Star. — London, England, 1823-10-31 00:00:00

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WILL OF THE LATE DR. BAILLIE. --..-- The late Dr. Baillie bequeathed by his will three ban d i ed pounds to the College of Physicians, and all his * l nedical, surgical, and anatomical books, together with all the copper-plates belonging to his work upon Mor bid Anatomy. (In case of the death of his son,William B un ter Willie, without issue, he has also left to it a furt h er bequest of four thousand pounds). • He has di rected his two introductory Lectures to his Courses of Morbid Anatomy, his Lectures upon the Nervous Sys tem, delivered before the College of Physicians. and a short Account of his Medical Practice, to be printed, but not published; remarking that, though not suffici ently important for publication, they may yet contain matter too useful to be altogether lost. The various articles of plate presented to him in the course of his professional practice, are left to his son, to be preserved in the family. Three hundred pounds are kft to the Society for the Relief of Widows and Offi cers o f Medical Men ; to Mrs. Baillie he has left his house, furniture, lite. a sum of two thousand pounds, and one thousand per annum ; to his sisters, Agnes and Joanna Baillie, one hundred and fifty pounds per annum each; and there is further provision, to a con siderable amount, for these and other legatees, in case of his son dying without issue, to whom is given the residuary per s onal estate, as well as the freeholds in the county of Gloucester and elsewhere.' Thomas Denman and Thomas William Carr, Esqrs. are the executors, and have a legacy of £lOO each, as a compliment for trouble. The will was proved in the Prerogative Conn on the 21st instant, and the effects sworn under £BO,OOO. It is dated the 21a of May,-181111. THE KING. WINDSOR. OCT. SO.—Yesterday morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, attended by her Ladies in Waiting, paid a morning visit to the Princess ..kuousvA, at her residence at Frogmore, where the Royal Duchess remained some time, and afterwards re turned to Bagshot Park to dinner. Count ',levee, Baron FAOEL, Lord ST. HELEN'S, and Mr. and Mrs. STANHOPE. arrived at the Castle yester day afternoon, on a visit to his IMAJEST•:. Yesterday morning the Duke of CLARENCE arrived in town from Bushey. His Royal Highness returned to his seat in the afternoon. The Duke of Nottrouc is entertaining a party •of frisnds at his seat, Fornharn, Suffolk. The Earl of CARLISLE has a party of friends at his uat, Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Colonel and Lady E. LOWTHER have arrived at the Earl of LONSDA Lis seat, in Westmoreland, from a tour. , Viscount MAYNARD has left town for his seat, rEas- OM Essex. The Countess of Essrat has arrived in town from a tour. Lord Sr ciNxy has left town for his seat, Frognal, Kent. The Earl of PaNusitoKz has arrived at his seat, Wilton Rouse, Wilts, from a tour. The Earl of ESSEX has left town for his seat, Cashio boy. Park, Herts. Viscount BARNARD, M.P. has left town for Hants. The Prince Royal of BAVARIA left Munich on the 181 h instant, to pass the winter in Italy. MARRIAGES IN Hicm Lore.—At St. George's, Hano ver-square, Lieutenant-General Sir Tuoxas Mum, - Bart. G.C.B. to Ewa's, daughter of the Right Hon. Hoots ELLIOT ; and at the same time, Captain ELLIOT, eldest son of the Right Hon. Hoots Rum?, to ?Samoans: Samoan, only daughter of Jags Monis m, Esq. of Draw Castle, Perthshire. Mr. &Lin" who was intended for the Church, we now find commanding a Troop of Horse. A letter from Paris of Monday last states, that the French Government is likely to appoint Consuls, or Consular Agents, to the South American States, on the same plan as that just adopted by England. The measure will not, it is said, originate with the French Government, but will take place in consequence of me morials from the different Chambers of Cbmmerce, which are now preparing. Yesterday, according to annual custom, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the LORD MAYOR Elect, the Sheriffs, Recommit, and several Aldermen, with their usual cavalcade, proceeded from Guildhall, in grand state, to the house of the LORD CHANCELLOR, to re• ceive from him an intimation of his bloommes apps bation of the choice of the citizens of London in their election of LORD MAYOR for the ensuing year. The Sheriffs, with the CITY BESIRSIDRA DOER, afterwards proceeded round the west eni of the town, to invite the Foreign Ambassadors, Cabinet Ministers, the Judges, and other persons of distinction, to the grand civic en tertainment on Lord Mayor's Day. The subscription for the relibf of the extreme tempo rary distress and want of the southern and western pro vinces of Ireland in the last year, in England, Scotland, and Wales, has amounted to the large sum of more than £350,000; special grants of Parliament about £300,000; and extraordinary local assistances from the Gentry of Ireland about £150,000; making in the whole aoo,ooo. Messrs. JOSRPH Ronclas and Sorts, of Sheffield, have manufactured twelve pairs of scissors, the smallest ever seen. They are quite perfect, although not one-eighth of an inch long. The whole do not weigh one grain. SLAVES in I:lnternat.