Star.
London, England, 1808-06-13 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

r-
Arrived on Saturday at Harwich several sail of
trinsports, having on board the 76th (Hindoustan)
an 67th regiments, which landed thena this day ;
they are from Guernsey and Jersey.
Major-General MooaE, to take the command at
Newfoundland; is going out in the convoy which is
under orders to sail with the SPELM—Commissioner
_ _

INOLLFIELID, for Halifax ; anti Sir ISAAC COFFIN, Bart.
who is going to survey his estate, the Magdalen
Islands, are going out in the Isis, with Admiral HOL.
LOWAV.

The Hon. Major General MEADE succeeds Gene-
ral BrßEsr.olto in the command of Madeira.
The Scots Greys go immediately to Ireland.
The Inniskilling Dragoons go to Scotland.
The King's Dragoon Guards go to Yorkshire.
The Bays relieve that noble corps, the 14th Light
Dragoons, in the coast duty on Sussex. Thu 14th
expect to go on service.
The 9th Dragoons take the King's duty at Houns-
low and Windsor, along with the Blues and Stafford

The 13th Dragoons go to Guildford Barracks.
The 2d battalion of the 14th Regiment is stationed
at Bexhill.

The 2d battalions of the 45th and 89th Regimenti
are on active duty at Manchester.
The Pembroke Militia are on theirmarch to Da rtford.`
The R oval Radnorare on their march fur Chichester.
The West Essex and South Hants Militias are both
quartered at Bexhill.
The 2d battalions of the 34th and 53d, both of them
nearly complete, lave gone to Ireland, to relieve sonic
of the corps going with Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEV's
expeditlen.
Tl:e Ist battalion of the 58th, or Connaught Ran-
ge:;, is now quartered at Mahlon : they expect to be
one of the very first regiments for service. This is
General BEiti.SFORD'S own Regiment.
To the great joy-of the garrison and inhabitants of
Gosport, General PORTER remains in the Lhief Corn- •
m and there.

The 17th Regiment of Dragoons, it is said, is to
relieve the 16th, doing duty in the neighbourhood of
Sandgate. The 43d and 95th still remain there, do-
ing duty at the Barracks, and in parties, as far as
Cape Point, on the other side of Folkest.)ne.
hiday sCnnight, a War Office Ord2r arrived at
Lewes, by express, for the immediate removal of the
Ist Dragoon Guards, by a forced march, from the
barracks, to Manchester and Stockport. About one
o'clock en Saturday se'nnight, while the baggage-
wa,,,rgons were in the barrack-yard to receive their
loaaing, a counter-order arrived, confirming a route
that had been previously received for their march into
Northumberland and Yorkshire. Monday they pro-
ceeded on their route, in six divisions ; and are to ar-
rive at their respective destinations as follows, viz.—
At Sheffield, two t: pops, ern the Sad instant.

At Leeds, two ditto, on the 244-12.
At York, City and Barracks, three troops, on the 2.5 th and 27th.
At Beverley, one troop, on the 27th. And

At Newcatie, four troops, on the 28th.
The Horse Barracks at Lewes will next be occupied
by the 10th, or Prince of Wales's Light Dragoons.
The Canterbury Riflemen, under the command of
captain PACKE, have commenced their fortnight's
permanent duty at Canterbury.
Monday last the Woodstock Volunteers were in-
spected by Colonel AUBREY in Blenheim Park ; and
ae.xt day the Banbury Volunteers, who have for the
last week been on permanent duty at Woodstock,
were likewise inspected by the same Officer in Blen-
heim Park.

The Leicestershire Militia have marched from
Horsham to Hastings. The Middlesex Militia, 1400
strong, will replace the Leicestershire at Horsham.
The East Kent Militia have marched from Gosport
to Chichester. _ _

The North -Cornwall Regiment of Volunteer In-
fantry have, oue and all, declared their willingness to
commute their present services for that of the local
Militia.
On Monday the Custom-house Volunteers, under
the command of Colonel WILSON, were reviewed on

Kennington Common by the Inspecting Officer, Co-
lonel HANIAGE. We think it but justice to observe,
that they went through their different evolutions in a
manner that would have done credit to any regiment
of the Line.

