Star.
London, England, 1815-06-15 00:00:00

- ..;.c4;iippNlAN Asnum.
The Srst AnnitiersarY Dinner, In the City, for the
tene6t of this excellent InstitUtion. which has for it•
object the edeCation and support of such Children of
Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, Maier/ 9f Scotland
as cAnnnt be admitted into theltoval Establishiinents
of Chelsea and Greenwich, took place, yesterday, at
the City of London Tavern ; the' Loan MAYON in
the Chair. His Lordship entered the room abou
seven o'clock, preceded by the Stewards. and .accom-
panied by the Duke of KAT, Sir AncititALD MAC-
DoVIALD, and a great number of Scotch Gewlemen
of the first respectability. A Scots piper accom-
panied the procession, playing " The Highland
I.addie." Grace being said, the company sat down
and comnienced dinner, to the tunes of" Braze and
Butter," and 4eThe Roast Beef of Old Begland" The
table was profusely spread with delieacies—the des.
sert was excellent—and the Wines were of the best
quality.
The cloth having been removed, and Nos 'mobil
Denim executed by the profess'onal singers,
The CHAIRMAN proposed The health of the
King," which was drank in respectful silence.
soee...s GOD save the King."
Toast..." '1 he Prince Regent, the Patron of the Institution."
Song," The Prince and Old Etiglanl for ever."
Toast--" The Vice-Pligonesem of the institution:
Song—" What beauties does Flora disclose."
The 'Duke of RENT, in proposing eg The health of
the Duke of York, Vice-Patron of the Institution,"
observed. that his Royal Brother would have filled
the situation in which he was then placed (his Royal
Highness supported the Chairman, on the right), it
he had not been prevented by the press of public bu-
siness. The toast was received with enthusiasm.
Soot, Mr. todeitio—" Scow wha hae wi' Wallace bled." •
Toast...." The Army and Navy."
Snag—" Rule Brkatinia."
Toast—' The niebtory of dose woo have gloriously fallen."
talee-14 Peace to rho souls of the heroes."
The CHAIIthIAS observed that the toast he was
about to propose, followed, very properly, that which
had Jest been given. I'be strain by which it was
appropriately succeeded, forcibly recalled to his mind
the beautiful lines of the Poet—
*. How sleep the brave, who (oink to rest,
" fry elt their country's wishes blest'!"
rn a contest of twenty years duration, great numbers
of our brave defenders had necessarily fallen—and
they had fallen gloriously. But he wished to remind
the assembly, that many of those gallant men, the
close of whose earthly career was cheered by the
shouts of victory, must, in that'last, sad hour, have
felt the most painful apprehensions for those dear,
unprotected relatives, whom they had left in their
nativiland. It' was to cherish and support them,
that this Society was instituted; and, he considered
ii as the pride, the happiness, nay, the glory of hie
life, to preside, as Chief Magistrate of the City of
London. at the first anniversary dinner of so benevo-
lent a Society, held within the walls of the. =trope:
his. In consequence of his high office, he filled a
situation which,,otherwise, some of the Royal Family
would have occupied. Those illuturions personages
bad extended to this Society .the benefit of their pa-
rsonage, which was followed up by the public in a
mariner almost unparalleled ; and, he trusted, that
the City of London, which had been always foremost
when the sailor or the soldier was to be remunerated,
would now display its accustomed liberality. in the
support of the children of those who had died iu their
service.--His Lordship then proposed—
" Caledon.ao Asylum, and may the children of the brave
*ever watt a protector."
The Duke of I‘." stir, as President of the Caledo-
nian Asylum, returned thanks in a very elegant
spe" ch. He observed, that he felt very great plea-
sure in addressing, the company, that day. as the
P.l esident of a Corporate Body. Such was, however,
the case—the Royal Assent having been given to a
B 11 fur the incorporation of the Caledonian. Asylum.
Fr,:m the earnest exertions of those who took up the
cause of gild Restitution, they had thus early become
a body corporate. • He here thought it would not be
improper, as the Chairman declined the task. shortly
to advert to the origin of this Establishment. It arose
Irvin the auggestions of the Highland .Society—and
it was not the fist Institution that emanated from it.
The Highland Society appeared to the eoald as
founded merely for the purpose of convivial enter-
tainments. But, though that was its ostensible ()b.
ject, it.never lost sight of the best interests of that
part of the United Kingdoa, to which the members
oaf tl.e society were so wardsly attached—and uo
wonder teat they were. when so many heroes and
men of taints were daily coming from it. Amongst
the beneficial measures which they had griginAted.
