Star. — London, England, 1817-11-14 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL. '.t• Mail of this morning brings the following ,ticks HAGUE. NOVEMBER 10. According to the proposed law for a tax 011 Me. , ed property, which is now under discussion in the ;.-coed Chamber of the States General, there is an r. mire exemption for property in the direct line ascend ', : t log or descending, and for propesty the value of 'i which does not exceed ;;00 francs. In all other cases ' the duties are fixed upon a just basis, according to fr e the degree of relationship, viz. for husband or wife,, Ind for brother and sister, 4 per cent.—for nephews ' and nicces, uncles and aunts, and their immediate ' descendants and ascendants, 6 Jet cent.--and for all fr distant relatives or other persons, 10 per cent. t . " SICOND tIIASIDER OF TIIX 5TAT1043113:1114Lp NOV. 7. (Two Addresses were presented from a number of great Mercantile Hotses of A mster d am and hotter. t . dam, against the Bill respecting the l'es Trade, now t, 4 4 ardor discussion in the Chamber. The President caused to be read the proposal of the Central Committee, respecting the frontier line / between the Provinces of Groningen and Drenthe.— The discu.sion of the proposed law. on the subject was fixed for the next sitting. , 1 SITTING OW 11Tu Novzianun The order of the day was the debate on the law respecting the froneer lire of Groningen and Drenthe. Nobody desiring to speak, the question was put to the vote and carried. BRUSSELS, NOVEMBER 9. The extraordinary special tribunal beard on Satur day, the accusation brought against the son of the ommissary of Police, Snellinkx, at Ghent, accused of having written mid circulated a poem against the Government. The Court found that the piece in question contained injurious expressions concerning the reigning family, but the accused not being con victed of having circulated it, acquitted him. VIENNA, OCTOBER as. It is generally affirmed that Russia has made sr_ gent proposals to the Powers of the first and second rank, inviting than to join in measures against the African Pirates, and that the negociatioos are pro. seeding with great activity. The peraguion given to the 'sinuous Protestant Congregations to the Austrian Monarchy to celebrate Festival of the Reforinaden, is considered as a proof of the gracious sentiments of the Enipe. or, and of the evident progress of a truly religious • it in our Monarchy. The regulations and prayers Tv been published, which the Consistories of. the ugsburgh and Helvetic Confessions have proscribed. • publication serves to correct the erroseciar idea by some persons, that she Austrian Go. . , lionnent is -sot liberal in its treatment of the Pro. fi ~. ;••• " • .•• _ Y:t • :14! ENGLISH IN ITALY. RATRART FROM A PRIVATE LATTER FROM AN ENOUGH TRAVALLZR, DATED FLOAANCE I (=OEM 1. " After rentaining at Pisa three weeks, and geolo- Rising fora time on the Piss Mountains, I am now reposing hom the toils of travel on the banks of the Arno. Florence is situated in a narrow part of the vale; the heights on each side rise to a considerable elevation, and the country around covered with vines, olives, fruit -trees, and villas, is the. most beautiful that can be imagined. The city, howevever, is far from being healthy. Its hospitals, or rather human slaughter.honses, are full, and the sick throughout the city are tsumerous. The physicians seem to know nothing of the means of remedy, and catarrhal com plaints, colds, Sze. are extremely prevalent, although the weather is still hot. About a week ago the ther mometer was at 82. an hoar after sun-set ; now it is at 72. but the wind sharp and cold. One circum stance to which much of this disease may be owing is, that the Arno, which divides the city, is rendered nearly stagnant by a number of mill dams, so that clouds of noxious exhalations may be seen ascending almost every day from its muddy bottom. Nearly every twelfth person is somehow or other deformed; yet handsome men and women are numerous. In their manner of living and whole tastes and habits, there is a sad deviation from nature and morality. No poring English penosi, ersale or female, should he allowed to travel alone through this country. I would not marry the finest Englishwoman living if she had lived six months in Italian hotels. Almost every thing, too, in point of subsistence, is extremely dear, much dearer than in London, and of quality most execrable. It is true you may dine for about two shillings and sixpence, if yon can eat putrid fish or stinking meat, and drink sour wine ; but if the articles are at all tolerable, you have to pay a much higher price than you would do lir the very best of the same description at home. Even cream of tartar, the peculiar product of this part of Italy, is as dear as