We are informed that the frequent serious sickness
among the soldie s at Ashford, in Kent, arises as well
from the great scarcity of water, as from the bad con-
struction of the barracks, being often obliged by the
wells becoming dry, to obtain a supply of unwhole-
some water from the river; this circumstance alone
most loudly calls for their speedy removal, instead of
money being fruitlessly spent in their repair, particu-
larly when there are most eligible situations within a
short distance, with a most vivre supply of the very
best spring water.

Saturday se'nisight his Majesty's ship DRUID; Capt.
MACKAY, arrived at Cove from a cruize.
On Saturday last, a meeting tcok place on Epping
Forest, between Captain R—ns, of the Northamp,
ton Militia, and Lieutenant of the 15th
Light Dragoons. The parties fired together, and
exchanged three shots (the second pistol of Captain
'lt. missing fire), and in the third shot Captain R.
received his adversary's . ball -in the leg, which shat-
tered the shiirbona, aad.altltungh it was immediately
extracted, it is apreilpided Iteniust suffer amputa-
tion. The principaisyeera 0 short,time ago quartered
together iii WdddlrrtQge Frarracks, *hen an intimacy
ensued ; and the cause of the meeting, we are given
to understandiavilLbe °very stem disci-used by a legal
investiptiondi .
A.y9oog,Lad7 okfoitiine.at ,Hammersmith, who
has just reacbheedd hey List year, eloped on Thursday
evtth ettaval Officer, whom she bad been acquainted
With eel? foitrfight.
-ponent took place on Friday, from
.p 4414, Kepi-road! The lady is daughter to a gentle-
man in the revenue department, and will inherit an in-
dependence left her by an- Mint ; the gentleman is a
menibir of 'a Tifie corps In the nbighbOurhood.
parish of Aldringtonitussex' a rectory worth
wawa. of 4001..pa5: 'moan, in.tit* gift of Magdalen
Catlege, contains neither chureb,lsouse,or inhabitant.
CPA I.r-411ere wc.F5 entetre4 tit.the Sea Coal Me.
Office, as.saci, rn the,Course of last week, 199
eargnes, at priCietir/Yingfredileii."tot, 5Ss. per
dial-
dron arthel Pooti44tdittted to housdteepers at feasn
5Ss. to 655..

