Star. — London, England, 1817-01-27 00:00:00

1" Ad- . , . • PARIS .PelPtßt. 2" . NE AR lit . • —_. . V r gerday . .. we received the Paris Pipers of the 22 d Sainiday a String 'party 911, of the -ni Gorda* d 2,;,f, and this morning those of the 24th instant. Highlanders, landed at Wapplog, after a passage of t nine days from Edinburgh. lUy had under tlieir. c c filarial ceremonies of the 21st still form the chief charge a number of deserters from differentreginienti. t Oject of their columns. His MAJEWIT continues so A considerable reduction takes place in the Aran' 1 d ,, pc ,cd, that he diJ not assist at any of the cere- forthwith-namely, one squadron from • each Rrgt- il , z ,nizs, bat had ser vice p er f or m e d in his oorn apart. ment of Dragoons, all Regiments above ninety, and -( a a n g o r e e o at f r s e o d oh uc a ti m on ea in ao t t h e ose oz d ia z i r o ni d ne e ty. ha ln farther= been re- Fa . arts; and it is curious enough to observe , th a t t he ;ciating Priest was no other than the, ex:Minister• aired at Portsmouth, to place a number' of she 1 , . noted Archbishop of Ruznas-M. Di:TAMAN- Officers of the 24th, Std, and SGth Regiments, on sp ! His Highness the Duke of Bidet' hasllso gall-pay. By this measure the folloWing gentlaneeti of the Sikh Regiment, in gitrison there, go on Atilt,' a indisposed ; and Madame, his DuidAss , too has the fi e ld , Mockler, Lieutenants Holmes, Wake- ea to her apartments, from a cause, say Lewis, Ormsby, White, Pell, Taylor, Blunt, ; I . . c h Papers, .6 which ought to inspire all good Potenger, Mlles, and M'Glwr. i trachnaen with the free-lies' hopes: , . NAVAL INIALLIGENCE. c Among such a mass of stuff - as these papers are c id' with, about the dead of a thousand years, and FALMOUTH. JANUARY 24. i g hostly horrors o( the charnel house, there is No arrivals or sailing: last night. There was a h ; the den with P claret; r deaven, from /I_ aurdeau I for Havre , • age d something very Crotty in intelligence like this ; bench a b e ia bri g lost near nine out of 16 of l the .„d yet, how can so holy a Princehood expect ever crew drowned.-Wind Ws ~ realize such hopes, when as yet (oh dire neglect!) PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 23. c . Several of the bodies of the seamen and Women lost I re has been no offering in the manner of other m us Majesty's ship JASPER, have lb the course of t .ions Duchesses, of some silver, baby to propitiate 1 yesterday and to-day been picked up and carried to ', favour of the Virgin t the Hospital. i An article under the head of Rome, shich we have PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY IC. c muted from these Papers, states, that according Arrived his Majesty's ship Hose, from a cruise. 1 DAtt . rbtourti. JANUARY as. o c ocain reports in circulation there, the Porn had Arrived the Flora, Room, from Ostend. for Ma t 1 , co ded in gaining the cause of the Roman Ceiba- laga, with her mast sprung, leaky, and the loss of of Ireland with our PIUNCZ Ititorter.-tbat is, we two anchors end cables. phase, that he has succeeded in obviating any ob. DE . AL, JANUARY 26. Arrived and sailed for the River the Admiral 4 . tian to the measure in so far as his spiritual supra- caper, Tounuos, from the South Seas, full of 4 yis involved is the question. We think this is not elephant oil. Came down from the River and remain ' ... , and we shall be happy to see this spirit of the Julies Czar, for Demerara ; Mary Ann, for I .. „.. • :. • in his Holiness, followed up by a Fort William; Medway, for Tobago; Ruckus., for I Grenada; Friends, for Jamaica; Cadmus, for the 1 , •.g feeling in other quarters. ' Isle of France; Jane, for