Star. — London, England, 1814-11-05 00:00:00

?NB ARMr. We mentioned some time ago, that a strong draft from the second battalion of the 91st Regiment was made into the first battalion. This draft, with the detachment of the first, now in England, are also or dered to Cork, in addition to the detachment above- Mentioned from Scotland. The South Lincoln Militia are expected to march into Chatham barracks on the Bth and 9th instant. The men belonging to the 2d battalion of the 50th, %hid) were last week drafted into the ist battalion, marched on Monday from Chatham for Portsmouth, to embark for Ireland. The detachments of the 71st, 79th and 91st Itegi. rents, now in North Britain, are ordered immediately to join their Battalions in Ireland, from whence they embark for North America. A strong detachment of the 22d Regiment is daily expected at Portsmouth, to proceed to the Isle of France. His Majesty's ship IP/MEM A sailed from Plymouth on Tuesday last, having under convoy a number of transports, with the 13th Light Dragoons, and de tachments of the 27th and 28th Regiments, intended as reinforcements for our Army in Canada. Monday, the second battalion of the 63d regiment of Foot marched from the barracks, in Ipswich, on their route for Portsmouth, to embark to join the first battalion at Bermuda. The corps called the York Chasseurs was lately formed from soldiers who had deserted from oche? regiments ; and it appears to be worthy of animad version, that upwards of twenty of these men should have again effected their escape during the month of September. The following is a Letter from a Gentleman at tached to the Expedition which sailed from Cork for North America in July last.—We regret to find that the Fleet met with considerable injuries : " Off Cape Race, Newfoundland, Sept. 7, 1814. 4 ' After a very tedious passage, having beat across the Atlantic Ocean, we made this land on the sth instant, where we are 4 standing off, and trying if we can pick stp any of the Fleet, which has been much scattered, and suffered severely during the thick and blowing weather they have esperienced. " Our ship has, thank GOD, born out well, and suffered not the least accident; we have parted the Atlas, our convoy, these three weeks, and out of 150 sail, when we left Cove, don't muster this day above 30; some were run down, some founder ed, one abandoned, and we have just learnt that three were taken in the Hare, on Monday last, by an American privateer brig, mounting 16 guns. We have taken an American man of war brig, which struck to the Antelope and Newcastle, after a long chase, just as the American had got into the fleet, about Eine at night—she struck within hail of us. Vl'e were very far to the northward, so as to fall in with an immense island of ice In 54 We ran down on the West edge of the Bank, and of course had but little fishing—caught only one cod ; however, since we made this coast we have had amends, and the plentiful supply was most welcome. Our ship's company and the troops are in good health, more likely to be encreased than diminished In number." Friday se'nnight the 2d brigade 91st or Argyleshire regiment disembarked at Leith, and marched into Edinburgh Castle, under the command of Captain 1 4 4/torans.nus. It being after retreat beating, the colours were not unfurled. This battalion left Scot land about two years ago, and went out to Swedish Pomerania with Major-General Gums. When his s little army was recalled, the Royals and 91st were left to garrison Stralsund, from whence they marched under the command of the late lamented Brigadier- General Gone, during the middle of last severe winter, down to Holland. In one day of this march, 155 men were severely frost-bitten. They joined Lord LYNDOCK a few days before the attack upon Bergen op-Zoom, where tha, 91st led the column that made the false attack, which being converted into a real one. they suffered severely. The officer who carried the King's colours received three musket-balls, and a rcuntl-slio: cars ied off the head of the standard. This :elutes the calumny that was threaten upon Ministers, of emplo) ing raw la cops upon this service. General GORE'S brigade might at least be presumed to be pretty well seasoned. The present reduced state of the brigade is owing to the whole of the effectives being turned over at Canterbury to the Ist battalion, now under orders for America. The depot at Ayr is however strong, and consists of a number of gallant fellows, who have recovered from the wounds they received in France and Holland ; when these join the w 2d brigade, it will once more have a respectablet.ap peara race. PLAGUE AT MALTA AND GIBRALTAR.