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING's BENCII,,JUNE ;I.
THE KING V. GOVERNOR PICTON.
This was a prosecution against the Defendant,
General Thomas Piety'', late Governor of the Island
of Trinidad, which surrendered to the British arms ;
and the complaint against the Defendant was, that he
had caused a young woman of the age of I`2 years,
of the nam, of Louisa Calderon, to be tortured. She
was th.: concubine of Don Pedro Roez, and lived
with him in his house, and carried on an intrigue with
a young man of the name of Carlos Gonzales, whom
she, in the absence of her roaster, let into his house at
night, and he stole fllOOO half dollars, upon which this
young woman was taken up as an accomplice ' • and
in order to make her confess what she knew of the
transaction, she was put to the torture, by order of
Governor Picton, for which he was tried before, and
found Guilty, but obtained a new trial, on the ground
that by subsequent discovery from books it was the
law of gain to apply torture to certain persons
charged with crimes, &c.
Mr. HARRISON opened the pleadings,
Mr. Gannow opened the case on behalf of the
prosecution, stated shortly the facts, and contended
that torture was not in use by the old law of Spain at
the time Trinidad surrendered to the British arms,
Until General Picton introduced it ; or that if it was
by the old law of Spain, yet that a British Governor,
representing the King of Great Britain, could not
inflict it ; and therefore he contended that the De-
fendant ought to be found guilty.
Louisa Calderon was then examined. She proved
that she had lived as a concubine with Pedro Roez,
who was robbed to the amount of 2000 half dollars ;
that Carlos Gonzales was suspected to have commit-
ted that robbery ; that she was committed to prison,
charged with being an accomplice in that robbery,
examined, but her answer not satisfying the Alcaide
( the Judge), he applied to General Picton, Governor
of the island, to have the torture inflicted on her, the
ordinary Judge not having power to inflict it; upon
which Governor Picton signed an order, " Apply
the torture to Louisa Calderon." On the 23d De-
cember -1801, the torture was inflicted on her that
evening between seven and eight o'clock. She then
described the manner in which the torture had been
inflicted, which was done by what is called " picket-
ting," and which consists in one arm being suspended
up to the roof, while one foot on the opposite side
stands upon a bit of wood, six feet high, and about
one inch in diameter. First by the left, and then by
.he right hand and foot. She said, that after she
had remained in that position fifty-two minutes, she
was taken down. The same thing was repeated early
the next morning, but after she had been upon the
picket twenty-two minutes she fainted and was taken
down, after suffering great bodily pain, and confessed
nothing.
Here she exhibited the marks still remaining on
her wrists, although the torture was inflicted near
seven years ago ; she came up to the Jury-box, the
better to make that exhibition.
Raphael Chaudos, an Alguaiil, confirmed her evi-
dence, he having seen the punishment inflicted on her
the last time, which was fori the morning of the '24th.
Mr. DALLAS said it was unnecessary to call more
witnesses to prove the facts, for he should not dispute
the existence of that which he came into Court to
justify.
This being the case on the part of the prosecution,
Mr. DALLAS, on the part Of the Defendant, Gene-
ral Picton, contended that he not only had a right but
was bound by the law of Old Spain, in force at Trini-
dad, being one of its dependencies, to inflict this tor-
ture when it was demanded of him by the Alcaide,
who could not inflict it himself, but who was the pro-
per officer to demand the infliction of it. That this
was the law, Mr. DALLAS said, he should place be-
yond all doubt, by the evidence taken under the • au-
thority of the two Mandamuses which had been issued
out of this Court, and returned here. He then pro.
ceeded to read a vast variety of Extracts from the
different law books of the Spanish laws, and of un-
questionable authority, and by which it appeared that
torture was part of the lawof Spain. But,secondly, Mr.
Dallas contended farther, that if this was not the law,
if torture did not, as he contended it did, make part
of the law of Spain, in force in the island of Trinidad,
one of its dependencies, that General Picton was not
only clothed with the authority of Governor, but stood
a_/so in the character of a Judge, and possessed an ap-
pellant jurisdiction, which formerly 'belonged to the
Royal Audience of Caraccas, which was in him as
Governor, in consequence of that island being de-
tached from Spain, and surrendered to the British
Crown. That by the established rules of the law of
England, if a Judge committed an error of judgment
in his judicial capacity, he was not accountable either
by civil action or criminal proceeding. To supportt,
these two propositions he produced a great mass of.
evidence under the returns of the two Mandamuses,
and extracts from law books of indisputable authority.
Mr. GARROW contended in reply, as he had done
in the opening, that no person living in Trinidad re-
collected torture being inflicted as a part of punish
ment. There was no instrument with which to inflict
it, until General Picton ordered it to be done. Se-
condly, that if the Jury should be of opinion, that be-
fore the cession of the island, and up to its surrender
to the British arms, torture was a part of the law of
the land ; yet, from the moment it became a British!
settlement, torture could not be inflicted by the King
of England himself, and of course could not be by any
of his officers, for the King could not give to one c f
his officers a power which he did not possess himself.
Lord Eettasoltotren, in summing up the case to
the Jury, took occasion to advert to what his Lord-
ship considered as an erroneous Opinion, delivered by
Chief Justice De Grey, in the case of Fabricas and
Mostyn. Supposing, however; -this dictum to he cor-
rect, the order for the application of torture must be
made by a person who, as a Judge, was competent
to inflict the punishment ; and, for this purpose it was
necessary that the Defendant should spew that he was!
invested with that authority. This, by his Majesty's,
instructions, did not appear to be the case, for the
Court of Appellant Jurisdiction had that authority
only ; in which situation his Lordship was of opinion,
the eteadant could not be considered to stand. The
Chief Justice concluded by recommending, that the
Juiy should find a special verdict upon these two
points s lit. Whether the Spanish law, as applicable
to the colonies, authorised the infliction of torture in
this particular case ; 2dly. Whether any malice ex-

