dead reckoning, lanother heavy gale from the north-east sprang up, the water still increasing, but the pumps and gear being in good order, I wax not without hopes of reducing it, and having a fair wind, I continued under foresail and close-reefed main top-sail, until I got to the lit. of 70 deg. 46 min. North, and long, of 14 deg. 19 min. East, when the vessel sprung a fresh leak, and made three feet is a quarter of an hour ; sat both pumps going, but she gained five inches in three hours on both pumps ; wore ship, and hove to. and, in three hours, got the water out, after which one pump was sufficient to keep her tree ; all bands took a spell, and at seven in the morning wore and run to the westward, but in Tess than an hour the ship again gained three feet wa ter, which compelled me to wear and heave to again ; the leak was supposed high up on the larboard side, the deck was cleared of every article except anchors, cables, boats:and teak's copper. Continued for seve ral days in this dreadful state; made for the land, the crew exhatnttd, and no provisions; at last got on the coast of Lapland, and anchored in foul ground of 90 fathoms water; went on shore, got rye bread, being the best provisions to be had; the crew °bilk ed to eat raw meat, having no time to cook any ; continued to encounter gales and every hardship, until at last obliged to leave the ship to the charge of strange boys, all hands on board being totally ex hausted- Myself and crew have now been IS days on breed and water, and have been obliged to throw er part of the cargo to save the ship. " JOURItt.II. #' riot ittensiOlsr b Pit44ivc4 IN A SERIES OF LE I'TERS ; IIRMARKS MORAL, IIIsTORICAL, TOPOGRA , PHICAL, ETC. • (Colttinued from the STAR of October I I.) •I=IIIII.O LETTER V. pARis , , 1814. I resume my description of the public Owes. The LOUVRE.—To give you a faint picture of the contents of this superb structure, would occupy a small ♦olume. It is not well known when the first Louvre was founded ; but it must have been at a very remote period. It is built close to, and nearly parallel with the Seine; and the front of the edifice is said to be 525 feet in length. Part of the Louvre was built by Francis I. in the year 1528 ; part by Henry 111, and Louis XIV. desirous of making it the finest palace in the world, employed the most celebrated architects of his age on this work. It was under this monarch that the beautiful front was exe- cuted, scarcely to be matched in modern times. The great Picture Gallery, which connects the Louvre with the Thuilleries, was begun by Charles IX. and was completed, as I said before, by Henry IV. in the year 1600. This truly superb room, which is no doubt the largest, and contains the most numerous and finest collection of paintings in the world, is 1362 feet long, 33 broad, and of conside rable elevation inside. It was intended to have dis- ributed the pictures upon the walls of the gallery according to the chronological order of the age in which their respective masters flourished ; but this was rendered impracticable, from the disproportion of the size of the pictures. The first place in the Louvre usually visited by strangers, is the Galerie des Antique:, on the ground floor, containing a fine collection of ancient statues, busts, bas-reliefs, &c.; which, as well as the pictures, for the most part have been, plundered and carried off from Italy ; or, as the French say, they are the fruit and glorious trophies of their Italian conquests. Citizens Barthelemy, Bertholet, Mae, and others, had been appointed by the Republican Government, for the purpose of selecting many of these curious and valuable reliques of antiquity, from the Capitol and Vatican at Rome : and the, extensive assemblage of ancient curiosities and paintings to be seen at the Louvre, will skew how far the French have profited by, and availed themselves of the spoils of that de voted country. It will also demonstrate how far these people have redeemed the solemn and religious pledge that they made to the world, at the corn. mencement of the French Revolution, viz. that the liberty and property of all nations should be secured to them, as far as the republican arms could gua rantee them by their victories ; declaring that they had abandoned all idea of conquest, and that they sought only the glorious triumphs of reason and of philosophy.. The recollection that by far the greatest part of these beautiful specimens of rare sculpture) and paintings have been forcibly wrested from there rightful owners, and do not preperly belong to France, is certainly a great alloy to the pleasure felt by the spectator, who expects a more divine gratification in viewing them. The Galerie des Antiques has six apartments, besides the entrance hall. All the cielings are ornamented with handsome bas-reliefs and paintings, done from allegorical and historical subjects ; and from the va• riety of matters thus represented by the artists, the different