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I did not inthd to take with the : he put up ` hiform . in a towel, and shortly after-wards went aw.iy in great apparent uneasiness of minds and having asked nip leave, he took the coach I came ;a l and which I had forgotten to discharge in the h a ste I Was in. " I do further depose, that the above conversation Is the substance of all that passed with Captain &- tenger, which, from the circumstances attending it, was strongly impressed upon my mind : that no other person in uniform was seen by meat my house, on Monday the twenty-first of February, though possibly other Officers may have called (as many have done iince my appointment) ; of this, boiever, I cannot speak of my own knowledge, having been almost constantly from home, arranging My private affairs. I have understood, that many persons hive called under the above circumstances, and have written notes in the parlour, and others have waited there in enectation of seeing me, and then gone away ; but I most positively swear, that I never saw any per son at my house resembling the description and in the dress stated in the printed Advertisement of the Members of the Stock Exchange. " I further aver, that 1 had no concern, directly, or indirectly, in the late imposition, and that the above is all that I know relative to any person who came to my house in uniform on the 'twenty-first day of February before alluded to. Captain Hettin ger wore a grey great coat, a green uniform, and a military cap. " From the manner in which tiny character has been attempted to be defamed, it is indispensably necessary to state, that my_ connexion in any way with the Funds arose from an impression that in the present favourable aspect of affairs it was only neces sary to hold Stock in order to become a gainer, with. out prejudice to any body.: that I did so openly, considering it in no degree improper, far less dis honourable : that I had no secret information of any kind ; and that had my.espeetatibt; of the success of affairs been disappointed, I should have been the unly sufferer. " Further, I do most solemnly swear, That the whole of the Omniutri on account, which I possessed on the 21st day pf February, 1814, amounted tc. one hundred and thirty-nine thousand pounds, which I bought by Mr. Fearn (I think on the 12th instant at a premium of twenty-eight and a quarter : that did not hold on that day any other sail on account, in any other Stock, directly or indirectly ; and that I had given orders when it was bought .to dispose of it en a rise of one per cent. and it was actuilly sold on an average at twenty-nine and a ' half premium, though on the day of the fraud it might have been disposed of at thirty three and a half. I further swear, That the above is. the only Stock which I sold of any kind on the 21st day of February, except two thou sand pounds in money which' I had occasion for ; the profit on which was about ten pounds, Further, I do solemnly depose, That I hail no connection or dealing with any one, save as above- Mentioned, and that.l did not at-any time, directly or indirectly, by:myself, or by any other, take or pre cure any office or apartment foe any Broker or other person for the transaction of Stock affairs " COCHRANE. " Swots at my House in Great Queen street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the county of Middlesex, the 11th day of March, 1814. —Before me, A. GRAHAM." DUTCH P4PJRS. BRUSSELS, MARCH 2. Sllong hopes are entertained here of the surrender of Antwerp. Nothing more more is known respecting the interview between the General of the Allies, and Decaen, the Governor of the city. The meeting took place in consequence of a flag of truce being sent out to Merxen, where General Blenkendorp was poste4, with 2or 3000 men. Some persons suppose that tk conversation related merely to allowing some of the inhabitants to leave the town, who were anxious to escape from the horrors of a siege. BREMEN, FEBRUARY 29. A part of the city of Hamburgh was on fire on the • night of the 27th instant, in consequence of the born bardment which had been renewed. As to the pro bability of the surrender of the place we have no fur ther information on the subject. FRENCH PAPERS• MANTUA, MARCH 4. Fnrt l'Ecluse capitulated yesterday at noon. Five hours employed by the peasants and citizens - in turn ing up and rolling sown treat stones from the rock which comthands it,' were sufficient to make it sur render. The garrison, who are prisoners of war, are just arrived at Mantua, to be sent• to-morrow to Lyons, and will be escorted by thirty men of the National Guard of this town to Pont d'Ain. Our troops follow up their successes, and advance upon Versoix and Geneva. General Marchand is at Caronge, and lays siege to Genes, into