—GencraI MAiTLAND issued a Proclamation at Malta, on the Bth & September, stating, that the isle of Gazo having undergone three complete quarantines without the oc curtence of any case of plague, and all suspicion ef inf , !ction having ceased in Valetta fogNien months, and in the whole of Malta for six months, full communi cations should be opened without any fluffier public notification, the disease being completely extinguished. In consequence of this proclamation, another by the Commander at Gibraltar, General Ssitru, issued Oc tobt.: 7, ordering vessels from Malt. not having on board articles numerated to perfirm quarantine for five days only, as recommended by the Board of Health. Policies to a considerable amount have been done, Within those few days at Lloyd's, determinable by the issue of the negociations at Ghent. Twenty gui. neas have been given to receive one hundred, in case Pieliminarics of Peace shall be signed on or before th , .! Ist of Jai:uary. The French Papers of Monday last contain the Lliowing article from the Journal du Nord, printed at Liile " Madame the Duchess of Duras, accompanied by her youngest daughter. arrived, on the 4th of Dutcher, at Heflin Lietard, where the Duc de Duras, Ce:tticruan of the Chamber to Louis XVIII. prist.esAd, before the Revolution, a chateau and a bike p:ope:ty. The Duchess lodged at the house of M. ?Ltd, the Notary of the town, where an apart-, n•e:it had been prepared for her. lier graces and the gentleness cf her character soon conciliated the love of all the in:.abitants ; and during the three days which she remained among them, a great number of the purchasers of the Duke's estate waited on her to deliver up th6r title-deeds, which she woulJ not ac cept until they consented to receive the value in return. The crowd .vas so great that she could not settle with them all, and she therefore requested them to wait until the arrival of the Duke, who is soon to pay a visit at that place. Such a transaction does equal honour to those with whom it originated, and those who were its objects. To give to it the publicity it merits is to invite to its imitation." COPEIV7:GARDEN THEATRE. Last night Miss O'NEILL performed the interest ing character of Isabella, in which her great predeces sor, Mrs. SIDDONS, gained such merited renown. -.- There is no part in the whole list of dramatic per sons better adapted to the peculiar endowments of Miss O'NEILL than Isabella. The beautiful form of her person, the simplicity of her pathos, and the sweetness of the tones of tenderness which reach the heart of every auditor, because they evidently spring from her own, qualify her for the representation of this ill-fated heroine of the scene. Accordingly, her attractive appearance in her mourning dress at once engaged the most lively interest in every breast, which she sustained throughout, and particularly in the most fervent passages. She was honoured with loud and continued bursts of applause. In some of the short replies and interjections, in the critical scene with B yron, at the end of the fourth Act, in which Mrs. Stupor/a used to electrify the house, she had not those heart-rending starts of expression of which the passion is susceptible, and which we expec ted from her. She is well qualified to produce the most sensible emotion by her utterance of the few words which bespeak the conflict of her soul, and which are only sufficiently mysterious to alarm Byron. Such as— " I've said too much, unless I could speak all." Again, " You are the only cause."—And " Inquire no more—'t will be explaln'd tno soon." To:.;etlier with the words on quitting the scene, When I am dead, " Forgive and pity me." These are the marking traits of passion with which the Poet exhibits the workings of the soul, and which a superior artist conveys to the sympathies of the spectator, by convulsive expression as well as by ap propriate tone. Miss O'NEILL so truly delineates the workings of nature in the bosom, that she has only to read those passages with attention, to feel how much may be made of them by a just accordance with the Poet's intention. In the impassioned parts of the character, she was the most fortunate : and again we must say, to those fastidious judges who accuse her of too much violence, that she would not be faithful to the writer if she were tame. She is to imitate a delirious agony, and they must have stoic hearts that can resist the influence of her distraction. The beauty of her attitudes and of her person add to the sensibility of her tones the most fascinating charm, and we see in her not merely the promise but the cer tainty of our having obtained an accomplished actress. Mr. YOUNG sustained the brief part of Byron with much credit; and the Play was altogether repre seutel in a. way so finished and satisfactory as *ill amply reward the managers for their care and trouble in the arrangement. The Theatre was crowded, and that too with some of the most fashionable company. All the front rows of the bores were filled with elegant and beauti ful woman, who testified their approbation of this young magnetic Actress in an enviable way ; and there was a decorum observed on this event among the male occupants which reminded us of earlier times, when an open departure from the laws of politeness would have been keenly resented by an open reproof from all die spectators. Thursday night, after bliss STEPIIENS had finished singing the song of " Sweet bird," which site intro duced into the Opera of Rcina, from the great exer tions which it requires, together with her having ju‘t before being encored in another trying song the Vii. huge Maids," she was taken extremely iil, and Mr. INILEDOS had therefore to apologize for the omission of a Duet. As soon as she got behind the scenes, she fell. Miss STEPHENS continued in the Theatre about an hour apparently in a lifeless state, and was in that state carried to a coach to be conveyed