OW s would never forget die law of 1784, by which
the forfeited estates of the adherents of the House of
Stuart were mitered. In this instance it was fully
petered that when the House of Brunswick was firmly
seated in the throne, it depended entirely on the love
of the people, aed could esteem those who had been
flitotul to their eriginal Sovereign. In stating this cir-
curnstance. he telt the utmost pleasure in belongingto
the Society which had originated so liberal a measure.
Doi had pet-termed a variety of -bete which would'
du honour to any set of reen--but the foundation of
the Caiedoilian Asylion f anted the brightest gem in
their charaiter. His Royal Highness then briefly
adverted to the liberal principleson which tbe Society
was fourehd--pointed out the strong claims which
the otplian children ef soldiers and sett tts have to our
comolis,.ra•ion, forcefully contended, that the obiect.
cot itte Establishment was stational—.inasmuch as
every individual who was provided foe by it, lessened
she tiontber oh candidates for Greenwich and Chelsea
..—and concluded by giving a very flattering account
at the 1. regress of tic lustitution, the subscriptions to
which, iii the coarse of seven months, were 46,000,'
and annual donations, on which the Societypttist ul-
timately dePellds were promised to the client of lour
hundred pounds.
The Duke oi ot,and the Vice Pusses:et the
ititudou."
•I'tte Duke of-Kane returned thanks.
. t.e Dinka .1 Swats, Vice.Pattoo, under whew,
salon vise Pserd, Sithe bleastand Soorty. the Cabodoolan
A5y.,1,1 eetshe tern."
fur Lluke 01 KIXT, in returning thanks, stated,
that 11;$ RtIAI li..ott:ei fully lute:Wed to have been:
*Deflect on this tax 'slots a but an atta4-inf that tem.!
from athicti he. was tartly exempt fur twenty.'
lour le sirs. had pia totted him. -
oast -e Sakti, 414 Puma (Cab At-
'atauttua.'"' , .
TlarDake at Kidd tbea took 66044 be sbs

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purpose of proposing it The Lord Mayor, and the
prosperity of the City of London." The watt was.
drank with great applause—and the Lonu MAYON
returned thanks, in a short speed, in which be
pledged himself to pursue the same line of
,conduct.
that had hitherto procured for him the approbation cif
his fellow-citizens.
Sir A. MACneNALD paid a hick compliment to the
present Lord Mayor and Sheriffs ft-r their unwearied
exertions to promote the peace of the metropolis. He
then :Adverted to the causes which rendered the peo-
ple of Scotland so frugal and industrious i and allu.
ding to the present charitable Dinner, he observed,
that-no Council was mentioned in Homer's Iliad, which
was not connected with a good entertainment.
The Itenlths of the Duchess of Angouleme—the
Allied Sovereigns—the Stewards of the present day—
and the Stewards Elect, were successively drank with
app•ohAtinn—and the company separated, about lg
o'cl,ick„ highly delighted with the transactions of the
evening.

RIOT AT EDINRU R asi.--Monday Woolen, being the day en
which the Anniversary of his Majesty's birth was celebrated,
about nine o'clock hi the evening, a aumber of di/orderly persons
• assembled on the High-street, Edinburgh, where', for some time,
they contented themselves with throwing glib and mpallw; after•
wards they pelted two oldie town riard soldiers who happened
to go among them ; and, gnally, they 'peached the police watch-
men, at whom they threw stones, and obliged them to leave
,their stations. An additional party of police tdlcers having been
brought down, these were la like manner pelted with stunts, and
forced to retire to the office wiikh was beset by the mob, and
the whole windows of it broken. A sally was then made by the
police officers, beaded by the superintendant, who succeeded in
dispersing the tumult;. but not until many severe blows had teen
given and received ad troth skies. We regret to find, that several
6f the police officers have been must severely injured when in
discharge of their duty- George Home, a serjeant of police, and
a man of very *deserving chatacaer, has sings died of the bruises
he received on this occason. •
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The island of Martinique, we learn, wai only a
short time in the hands of the partizans of BONA.
PARTS wail the Governor placed in authority by the
BOURRONS resumed his power. The Governor, on
finding the soldiers of the garrison refused to obey
him, called together the militia of the island and
*armed inhabitants, to the number of 5000 men, and
thus prepared to meet the refractory garrison, pro-
posed to them, that if they did not wish to serve un-
der King Louis XVIII. they should be at liberty to
leave the island for France, in ships provided for the
purpose, and embrace that cause which sienied to he
more dear to them. With this proposal they closed,
and left the island in three ships, with the cry of
" rive l'Empereur !"