—The following account of the meritorious conduct of the Slaves oa the Brothers and Woodlands plantations, the property of JAM= MslunoY, Esq. of Glasgow, during the late revolt in Demerara, is highly satisfactory. The letters are from Mr. BUCHANAN and Mr. HAIRY, of that Colony, and also from the managers of these estates In the ab sence of the managers, who had been called away to join the militia, as soon as martial law was proclaimed, the Slaves on these plantations armed themselves with such weapons as they could find ; and, When the rebels approached with flaming torches to set fire to the build ings, most courageously defended their master's pm petty, resisted and repelled t he furious attempts of the assailants, and in which contest some of them, particu larly the Chief Drivers, who headed the gangs, were se verely hurt. After having beat off the insurgents, and reserved not only their master's property, but their own, from destruction, they continued to carry on the labours of the plantations the same as if th e white peo ple had been living among them. Such conduct will, we have no doubt, be rewarded by their generous proprietor, and receive the thanks of the Colony, as an inducement and encouragement to others to follow their example, should any such melancholy occurrence ren der their exertions again necessary." THE THEATRE& DSURY-LANE. Last evening the Tragedy of Virginias again afforded MACREADY an opportunity of exerting his energies in the Roman Hero, and the applause was commensurate to the excellence of the actor. TRIM!, WALLACE, and Mrs. Wear, acquitted themselves with all their wonted abi lity. The Cataract of the Ganges wai the Afterpiece. It is now completely established in public favour, and will, doubtless, have what is called a rain. Hitherto the House has ove►rf_oeoed every evening it has been acted. COVENT-GARDEN. The Coniedy of Errors was performed last night with much applause. Miss Ettotr was the reptesenta tire of Adriana, and was rapturously encored in two of the airs allotted to the part. Miss TREK was no less , successful in the character of Lucian ; and the Opera altogether went off with infinite edat. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Glenalvon, fisitm from Dundee to Shields, got upon the Herd Sand in entering the harbour, but was got off, with assistance. The Averiek, %Luaus, from New Orleans to Liverpool, was driven on shore the end of August, near Belize, and it was sup posed would be condemned—cargo expected to be saved. The Surma, of 74 guns, is ordered from Plymouth to Ports mouth, and, with the Gauzes, to embark the 12th Regiment for Gibraltar; and then, after disembarking the 12th, to embark the 27th for the West Indies. The orders for the embarkations are to be complete and the ships to tan oft the sth November. &mourn, Oczossa 29.—Wind W.—Arrived the Nocton packet, from Jamaica in seven weeks. Sailed his Majesty's brig Paw:luau, fur Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, OCTObill 29.—Wind W.—Arrived the Escape, Hatt, front Villa Nova • and Isis, Herrenumon, from Memel. Powesuouru, Ocruses 30.—Wind E.—Sailed the Providence, Rtatiscros, for Madras; and Success transport, for Sierra Leone. Mat, Omuta 30.—Wind E.N.E. —This morning, about day light, the wind came fresh from the Eastward, and at eleven , A. sr. the whole of the outward-bound had cleared the Downs. Through out the day the wind has been increasing to a strong breeze. The Hibernia, for New South Wales, Is reported to have passed this afternoon. Aaanren—At Quebec, the British Tar, and Mary, Ford, from Liverpool; Wanderer, Waygood, from Plymouth; Sir Wib liam Beasley,—, from Scarborough; and Bolina, Nelmes, from Trinidad. At Gotenburgh, Scandinavia, —, from Rio; and the Abby, Nichols, from Boston. At Oporto, Jane, from Lon don; St. Antony Ventura. ' from Pernam buco; Fanny, Har vey ; and Oporto packet, Harvey, front Newfoundland ; also the Rover, Aka.n, from Cardiff. At Lisbon, Imperador Alexander; Conde de Caalleros, —; and Luisa, ---.