isted in the mind of the Defendant exclusive of what
the law would intend from the infliction of the tortun.

After having withdrawn about half au hour, the
Jury returned a verd!ct, finding that the law did au-
tholiv torture, bat that the Defendant was not influ-
enced by malice iu its application.

JUN It 9.

1 ..

INORICE, EXECUTRIX, V. ALDERSON AND ANDTDtat.
_ _ _

Mr. GARROW, for the Plaintiff, opened thin case, by
stating it to be an action of trover, brought hy. the
Plaintiff, residing in Gains-ford-stre.ct, as executrix of
the late Mrs. Perrott, against the Dereticlan4; who
are pewterers is: Great Marlboroughstx.ezt, to recover •
possession of some property sent to their house,*.undae
the following circumstances :—Mra. Perrott "had,
shortly previous to her death, disposed of herThouse
Percy-street, and intended to reside for a few month.
at Grantham. Not wishing to di spo.r of all hen fur-
niture and household goods, or to take them with her
to Grantham, she desired her servant, Lewen, to ap-
ply to Defendants, and endeavour to procure apart-
ingits there for her, to which she intruded to remove
her things, until she chose either to send for theta to
Grantham, or to return to town and occupy the
apartments they were then in, or to remove to some
other better suited to her convenience. Mrs. Leven,
in consequence of this direction, engaged the. lexlg,
ings, and the different articles, the subject of this ac-
tion, were accordingly removed in a caravan of the
Defendants' to their house. Mrs. Perrott,
ately upon the removal, went to Grantham, and, in
a few days after her arrival at that pla,:e, died, and
application vrzs since made by th Plaintiff to have
these goods, Etc. restored to her, as Mrs. P.'s execu-
trix. some articles of little or no value were returned
her, but the bulk of the property they declined t., de-
liver up, alledging, that the late Mrs. P. had told
them, they might do what they pleased with than,
and particularly four hampers, containing ten dozen
of wines and spirits, which they alledged Mrs. P. said
they might drink, and that when she came to town,
she would drink theirs in return.