in England; in quality, however, it is ex cellent, being perfectly and totally soluble. The wine of Florence has been much vaunted, but to tny taste with very little reason. It is not at all to be compared with that of Aoste, which is really as good a wine as 1 ever drank—strong bodied, cool, moderately sweet I and nourishing, without being intoxicating. The Flo rence wine, the only cheap article they have, costs 12 sous a bottle—that of Aoste costs 16 sons. In general the wine of Italy is most wretched—sharp, 'acid and irritating. Florence and Aoste are the best exceptions, and the former I only drink Asr farce, as the water is of too vile a quality to be used with safety. A Journal of Science was begun last year, but lived only seventeen weeks. The Gazette, a small. Newspaper, is the only periodical publication here; 'add in it I was pleased to read a translation from the STAR of an able article on the real state of Britain and its resources. It is, indeed, doing a great wrong to our country, to encourage a belief that our manu factures are become, from the pressure of public bur dens, in the least inferior to what they once were. The English manufacturks are still incomparably su perior to every thing which I have been able to meet with either in this or any other part of the Continent. They are in fact about one-half cheaper, and on an average about three times better than any ether pro ductions which the Continent can produce to rival them ; and as long as this is the ease, we need not fear their losing that preference which they have always hitherto commanded." maft. FRANKFORT, NOVIMBER f. Izz Count Bud Schauen.tein. Minister from Austria. end President of the Diet, arrived here yesterday loom Vienna. To-day the Diet resumed its Sittings, which were opened by a speech of Count Bud Schap is. Baron Berekheiro, who succeeds Baron Bet as Plenipotentiary to the Diet from the Grand Duke of &idea, delivered his credentials. Nub. s.—The anniversary of the first solemn opening of the Diet was celebrated today by a splen• did entertainment at the Hotel of the President.— &sides the Ministers Plenipotentiatjes to the Diet, the Ministers of the European Powers now here, the Envoys accredited to our City, as well as the Senior Burgomaster, and several Senators, were present.— In the evening there was a grand ball, to which the srlsole Diplomatic Body, and the most distinguished ( persons of the City, were invited. Charleston Pam; to the 16th ultimo reached eta this morning. The Paper of the 16th contains the following paragraph, which is the only kind of no. velty in these Papers t•—' " A Gentle/nen arrived in town on Saturday, who, afew weeks since, fell in at sea with a peke to the privateer Trne-blooded Yankie. Captain Jewett, and was informed by the Prize Master, that before_ he left the privateer be had captured a Spanish sloop of war, after a short engagement." • A letter has been received at Lloyd's from the Agent at the Cape of Good Hope, dated 16th Sep, *Ober, which states, that the ship Blucher, from ifitavia and the Mauritius, had brought to the Cape to melancholy intelligence of the natives of the Isle Lupperwaro, near Amboyna, having then and silitisacred the Dutch Resident and his family, toge ther with the whole of the Garrison. A detachment of shoot two hundred men was sent from Amboy** j the natives allowed it to land, and then fell upon, *indent it off to a man. Another expedition was about to sail from Amboyna, under Admiral BUTSEERS. Extract of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope, dated the Ist September:—" The 21st Light Dra goons have embarked for India. The removal of this regiment is for many reasons unquestionably one of the greatest losses this colony has sustained for some time t the good bebavictur of the men, and the gentleman-like and correct conduct of the Officers, had endeared them to the settlement. Major Haman, Captain LECKY, and many others, were universally beloved, and their departure from the Cape is sin c:rely regretted. We are yet at a loss to know if Government intend sending us another Cavalry Re giment, if' not we ►hall be badly off." CORN EXCHANGE, MdfRICLANE, NOP. 14. Our market is very bare of English Wheat, owing to the prevalence of adverse winds, and mere money was obtained this morning for the few Samples of fine quality that remained over from Wednesday. New Barley is also very scarce, and will go off readily when the expected supply gets in. Oats are full Is. per quarter, and obi Beans sell readily at an advance of 4s. per quarter. SMITHFIELD MARKET, NOVEMBER 14. sett Ss 04 to 4s 1 441 4. 01 to 8. 0.1 Ss Mattis 4d to 41 44 Pork 18 01 to 5. 41 Balm Slo—Skip and Lambs 4,loo—Calves 170—P14s 11110. HAT AND STRAW PER LOAD Hay, A 4. Os. to AS. 10s.