apartments seem to have been named for the sake of distinction. To give you some idea of the contents of these . apartments, I shall mention those of the Vesigule, from which you will be able to judge of the similar nature of the contents of the other rooms: it contains, then, busts and statues of Diana, Marcus Aurelius, Adrian, Bacchus' (colossal), Minerva (colossal), Se- Antinous, Antoninus Pius, Lucius Peru:, Demi- Atculalsitu : all which appear to me to bear real and undoubted marks of antiquity. It would far exceed the limits of a letter to describe er enumerate the many curious memorials and speci mons of the Grecian and Roman ages which are to be seen here ; I shall only mention one, out of many, which is very unique and remarkable, called the Athenian Inscription:, better known by the name of the Nointel Marbles. These are two stones which were brought from Athens to Paris about the year 1690, by M. Nointel, French Ambassador at Constanti nople. They are tables of marble, containing the names of several hundred Athenian officers and sol diers, who fell in Egypt, Phoenicia, Cyprus, Egina, and Megara, during the third year of the 80th Olym piad ; that is to say, about 457 years before Christ. The names of these heroes are -engraved in three co lumns, and in the order of their respective ranks and tribes. It is snitch to be lamented that these scare and precious memorials of Grecian archzology are not perfect; great part of the stones being now broken off, and thereby many of the names of the warriors for ever lost. The remaining inscriptions are mostly very legible. The entrances to the different apartments of this lower gallery are ornamented with superb columns of oriental marble. The Picture Gallery, which is the largest in the world, is divided into nine parts. One part contains the productions of the French artists; the four next divisions are occupied with the pictures of the Ger man, Flemish, and Dutch schools ; the remaining four are made up of the paintings of the different Italian masters. The greater part of the pictures, I think, are on religious and allegotical subjects. A catalogue of them may he bdtight at the door, which gives a list of 1233 paintings, and a short history of the pieces. Artists have permission . to • come and copy from the picteres, but not : o t i ke them down from the 1 walls. I saw several painters, both male and female, busy in copying from the originals. I saw also an Englishman hard at work upon a landscape. Persons coming to visit the curiosities at the Louvre I have to deposit their umbrellas and canes at the door with a person who tickets and takes care of them ; for this service you pay three sous at coming away. FRENCH CARRIAGES.—I think it may be said, in general, that their wheeled carriages are clumsier than ours. I saw very few four-wheeled waggons in l any part of the country. For transporting goods, they use a sort of very large long cart, balanced on gigantic wheels, which carries a very great load, and, as far as I could judge, without much expense of power to the horses. The box which receives the axle is very long, and projects beyond the body of the wheel ; so that the vehicle is very apt to get foul of other carriages, especially in narrow streets. If we add to this the awkwardness of French driver!, and the natural tendency of adverse carriages to slide down a slippery and sloping pavement, and ap proximate each other in the centre and lowest part of the street, we shall not be surprised at the nume rous instances of vehicles coming into rude contact in almost every street of the French metropolis. The French have a contrivance for loading and unloading their carts, which I do not recollect seeing in Eng land, and which is, I think, worthy of imitation. On the fore-part of the cart, which is a machine nearly as narrow as a brewer's dray, and so low as almost to touch the ground behind, is fastened and belong ing to the cart a winch, turned by four spokes. Two men, with the help of a rope, passed round the winch, can thus draw up into the cart a cask or other body, which their united strength, unaided by this power, would be unable to accomplish.. One of the last acts of Bonaparte wasto lay an ad ditional tax on carriages. Rope harnessis very com monly used for carriages throughout France, except in some of the large cities, where leather is made use of for private vehicles. BONAPARTE'S BRAZEN COLUatsr•—One of the most modern curiosities at Paris is the bronze Column erected by the late Emperor in the Place Vendome ; one of the finest squares in the whole place, being 150 yards of a side. The Column stands upon the spot where formerly stood an Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV. and is 133 feet high. It was surmounted by a colossal Statue of Bonaparte, which was removed within a very few hours after his abdication of the throne. It is built after the model of the virtuous Trojan's monumental Pillar at Rome, with a beauti