Jamaica; Britannia. far i 4 e.m0...... Trinidad; and Mathildo, fur St. Croix. The Corn- It is understood that early in the Session, which wall, for the Isle of France, has been run foul of by l ~ ~ maces to-morrow, Ministers mean to bring before -another vessel in the Gulls, and sustained some da- 4 'aliment numerous proposed Reductions of the mage,-she bore up again. Arrived and sailed for 1 abuc Expenditure. The reductions h t s h e Anny tho ,Riser the Vigilant, from Oporto ; and Norval, I , reported to be to the extent of 500 met! Iteme: The ` Altona...-Wind DOVER , JANUARY 25. 1 fey 1817 will not, it is said, exceed 70,000 Arrived this day the Lord Duncan packet, Captain 1 - ive tool* The amount of reductions of various HAsett.Tom, from Calais, with Lord Lowntin and ~, .• it is estimated, will reduce the expenses of Go. Sir THOMAS Titawmtrr. Sailed this day the King George packet, Captain Kum, for Calais, with the meat to la millions; but even this arnotmt will French Mail and passengers ; also the Princes, Chtir- vs agrees deficit, which must be met in some way. lotte packet, Captain HALLANDS. for Ostend, s tOth a 4 ' a reduction of Sinecures form any part of the Mail and passengers. •• • • suing 1 'lf not, however pleased the sotto. • JAIMAILY 26.-Arrived this afternoon. after a pas- .l may be w i th the re d act i ons e ff ecte d, it swill nor gage of only two hours and a h a lf, the Flora, Captain staled. It is abeam to talk of the neeekity a Va g of from Calais, with the Earl of SUNDERLASD• Lord BARNARD, Hon. Captain AyLmen, and many •• 'si ng inpresent • • . a attain expenditure ear- other passengers. Sailed this afternoon the Sybil, - • ces. She income cannot be regulated by the Captain Mitiourrote, for Calais, with passengers. spense-the expense must be regulated by the in- • nAbISGATF., JANUARY 25. The followin g ships from London hire come in -- . The prang evils most be Met in some way; f or shelter, outward-bound t -.Little Family, Heart) or pt will only aggravate them. of Oak, Fly, Levant, Enterprise, Susannah, Will ..........-.......—. • and Frances, Commerce' Eleanor, Hope, Matilda, Yesterday alteration, about five o'clock ,. • the wa rl o r d, and p l h . Mat RAO UT. attended by Sir B. BLoomentus, at. sod cam es and wird ! al ; -the la tiltr w i t h 12ft C / i 49 - C k e l ass broke. The greater part of 'red it V.lilitia Mouse from Brighton. His Royal the cargo of the Dotch brig Dolphin, has been take *boss will open the Session in person to-morrow. out 4 her and . put on board another ship, •by which Saturday a O ► . et Council was held at the Fu- she has eat off the West Bank and into the Bas i n. ,-- age Office; Do w ning -street, which was summoned W i nd v y w . k . .& . thtc weather end moderate. y th e Eail of Livearous, as Prime Minister , foe at- . ORATESXND, JANUARY stis. . i n Ills SP IPah . _ for th . opening of theBo43o „,_ of AnivNt dot Titer's, Darnley ; fferestord, 'Maslow a Sod Una- . .to •De s ubmi tt ed this d ay to th e Panto a bg eb igi e fi se d as Gees u s g ne; m am a s o r An e mia , . 11 ,„ 7 ,„. MOT io Council. The Members of the Cabinet Iris Ostend; Hap, A 0.% born Don; Letitia ?Wrist. ssembled at half past tiro o'clock, and cootiuuod in try. from Belfast; Sass, Ford, trees dolmit and bastioa till past five: , hem New Verb. Sailed tke Fortitude, RN, MeZNTIe% foe Ostend; Wynn, Annie, BierMadefra• Thursday the Princess CaitAttattra and Prince Lao- w hite HA c ra w, for Lisbon; D is i, Th ontrua , for Leg .' Lo had a party to dinner at Claremont s among beta; bids Engberdlna, Mulder, far Rotterdam; Telemachus, company, were the Eirl of Lavearool., Lord and PIM" for 4obihtt Chinese Reltir for at. Atritanril; Lime dy CASTLRAZAOhIand Mr. HusiUMON. Lord and Seiko 91I'mh fur /Id"' dy CASTLIIBIAGN and Mr. Husstssoo remeitsed . CUSTORI-HOUSE, JANUARY IS. Darn ESTZIEED INWARDio-Tbit Salamanca, keit, and Vs- - that night. Bent, lilantyltreys, front Antwerp; Ana SwalllnAg l ot Saloe; No town residence bas yet been prowled Tor t he c om i l l es p.g e a l t;lnun Havrr ; and sbant;eojolly,lrnit myrna. inams CII A R L OT T S and Prince LIMPOLD ) tAip ob- , takterilites.