home, where she still remains much indisposed. She WAS evidently unwell when she first came on the stage, her violent trembling was so very visible. The Quartetly Review, No. XXII. will be publisLed onTuLsDAy, by JOHN MURRAY, Albenialle.t.trect. The PRINCE-NS OF WALES is gone from Md,,n to Placentia. During her stay at th_ fot mer place, her Royal Highness gave several splendid entertai.iments. An erudite traveller informs us, that the collection of:le/dons at Paris is remarkably fine ; and the most prejudiced surgeon must acknowledge, that in the art of making Am, no man ever equalled Napoleon Bonaftarte A tradesman at Bath, describing the character of a noted fortune-hunter, said he never paid any thing but his addressee! NAPOLEON'S new coinage, of which we have heard so much, turns out to be a mere 66 coinage of the brain." ANCIENT FAMILY.—There was much sound pal pable argument in the speech of a country lad to an idler, who boasted of his ancient family.—. 4 So much the worse for you," said the peasant, 4 , as we plough. men say, the older the seed, the worse the crop." JOANNA hits firorogued her delivery till after the meeting of Parliament, that the Bishops may be in the w,ty ! HACKNEY COACHMEN.—The rudeness of London hackney coachmen has been long a subject of grievous complaint. The cause of this increasing evil may be chiefly sought tor'in the over-leniency of the law for punishing this class of offenders. Many a delicate constitution has been endangered by the rudeness of these semi-barbarians ; for it sometimes happens that abusive and intimidating language and behaviour in flict a deeper wound than a blow : yet the legal re dress for such an injury, which is more severe, because more felt, has been proved by experience to be inade quate to prevent the recurrence of these evils. What proportion does there exist between the imposition of a trifling, unfelt fine, and a gross and unlooked-for as. sault on tender nerves, the result of which may prove eventually dangerous ? Does not a light punishment of this kind tend rather to harden them in their bru tality ? Should not Hackney-coachmen, convicted of abusive behaviour, or extortion, be heavily fined, and be made to find good security for their future beha viour ? If a second charge of a like nature be esta blished against them, should they not be punished by confinement, hard labour, and be rendered unworthy of future employment in that capacity ? And, in order still more to deter offenders from the commission of such offences, should not a heavy penalty be inflicted on any Proprietor who shall ever employ a coach manoo discharged, in the same office, which he bad forfeited by his misconduct CRANIOLOGY. ON Tile NEW METHOD Of DISCERNING TAE CHARACTER OP TIIE MIND BY Tlig PARTICULAR FORM OF THE HEAD. Our Readers have probably heard by this time of the new Physiognomical System of Drs. GALL and , SPURZHEIN, which of late has so much engaged the , attention of medical men in the metropolis. A corres pondent of ours having closely followed up the lec tures and demonstrations of Dr. SPURZHEIM, we avail ourselves of the following short account of it commu nicated by him : Dr. GALL, the original founder of the system, was, long ago, struck forcibly with the great variety of forms of the human head—he compared them with the differences of the character ; and he found a constant correspondence between the shape of the head and the disposition of the mind. He multiplied his observations, and was thus ena bled in time to establish certain rules fur judging of the particular characters of tke mind, accorJing as certain part of the head was more or less developed. He dissected the brain in a manner quite new, and demonstrated the particular organs of which it con sisted, and shewed the origin of the nerves in a man ner quite astonishing to Anatomists ; oho, notwith standing their close attention to this part of Anatomy, had never made any good account of the structure of that important organ. It would be endless to re count all the numerous facts wl,ich led him, and his learned colleague, Dr. SPuttztletm, to draw the conclusions, which form the basis of this interesting system ; we shall, therefore, content ourselves with short nti ration of the leading points of the doctrine, and of a few of the facts on which they are founded, as follows : 1. That the dispositions of the mind, or, in fact, the propensitive sentiments and intellectual facultks ot the mind, are innate—that is, they depend on the physical organization of the brain. The character varies according to the relative degree of size and activity of the different organs. 2. These organs are the material conditions of the mind's manifestations. They do not, however, make their proper actions necessary ; therefore this dcctrine does nut lead to fatalism. 3. Education may strengthen any faculty by call ing forth its activity, or may depre,s any one by esta blishing a counteraction. But it can never give a feeling where the organ of that te.Aing is wanting. 4.. The different organs have external signs on the outside of ALr head, consisting of the shape and size of its different parts, whereby the craniologist can discern the particular turn of the mind.