ful coating of brass, half an inch thick all the way, and ornamented with suites of bas reliefs and tro phies of military exploits performed by the Emperor in person, which run in a spiral form, belt-like, four, feet brood, from the pedestaf to the capital, where' there is a fine balcony, also of brass, from which you, have an extensive view of the city over the neigh bouring houses. The brass used in the construction of this truly noble column, as we learn from an in scription on the front, was taken from the Austrians in the campaign of 180.5, which was terminated by the battle of Austerlitz, so glorious to the French cause, and so disastrous to ours. You ascend to the top by a narrow spiral stair of 168 steps; and as ' , there is no light admitted by any aperture through ' , the long and'winding labyrinth, you are furnished with a lamp to direct your giddy steps in the ascent of the staircase, which is so narrow that only one per son can pass at a time. For seeing this public curio sity, we had to pay one frank each person, which is the first instance of money bring called for. The Column can be entirely seen from the gardens of the Thuilleries, which it fronts. The following is the Inscription alluded to upon the base of the Pillar, which is quite classic : NA POLI• imp. Aug. Monumentum Belli Germanic', Anno M.DCCCV. Trimestri wale; duetu suo Ex Zre eapto. Gloria exereltus maxim' dicavit. Instead of the colossal Statue of the redoubtable Emperor, there is now hoisted a simple white ensign of Royalty.-- ,6 Sic iratuit gloria "wadi I" I may add, too, that on almost every steeple in France the Boor. bon flag waves triumphant. Long may it wave, the banner of peace Lows XVIII. as a mark of attachment to those brave Officers who have assisted so strenuously to wards the restoration of his Majesty and the House of Bourbon, has procured two well-executed busts of Marshal BLUCHER and of the Duke of WELLINGTON, which are placed beside each other under a table, in a sort of recess in one of the apartments of the Thuil leries. On the table stands a similar bust of his Ma jesty the Emperor ALIOCARDER. The French Government, it is asserted, have made up their minds to confine their military operations, (should such be necessary) against St. Domingo, to the getting possession of Cape Nichola Mole, with one or two other strong places cu the coast. Strength ening these to the utmost, they will be in a condition either to propose a treaty of commerce to the Black inhabitants, or to wait patiently until time and cir cumstances shall enable them to restore the political relations which before subsisted between the Island and the parent State. It is not true that Mr. HAMILTON, the Under• S ecretary of State, went to Paris for any purpose con nected with the British Embassy there, or for any other political object- The whole weight of business appertaining to the Foreign Department being now, in a great measure, thrown upon our mission at Vienna, that enlightened scholar has taken the oppor tunity of a few days' relaxation in the French capital, well merited by his assiduous and exemplary atten tion to the duties of that laborious office, in which lir has been distinguished for so many years. LAW INT.ILLIGENCE, COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER 1. PIIICKLTT V. FENIOS. Mr. HART begged to reca this case to the recol lection of his Lor6:-.ip. It h.,' .Ir Al a c , m.td:r.k:, h sum of money arising from the fees of Deputy N 1. 1,4 steal of the Admiralty. His Lordship bid a to look into the brief; and to settle the arms issue to be tried at law, for deciding the question be tween the parties. The Plaintiffs were assail:4s that the words of such issue should be adjusted, so that the trial might take place, at all events, in the course of the Sittings after nest term ; but they were afraid the case had escaped hit Lordship's attention. The Loan CHAbiCELLOII, assured Mr. Hart that nei ther the case in question, liar several other cases which he had reserved for judgment, had escaped his attention. The faces, however, of many of the Coon: sel engaged in those cases, had escapei the glance of his eye at the time when, towards the co►►clusion of the late Sittings v he was prepared to have siven judg ment in them, and experience had taught him, that to give judgment in any case, in the absence of the I Counsel on either side, was to ensure a rehearing of that case, or, at least to ensure his hearing of that case again. He was happy, however; to state, that there was not a single case which he had reserved tor judgment, in which he had not made up his mind, and in which he was n;it ready to state the grounds of his opinion ; which he should take an eatly oppor tunity of doing. NOV. 2.-.