—Clover, As. to AV. es. Straw, £l. Hs. to Ed. IS. The Churchwarden: and Overseers of the township of Leeds have been enabled to reduce the poor and constable rate for the ensuing half year, from tea shillings to six shillings in the pound. Orders were on Wednesday night sent to the several Gaols which contain the remainder of the seditious phonon, for the release of ten of the number whose cases would admit of such lenity. Two of them were released from Horsemonger Gaol yesterday morning. Yesterday morning 50 male arinvicts,chie fl y pick. pockets, who have long infested the public streets. among whom were the four men, Pullen, Ryland. Rao" and Ties, all notorious characters, who were detected picking pockets at Mr. Ratratoun's funeral, were removed from Newgate to the Tower, and put on board the Thames steam yacht, in order to be conveyed to the hulks at Sheerness, preparatory to transportation. Mr. Baoww, the Keeper of Newgate, bad permission from the Governor of the Tower to convey them through the gates of that fortress, and they were accordingly embarked at the Tower Wharf. The City Marshal, with the whole of the City Police, escorted them in two caravans from Newgate,. Ind 'a detachment of Gaud', on duty at the Tower, were in readiness to receive them, to escort them safe on board the yacht, which proceeded on its destination. soon after seven Y•-, _p!: NAY IL INTELLIGENCIt. MAILS THIS DAY. ARA. DUI. •1111. DOB. Dublin .. . . S 0 France - -- 0 a Waterford .- 0 It 1 3ottenburgh -- 1 I Guernsey and Jerry 0 0 Aanders -- - 0 0 Lisbon ' - - - 0 0 ?Asko - -- . 0 0 Holland - . - i 0 Hantburgb -- 0 a FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER 11. Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Favourite, Gamer, from Finland for Bourdeaux, in eight weeks; and the Martha, from Malaga for Poole—the latter with loss of topmast.—Passed by to-day a bark with loss of fore and mainmasts. PLYMOUIH, NOVEMBER 12. Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Dart, Gums, from Salo and Gibraltar, for London; Manning, Rea, trom London for Sr. Domingo; tad the General Graham, WETHERUCAD, from Bengal for London— the latter sailed from Bengal the 30th May, and from Madras the 30th July. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 13. Arrived his Majesty's ship Timm, from a cruise; Two Brothers, PEARCE. from Seville for London ; and Hunters, Home, from Alieant.—Put in here the Laurel, MACDONALD, frnm 'Lame for Hull, being in want of fresh provisions —she will proceed to Sand gate Creek to perform quarantine. DEAL, NOVEMBER ts. Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Whitehall, TRAPP*. from Malaga. Put back, with the loss of anchor and cable, the Mayflower, for Gibraltar. Came down from the River the Amazon, for New York ; Westmoreland, for Tobago ; and Clarkson, for Demarara. Sailed his Majesty's ships henna and ROSARIO on a eruize. DOVER. NOVEMBER ts. Arrived last night the Lord Duncan packet, Cap tain Pesooe, from Ostend, with a Mail and passen gers. Sailed this day the Lord Duncan packet, Cap tain HAMILTON. with a Mail and passengers for Ca lais; and this evening the Lord Sidmouth, Captain PEAKS. with a Messenger for that port. HARWICH. NOVEMBER is. Arrived the Prince of Orange packet, from Hol. land.—Sailed the Auckland packet, for ditto; and Lord Nelson packet, for Cuxhaven, all with Mali. LIVEReOOI., NOVEMBER is. Pat back whiz loss of topmast. the Rover. lion rev, for Bermuda I and the Theresa. CoLunk, for Bruges—the latter with loss of main-topmast and main-topsail. BRIDLINGTON, NOVEMBER it. The sloop Jenny, M , DoNALD, has been detained and sent in here by his Majesty's ship FLORIDA, sus pected of smuggling ; she is from Port Glasgow, and bound to Amsterdam,. laden with sugar. The brig Argo, of South Shields, is on shore near Flambo. rough, and will be a total loss—crew and materials saved. FOWEY, NOVEMBER 12. Arrived the Jan Frederick, Hrrstaw, from Ham• burgh, for Oporto, with the loss of main top-mast, and very leaky, and must discharge her cargo. HULL, NOVE:IBER It The Bee, PAsTovr, from Yarmouth, for this port, is on shore near Saltfleet. The cargo is landing in good condition, and the vessel will be got off. GRAVESEND, NOVEMBER IS. Arrived the Sir G. Prevost, Morris, from Quebec; Sir Charles, Frier, from Caen; Robert, Wrightson, front Seville; Adriatic, Davidson, from Piliau ; Elli.on, Youll, from Memel ; Eliza, Wren, from °stead; Hope, M'Cormick, from Petershurgh.— Sailed the Aguilar. Robertson. for Jamaica; Fleetwood, Aiken, for Dominica; Margaret, Glen, for Hayti ; Mary, Rubilima, for Havannah; Albion, Ruse, or Curacoa ; Eliza, Thomas, tor New Orleans; Goodiutent. Bell, fur Marseille. ; Po, Cullen, for Caws; Strove, Printer, for ditto; Prince Regent, Hughes, for Cork; Ebeeeser, Edmond, for Hamburgh ; Specnbtor, Wishart, tor ditto; Swift, Wallace, for Eluneur ; and L 411.1 Char lotte, Brundebey, for Riga. CUSTOM-HOUSE, NOVEMBER IS. Snss ENTERED INwARDS.