Star.
London, England, 1808-06-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

and family under the protection of the British fleet,
and to have follow:d the example of the Porturueze
Court, emigrating to South America; but they
had not the means to make their wishes known aad
were betrayed, it is believed, by the PRINCE of PEACE,
who communicated their intentions to NAPOLECK. A
series of bltu.ders followed, and the crisis was ptecipi-
tated which has hurled the family from the Throne.
According to letters posted up at Lloyd's Coffee-
house, there are now three Spanish ports open to
British ships, viz. Bilboa, St. Andero, and Gijoa.

The Captain of a vessel which arrived yesterday
from a port in the North of Europe, states, that at
the time of his coming away, which was on tile 2d
inst. a report prevailed, that the Emperor of RUSSIA
had been poisoned. The port where the rumour pre-
vailed, which, from motives of commercial delicacy
we forbear to mention, is adjacent to the Russian ter-
ritory.

Yesterday dispatches were received at the Admi-
ralty from Sir SAMUEL Hoon, dated off Samsoc,
May 15, announcing the capture of some valuable
prizes; the particulars of which will appear in the
Gazette of to-morrow evening.—Samsoe is a Danish
island, between North Jutland and Zealand.

Admiral TYLER is appointed second in command
in the fleet under Sir C. COTTON, off Lisbon.

His MAJESTY has been pleased to grant his Patent
for three additional Fellows of Trinity College, Dub-
lin, to be added to the number of the Juniors ; which
the Board have resolved to fill up gradually, by add-
ing one every year in which there is no vacancy.
The changes among the Bishoprics in contempla-
tion, will create a vacancy in the Deanery of Glou-
cester, which it is said will be filled by the Rev. M.
PLUMPTRE.

Monday, the New Bank of Ireland in College-
green, Dublin, formerly the Parliament House, was
opened for the dispatch of business ; the different
Offices were much crowded.
Last night her Grace the Duchess of MARLBO7
ROUGH had a Grand Assembly at Blenheim-house,
adjoining to the Palace of St. James's. As the Frettch
would say in their characteristic strain of hyperbole,
all the world was to be seen at that seat cf elegance and
fashion.

The Earl of KENMARE has set out from his scat,
near Killarney, for England, accompanied by his
amiable daughter-Lady &lARY ANNE.
The Duke of ANGOULENE had arrived at Stockholm
on the 24th ult.

A large body of troops, not less than 10,000 men,
destined for Spain, have been all assembled, and a
considerable part of them embarked with that secrecy
and expedition, which certainly characteriie the pre-
sent Government. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY will have
the chief command, with some of the ablest young
General Officers under him. We believe that, among
others, this army will consist of a detachment of the
Staff Corps, a detachment of the Royal Artillery ; the
2d Regiment of Light Dragoons ; the %I Foot, or
Queen's ; the sth, 9th, 36th, 38th, 40th, 45th, 60th,
(sth or Rifle Battalion,) 71st, Highlanders, and the
95th or Rifle Corps.
One Hundred men of the 2d Battalion of the 9th
Regiment marched into Dover yesterday morning
from Canterbury, and embarked on board the Colum-
bine transport, to join the Ist Battalion now in Ireland:
that ship, and the Agincourt, which took on board
two companies of the Rifle Regiment on Wednesday,
both sailed yesterday morning for the Downs, to wait
for convoy and a fair wind, to take them to their des-
tination.

The 89th Regiment received ..orders last week to
march to Manchester from Shrewsbury, and had pro-
ceeded the length of Whitchurch, when their march
was countermanded, and they returned to Shrewsbury.
The c.!ti battalion of the 82d regiment is at present
stationed at Scarborough.
The Hereford Militia has been suddenly ordered
from Hull to Rochdale.

The Leicester Militia have commenced their march
from Horsham barracks for Hastings, and they will
be replaced by the West Middlesex.
_

Wednesday se'nnight, two troops of the 19th Dra-
goons marched into Birmingham, to replace the 4th
Dragoon Guards, ordered to Manchester.
The 2d battalion of the 45th regiment is on its
route to Manchester.

- Monday the 9th Veteran Battalion were inspected
at Edinburgh by Major-General SCOTT. Th.! Inver-
ness-shire Militia were reviewed on Tuesday, and the
Royal Lanarkshire on Wednesday, by the same officer.