-, from Maranhatn; Minerva, Maya; Alexander I. De Silva; Patna, Oliveira; !nem paravel, and Dons Dominica' —, from Pernambuco; Mary Ann, D unbar; and Hugh Wiliam, from Newfound land; Mary, Abbot, from Liverpool; Bliss, Mercer, from Lon don; Tay, Sim, from Newcastle; and Sir David Milne, from the Clyde. At St. Übe's, Aurora, Hutton, from Landon. At Newfoundland, Charles, Clements, from Jersey. Yesterday, in the Court of Common Pleas, Mr.Joxas obtained a verdict, with £3OO damages, against Mr. Shaw, a cheap schoolmaster, at Bowes, in Yorkshire, for gross inattention to the health of one of his pupils, the plaintiffs son, aged twelve years, by which he was entirely deprived of sight. CAPTAIN PARRY'S EYPEDITION.—EDINBURGH, OC TOBER 24.—Extract of a letter from an Officer on board his Majesty's ship lizcia, dated " OE Berwick," 15th October, 1823 :• 4 41 was in great hopes that we would have paid you a visit at Leith, on our way to Deptford, but wind and weather unfortunately prevented us. 1 suppose it is hardly necessary for me to say, that we have been unsuccessful in • the grand object of OW voyage ; but still our time has not been idly spent, as a long line of coast has been laid down and surveyed from Repulse Bay, head of Hudson's Bay, to • Strait In latitude 70. leading to the westward, no doubt, into the Polar Sea, but so blocked up with the ice, that our further progress that way was rendered quite impos sible. Oar winters, you will easily conceive, were long aid cold. The first we were nine, and the second ten and a half months frozen up ; yet, notwithstanding, we managed to spend the time tolerably comfortable and very happy. There were natives living on shore, the latter part of the first winter, and all the second, with whom we lived on the best terms, and the greatest in timacy. lam happy to say that we have enjoyed ex cellent health ever since our departure ; indeed, with a few exceptions, five dead and two invalids, all have returned, stout and healthy, that went out in both ships; but you must not expect the particulars of the voyage at present, as such confusion generally prevails in the ship, and in some of our heads, that I mast confess my self hardly equal to writing anything like a connected account ; however, as I intend to spend this winter in Edinburgh, it may serve for some of our evening's con versations. We are last from Shetland, where we got the first newspaper we have had since our departure. ' MIRACULOUS CHILD.—Oar reader:spay recollect the story of the child born in Galloway with the father's name on the_eyes, and who had previously the th birth sworn he was not the parent thereof. At first we were left in doubt whether the name was in printed, or in written characters, but a most respectable Gentleman, who examined it lately, assures us, that the characters are written, most beautiful (perfect these should be), in size about the tenth of an inch, circling the upper part of the iris of each eye, with the name " John Wood" in one eye, and " Born 181'1" on the other. The inscrip tion, he says, is no deception—" the words are there, and he was informed appeared on the 10th day after the child's birth." So much curiosity has the phenomenon excited, that some Gentlemen left this a few days ago in order to examine in,to the matter, but, we learn, they returned last night without having seen the child, who was at the time in a distant part of the country for the inspection of some sceptics; but we learn further that this wonderful being is to be here in a day or two, when the inhabitants of Glasgow will have an opportunity of judging for themselves, and the numerous speculations upon the subject be so far set at rest. Amongst the other curious surmises afloat concerning the affair, is one which we heard maintained in our Coffee room, namely, that the real father of this child was a compositor in the office of a Dumfries newspaper, who was in the habit of expressing his love to the object thereof, after finishing.the task of setting op italic types, but this we can scarcely credit. A great number of bachelors and old maids have been to visit the child. —Glasgow Courier. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANG, OCT. 31. , The arrivals of this week are only moderate, and the buyers pre ferring to wait for further supplies, they make purchases only to sa tisfy their immediate wants. Wisest fully maintains the rites quoted on Monday. Our Mantas bay B. ley freely, which is again rather higher in price. Beans and Peas fully support last quo tations. Oats meet with a few purchasers, on rather better terms. Flour is unaltered. SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCTOBER 31. There was rather a short market, but fully suMekat for the trade, u the business was rather sltsk ; the prices of all articles ma be quoted u per last asarket-day. Berf,_per stow of Sibs. 2s. 6d. to 3 1 . ad. Matta% SS. ft to 541. aid. Veal, la Od. to ss. 041. Pork, 2%10d. to fie. 104. l t .dar INTELLIGENCE. • • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCTOBER 3 LIBEL ON HIS