-The Hope, Foreman; Fountain, Ihtalii.libli4... tion raised to Cumberland Housw,used for offices • . eileausawn ; AlmwcU, Pet.; Dorothy, edinvoas s ; : sea , ;Moe for Hambutgb ; Castkreash, Glactiy., liar t i fv . the Board . of Ordnance, is the exiroms,of Om ne- sum rim* : bathe, f or (Abeam; Nth " w eg bli,:, 5 91 0 :say alterations. theTsgpf •Franer, and Forts Sc; Ooorge and William eViikislo Yesterday morning the Grand DakelkhcHnt.as, Pitt, liViag, for Media, !eh of France, Fors Se Osimii, ecompanird by General Earrosort, and followed by wawa. aSk,sit and Pence of Wee* bland ; Monk% Saw 1 is san e an d t h e Off icers o f t h e R uss i an f r ig at e lying istml, h r POW Odom; and Aaron', Nkhullt, for Wourfigul., nirratintrioir OF PRIZE• 140410: d Woolwich, went t o the RIISSiAII Chapel in Wet= ty,,,,-i,-,r ti. mum sat apsrauties , the *h t i s i a i n . as ' et -streets they returned to St. Alban'e. " ‘ ••s House , and' NNe „, s etad . smag . . .-• .- . -'' three o'clock the Grand Duke . went to ride t n viva, tor trio Cusick, tomorrow; as 114 Ilisedbitrase, . seback in Hyde Park, where he Wasjoined by ihe ' knob .uki of Devonsinig. Oa his Imperial Highness's ......,aliNEMalm....=.. tarn to at: Alban': House, he left town for' Clare. By a private letter from Plymouth, we are happy t to Aline with toe Princess Cumuarra and - Prime to understated, that besides. Captain CAitoW of the °m.o. The' Grand Duke was to deep at.Clarew ;Attu; w hoa we stated to have been on shore when an last night. • thatlossel was lost, the two Lieutenants were also Yesterday morning died, at . her house in Oittisiti- aa shim Ca rain ErowAan rhino, CABOtINE Dowager Couniere if %bar- The 'Lammas , of 56 guns, p OHANSIURF..• Her ' Ladyship was-the sisite-ef the Cuiriaii. C. B haiinebeeithorolighly repaired of it THONIAB CONOLLY, the wealthy Irish COMMICIII4I4 the damages she sped 1 10 Algiers, west out of id daughter of WILLIAM CONOLLY. of Stratton Hall, Partisan') 1 •1 4 4 0 ... 1 1 1 a Flay xf tempo. lik Ds. atfurdshire, by ANni WiltiTVioitTlf, daughter of I'll) Maas will refroP„.. _ i r bie 2 1 „ 6 ° bit in a a fee day s, Pastas, third Earl of STRAFF.AItD. fierladdyidilp lad . isrataled la: *fialaill * Mail Weer4Wea A d- d three suns, all now dead, and one dingitter;vit. egret Giurriiiis. ; . ; ~,... litua, the present Viscountess CaaTLltaltAttli. Captain MAUTiIe Vienne has eomeniiiietsed • the lo tonsequenceof the above melancholy event. the Shamrock i survey - vessel for the coast of t agland, Ned Parliamentary Dinner, intended to be given and the Isles of GueMisey and • Jersey. Captain is day by Lerd CAoTtAltltstOkt to a party of SS, was 6_ an* &tees has commissioned the f..llllh2ntress, t ot, to lay at Solillied.' under the orders of the Lords of An express hut week reached Beaudesert, the lieu the Tacomal. the Marqdis of Asotausa, with intelligence of the The PrusaelLeassCUPtaht Moos:au; Rosario, Cap- hof Lady Isieuxisa.se the Martens's shwas at Dan PRAILI I , and Tyrten. Captain Posemus, have . Pat in i re ! co d. Th e ;lanais immediately let sailed on cruises last week. leaving at Spithead the dutleurt for London, to break the saes:tin intelli. Leander. Tiber. and rush icelo the COliiitlMS of Umlaute*. wh,o ka to an in- lailFenin" GROWN PlenTlt of his Majesty.'; ship shi p rAent state of health. All dm yoposselleehev chi trask was tried !y a Court Model on Pimoo34.