Captain MASSINGUASI, of the Duchess of York,
arrived at Rio Janeiro, frills Buenos- Ayres, writes'
under date of the 80th of. April, that, in consequent*
of the ratification of peace by the Americans, the
ships there would have certificates from the Admiral
and American Minister, and proceed without convoy
for England.
By the ALGARINE cutter from Rio Janeiro, advises
have been received from thence of the 29ihof April,
by which it appears that intelligence had reached
there of the Spanish expedition an Cadiz having
been seen passing to the southward •11 lain' days pre-
vious to the sailing of the Aeoestrait; and was sup-
posed to have proceeded to the Riirer Plate. Lord
SrnaNcrann had left Rio Janeiro for England on the
10th of April, cn board the Doxedie; and Mr. CHAN-
totatosui, who temained behlnel. sant inf. "•
the British merchants at Buenos Ayres,•
the expeditiun, in order that they might seem tbt
roper'
p y. • ~
The Algetine squadron has made its appears**
off Gibraltar, as appears by the folloWing lesser: 1 •
oisaaitaa-tiar. May es.
u On the 18th, we experienced the most ssinnee.
dour weather ever remembered at the dale of year In
this climate ; it blew most severely from the eastward.
Fortunately the gale did not last many hours, et< the
whole of the shipping must halos been destroyed. A
merchant schooner (the Thrasher) was driven from
her anchors, and capsized irsthe Bay ; but the whole
of her crew, dile:will the great exertions of the men
of war, and at the imminenerisk of the loss•of every
boat sent to her assistance, were saved. The btelpe-
mene transport, of 400 tons, was driven on shore,
under the King's _Bastion, and is totally lost—her
crew and passengers, with their baggage, wee* all
saved. An American schooner parted both cables.
and kept wader weigh all day, but was driven on
shore during the night (this vessel had only a choice
of evils, for the Algerine 'squadron were at sea im-
mediately at the Mouth of the Bay. and must have
taken her had she ventured out) and her crew were
landed the next morning, but the vessel t.nd valuable
cargo are quite lost. The squadron has suffered little.
—Ohs the evening of the 17th a gun-boat sailed for
Tangiers ; in her were Mr. Williams, Surma of his
Majesty's ship San Juan ; the Master of the same
ship, and a crew of nine men. In the gala of the
following morning she gunboat was unfortenatay
lost, and the whole of the above persons crowded into
the small skifF beloaging-to it, and pulling only two
oars: in this wretched defenceless state, expecting
every wave would sink them. did the Moon; open a
fire of minket/I
_upon the boat, which kilieAW-
William's, ea wounded' ihataster. .sPoolWillaeas
WAS in the act of urging the men to greater exertions,
when be len • shut throUgli the head, sod died in.
scantly—another vied* to the sanguinary ferocity if
these barbarians. After incredible exertion and
'sufferings, the boat arrived at Tangiers in safety,
and we body wai bisried in the garden of the dew
Consul."
Extract of a letter from the Agent to Llorl's at
Lisbon, dated May 514, 1815 ;--46 There am taro
Alger ire frigates and a brig. et nixing off the Rock;
they were seen by the Captains of the Duke of Kent
and Prince Ernest packets, to chace, and fire -at a
Dutch dodger, which. I understood, had the good
fortune to escape. It is reported they have made
some captures, but 1 haee not been able' to ascertaio
if the tun our is well founded." • •
COME, JUNE B.—Lannight, about eleven o'clock,
the Mail Coeds which Jett this yesterday, at two
o'clock, was attacked•be an armed banditti, within
three miles of Cashel, who fired several shots at the
Coach, ene of which Unfortunately 'wounded the
coachman in the neck desperately. notwithstanding
which hit prestived Ins seat, and carried The coach
safe ince Cashel. We uodelstand the passengers and
guards escaped, who defended the coach most
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but it was chicly owing to the determined
srrit 'debt iimetimaa that they sUcceeded is poi
"tilt she passengers sad Mail . •

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Thisvery InterestlagValireassoassto'be hear 1 In the Court of
Commas Pleas, 'Weeder, berms Lord Noa soar, and a Spe
cial Jen.
Mr. Aiwa* opened the ;shadings by itatlie, that it was a•
acting; brought mainst the Defendant tor eri fling conversetioe
with Plaintdrswifi, sad that die damages woe laid at Twenty
Thousand Pounds. •
Mr. Pott.urs stated the ease on behalf of the Plaintiff.