MAJESTY. THD KING V. D. W. HARVEY AND ANOTHER. This criminal information, against The Sunday Times, for a libel on his Majesty, being fixed for trial this morning, before a Special Jury, the Court in the Guild ball of the City of London, was opened at an unusually early hour. By nine o'clock the most prominent places were taken. Mr. MAULS, the Treasury Solicitor, and the Stamp Office Solicitor, &c. tank their places at the table : and soon afterwards Mr. D. %V. Harvey entered the Court, and took his seat among the Counsel, on the row behind the bar. Mr. Harvey, it may be remem bered, is a Student within the bar ; while in Parlia ment, as Member for Colchester, he completed his CI terms:" but on application to the Benchers of Lin coln's Inn, of which Society he entered as a Student, t(? be di call ed," his request was not complied with. The LORD MAYOR, the Lady Mayoress, &c. were on the Bench, also Baron de STARE. and Lord NUGENT. The names of the Special Jurymen were called over, and the following Gentlemen answered : J. N. Manson W. Allwright B. Stokes D. Barnwell R. Sharpe A. Ballemanno J. Cecil (all Merchants). Seven Gentlemen appearing on the Special Jury, the Attorney-General prayed a taks, and the following Common Jurymen answered to their mimes : • James Carpenter T. &tailpiece O. W. Crok and B. W. Jackson John Hai. These 12 having been sworn, Mr. SHEPHERD, jun. opened the case, and The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the Jury, stating, that in the discharge of his public duty he had deemed it right to institute this proceeding. When they came to hear the libel, they would agree with him that it was not written in the fair pursuit of public discussion, the proper and seemly investigation of public measures and the acts of public men. This libel was of no such cha racter. It insinuated, or rather directly stated, that early in the present year his Majesty was afflicted with mental derangement. The mischievous character of such publication would be obvious to all. They would re collect that his Majesty was indisposed early in the pre sent year ; and at that period the publication appeared in the shape, not of a paragraph, but as the leading article, in The Sunday Times. It stated, that the King's sickness was of an " alarming" nature; that it would be some time before his Majesty's " seat" of complaint would enable the Physicians to declare the Royal Pa tient in a state of convalescence; and that, let others say what they pleased, the writer deemed it to be his ditty to express the fear that his Majesty's complaint was " hereditary." Those particular words were printed in Italics, and their meaning could not be doubtful. The Learned Gentleman then read the whole if the libel, as set forth in the following count of the indictment '6 6 TIM KING (meaning our said Lord the King).—At, Cached as we sincerely and lawfully are to every interest connected with the Sovereign (meaning our said Lord the King), or any of his illustrious relatives, it is with the deepest concern that we have to state that the ma lady under which his Majesty (meaning our said Lord, the now King), labours, is of an alarming description. It is from authority we speak, when with sorrow we in forin our Readers (as we think it our duty to do), that the King (meaning our said Lord the King), not only still continues to be confined to his chamber, but that the symptoms of his disorder are of too serious a na ture to admit of his medical attendants being able to say when their Royal Patient (meaning our said Lord the King), will be sufficiently recovered to chew him self to his anxious and afflicted subjects. Dr. Knighton, his Majesty's (meaning our said Lord the King's)' Pri vate Secretary, and Domestic Physician, is in constant attendance, scarcely ever out of the chamber in which the King (meaning our said Lord the King) is confine& and never farther from the scene of sickness than the adjoining room. The persons about his Majesty (meaning our said Lord the King) foreseeing chat too probably it will be a considerable time before the seat of his complaint will be in a state sufficiently con valescent to render it advisable that he should quit the Pavilion, have, in order to ease the apprehensions of the Public, circulated the report that pleasure and comfort, not any afflicting necessity, will induce a pro tracted stay at Brighton. But far from approving this deceptions kind of policy, which only ensures a more violent shock, whenever the real truth of the case shall appear, we deem it much the wiser way to use on such unhappy occasions the language of fact and reality; therefore we are as desirous of communicating, as others are of concealing, the melancholy truth that the King's (meaning our said Lord the King's) disorder is, it