°!' the Marquis's family passed throe/h . A j e t,' ad i n . !shames of disobedsweias of orders, istrileek of Anty., tria ge and six an Thursday, foe . . o O r ii. ' .4 1, attl sod tooffiett:lilta conduct. He was senspiteird to be taus Christmas party has been bressop et Beat , - 'lleeerel pat at i the le =" et r th . e d r a d im /A d s f r in tea ao hia ta , B4ls4 aid 11 sty this domestic calamity. eui-il.iusw, • near Warrington. in Staffordshire, Oa Monde was launched kern the yard of Messrs. s.:at of RICUARD E. HaAxmotia, Esq. was aa PC°ll4lgir a aaalk at 4 ..1 the 'Wks. Ent. ddy Liu neatly burnt . dta the round by accides. Indianan. Hein:tam wait given by Miss Dolmens', iire . the A .. 'Amuse is estimates' at several thousand of PAS k-nosse, Mandel. ._ds. We ale informed. that at Grimaced and North- e understand that Ministers have received a din- dans during the last lleaddr. well a pistil of flood from Govessor FAtuaintrot of the Mauritius, water has s'llte down the aivaraatimPada th e tide. a dreadful fire has disuoyild hoU the Ammo of and render the Thames at Greg viteTl poly kesii--. Louis.. W e h ave not hear d the p articulars o f d eitcuinstance seam reeellected 111 - R_ olpkiblais calamity. to have beissa take Sm. _. . . IRELAND. . . I it.iacident of sitter a curionikompletinti is :Oen tionee- in the DuSiin Piper!. In a Second gdifyin, of,* Dotikx Chrookle of Wednesday, it as stated, end tiieConsmon Coun c il bad, by a m ijority of twenty' votes, come to a reiailution to petition for a It-forni is Pailiament, and also for a RON), of the Union.- -Of coarse, a violent st:uggle was made by the other patty to carry an Amendments but having failed, nci *mall degree of exultation is manifested by tht victors. - *OI7IIVgIiAM AILETING. Wednesday a Meeting summon-d by the MAir4 . in consequence of a' requisition of 'luny respectable inhabitant% was held at Nottingham, when a string ul Resolutions, all tending to point out the necessity of Parliamentary !Giotto and of reducing the 'nisei, was agreed to, and a Petition ordered Eto be pre. witted accordingly—the Petition to be ptesenicd by Lord RANCiIFYI and 301 IN Siam% Esq. We are informed that a Requisition for a Meeting of the County of Berin, to petition for a Reform in Parliament, is now in course of signature, and will be sent to the High Sheriff in a few days. Bills have been posted throughout Ponsmouth and its neighbourhood, giving notice of 4 Public Meeting, on Thursday neat, in St. George's-square, Portsea, 'at AVM o'elikk, - for the purpose Of taking into con sideration the propriety of a Petition fora Reform iii Parliament. Mr. CogiETT and Mr. HUNT have sig. nifie ; their intention of attending. • Wednesday morning, about one o'clock, the Lei. tester cavalry, and a regiment of dragoons, were called out to quell'a riot at Oadby, near Leicester. There were about 400 rioters, who dispersed them selves after three of the leaders were secured: these bate since been sent to the gaol of the latter place. Several corn and hay-stacks were set on fire, but were eitinguished by the military. ' We are sorry to state, that by accounts from Dam. fries, the apparent tranquillity which bad been re estabiished on Saturday seinnight, by the cool and determined exertions of the Magistracy, aviisted by a trittie respectable posse of constables, was interrupted ; by °Wel the Most ft tgitious acts that the depravity of human- nature can he guilty of. On Tuesday; evening, about eight o'clock, a hay.stack standing ip a ficli adjoining the town, belonging to Bailie 8u.,., a Wittily, humane, and active Magistrate, was dis covered to be on tire ; the wind Wu% ing strong, caused the flames to rage so furiously, that in a short time the whole was consumed. 