—This is a very itnportant thing to know in the education of children, as by ascertaining early the child's particu lir powers of mind, we inay be directed in the chuic• of a protess.on for him, and may adapt an education to his wants. Dr. SPURZJIEIM in a Course of Lectures he is at pre sent giving, shewed these facts; he pointed out the d fferences in the heads of musicians, poets, painters, mathematicians, Lice. He pointed out the tokens of pride, of vanity, of physical lova, and other sentiments and propensities of the human mind. He demon - sunned the parts of the brain in different animals, which correspond with ours, and shewed that their propensities agreed with ours wherever this corres pondence existed. Our Correspondent, who commu tated this article, has followed him to many schools and places where a number of persons ate collected together, and has been witness of the surprising man lier is which l.e has pronounced the character of the mind immediately by the Corm of the head, to the astonishment of by-standers, who knew the character of the persons nn whom he pronounced. He has vi sited the physical schools of the metropolis with this view. We shall continue our account of the Lectures Alluded to, in a future paper ; at present they have been chiefly introductory. A new plan ii said to be in contemplation to estab lish six regular East-India packets during the year; one every two months : and that they are, in addi. tion to the Mails, to have the priviLge of taking a limited number of pisen: , ,t.rs, and a light freight, consisting of such articles as are easily shipped and delivered. We understand that a plan has been sent to Mr. VANstrranT by some of tile I rrge holders of Omr.ium, which, it attended to, will not only do away all the present discount upon Omnium, but also relieve the country at this critical moment of nrgociatinn, from the unpleasant depreciation- of public credit. We do not know the scheme, but have heard that one of the proposals is, that Government borrow of the Bank six millions of money upon a 6 per Cent. Stock with interest deferred, somewhat like American 6 per cent. deferred, which has answered their end, and pleased the holders of it; this stock to be held by the Bank till the expenses of war are over, and then brought to market. This plan would allow time for the consumption of the present loan, and put off the next loan till near Midsummer, and reduce it to about 15 millions, which would be raised in all probability above 70, if in 3 per cents. Had the plan of making deferred stock been resorted to, instead of touching the Sinking Fund—had that fund been held sacred, and left to accumulate, such would have been the ef fect upon the public market, that in all probability the. whole of the national debt would have been worth 10 per cent. more than it now is. Taking aw ty part of the Sinking Fund, has proved that the remainder is not safe, and that nothing is now sacred. .Had it been left alone, 5 and 4 per cents. would have soon been reduced to 3 per cent. and loans raised 10 per cent. higher less raised. But this saving may now be considered as put out of sight for a long time to come. Monday last an inquisition was taken at the Blue Boar Inn, Cambridge, on the body of the Rev. G. Braithusite, Fellow of Lt. John's College, who on Saturday evening preceding, being an outside passen ger of the Ipswich stage coach, received so much in jury in passing under the gate-way into the said inn, as to survive only a few flours. The Jury found a special verdict, and acquitted the coachman of all blame, it being proved that he gave every necessary caution to the passengers ; but several accidents hav ing occurred at the same place, the Jury considered it their duty to make a representation of the event to the Magistrates, soliciting their interference with the proprietors of the coaches and inn, trust;ng that pro per means will be adopted to prevent a recurrence of similar digesters. ZAP INDBLL IGtNCL COURT OF CHANCERY, NOV. 4. COLDBATCH V. ROLM Sir Sateen ROMILLY moved, on the part of the Plaintiffs in this case, who are the trustees for the lease-holders of the houses situated near Temele-bar and at Snow-hill, which formed the subject of the three City Lotteries, that the Defendents, wen were the proprietors of those houses, shduld he comp , eled to execute a conveyance in err cur of the Pleintiffs of six houses which had been purchased by them; also that they should execute a release of all cl erns and demands which they lied, in res ect of the third City Lottery, upon Mr. Culdbatch, Mr. Waithinan, the other Plaintiffs; that they should be restraint.' from proceeding to a sale, or from taking any 4 , h. r steps under an execution which they had take', out against the Plaintiffs, or any of them,nprin payment of the balance of the price due to the Defendants ; that the Defendants should pay to the Plaintiffs, the Sheriffs' poundage and other costs of the execution in question, which tem- had taken out upon a judgment obtained by them et law, in the month of May 1810, notwithstanding an injunction of that Court; and that they should likewise pay the costs of the present application. The Plaintiffs had filed the present bill for specific performances of an agreement by which they became trustees for a number of persons in the City of Londdn, who became the purchasers of cc-- Lain houses which were in the hands of Messrs. Walsh and Nesbitt, the contractors for the City Lotteries.