is feared, of an hereditary description—that his Majesty (meaning our said Lord' the King), has had too many misfortunes preying upon his benevolent mind—the loss of a daughter and a consort equally dear to him, and of a royal brother, whose political principles he loved; besides the excruciating sufferings of his agricultural subjects, so sincerely deplored in his late most gracious speech; and the danger in which the liberty of the Spaniards is placed by Bourbon pride and Gothic fr. rocky; that these and other weighty concerns have op pressed his paternal feelings, and borne bard on his su perior intellects, we have too much reason to fear. Bat if Divius PXOVLDENCI has ordained that mental afflic tions shall be no less transmissible than the virtues of the heart, and the best of Princes (meaning our said Lord the.Kir.g), should, by their long protraction, or the reiterated returns of his present unfortunate morbo . sky, furnish another example of the lamentable tact (which Heaven in its-goodness avert), still one resource will remain to his Najesty (meaning our said Lord the King), the prayers of a dutiful, loving, and loyal people; aid seldom--very seldom—has Heaven been deaf to the orisons of nations offered in behalf of wise and gracious Kings." That the libel insinuated mental insanity against the individual on the Throne, he thought the Jury could not for a moment doubt; and was it not calculated to .rodoce most Mischievous effects on the public mind? It was not public discussion; it was not the investiga tion of public measures; it declared neither more nor less, than that his Majesty—he who swayed the Sceptre and was the Chief Executive in the country, was in a state of insanity, and therefore incapable of fulfilling the duties of his high station, and of managing those affairs connected with his Kingly authority. Was not that a gross r malicious, and cruel libel? It said that the King was incapable f managing his own affairs. If that were said of a private individual, would not that be a libel ? They would immediately pronounce that it would be a libel of the most malicious character; and was it to be said, that the King was to be libelled so seriously with impunity, while a like libel on a private indi►idual would be •isited with the most serious e. nalties? Was the King, on so delicate a point, to be libelled with impunity ? That was the question for the Jury. He had no doubt about the result. It was a mischievous, malicious, and cruel libel; it wis calcu. lated to produce the most serious effects on the public mind ; and it had been put forward in the most pro minent and glaring manner. He repeated, the question for the Jury was, might the King be libelled with im punity, when no man would dare to libel, in a similar manner, a private individual? That was not reason ; it was not law ; it was not justice ; and he felt full re liance that the Jury would declare it to be, what it really was, a malicious libel on the Sovereign of these realms. He would leave the case in their hands; he was quite sure that they would do their duty on th present occasion. He considered that in filing, by virtue of his office, a criminal information, he had only per formed his duty ; and he was sure the Jury would not forget their duty to the King, and the Constitution of the country. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL proceeded to call witnesses. Elijah Litchfield stated, he was Clerk to the Solicitor of the Treasury Office. Witness put in the affidavit made by Mr. Harvey, stating that he was the Proprietor of The Sunday 2 lines, which was countersigned by Mr. Bouverie, one of the Commissioners. Mr. Litchfield being again called, said, the affidavit 7 was signed on the 27th January.—The libel and affida vit were read, which closed the case for the prosecution. The Commom SERJEANT then addressed the Jury for the defendant Chapman. He was astonished, and la mented, that the Attorney-General, in the discharge of his official duty, should fix upon this as a fit subject for public prosecution, for he was not to be told that the. right of public discussion was irrelevant to this ques tion. As to the mode in which it was put forward, too, he was not unwilling to meet the Attorney-General: he complained that it was headed " Earliest Intelligence," but was such a subject to be put into a corner, fitted for the perusal of the lowest classes only? He did not de spair of shewing that there was no subject more fit for public discussion, and which could have been put for ward more properly than this. His client was the pub lisher, who, let it be remembered, was not so guilty, if guilt there was at all, as the proprietor, who had the whole controul of the concern. Mr. Harvey was a man of good education, well known, and