which the enemy have thrown them selves. Net one soldier or peasant has been wounded. MILAN, FEBRUARY 27, To-day, at three in the afternoon, discharges of artillery announced to this capital the new and bra hant victories obtained by the Emperor over the Al- Nett armies on the 17th, 19th, and 19th of February. The joy of the inhabitants is extreme. Letters from Chamberri say, that the enemy are almost wholly driven from the 3epartment of Mount Nam. They made vein attempts to get the people To rise in their favour; the whole population remained quiet and faithful to their Sovereign. The old Cie 1-o:rat Sonnax, his two sons, and a handiul of ancient ;Akers cif the King of Sardinia, hard been sent into 6avoy to raise and organise two regiments in the same .kif their old The blue cockade which they proudly .displayed , r!rved only to draw upon them the contempt due to the unweirthy 'conduct of officers, Who having never done any thing fu: the Empc;ror, i( ceived pensions from him, and meanly took up arms against the ft ince aid the new country that maintained them. — 'Ile) , fled a: the first news of the approach of the' French, with the disgrace of havi..g failed in their enterprize, and the regret of having made themselves 7 tti!ty without having received the least advantage , from it. General Sunnaz died amid the thunder of the cannon• which were fired on his protectors on the road to Barrant. Thus Divine justice sometimes pu naes traitors on the very theatre of their guilt. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON.. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1814. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK 3 per Cunt. Red. shut—Cons. 71ft —for ace. 72f 4 per Ct. shut-5 per Ct. 981—Onnihun 2711 India lsunds I Is. 12s. pr.—Exchequer Bills Ss. 59. Letters from Deal, received this morning, mention the arrival of two Messengers from Holland, with dis patche, f rom Admiral Yourro. The letters further state the arrival of a Gentleman from France, by way of Holland, who tn ings accounts that the CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN, before he had left Holland, was known to have arrived at Mons, where he fixed his head quarters. That the French people, through all the towns which he passed, were in a state of great alarm and consternation. The adherents of NAPOLEON are In great dread of a counter-revolution. A French Nobleman, attached to the suite of the BouOhm Princes, arrived yesterday at Deal, from the Coast of Holland, on board ,of the DICTATOR man of war. He is the bearer of dispatches from His Royal Highness MoNsieue, now in France, to His Majesty Louis XVIII. and they are said to con tain the most gratifying accounts of the dispositions of the Inhabitants of France to shake off the fetters of despotism, and restore the legitimate Sovereign to his rightful inheritance. The above Nobleman passed through part of the Army of the CROWN PRINCE at Mons, on Sunday last : the whole were hastening up, by forced marches to join the army under BLUCHER. Yesterday, in a Second and Third Edition, 'we com municated upon official authority, the Highly grati fying intelligence of Lord WELLINGTON'S advance, and of the further successes of the Allied Armies, in the direction of the Capital. With the nature of the accounts from Lord WELLINGTON our Readers were already made acquainted through private channels. The dispatches from Lord BURGHERSH are dated, as we stated yesterday, at Troyes, on the 4th instant. The details they contain were communicated in our third edition ; and we subjoin the official commoni cittion we received on the subject for the perusal of such of our Readers as did not receive a third edition. • To the subjoined particulars we have to add, that although Bummaa's recent movements were unknown to Prince SWAIITUNBERG. the Messenger heard, on bis• route, that the Silesian Army was once more moving on Ferte•sous-Jouarre, which is between Chateau Thierry and Meaux, and is situated on the Marne. “ FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH The dispatches from Lord BUROFIRRSH are dated from Troyes, on the 4th instant. They contain the 'highly gratifying intelligence of: the.recapture of Troyes by the Allied Army under Prince SCHWA RTZ::NBERG, after a most obstinate en gagement, whicti took place on the tid inst. The French, under Marshal OLIDINOT, were defeated be tween Bar-sur-Seine and Troyes, with the loss•' of' Three Thousand prisoners (Fifty-two of whom are Officers), and Ten pieces of cannon. • The Allied Armies occupied Troyes next day, which the French had abandoned with great preci pitation the night before—many prisoners were made. The Allies are again advancing in the direction of Nogent-sur-Seine, the bridge of which the enemy had . destroyed. No