--The Fanny, Hunter, from Rot terdam; Oak, Wynn; and Braganga, Masterton, from Oporto ; Perseverance, Pbllpot, from Room ; Hessle, Musgrave, from Sr, Petenburgh; Burk*, Smith, from Quebec ; Albion s —, from ra Demera; aid Frederik, Allen, from the South Whale Fishery. Orrwasies.—The Caroline, Sergeant, (or Madeira and De merara; Cato, Bennett, for Hainborth; Duke of York, Fryer ; and Use, Bowes, for Rotterdam; Eclipse, Burford, for the Cage of Good Hope, Isis of Prance, and Ceylon; Miry, Fox, for Osteod; Regard, Fbgg, for Cadiz • Rashers, Soper, for Madeira and Grenada; Sisters„ for Antwerp; and Wellington, Sit. phirn, for labia, Perttamboco, and Maranhao. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER Is. CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS. THY KING O. CARI.TLIC. _ _ Mr. Recuannson, in the absence of the Attorney- General. moved that Richard Carlyle, the publisher' of the Parodies on the Litany, the Aliens:ion Creed, and the Caseehimt, should be broueat up, for the pur pose of plc-4141g to four ete-Pio informations which had been filed against him as the publisher of those blasphemous productions. The defendant immediately entered the Court, in custody of the Tipstaff, when Mr. Barlow proceeded te read the informations. They were extremely long. The first related to the Parody on the Litany—the ,second to that on the Athenasian Creed—the third to that oft the Church Catechism—and the fourth re. spected a letter to the Prince Regent. The defendant demanded •that the whole of the counts of the several informations. which were nearly repetitions of the first, should be read—a proceeding which occupied a great deal of time. After reading the first counts of the third infoesua tioo, Mr. Barlow ir.quired, whether the others might not be dispensed with ? The defendant answered, that as he was to be trie4, on the several counts, be should require the whole of them to be read. At the conclusion of each, when called on to.plead, he said. •" I confess to the publication, but I deny it nibs a libel." At the close, he pleaded Not Guilty to the whole. Not having bail in readiness, he was committed to the mind; of the Marshal of the King's Bench, and was infurmed that he would be tried at the first sit tings at Nisi Prins, after Term,' in Loudon. COUR I' OF COMMON PLEAS. NOVEMBER IS. BUTLgit v. ItINOMS. Mr. GAaLFY opened the pleadings, and stated, th at ibis was an action for the recovery of £l5, the amount of a note. given to plaintiff by defendant. Mr. Saleant Ban stated the plaintiff's case. Mrs. Butler had been, he said, fur a considerable time the owner of a public-house called the Queen's Head, in Covent-garden. In she year 187 ► this house had been the scene-of lunch_ festivity during the late Mr.. „ -•-• • "1- Shetidsn's Contested election, On th- 7t'i of May, during that period, the defendara, Mr. Rivulet, tam• to the plaintiff and asked to borrow C. 5 for Mr. Sht ridan's use. She refused to lend 11-.- money in that loose girt of way, and req.liryd f ram the defendant his own promissory note, payable in n week, for t`e amount. He accordingly gave it, and rece.ved ti,, sum of 115. Through the indulgnce of Mr , . DIV. ler this note remained for a long time ever do••• and when applied for in the year 1812 (it was b•!licyrd), but certainly in 1816, the defendant r. fr et to, es!. it, saying the money had been obtained for Mr. Si)e ridati's use, and that he had hog since rera•tl it, by giving the plaintiff shares in Drury-late Ti 4.41 re t.a that and other monies. He at the same tin.e a mil ted, that he had signed the note, and received eh. money; but added, that he war protected by the Sta tute of Limitations, and would nut avow his liability to the debt. Tile Learned Serjeant said, that he was in a condition to prove the story about the repay ment to be destitute of foundation, for Mrs. Butler had paid in cash for the shaft.' slit held in the con cerns of Drury -lane Theatre, and not received any of them in reduction or discharge of any I rivate claim she may have had on Mr. Sherilan. As to the bar of the Statute, be was sure the defendant could nut shelter himscif under it, fur the plaintiff was un able to find him out until the peri 4 when she had applied for the payment of his note. • John Salmon was the first witness called. He proved Mrs. Butler's refusal to give the 115, wifbon• the defendant's note, promising payment in a week. He agreed to give the note; he did so, and witness saw lam receive the money. This wiener!, in cross examination, did not know that the defendant said, at the time, Mrs. Butler should look alone to Mr. Sheridan for the money. J. Vuley, a