would be more ably defended than he could be by him. The printer was a mere machine, for putting into a state of publication matter, of the import of which, possibly, be might be totally ignorant. It would therefore follow, that although the proprietor might be guilty, still the printer might be innocent. Indeed, he could not see why this man was at all indicted ; the whole case could have been brought into discussion by a prosecution of Mr. Harvey alone. The agitation of the question now was calculated to do more mischief than if the report had been suffereJ to lie in the state of oblivion in which it bad lain for so long a time. Many months had elapsed since this report was first circulated, which now, thank Goa, there was no reason for—the prayers of his Majes ty's subjects had been heard. But however little founda tion there was now for such a report, there was no doubt but at one time such a report was in circulation; and could it be said that these reports were not fit for discussion ? But were any of the facts untrue? Was it untrue that Dr. Knighton was in attendance upon him ; were any of the other facts untrue which were then stated ? The only crime, therefore, was in the inference, which was in some degree warranted by the experience of the former reign. But then came the Attorney-General to com plain of the wound inflicted upon the King's feelings— his feelings—when did his Majesty hear of the Sunday iimes? Be it remembered that this was only the seven teenth number of this little-known Paper. Reports did prevail that the King laboured under this dreadful malady—and the Journalist takes it as a matter deeply interesting to the Public. But the report "prcves hap - pily to be untrue; and what possible injury could a re port in so obscure a Journal make in the public mind ? He contended that the Attorney-General, with all his vehemence, and all his labour, had been fighting a " sham fight." The words "by authority" would be made much of; but what did they mean more, in a public Newspaper, than that the Journaliit proceeded on the authority of some respectable individual. No thing more was meant; it was not meant to say, that there was the authority of a Minister of State, or of she Physicians, Sir William Knighton, &c. There were some such rumours abroad, and it was the duty of a Journalist to allude to them, It was said that the libel was calculated to bring the King into hatred and contempt; but quite the reverse was the fact. But was it a slander of the King to allude to his "benevolent" mind ? All admitted the benevolent character of his Majesty's mind ; yet according to the King's friends, it was slander, it was sneer, it was libel, to mention his Majesty's " benevolent" mind. And the loss of a daughter, she v, ho was to continue the Royal Succession in a direct line, was it .a libel to say that the King was afflicted with that excellent Lady's loss ? Next it was said to be sneer and libel to represent the King as afflicted with the career of the proud Bourbons in Spanish affairs—with that contest in which this country must ultimately be involved, only under disad vantageous circumstances. Was it to libel the King to say that he was afflicted by that momentous transaction which deeply interested all his subjects? Surely it was a most extraordinary way to shew regard and friend ship for the King's character, thus to contend that it was a libel and sneer to• allude to his undoubtedly bene volent mind, and to those unquestionable talents which,' particularly in his early years, made him collect around his Court some of the ablest men of the age. In conclu sion, the Learned Gentleman lamented, that when the public mind was completely tranquil on the painful to pics which formed the subject of the article complained of in the newspaper ; when all these various rumours which his Majesty's illness had unfortunately given rise to, had subsided, it should have been deemed a judi cious discharge of duty to institute the present criminal proceeding. Within a week of the publication, in Fe bruary last, the Attorney-General, in the exercise of his sound discretion, filed the Criminal Information ; had he paused a " little fortnight," he much questioned whether the Learned Gentleman would not have been dissuaded from m adopting the proceeding. Mr. BROUGHAM followed, and addressed the Jury at great length. Having expressed the hope that he should not weaken what had been said by his Learned Friend, he adverted to some of the events of the late reign, the late King's illness in 1789, and the non-appointment of a Regency, and the great delicacy el' the subject, should than be indisposition of the King. He proceeded to comment on the libel, and the Attorney-General's speech. He expressed his astonishment that dip prosecu-