mention whatever was made at head-quarters of tiny Armistice. The inhabitants of Troyes made no resistance to the Allies. The Plenipotentiaries were still at Chatillon. But, perhaps, of all the welcome intelligence re ceived yesterday, none can be considered as of more importance than the fact communicated in a letter of the 4th, from Head-quarters, stating, that "Mon sieur had been joined by about eight thousand of his countrymen, part of them cavalry c—that is, as we understan ! the last expression, part of them are on horse-hack, ready to act as cavalry. We 'nave no hesitation in repeating our opinion, that no event has occurred for a considerable time, so fraught wi h danger to the despot, or holding out a better hope to the cause of social order and legiti mate soveregns. The allied Sovereigns stood pledg ed to their own subjects— to the French people—to' the world, not to interfere with the internal govern ment of that country, which, under the usurped power of bad men, has been made the scourge of Europe for these twenty years. In consequence tlley could not commit themselves by a direct act in favour of the ancient dynasty; but they afforded the HousLe of Boußcoss an opportunity of proving the loyalty of their ancient subjects, and the first fruits promise a most Iti;:ul.ant harvest. The moral effects which may possibly flow from this manifestation of popular feeling c:inilot be calculated. What may we not ex pect from a pe ple wly.se mayors, magistrates, and public functionaries, men nominated by BONAPARtE himself, " exert themselves," according to his own statement, " to prevent t' e citizens from measures of defence," against invading armies? The fact speaks volume and needs no comment. A ArrELLialsavtlr. DOER, MARCH if. Mr. MYEb t the Messenger, arrived at this place 1-about half-past fodr this mording, frorri Calais, and proceeded immediately for London, with dispatches, which are said to be of importance. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 11. Arrived his Majesty's ships CzyLot4 and VREYA, with a fleet from the Downs. Nothing sailed to-day. His Majesty's ship Ascnsa takes convoy for the Downs.—Wind Masterly. DEAL, MARCH 11. Arrived his Majesty's ship DicreToft, from Hol land, and sailed again for Portsmouth. Came down from the River, a large fleet of outward-bound West Indiamen, and sailed immediately for Portsmouth, under convoy of the CORDELIA sloop of iyar. The BARROSA is in dock at Portsmouth, and will be completed by the 14th instant. The DREADNOUGHT is ordered to be put in a state for sea, and will be out of dock at Portsmouth by the end of the month. The SAVAGE sloop has been paid off at Portsmouth, The TIGRE, Captain HALLIDAY, at Portsmouth. will be ready for sea in a fortnight, and will proceed to the Downs, to join AdmiralYourro. The St. Juan Baptista, lately captured by the ME NELAU% was hauled, on Tuesday last, alongside the Jetty, in Plymouth Dock-yard, and landed her specie, which was deposited for .the present in a storehouse in the yard. There have also been landed a vast quantity of plate of rough massive articles. A detachment belonging to the King's German Legion, under the command of Colonel P. BEST, re turned to Harwich on the Bth inst, not being able to disembark on the coast of Germany. We understand that Government have issued an order for the instant shipment of 100,000 stand of arms for France ! They are to be sent in transports, and every species of vessel that can be speedily char tered. TWENTY CAPITAL PRIZES, including Two of 420,000 each, must be drawn on Monday, when the Lottery will finish—but those who wish to have a chance, most buy TO-DAY, as the Wheel goes round very early on Monday morning. MEETING OF PARLIAbIENT. —ln consequence of the present unprecedented situation of affairs, Parlia ment, after meeting pro forma, adjourned to the 21st inst. when they will assemble for the dispatch of bu siness. The eyes of all are turned to this Meeting, as the business then to come before them is pregnant with more important consequences, and must give rise to more interesting debates than any Session in our recollection ever gave rise to. For the benefit of our numerous Readers in SCOTLAND, who wish to per use the Debates at full length, we beg leave to refer them to Mr. JAMES TAYLOR SMITH'S Newspaper and Advertising Office, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, where they may be regularly supplied with any of the London Newspapers, on the shortest notice. PRINCE SCHWARTEENBERG.