constable, proved having called on the defendant in October, 1816, to require, on the part of Mrs. Butler, payment of the note, when the de fendant replied, that though he signed the note and gut the money, he would not hold himself liable for it now when the note had legally expired. He also said that Mrs. Butler had been already paid by Mr. Sheridan, who gave her shares when Drury-lane Theatre was building. Mr. Serjeant BEST, said, he would call the Secre Lary to the Drury-lane concern, and also one of its Bankers, to shew that Mrs. Butler had paid the lull sum in cash fur the shares she held iu Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. C. W. Ward (the secretary) proved, that Mrs. Butler had five Aare, of one hundred pounds each, in the concern, for all of which, he believed, she had paid the lull amount, according to the regular instal ments. He never knew of her receiving any sitar's from Mr. Sheridan—nor did he find, on examining the hooks, that she held any other than the five shares mentioned. Mr. Btrtlett, one of the clerks in the banking house of Nlessrs. Wright and Co. produced a book, to which were, in his hand-writing,.entries of sums of money to the atnnant of CO, which had been paid in by Mrs. Butler, on .%( count of shares she Ipftl in the Theatre. The remaining entries of the further pay ments of the plaietti.i . to cnenplete her shares being entered in a dithrent clerk's hand-Writing, this wit ness's testimony as to the payment of the balance, was inadmistiale.—The case for the plaintiff being now closed, Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN, for the defendant, su!. • ted to the Court, that there was no evidence adduc : which could be sent to a Jury. There wa, ao evi dente to shew any acknowledgment of the debt which could take it out of the Statute of Limitations. In the case of Kowcroft v. Somers, in the Court of King's Bench, on an action of a:sump:it, the party admitted his signature and the receipt of the money, but said his note was out of date, and no law could or should make him then pay it. Mr. Serjeant PELL followed on the same side, and contended that the uniform train of precedents re quired the actual promise of the party to pay the money within the period required by law. It was always held that there should be something like ion undertaking given which could not be raised by in: ference. or else the parry was entitled to the protec tion afforded him by the Statute. • Mr. Justice PARK was of opinion that it was for the Jury to decide on the point contended for by the Learned Counsel- • Mr. Serjeant VAUGTIAN then addressed the Jury, and submitted that•from the evidence given by the plaintiff's witnesses, it wag clear that so tor from there being any acknowledgement of this debt given by the defendant, he had, when called on, distinctly refused to pay the Money, and very properly availed himself r.f the Statute, as he had been merely the me. dium, and this was known to the lender, of getting the money for the use of Mr. Sheridan. • Why was it then, that until after Mr. Sheridan's death, the de &adapt etas never called on for the money ? in , every view of the case, both to equity and lavi, he claimed ii c verdict of the Jury for the defendant. Mr. Justice PAKX observed, that it was evader.' from' the prudent precautkn taken by the plaintiff when she lent her money upon this note, . that she, acme of the notoriety of the embarrassments of the very eminent man for whom the money was said to be wanted, required collateral security before she made the advance. The note was payable in a week, and yet no application was made from May, 1807, until Octoblr, 1816—though one of the witnesses said the defendant resided for the last three years in her neiglibwrbood. was, therefore, for the Jury to say, whether this was not a case hr which recovery was effectually barred by the Statute of Limitations? 'That Statute, now in operation more than a century, was a very salutary one, though, doubtless, often abused. It was for the. Jury to say, whether they could make out from the evidence that the defendant had given any acknowledgment e f the debt, so as to preclude hint from the benefit taf the Statute—if he had, they would find for. the pliOntiff—if not, use de fendant was 'entitled to their verdict.—The Jury in stantly returned a verdict for the defendant. 'The subscription to the Grand Canal between EL i buriji and Glas4ow is at length complet.:J, and the work has now commenced. A 1. tter Isom Vienna, brongl.t by the Dutch M a i, this mo►uiur, says, 66 From a respectable traveller tee learn, that the hyena which had escaped has been slsot by a soldier, near Landstrass. In the boOy e s t the animal were found six musket balls, which had ouudiasit.J. lA:lors', without killing it." rt C 4 1 I i • .4.