'There were also two ricks t.l grain standing near it which fortunately escaped the fury of the raging elemen:. Bunion is making to discover the diabolical author, but hi therto without snecess, although a reward of two hundred guineas is offered.—All is again quiet. The.following !mei has been sent by the Secretary of Stati for the Home Department to the Lords Lieutenants of several Counties: 44 'Whitehall, January tI. "My Lose—h being deemed expedient, under present eir stUaltariCell that the Curd Power should be strengthened to the Satiny under your Grace's char, i have to request that you , will recommend it to the Magistrates in Me princiAl Towns ItillJA° 3 4allila-V! )l Ch they MOOR isAtitAlready adopted. to Mattetho eirobiteto of raptetabge Householders, to act, as seinsiop may require, as Special Constahlw, for a died period est time, pot lee- than three months : • and I have farther to rc quest that your Grace will communityA* to the Commanding Of ficers of the several Yeomanry Corps within the County of Lei eater the wish of his Maks:y's Governaent, that they would held themselves and the eorisuotler their respective eeaunands In a mate of preparation to afford prompt asel‘taoce to the Civil Authorities, in cam of necessity.—l have," &c. (Stord) • " SIOMOOTII." " To the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Leicester." We have heard the melancholy fact, that the poor= bouse at Bilstoo, in Staffordstlire, is so tull of oecu piths thaethere is nut room for them all to sleep at the sLise time; but an equal number of them retire to rest in rotation Tee 1..t/DDlTEi.—Jumn Towle, on the mlrning pre• violist) , to hit execution, made an ample confe,sion to the High Melilla Leicestershire, and to a Justice of the Peace:for that county, of every person, directly or indirectly. CMteemed in the felony and destruction at Mr. 'Hainlaiar i s Factory at Longliborougly and of lib Luddkes in ,general; which disclosure hist been keeifietret, until it could be made subservient to the ends of justice. 'lle died penitent ' • assured the Sheriff that what Ike bad stated to him was 'true, and lamented that he hid not made this discla, ,1110 sooner; to have saved his life. The Luddites ant itfipeachtng one another, and the Magistrates are new in possession of their' whole Mitury and plan of operations. Of the fifteen already apprehended ten are &aged With the offence at Loughborough. Noir of theta, bOvreVer. have yet been GHENT, JANUARY torn fell considerably in our RIM ket yeatirday. The best wheat was 20 to SS florins ; red. 18 to 510; rye, 14 to 15. Tirrathitds of the' corn temaitied iunsold. ''. • CORN EXCHANOI, lAI‘VANY $7. • • We bad but a moderate supply of Whoa this morning from Kent and 'Essex, and very little from say other county; the qiialliy of which being very' ordinary, met heavy sale, but occasioned a boiik do - mend for prime samples, at last Monday's priced.—.l Fine Barley tontirtiting scarce, fully maintained la s t week's-prices, but the middling qualities are unsale able, as the mahsters cannot use it. Old Oats, being scarce,- . are 2i. per quarter dearer, but new are dull sale at Friday's prices. In Peas and Beans there is bet littl, doing, and both articles are two'sbillings -per quieter cheaper. COllllll7 !glen as glens: • arratua.'Fick pine, 56..451. Wheat, Lost and Eases, Old, Dots, PorZer luso. 11.0 s. s Ditto, Poland, 4ga 461 .. aufulk, WON 1lDs• Mtge, Ft..l, 3tia. 4 !11. itipevecd, 152 135 per iair) are, worlii: • Flour, 100 s. 1061. 