The first witness tilled was the Rev.
ved Jo
thathn Paony, a cleViergyh o' n• an
of the Church of England, who
pro; the
March, 1404, be married Mies Jane Warren, dauelver of Mr
Wanes, of Glester•etreet. a respectable Sege tor,- to 1. Guthrie,
Ilaq. a barrister, aid a gentleman of high connections and cba ,
teeter. .
Walter Ender, of Cregg, In
the county of Oalway, E.q ..1
leadsmen of high temeetability, was nest caned. He staled,
that be was the sock of the losaiwilf, and that be leiter saw a
more attached or affectionate husband, or Indeed s couple who
appeared to the latest hour to enjoy more of the blessing, of ma-
trinundat felicity than Mr. and IVlts. Guthrie.
(Mr. PHILLIPS stated In his speech that the mother of the,
Plaintiff, oat whose life something better than £3OO a-year de.
Eird, bad died of the shock she received by the infidelity ..f
daughter.in-law, and a question intended to estahlsh tl.i.
was put to Mr. Butler, but objected to by the Counsel fn,
the Defendant.)—Mr. Butler, on hos eross.examinatino, stated,
1 that his sister, the mother of? the Plaintiff, was beween In an.l',
70—that the plaintiff was now about an, and of course eS or to
when he trarried.—and .hat be alway. conceived Mrs. Outhoe to
be a woman of cornett principle before the unturtunate event
which gave rise to the present sedan.
John Sitadwell, Esq. deposed, that he had. known Mr. and
Mrs. Guthrie for several years, Ind was in the habit of great in.
.timacy with them. He never kti w them to have tl.e..lielitest
atairmiletimt. Kindness as a husband, and sincerity as a .ti..nd.
were conspicuous traits in Mr. Guthrie 's character. Vt'i•nts.
knew Mr. Statue since 1807 and was also intimate with hint.
He was oa his estate in Westmeath, and believed hit.* to have a
Hood
property. In a conversation with Mr Sterne, in which the
eapectations of both parties became a topic of observation, he re-
collects that he had estimated his property at about tesonu a-year.
Mr. Simon Morrice; of the Bridge Hotel. Waterford, prov, d,
that about the ad of July,lllte, a lady and gentleman, under the
name of Mr. and Mrs. Biker, drove up to his house in s private
carriage, drawn by four post horses. Sunday was the day of
their arrival and Tuesday of their departure fur Milfqrd Haven.
On Monday, a servant, with a pair of grey horses, joined them.
Before their departure a harper was called in, and play ed to them.
The lady appeared very much dejected.
William Jones, a Welch harper. depoced. that en Tuesday
1 evening, the sth of July, be played for a lady and gentleman at
the Bridge Hotel. He knew the lady, having seen her several
dine' at her lodgings, in Dublin, where he taught her. He ad.-
, dressed her by her name, and she called him by Isis. She appeared
low in "MN and called for the air " Poor Maryanne, wbSch
,ha conceived to be one of a plaintive turn. He got a pound when
the parties were going away.
I Elizabeth 'Moms was nest called. She stated that she was
house-maid at the Nelson Hotel, in Milford Haven. la July last
a lady and ration's from Ireland arrived at. the house, and re-
-1 trained two nights. They called themselves kte.and Mrs. Sterne
Since her arrival in Ireland she had seen the gentleman more
1 than once. She saw hint hide Hall of the Corns on Saturday
sennight. At Mdfned be had a servant and carriage. He slept
in the same room with the lady. They passed as man and wile.
She saw them In bed together. The lady appeased muck agitated,
and sedans bewailed her fate most Hatay. 'flee gentleman op
passed to treat her with greet hardiness. "He was cross," add
the witness, "In every thing.* She recollected one instaucs in
which he lionised her. spied the doer. Uo this occasion she
fscovered great distress, and tore ham bee peruse a Ivrea and
necklace which site wore, awl dashed diens es a Midi, saying,
She wished Ms had never men the tam of die donut. When die'
Di/dolor 4111.111.1tieil it was ,uid with the gentleman to com-
'nand her to be sa it
nt. About a bowl of whey, wh'.:h mei
ordered for her, there was a quarrel. It was white wine witty,
and the gentlemen thought that to be too expensive, a couple of
ghats of wine being teat in a decanter atter dinner, which might
have been med. AU things, hi fact, he thought overcharged,
• •. • aha4oaterfeesid lso gealeared •asgry. He made much
Seim about a pair of sheet which she had ordered- for wsatte.,.—
On tit.• v.holoahethought the la.ly a most miserable object. come
thoeifter die and Mk. theme had left Milford, Mr. Guthrie ar.
rind titan, is a state of the most extreme distraction.