The Annandale and Eskdale battalion of the Dum-
friesshire Volunteers, together with the Yeomanry
Cavalry, are on permanent duty at Dumfries. They
are a fine body of men, and have devoted much of
their time, and foregone many comforts, in equipping
and training themselves for the defence of their King
and Country.

EAST INDIA COBIPANY.—The Report of the Select
Committee of the House of Commons states, that the
demand of the Company upon the Public amounts to
88,461,331, and the demand of the Public upon the
Company to £3,960,912, leaving a balance due to the
Company of k 1,500,419.
THE PANTOLOGIA, now publishing in manthly
parts, in the royal octavo size, possesses all the ad-
vantages of other Encyclopaedias, and is, besides,
particularly distinguished by two circumstances :-
Ist. It is a general Dictionary of /Yards, as well as
of Arts and Sciences, comprehending every word in
Dr. Johnson's Dictionary ; and, 2dly, all the plates
in the department of Natural History are beautiful&
coloured. The fourth part, just published, contains,
in addition to plates relative to Astronomy, Archi-
tecture, and Pneumatics, far,. colour cl OM?, exhibiting
subjects in Anatomy, Zook,,ti, anti Ichthyology. The
engraved figures of the Acipenter Hilly (or isintrLu-,
Sturgeon), and the Gotha Cataphracius (or Mail-...d
Bull-head), are coloured with a delicacy and accuracy
unequalled in any English work. The History of the PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 9. •
,theory of Arches contains much information that will
be perfectly new to the merely English reader: while Arrived his Majesty's ships PLu ro and EURYDICE,
the articles Ami araliels and Areopagus point out im- from Plymouth.—Wind S. W.
DEAL, JUNE 9.
portant errors relative to those topics, Which have been
Yesterday evening, as a boat belonging to a collier,
copied from one Dictionary into another for more
than a century. Besides many valuable and inte- lying in the Downs, was returning to the vessel, it
resting single articles, comprehensive and accurate/ unfortunately upset, the crew being intoxicated. One,
Treatises on Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, and Arith-iman and a boy were drowned, the master of the vessel
meth-, are already given in this work, and that oni and another man, nearly exhausted, were taken up by
Astronomy is commenced. The Gentlemen engaged I a Deal boat which launched to their assistance, and
in this extensive undertaking have devoted much of were put on board the TRUSTY man of war, by one of
their time for some years past, in collecting and ar-; her boats ; since which I am informed they are nearly
ranging materials in their respective departments ._ : recovered. Arrived the VinaGo gun brig, from Wa-
so gnat, as the mode of publication adopted, is in 'the terford, with the Rolla, Eliza, Harriet, and John,
due medium between the extremes of great rapidity which have passed through for the River ; BEAGLE
and tedious slowness, it maybe confidentially affirmed, and FLY sloops; DESPERATE, MARINER, THRASHER,
that the PANTALOGIA will be free from the numerous and BOLD gun brigs, from a cruize ; Earl Spencer
blunders and omissions which have been too com- cutter from Ireland. Sailed. the FLAMER gun brig
monly complained of in some hasty and mutilated .
for Harwich, with seven sail of transports having
productions, which have recently been laid before troops on board, which arrived in the Downs a few
the public. Idays since from Ireland ; FLY, MARINER, FLAMER,
Cott° nra's INOUesr.—Yesterday evening a Coroner's Inquest and ESCORT, on a cruize.—Wind W.
was held at the Cock and Castle, Kingsland, upon the body of YARMOUTH, JUNE 9.
Reuben Main, a boy of ten years of age, supposed to have been the Sailed MAJESTIC, Admiral RUSSELL, and the
murdered by his father. It appeared front the evidence taken
before Mr. UNwIN, the Coroner, that Reuben Main, the fa- NASSAU, of 64. guns, on a cruize off the 'rexel • and
ther of the deceased, who worked as a brick-maker in the fields the CLYDE frigate for the Downs. In the Roads,: the
of Mr. Rhodes, at Kingsland, cohabited with a woman of the I ROEBUCK, STATELY, and AMIABLE frigates ; FORRES-
name of Anne Smith, wbo was not the mother of the deceased,
who was constantly endeavouring to exasperate the father and CaNsoit and PINCHER
TER Sloop, gun-brigs.—
and