-..e. The houses in question were afterwards resold to the City of London. and the price to which the I.Lee te dants were entitled was lying ready for them in the hands of the City Chamberlain, into whii.th it had been transferred from those of the AccounteneGenee Iral : there was nothing left to be done but for the 'Defendants to execute the conveyance, which had been previously approved of, on the one hand, and, that same moment, to receive the money nn the ether, when the Defendants, instead of executing the cone veyance and taking the money out of the hands of the Chamberlain, theught proper to take out execu tion against the Plaintiffs and to lodge tie writ with the Sheriff, who immediately put it in force ageinst one of the individual Plaintiffs, seising upon the goods in his warehouses. leis Lordship had been of opinion, when the matter was last bef ne him, that there was hardly a question le tween tl.e parties ; and so much was his Lei-de:iv convinced th it he should never hear more of tee matter, that he ordered the Plaintiffs to pay the Defendants' costs, as between attorney and client—a condition which, theuel) beat ing rather hard on the. Piainette, they acceliesced in, hoping that every thing was settled, ~n I teat there was melting to be done hilt for the lieendenti to execute the deeds and to receive the money. A draft of the conveyance was accordingly prepared and set tled by Mr. Shadwell, who wrote his approval of it in the presence of Mr. Preston, the Solicitor for the Defendants. The conveyance thus settle,' was after wards tendered for execution, but the answer given- was, that the Defendants'Selicitors would first receive the money, and then they would consider of the deed. The deed was not executed, end the Defendents hay. ing taken out execution upon the judgment they had obtained at law, and lodged the same with theSle tiff, he, as was ifs ditty, took in execution the effects of tine of these Gentlemen, who were only. trust r!s for others, to the amount of £9760. This was .t most vexatious and oppressive proceeding, and. be , i or ' doing the Defendants to execute the deeds and granting the other parts of the motion, the Learned Counsel submitted tbat his Lordship must find the Defendants liable in payment 4( the Slitters' pound. age and other costs occasioned ey their unnecesary and oppressive costs, and also in the costs of the pre sent application. Mr. HART and Mr. GARRETT, on the other side, contended, that in point of fict there was here no ie. junction restraining the Defendants from taking out execution upon the verdict they had obtained at law. If there had been an injunction which they h d vio. hated, why not proceed egeinst them, be movelg foe an attachment for contempt of C. urt I An Injunc tion, no doubt, had at one time been obetilied ; but it had been ordered on the 9th of June 1814, that on the Plaintiffs failing, widen three weeks, to pay the price, the injunction should stand dissolved without farther motion or order. The delays which bad since taken place were merely iadulgencres for the accom. modation of the Plaintiffs ; and the conduct of the Defendants, instead of being harsh and oppressive, had been exactly the reverse. The approbation of the draft of the conveyance too, by Mr. Sfuelweel, was merely qualified, there being blanks in tee draft to be filled up, and no draft ',effected by the tilling up of those blanks had ever been heeded to the Dee fendants ortheir Solicitors. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, as parties differed so materially as to the facts, it would be nrce.s.,l, f)r him to lead the afiiiavits, particularly as to wllat had passed since July last. This he should endeavour to do against Islonday, and, in the mean time, the Sheriff must not proceed to any sale under the exe cution, nor must he return the writ. BOWEi O. 1 1 4siaErttee. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, lOtiOvied by Mr. HART, moved for an injunction restraining tle• Ihf..nd tit from proceeding at law upon a Post-obit b nd t;r:rated to him by the Plaintiff, the Hon. 0111.15 I;M% f the suet of 5E24.0. Ihe bond was gratite i by the Plaintiff at a time when he was y oistrc‘sed circumstances. He owed the Di:ter:dant the sum • f 460, and the bond was granted for four tinii s 01.‘f amount, contingent on the event of 114 sine:vit.:: either of the Plaintiffs, two brothers, E of Strathmore or Vie Hon. George Bowes, and .11.4 dying without lawfol issue. Mr. LEACH and Mr. .kunft admitted, that cut of respect to the decision of his L•a-dship in the case of Barclay and Bowes, they could hardly ',prose tie present application, it conple,i with cle term, impos ed in that case, namely, t'ie Plaintiff's paying into Court the principal and interest actually due, and also undertaking to speed this cause. The Lego CMANCIILLOR said—Certainly, let the money, principal and interest, be paid into Conn in a fortnight; and let the Plaintiff confess judgment in the at.tion at law, and undertake not to bring a writ of error. BOWES W. OW .N. • .• • Th:, was an application made in *nacho cause hi exactly similar circumstaiNes e aad inirbich a siMilat Order was pronounced.