-LIXAS V. FLETCHER. The bill in this case, as stated by Mr. LEACH and Mr. RoupELL, prayed a discovery in respect to cer tain estates, of the value of £20,000 and upwards, which the defendant keld by vir t ue (if a devise, and having passed the necessary recovery. The estates in question originally were the property of A Mr. Elli son, who devised them to Mr. J. Henfing, and he be coming in distressed circumstances applied to Fietcl:er, who advanced, taking the security of these estates, as it was stated, a sum not exceeding ACM*. l'he will executed by Mr. Ellison gave the estates to Ann Fleming, and her heirs ; the remainaler-man was J. Heming. After his death, the defendant, in conse quence of the security, became entitled to the estates. It was contended this day, that the wilting which the defendant held, and under which he claimed to retain possession of the estates, was not a valid one, for that the money actually lent was not inure thane seventh of the real value of the property. . The questions, therefore, for the consideration of the Court were—first, whether a good recovery had passed, and secondly, wl.ether the tenant us //recipe could legally hold possession, the recovery being under these circumstances a bad one ? In bar to these allegations, the defendant answered by his plea, that the wi kings or deeds were duly and legally executed, and that in the original contraction of the debt and agieement there was al fraud. it was contended, therefore, on his part, that the Court could not order a discovery of the title of the estate, nor could they compel him to deliver them up for the purpose prayed in the bill: Oa the centrary, the Learned Counsel who argued in support of the bill maintained, that theCourtwould not aid a defendant thus answering : ; more especially as the value of the estates were so much above the money advanced, and for which the title-deeds were deposited as security only. The VICE•CIIANGALLOIS deferead giving judgment on the case, which was of such importance, wad another day. COIiRT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. 1. YORK AND ANOTHER V. 3:HINSON AND PRITCHARD. This action was brought by the Assignees of Messrs. Hancock and Allen, of istol, contractors, late bank rupts, to recover aE t 934. Os. l • Johnson and Pritchard had, in an account currenr, delivered in 1813, admitted themselves to stand in debted to Edw. Allen, in a balance of 'CIA. Os. lad. and also for three disputed sums of /COO, OM, and se:soo, making together the sum sued tor. The three latter sums were to abide the result of an application to a Jury, to determine whether Hancock was a tra der within the meaning of the b inkrupt laws Han cock and Allen had been contractors ; and it was proved, according to the testimony et a cl.Tk or agent, that independent of the pun chases which they made to fulfil their contracts, they purchased coals on a venture. The fact of Allen being a trader was ad mitted. Hancock's daughter proved Lis commissiat of acts of bankruptcy, aad added, that he Lad ether occupations besides that of a Coves nment contractor, for he had 46 something to du with the Church"—he was a parish clerk !" Mr. Toreixo, in defence, s.;id that he would not question the fact of Allen and Hancock haviag been navy contractors • but he must contend that there was not sufficiently clear proof of Hancock having been a trader within the meaning of the bankrupt laws, and ttleretore that the plaintiffs. wit being legally as signees, could not be entitled to recover the debt due to Mr. Allen from the gelendants. In the celebrated case of Sir Thomas Lyttleton, where were the opinioni of Hale and Rainsfurd, it WAS held that buying stores for the fulfilment of a contract to virtual the Neer, was not trading ; nor did the selling of any vedud dancy of provisions, to private individuals, originally purchased for the victualling of the fleet, const tote a trader. Purchases distinct from such as were made for the fulfilment of the navy contracts, must be proved, otherwise trading within the melanin; of the bankrupt laws was not established. Applying that decision, which had never been disputed, to the pre. sent case, he must submit that the evidence of any dealings, exclusive of those made tor the contracts, rested on such a slender foundation, that it might be establishing a very danger , its precedent to admit it. Lord ELLENDOROUGH pettectly agreed in the doc trine laid down in the Cate quoted, that the mere sel ling of the redundancies of those articles originally purchased in furtherance of the fulfilment in ttie navy contracts, did not establish trading within the meaning ot the Bankrupt Acts. That to constitute Such trading purchases and alt.ll„,rether independent of the contract,, must be clearly proved. It the Jury be lieved the evidence ot the w inicss, who stated that they made purchases, of some coals in particular, qtLte independent of the contracts; the trading within the twailing ot the Statutes respecting Bankrupts was estatsi s!led ; and !;is Lordship could see no reason for disbelieving such t riwss. retur ned The Jut y, beLevi ii; the witness, a Inn diet for the iilatutilf—Paniages sCI,93S. 16,1.