against the son. On Thursday night, the 2d instant, at the White Wind S.E.
From LLOYD'S LIST.
Hart public-house, in Hornsey, he was heard to express an inten-
tion of setting fire to the sand-houses, and afterwards he obtained i GRAVESENN J ant 9. -Passed by the Maria, Smith, front
a match from the landlady, it is supposed, for that purpose.— : erm Rella, Per y, from Maim • Swans (a prize), M‘iy,
About one o'clock in the morning of the 3d, the people who slept I Bermuda; Portsmouth ; ard the Friendship:l umberry, from Cork.—
in the brick-field were alarmed by the cry of fire, and it was dis- • Sailed the Leonidas, Blakeston, for Newfoundland ; &talus,
covered, that the outside but of a row of six hovels was in Coor, and the Susannah, Brooks, for Madeira.
pe
flames; and that Reuben Main, the father, and Ann Smith, ! Ihe Elizabeth aftd Mary,Thompson, for London front Jamaica,
had made their escape from the adjoining sand-house, which they ,is supposed to be captured by a French privateer.
occupied, but had left the child within. This fact was not dis- . The Mercury, Mason, from New Brunswick for Jamaica, has
closed to the by-standers until the hut, which was supposed to , been taken, re-taken, and carried into Jamaica.
contain the deceased, was nearly consumed, when the father j The Fanny, Rohe, from London for Hayti, Is captured and ear-
seemed to express some anxiety for the safety of his son. During , tied into Porto Cavello.
the interval between the discovery of the fire, and the de- I The Dryade, Harsborough, bound to London, was lost at Ja-
struction of Main's hut, the cries of the child had not been heard. ' maica, on the 13th of April.
Upon searching the ruins the body of the deceased was however I Extract of a letter from Captain Hor.stas, of the BraokWatson,
found, with the feet and head nearly burnt from the body, and ;from London, dated from Annetta Bay, (Jamaica) 13th of April,
the entrails protruded through the abdomen. It was not till • 1808.—" 1 arrived here on the 18th alt. after being chased for 12
after three messages that the father of the child could be induced j hours by a Spanish schooner, of one 24-pounder and ten 18-pound
to come and examine the body ; and when he arrived, he treated : carronades ; when being nearly within gun-shot, the 'Tweed hove
the affair with apparent indifference. One of the witnesses, who lln sight, it being then calm, round the west-end of St. Domingo.
was a brick-maker, deposed, that he met Reuben Main and ; She lowered down three boats, with 50 men, which came on board
Anne Smith on their: way from the fire, when the former told the and remained all night."
latter that if she remised, she was a dead woman. A medical EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM RIGA, DATED MAY 7.
Gentleman, of the name of Savage, attended, who had seen the " I mentioned in my last that the ice had left our river ; and
body before burial, and who deposed, that to his recollection there ; new we have three arrivals—a Lubecker, a yes, el from Oporto
were no external marks of violence, excepting what might be at- and an American. The arrival of the American vessel put a little
tributed to the fire ; but, for the further satisfaction of the Jury, life intb things yesterday, but only for a moment, as the orders
it was ordered, that the body should be taken up to be re-exams- that are here give us no hopes of trade. There has been an order
ped, that it might be ascertained, by a more minute inspection, here since two post days, that no vessel coming from England shall
whether any previous violence had been committed on the child. be penni•ted to enter this port, under whatever flag it may 14 (the
The examination of the several witnesses on this distresdng occa- Russian ships corning from England are of course excepted) ; and
don., occupied the Jury nearly two hours and a half; and after the the shippers of goods are to give bond, equal to the amount of the
maconsideration of the matter, with the assistance of the Coroner, goods they ship, that they are not to be landed In England. `Tweet
for about a quarter of an hour, a verdict was found of Wilful needless commenting on this order; the consequences are evident.
Murder against Reuben Main ; toad Anne Smith was declared an I understand that our Port Captain has an order not to allow any
accessary to the crime. , vessels to load here."