The first witness culled on the part of the Plaintiff,
was Thomas King, a footman of the late Mrs. P.
now in the service of the Plaintiff, who provcd, that
the Defendant's caravan was employed occasionally,
for several days in removing goods and various arti-
cles of housekeeping and household stores to the De-
fendants' house ; among many other things three
large chests of linen and wearing apparel ; and that he
delivered personally to Mr. George Alderson, one of
the Defendants, a blue box locked and corded, con-
taining various silver articles ; that after Mrs. P.'s de-
cease, he applied, by the desire of the Plaintiff, to
have these things dertycmd ny, but the Defendants
refused to part with them. •- . • •
Mrs. Lewen was then called, wtioproved the taking
of the apartments, and corroborated the last witness
as to the removal of the furnititire4 and she also proved
the delivery of a box of diiinionds and a box of laces
to Mrs. Alderson; and that Mrs. P. told her pot to
deliver them to any perzon but tdri, 'Alderson, as
they were worth more than £lOOO. •'
Mr. Goddard, jeweller, stated, that Mrs. Perrott
sent for him, about two months before she sold her
house in Percy-street; and begged him to take charge
of lor diamonds and jewellery, which he declined, on
account of their value ; that a few days before she left
town for Grantham, she told him she had sent her
diamonds to her lodgings in Marlborough-street; that
when she returned from Grantham, they would have
a rummage together amongst her diamonds to find
one to replace one she had lost from a pair of ear-
rings, and that he should have the whole of them to
examine, repair, and reset.
Upon being asked as to the quantity he saw, and
their value, he replied, he observed a diamond han-
deau, and ear-rings amongst a varieig of others Which
her servant brought into the parlour in a pocket-hand-
kerchief; the ear-rings he examined more closely; and
supposed they alone might be worth ;MA
Mr. Waddilove then proved Mrs. Perrotes refusal
to part with her wine to the tenant who succeeded
her, saying she should keep it for her own use.
Lord EI,LENBOROUOII••••rthiIess one could suppose
this Lady was about to retire to a Nunnery, or seclude
herself from the world, it could not be imagined she
would throw away her property thus,
The Defendants did not call any witnesses in sup-
port of their claim, and the Plaintiff took a nominal
verdict of £lOOO. as security for the different artir
Iles being delivered up on oath, and it was referred to
Mr. Lowten to ascertain them.

Sittings, appointed in Middlesex and London, be-
fore the Right Honourable EDWARD, Lord ELLY-
110ROUGlis Lord Chief Justice, &c. in and after Tri-
nity TWA, 1808 :

. .1114DDLESZI.

LONDON.

Friday --'lane 24 •
Wednesday, June 22
Monday ! 27 Wednesday . - 29
Monday July 4 Tuesday July 5.
• AFTER TERM. . r
Thursday I T ' Friday -.. • - Sc,
Nzwroy BARTON, Esq. Fellow of- New college,
and late Seeretaryto the Right Hony Viico)i,ist Shck
mom', was unfortunately drowses's!** Erik,' sen-
night, while bathing at Worthing. '.. - .^ , ,
Monday morning morning Mr. STAI:Nrov, .it leathertmer-
chant, from London, who has travelled to Southamp-
ton and in the Isle of Wight, for many years, was
found dead in his bed, at the Nag's-Head in the
High-street of Southampton: Verdict--..4ia by thi
rimatim of Gox,.
CORN EXCHAXGK, MARS-LA' E, JUNE 13.—The
fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day make a Vt4l'.arnple
supply. and the general sa42s are at a reancnon in
price of about 4s. per quarter since last Itiktr '
Barley in plenty, and cheaper—Malt likeivise ea;
dal
and Beans, of the two kinds, are lower—'there'are
large supplies of Oat., and this trAde is also quoted
cheaper, and sales of Fleur at less prices.

31[NritAL CIIIMINCT AS UNDtft:
Wiest 565. 66'. 78s. Beans (old) 645. 70s. 04.
Fine ditto, 80s. 843. Tick dn.() hold) 60s. 655. et
Rye, 465. 50s. Oats, 41:5. 445. 465.
Bi: ley, 413. 475. 9d. Poland e.tto, 47,. 48s. CI
Malt 64,. 743. Poratoe dit u 90s. 49s 6d.
White Peal{ (boi)ers), 1201.1355. Rape Seed, 36:. to 19L
Crcy ditto, CBs. 811.
Fire Flour 643. 683..-Seconds 551. 60a.
FROM THE LONT'ON GA;ETTE, MAT 28.
Avefige Price of CORN In England aid Nr.des, train the
returns ending the 4th Junk, 1808. •
Wheat. 1 Rye. 1 Barley. I Oats. I Beans] Peas.
s. d. s. d. *. d. s. d. e. J. s. 4.
76 9 52 6 48 10 26 4 49 'l, Go p
The tyerAgr Price of SUGAR, computed from thr realms pude
in the w..ek ending June 8, is 40*. 80. pee-hundred vielgise„

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