—This distingnished Chef is a Nobleman of one of the. first families of , Austria ' • as he is a direct descendant of the House of SAVOY, his grandfather having married a Princess of LICHTENSTEIN, who was A grand-daughter of the King of SARDINIA. Prince SCHWARTZENBERG de rives his title frOm a Principality of that name in the German Empire, of which he is Sovereign Piinee ; he also possesses very considerable estates in Bohemia. He is now only in the forty-sixth year of his age, having commenced his military career at a very early period of his life. _ Boxaas.—Painisr, the Lancashire man, and Oliver, the gardener, have left London to go raw training for the great battle on the Sd of May ; the former in Hertfordshire, and the latter in Oxtordshire.—Betting on the event about equal. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CIPINCERY, MARCH 13. EX-PARTE CLAY, IN THE MATTER OF BROMER. This was a petition on the part of Clay, praying to be allowed to receive a dividend on the bankrupt Bromer's estate, on a debt of reT2,OOO. In answer to this, an affidavit was filed, stating, that at a meeting of the Commissioners of Panton and Gill, the bankrupt fiad stated, that he owed to Clay £5OOO for three years' interest on money ad vanced for him, which, according to the real amount, would have been an usurious transaction. The bank rupt (Bromer) died before he was examined by the Commissioners under his own bankruptcy ; and this petition, on the part of a Mr. Campbell, was to per mit Bromer's declaration, before the Commissioners in Panton and Gill's bankruptcy, to be received, as if he had been examined before the Commissioners on his own bankruptcy. There were other declara tions of a like kind made by Bromer subsequent to his bankruptcy, and in the presence of Clay, the pe titioner. The LORD CHANCELLOR was of opinion, that the declaration of Bromer, made at the meeting of Pan ton and Gill's creditors, and in the absence of Clay, could not be received ; as to his (Bromer's) subse quent declarati 413 on the same subject, and to the same effect, he (the Lord Chancellor) would take some days to consider of it. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, BENCHER'S CHAM BERS, LINCOLN'S INN, MARCH 11. BURGESS v. TWOPENNY AND OTHERS, (ASSIGNEES OF PARTRIDGE AND BENTHAM). This was an application to the Court on the part of the plaintiff, to decree the specific performance of an award. It appeared that William Burgess, the plaintiff, (Richard Burgess, deceased, of whom William was the residuary legatee and sole executor), Partridge, and Bentham, were joint proprietors of four cutters, the Sheerness, the Queensborough, the Admiral Mit chel, and the Mary. As proprietors of these vessels, and on their account, they had received and disbur sed various sums of money. Patridge and Bentham becoming bankrupts, and it being necessary to settle their accounts so far as related to the four cutters, their assignees, together with William Burgess, en- - teted into a bond, binding thethselves to submit to the award of an umpire, if the accounts were not settled by arbitrators, to whom they were to be re ferred. The arbitrators met, but could not adjust the business it was of course submitted to an um pire. The !kind of s.ibmission to bis awaid purpor ted to refer to all claims and demands touching the vessels in question. in the recital of die•bond, the parties represented themselves as holding each one. fourth part of the cutters; but the umpire not pro ceeding upon this representation, made his award upon the ground that the plaintiff had only a put in two of the vends, namely, the Admiral Mitchell and the Mary. On the part of the Plaintiff it was contended, that the terms of the reference were general; that of course an inquiry was to be made as to the share each of the parties had iu the vessels. The umpire, id the interrogatories put to him, said that lie made Burgess an owner only in two of the ♦essels, because witnesses examined before him proved that such waa the case; and because Burgess, in the register, ap peared only as a partner in two. The Defendants, in their answer, denied their having any knowledge of the principle upon _which the umpire proceeded. His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLON after hearing argument on both sides, expressed his unwillingness to occasion further expence to the parties, it it cool/ possibly be avoided ; but as the award was evidently In contradiction to the terms of the bond, it could not be suffered to have effect. The award was set aside, and the accounts refer red to the Master for settlement. ESSEX ASSIZES, CHELMSFORD, MARCH 11. THE KING v. &SWAM. _ _ Mr. HEATH stated, that this was an indictment against - Mr. Kelham, a printer, of this town, for the publication of a libel on Montague Burgoyne, Esq. a Gentleman of the county. Mr. Serjeant BEST then stated the case. He said, Mr. Burgoyne, on the late election, was a candidate for the high honour of representing the County Essex in Parliament, and during the election the libel against him was