Mr. Edward Cuthbert, a haberdasher, residing in Grafton-
attest, peeved that. Mr. Sterne and Mrs. ars buogbt artici ..
of dress in lane last, at Mrs. lel•Dermott'a, in Sackvilut-street,
for whom Witness then did hostiles% god that they sot
ASkati. as. Id. Witness had dims left at the hotel where Mr.
Sterne resided. / •
The Counsel for the Plaintiff hero dosed their case.
Mr. Iltratowas sated tie ease foe the Defendant at much
length, and whrtbrile:leioquenee.
Mr. Wm. F Merano., a Clerk hi the Custom-house,
was the drat witness called hpDefeadent's Counsel. He stated
that be was acquainted With Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie for the last
four years. He saw the hatter In various places, and frequently
walked with her. He was hi the same hos with her one Wight
at the Theatre, and her mother expressed herself by no means
=with his intimacy with her. He heard of Mr. Gudwie's
received an anonymous later, and doubted not that, he'
Might have been the subject of it. He acknowledged to have
saluted Mrs. Guthrie In the presence of bow mother on her leaving
town. He saluted her, toe, when the mother was not by.
- Mr. Charles Armstrong, the agent of the Defendait, was the
last witness. He was questioned as to Mr. Sterna's properly,
spd he stated, that 'her paying his debts, he would not estimate
It at More than ICtino a-year. On his cross-examination, he ad-
mined that Mr. Sterne kept a pair of horses and a servant at
Morrieun's $ had a villa for the lady with whom be lived so long,
outside corm and an establishment, as be stippased, also for Mrs.
Suckle. •
The pefendant's cam here closed, and Mr.O'Cono mks. spoke
to evidence at much length. In the course of his address be took
,ecoanon to read an affidavit made hi ISIS, In Which the defen.
dant gated Idoiseit to be worth £s,ooo serer.
Lord Noasuar charged the Jury in brief terms, and in less
the 90 mimes, a nedict was found ler the Piaterri..-Faa
1 ateetevin Peen= DASCIGILII.

The following important Appeal relatiag to the'
appropriation of Poor's Rates, and expellees of P. -
rochiell Applications to Parliament, WAG decided at
the hilt )1, Luca Sessions : • •
sagas Are ANOTualli ArIaINST Tat TelleTne CT nil reel
Of lerCeraf.
hfr.fierjersat Berr,for the appellants, stated that the truster" o
the Poor al the parish al Hackney. had inducedseveral person la
chat parish to make an application during the hut Session of Par-
liament for islocal Act fur aompielling the Landlords of Houses'
within that parish, let at and wider ASO per scam, to pay the 1
pools mites for sate property-4m such hill was disapproved by
Parliament, and was rejected by the House of Commons on the
third reading by a great majority; and that tho 'Frsteeet had, on
November la, lot 4, ordered that the espettees of that applitattm,
amounting to ,Clai 7. M. ad. should he paid sot of the rates for
the relief of the Prot. Against that order the appellants; who
were independent inhabitants of the pat *. had ae)Pothrd, at WWI
an order wolatiog all the principles of the Peerages. and equally
unprecedented, illegal, sod corrupt.
Mr. &leant VAreeril, kr the Trustees, contended that such
orders, although contrary es Meng law, was authorised by the
parochial local act fur that peels&
St-least Run sun won. as a Magistrate, then interposed, wad
stated, that the Pours Rates were a sacred fund which ought net
lobe appropriated to arry other object than the rind of the poor.
and that clauseswere inserted in all local acts authorising the pay-
ola:tot. the expeness of obtaining them out of some public fund,
and that the insertion of those clauses inaitated that, even when
acts were obtained, them chops' could trot without such autho-
rity be legally paid out of any public it and that therefore
the charge, ut appliing fur an act which was refused could nut
be so defrayed taut must be paid by the iobviduale who so 1
thought proper toapply.-
1 he Cannata Pr and other Magistrates unanimously concurred
in tide opinions and die appeal was allowed without the Counsel
fog the Awellants being required to reply, and the order made
by the l rustres Vol the payment of sorb eapenees out of the
rimy WIN et the rada eras rentladtd by the Coen,