10112 y, tie 704 fOggION. 50. 965. • I Wheat, DAM*, 110.. 120 s. White PPS, 0116. ers, boners, Muth Baltic 1441, 1064. 11104. IS.. 70.. • HantbreorltreaSen. 1040.120. OPry Pass, IS. ON. I Inborn aid, los& 120 s JaM Baas, 706.756. Rye, 006. 006. amursomp mApiurr _ _ sue sit a ct. KiVoil 1. 04 to at OS .806014111181161„ • ma..l,vp' get 4d 04 ab iti ee t4mbe e.ll l l: 4 eek so_cave, 46 04 190 . 0 24 .04250. AND wrium PE LOAD. Hay £4. 0 to 44. 4e.—Clete 08 to 71 7e. • Strew 10e. torn. Or. * . TM amp Matti Sr,sec cusp's's& Freon the Mune made 1 0111 1 1 .1010 *MA !9!*. PO' l er WU iiirtzzildEkelL .. iIOUR+ OrlCl/101 azt4cP4, imitmlii ii. . THS LINO w. JAMES *ANSON AND JOHN HOOPES. . The defendants werisbrought up from Nesvgate id , plead to an indictment *hich thafged them with un.: cawfullY. anti maliciously eonspiring together with Jatnes Watson the younger, 'Thomas Ptbstoit, aiid J. Cashmad, to eaMe. and promote a slot, and with aiding and abetting in that riot. The indietment,,w a ttLread over to the prisoneri, and. they severally ssmfiltd Not Guilty : they were itit course remandethitet thie custody from which they . tad been brtughti ';• . 1 1- _ ( ,„"rhe in d iermeitijli as hisin removed into this Court 'Sy rertiorari: and i;, Zeill be tried at the Sittings a&er the presen• Te.m. . . . Thomas Kelton not being in custody, will put in . his; plea throngit the medinm of iiic Solicitor. Ca%' , Aan stAn,ling capita::y cooticted of felony, it • is iup-p:ss-:d toll not be l•roCeeded apinst on this clnirge, although his name is included in the indict ment. Mr. J. Watson, the elder, was bailed before Mr: Justice Houtovn, in Serjeaut's Inn, ea Saturday . evening. His bail were. Mr. Bird, Auctioneer and Broker; and Mr. West, Wirelworker, in Wych.street; . Diary-lane. Tile bail of Preston was oleo acrapzed; hut that of litaiper rejected. WIGAS v. FOOTLES ANT/ °TUSTIN. • . This cause was tried before Lord Eminsahovota, at the last Sittings for London: it was an action o,* . 4 80l of Exchange at ohm months' date, drawn illit dr: defendants, upon soma persons catrying on mew- • cantile business in partnership at Bristol: the defence was graninaliM upon Stat. 15 Geo. 11. c. 13. which was pasted for the purpose of more effectuallt ,renting the monopoly of the Bank of England ; it . provided, aiming oche:• things, that it should be nu.; lawful-" fix any other persons whatsoever, united or 'to he united itt;der covenant or p trtnership, exceed= in the Burgher of six persons in England, to borrow once, or ti.lc up any•sum or sums of money on their . hills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof. during the continuance of such privilege to the Bank of Engel lind." Mr. 6 , !arlett pressed this distinct provlsiCts, hut Lord Ellenborouy,ll refused to nonsvit the plai&... ti , as he thonertrilvai the case did not came within .th 'purview of ihixßdttuti, which was passed to preQ ... . v the est4lial(McOs7of rival banks, and not to I t . a . - .. I. 4:tipple the negotiations. of commerce t the plaintiff accordingly Tenement:l4 verdict. - . Mr. ScAiii.crx this day moved for a rule to set aside the verdici..and to enter a nonsult, contending, that although the defen4ant's were not bankers, tire clear object •cd the Legislature in passing the Att • lath Geo. 11. c. l 3: vias to present more than six persons engaging in any business, by providing that if they dii engage, they should not be allowed to ne- guciate bills or flan at a shorter date than Six mouths. It was true that the 9tat , ite applied Mime- . diately to Bankers.; but if it were held strictly i!):. i:: . elude no other persons hm these who called them selves B siker:. the law might easily be defeated by individuals who in lett tarried on the bosirens of Bankers, though under the appearaiine of a Cora, mercial establistnent '.f a different kia , !. L-. 