published, which wai one of most atrocious malignity. His Learned Friend, Mr. Nolan, who was Counsel for the defendant, would argue the it was a mere election squib ; but the Jury would judge whether that was a proper character of it when they came to hear it read ? The libel was a parody of a well-known Poem, beginning, “ Pity the Sor.. rows of a Poor Old Man," and it began : Pity the sorrows of a fallen man, Whose wounded conscience leaves him uo repose, Whose honour's dwindled ro the shortest span, Oh, deign to listen to his tale of woes! Here the libeller plainly told the world that the Ho. nourable Gentleman had lost his honour ; and the next went on to state those fact , , which he imputed to him as the cause of his honour having dwindled. Should I a history of my crimes reveal, 'I hat goads with anguish this of bread, O'er your ftush'd cheeks resentment's glow would steal, Anti looks-of horror could not be repress. An honoured name was my paternal Ice, And pure the joys of lite'suntarnisla morn; But, ail! too soon their influence I forgot I My name now brings me but contempt and scorn. My heart high beating for my coutrry's I fondly thought that cause would still maintain. I raised a Regiment to support her laws; But, ah ! t turned it to my private rsin! I bought my horses at a lesser rate, And chug'd my country to the full-amount, And ev'n the food those horses should have e 4 I sated, and placed it to my own account ! If, said the Learned Serjeant, Mr. Montague Bur goyne bad been guilty of this conduct he would 1. only have been unworthy to halm stood as a candi date to represent the county in Parliament, but would have been unfit to it in the box from whi be hadsjust retired, administering the justice of county as a Special Juryman. Bet this WAS sat it went on to add, Sworn to protect the soldiers' lawful dues, On ail his dress a guilty price I latd— Cloak', jackets, leggings, tweeeiscs, gloves, and shoes-. From his wont purse to me *pins& paid. This, forsooth, was only to be considered as an eiee. tioneering squib, which thrust at the vitals of Mr. Burgoyne's honour and character. He WAS the man, and so was Mr. Burgoyne, to quarrel wii mere electioneering squibs. There was one at bottom of the very libel in question ; whioh,. it had been all, his client would never have quarrel! with. It was thus—Electioneering Wit.—" times like these," said a Freeholder, "we req! men of energy and spirit; in short, we 'want tried meni'and no upstarts. " Then" said a wag, " chor4 Mr. Bnrgoyne—he has been twice tried!" Those sort of paper pellets Mr. Burgoyne would ne, have noticed ; but an attack upon his honour an, character he was bound to vindicate. He did , from no vindictive motives—and be would now make this offer—if Mr. Kelham, the printer, woult give up his author, no evidence should be gi against him, and Mr. Burgoyne would even be tisfied with a proper apology from the author ; if this overture was rejected, Mr. Kelham mi hereafter, on the floor of the King's Bench,- ens , for this publicatilm. He bad said, that the au' had indemnified him against all consequences, he would find that there were consequences agai which the author could not indemnify him. All remained at present to do would be to prove the lication of the libel by the defendant, and the conse quences resulting from the verdict would not be _ the Jury to consider—that the Court of King's Bench would adjust hereafter. _ _ A Mr:Hodges, an attorney, proved that he went with Mr. M. Burgoyne to the shop of Kelham, who acknowledged that heprinted and published the paper, but said he was indemnified, and refused to give up the author. Colonel Burgoyne stated, that he formerly raised a regiment of Fencible Cavalry, which he command ed ; that he was twice tried by a Court Martial, and was acquitted of the charges brought against him, but he was censured for an irregularity in changing two horses, though the substituted hories were better. The libel being read by the officer of the Court, Mr. NOLAN, on behalf of the Defendant, addressed the Court at considerable length, and contended that this must be considered as an ebulition arising out of the' heat of a general election. The Jury found the Defendant Gs shy. The cause was not called on till near five o'clock, and was not over until eight. A dull uninteresting cause respecting the property in a diteh, occupied the greater part of the day. • to Lot ist n. Ir- he lie te. rd in ,•• td at of ft re, de Se Pas p. eir ch ng $ll ild lot 1 er. , flt he iq. id, • ate of cost An, aid ;en dy or. the ted 10r- not ndi. t he hich the !kite Mr. last with the it it In mire tried or.se hese • ever and d it now ould iven • Asa. but , nust,, swer ithor but anist that pub- Dine. e for lench Went who apex, Pe up , • .ailed land. , and