NZ U7'lCilL INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, JUNE 7.

Sailed the Witinsoa CASTLE packet, Captain SUT-
TON, for Halifax and New York ; and the DUKE OF
KENT packet, Captain LAWRENCE, for Barbadoes and
Jamaica.—Wind N. W.
TORBAY, JUNE s.

Arrived his Majesty's ship I'IMPETVEUX, from Ply
mouth, and rzmuins with the Channel Fleet.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE s.

Sailed his Majesty's ships Rams. GEORGE, 110
guns, to join the Channel fleet ; EURYDICE, 32 guns,
for Portsmouth ; and Aviv, 24 guns, for Ports-
mouth, haling under her convoy several Portu-
guese ships. Came down from Hamoa7e and an-
chored in Cawsand Bay, his Majesty's ship HERO, of
74 guns.

LAZY INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'. BENCH, JUNE
WINTER W. mimes.
This was an action against the Sheriff of Middlesex
for a false return of nal& bona to aft. fa. issued by the
Plaintiff, who was a creditor for the sum of ‘5OOO
and upwards, against his Royal tlighness the Duke •
of Sussex. The question was, whether the Defen-
dant had done wrong in making this return, the only
goods of the Defendant being in the Royal Palace,
at Kensington, and it being contended on the .. of
the Defendant, that as a Royal Palace, the ordinary
civil process of the Court could not be executed there.
It was proved, that a housekeeper was appointed
kept there by the Crown, and that all the furniture in
the Palace, in which the Royal Duke had apartments,
was supplied at the expence of the Crown. The only
goods of his Royal Highness which could nave been
seized, even if it were not a privileged place, were of
very small value, and consisted of a bed-waggon,
which originally cost about ASO, two or three time-
pieces, a policy, a phaeton, and an old vis-a-vis.
Lord ELLENnonoOcti left the case to ,he Jun-, upon
the fact, whether this was a Royal Palace and a
Royal Residence, and said it was not necessary to
constitute it as such, that his Majesty should actually
i sleep there, if it was provided and kept for his occa-
-1 sional convenience.
The Jury found a verdict for the Defendant.
WILLIAMS V. TILE RXEOLTTORS OF BARCLAY.
An action for debt incur, ed by the di ceased, in con-
sequence of his breach of covenant with the Plaia:Ar,
with whom he had contracted to marry. It being a
specialty debt, it was contended the Execut,a-s
bound to discharge it in preference to simple contract
debts. The plea was plene adminiatravit ; and
that the deceased was, at the time he should have ful-
filled his contract, in so infirm a state of healt ► s
be unit to marry. The facts were these—the deceased
was a young man, living in the Plaintiff's family, iii
St. Clement'slane, and fell in love with the Plaintiff,
a virtuous young woman. In 1802, Mr. Barclay being
about to visit his relations in Scotland, executed the
contract in question before he set off, engaging to
marry the Plaintiff within twelve months from the
date of the deed, S ptember 20th, 1802 ; or, in
default, to pay her an annuity of £lOO a year so long
as the marriage was delayed on his part. If not
married at the end of three years, then the annuity
to be. £l5O. Returning from Scotland, Mr. Bar-
clay went again to reside in the Plaintiff's family,
and the marriage was about to he solemnized, when
Mr. Barclay, on his military duties as a Volun-
teer, caught cold, which confined him to his bed.
His illness increasing, he was removed to Judd-place,
Somers-town, for better air, but in December follow-
ing he died. He was at all times disposed to fulfil
his contract ; and, on a voyage to Madeira being re-
commended, the Plaintiff herself applied for advice,
in order that they might be married. After his death,
the executors received £lOOO as executors, and hav-
ing paid £BOO in the discharge of simple contract
debts, offered the Plaintiff a portion of the reniaining
£2OO in discharge of this contract.
Mr. GARROW contended; tharthe executors were
bound to satisfy this specialty debt before they dis-
charged those of the simple contracts ; but they pre-
ferred the latter, to the injury of this lady; who was
the object of the testator's affection.
Mr. SCAItLETT, on the other side, contended, that
the lady appeared rather. more attached to the pro-
perty than to the person of the testator. Be that as
it might, the testator was not in a condition to per-
form this contract, on account of bodily infirmity,
being consumptive, and which disease caused his
death. .
Sir Ashly Cooper proved that the testator; cal his
return from Scodand, in'lBo2, had a weakness in tl.e
lunettkely to end in death. -
ELLENBOROUGH observed, that it could hardly
be the wish of the parties to press for a strict legal de-
cision; and therefore thought the executors. should
pay over the £:200 of the remaining . assets to the
' plaintiff, and each party pay their own costs. Agreed
to—Verdict accordingly.
• His Lordship then.observed, that this covenant was
nut broken, if the testator was not in health to per-
form it.