701 Etteensctocan.-Ireccilect that on the trial I would not sate the mkt, lesel sfeoula - thriiiri ' doUbt upon' the question that might be very itijuriOol in commercial dealings; the argument of the deriL dants wouli be a receipt. to enable any persons, above seven in ntr.eser, to eegage in any business, and to avoid the paynietat of all their bills, by' in ov il* that' trey were of a shOtter date than six icoeth4.anat ih'at . the firm was composed of more than six members.-- ' To hold that the 15rh Lieorge 11. prevents .;11 per sons, exceeding six, to negotiate bilis tiiii!or aic Months' date, would obsteitet all commercial deal ings by more individalls than six; bec.tusu in the pie sent state Of things, commersial dealings are con ducted almost solely by bilk, the only object of the • Statute was to prohibit the formation of rival Banki. Mr. Scant.arr argued, that so to hold .would enable any persons , to defeat the Act, by carrying • on the BAnkifiz business under colour of some oilier Joncern. a.n.• a., . - . Lord Et.t.m.ntogsta.—When they become vir- • Attaily Bankersiecher come within the provisions of vise Statute. Mr. Scaftr.rrr. added. that there were no Words in : the Statute to prevent any persons, exceeding six, to ' engage as Bankers; but it was not allowed that they should raise money upon any notes of a shorter date than six months. Mr. Justice Houtivo observed, that a similar dis tinction had been taien, and over-ruled with regard to contracts for coal, to which par:Scalar provisions applied.—Rule refused. • • SKEINS AND ANOTHER W. HAIL, FLEMING, AND HUM The facts of this case, also tried by Lord ELLEN BOROUGH, at the Sittings at Guildhall, were as follows: Tile defendants, in conjunction with a Mr. Gordon, Aid isolagid in a commercial speculation to North America, and nship was chartered' by them to pro ceed to two ports in British North America, and to two ports lithe United States, with which we were then at wart the defendant Hall, by letter, desired Gordon, who resides in London, to insure to the amount of £20,000, and Gordon, in consequence, took a policy to Lloyd's, and procured names to the amount of £17,000. Being unable to insure the re. mainingoooo among his friend; be employed the plaintiffs, insurance-brokers, to effect a policy to that amount : Gordon at terwards becoming a bankrupt they brought their action against the defendants toe • the expenses and afhount of premium paid upon the 113000 policy, and 'they recovered a verdict to the amount they claimed, subject to a motion to set as;ee the verdict, on the ground that truster the terms ...1 the lever (rem Halt to Gordon :he action was mai, . tainable, or wiiasliw t the pl.sintiffs ought not to h-ve Mceesied against Gins don, and Gord on aga ' r .5 all, who had orderedthini to effect the insur.loce. Mr. Msnitvitrlit ; roving accordiegly tht. Jet , - , subMitted thatAlig coestion was, whether Gordo, , who was directed to effect the insurance hirosc;:, had any power to substitute other persona for tart purpose ? at the trial only parole evidence was gisen by Gordon of the letter from Hall to him, by which it appeared an he, ,‘ Please to effect insurance on iN e ship Caroline, at and from Loudoa to Halifax, Ecc. for £20,000, as interest obeli appear per int bill of lading.". Gordon.had an account wit adviattigas o the defen dants, 4 n4 it made 'voice and ith Ms ca. : a grtaC