Star.
London, England, 1813-03-06 00:00:00

LEITH, MARSH 5.

Came into the Roads his Majesty's ship APPItLLES,
from a cruize ; she captured,. in lat. 57. 10. long. 5.
30. E. French privateer le Ravessuer, of eleven
guns and fifty-one mend out from Dunkiik twelve
days without having made any captures.

We have this InLr ling received Lisbon Papers to
the 21st February, and a Malta Mail. Th+• intelli.
gence brought by both is uninteresting. No mow.
ment had taken place in Lofd Wittaamotores army,
nor in that opposed, to him. Detachments of the
best of the French troops, including almost the whole
of the cavalry, continued to be sent off for France.
JOSEPH has also set out fcr Paris, to visit his Bre.
ther.—An article from Gibraltar of the 6th of Fe•
bruary, states, that Lord Wm. Ilmwrnicm had giver,.
up the command of the Al:cant expedition, and ano•
ther armament of the same description was preparing
in Sicily.

The PRINCE REOENT has been pleased to appoint
Viscount LAKE a Lord of the Bedchamber.

Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an audience
of the PRINCE ItLc-as? at Carlton House.

An expectaticn of scme notice of the case of her
Royal Highness the Princess of WALZI, appears to
lure been entertained in the Houle of Lords last
night. The attendance of Peels was much greater
than usual, or the ordinary business before the House
would lead the public to ell ect. Among the Mem.
bers present were the Dukes of YORK, COMISKRLAND,
and CAZIRRIDOE, most of the Ministers, Earl attn.,
Lord HoLiANDI SCC. &C.

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COURT 1W itING'S BENCH, MARCH S.
f THE KING v. lIENRY WHITE, JUN.
This was an information against the defendant, as
printer, publisher, and proprietor of the Indepadeht
/Phi:), , rot a libel on his Royal Highness the Duke of
•Cuntberland, inserted in that paper. on the 30th of
August.
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Mr. Rictrannson opened the pleadings, and 'read
.the libel, which was in the form of a letter, addressed
44 To the ****. 0* *****"*"." and • amongst other
passages, contained the followitig*:" There is no
doubt but a dignified retreat is preparing for yon ;--•
and there is no doubt but you are ptepat ed to become
a splendid transport. Let Me; before you go, put
some home questions to you, That I am not ode of
those who respect adultery, or murder, even when
dressed in ermined robes, is plain froth this intrusion.
The veil is 'drawn aside,-and you are become the
subject of conversation in every pot-house and nieht-
house. It is not so long since as to have been 'for-
, gotten, that your life was attempted bp a domestic,
and that domestic forfeited his own for the attempt."
The writer then proceeds to put the following ques-
tions relative teithe domestic's death :
Is,. Whether the report was well-founded, that it was not till
after several attecspts that a Jury could he found,hardy enough
to declare, that the servant was his own executiciner ?
• ed. Whether the razor, the instrument of death,• was not
found on a table, in a part of the room distant from the place
where the deceased wall lying ?
3d. Whether there was not a basin found by the side of the
bed, placed there as if deliberately to catch the blood ?
4th. Whether the body, when found, was not pearly cold ?
Stir. Whether the deceased had nor an aathmat?c tough, of
such a description, that he could not possibly have remained con-
cealed in a closet half an hour without being discovered ?
6th. Whether the Jury, on going into the room, did not find
the neckcloth of the deceased out through in several places ? and
whether this ci-cumstance did not midtatepgainst the conclusion
that Ice had cut his own throat ?
• He again asked 66 Was it possible that an asthma-
tic man could have remained shut up in a closet, un-
discovered, and after an ineffectual struggle to efflct
-his purpose, that he should have walked deliberately
'to his own apartment, have cut his throat, and as de.
lihorately have placed the basin by the Ode of the
bed to catch the blood, and afterwards have Wei him-
.self on the bed ? Such, however, was the story told,
to the amusement of some, indeed, but to the asto-
nishment of all."
The libel saving been read,
The SOLICITOR-GEstirtat. slid, having heard the
• libel read by his Learned Friend, he felt convinced
that every one present v:uuld agree it wss quite ins-
possible that such a libel could have been in circula-
turn without calling imperiously on him, and those
who acted with him, to notice it. He would ask the
Jury if . were possible to hear it read and not discover
a libel in every line ? No doubt could remain but it
VAS addressed to the Duke of Cumberland; and,
after some general observations, it proceeded to allude
tb a circumstance well known to all—namely, town
attempt to destroy that Royal Person in his sleep, by
a domestic; who, had admission to his apartments ;
and who, after failing in his attempt, retreated to his
D en apartment, and destroyed himself. The libel
prdeeeded to state, that a report was in circulation
that the deceased had not destroyed himself, but that
he had fallen by the hand of some other person ; aed
it was impossible to read the libel, and not see who
fF was the person alluded to as having destroyed him.
He (the Solicitor-General) had not heard of the re•
port till he read the libel: He setts one amongst
many thousand persons, who went to view the apart-
orients of Sellis in the state in which they were left on
the night of the attempt on his Royal Highness's life;
acrd he himself had no doubt, or had it ever occurred
to him that any other person could have a doubt, that
the conclusion of the Jury, that Sellis had destroyed
himself, was a correct one. The libel had proceeded
to put a string of questions, which, to every one who
had seen the apartments, must appear, none of them,
to be founded on facts; But wiry should he say this,
if Snllis did not destroy himself? There was no per-
-60111 so high in rank as to be above the laws ; or, if
one person should be found so depraved as to endea-
varr to shelter himself under his high station, would
it he said, that a whole people would consent that his
rank, however high, should protect so atrocious a de-
linquent ?-11 there had existed any doubt in this case,
there were those whose duty it would have been to
institute inquiry, and who dared not to have with-
drawn themselves front that duty ; and it, t -1 the
tither hand, day after day, and week after week, it
was imputed, in no doubtful terms, that the Duke of
Cumberland was concerned in this atrocious trans-
action, how co':ld they retire from doing that, which
their duty also required them to do ? It that illus-
trious Person was guilty of murder, it was not his
high rank which would protect hint under British
laws : he might be tried for his offence, and, if con-
victed, sent to the scaffold ; but if, on inquiry, it
should appear that this defendant had published the
c 5 libel-they were now enquiring into, a ith no °diet view
than to traduce his Royal l-lighness, then, he was
convinced, the Jury would nut hesitate to hind a ver-
i dict of Guilty -against him. He would not ask tlicni
to find him guilty, unless they should be convinced
'', that it was dune with an intention to traduce his Royal
Highness. It might be said, this was only fair dis-
cussion. How could that be called fair discussion,
when the Duke could not have an opportunity of an-
swering the arE,tunents adduced against him i Couid
his Royal 1-41,noss enter into a controversy with the
indepaident Whig, or any other Newspaper i And was
. it not apparent, that it was dune with an intention to
traduce him ? He had but one more word to add ;
if any one of the Jury—it. any Merchant, were placed
I in the same situation in which his Royal Highness
il had been, and the man who attacked him were al ter-
i wards to destroy himself, and it should afterwards be
insinuated that the Merchant hat: destroyed him,
1
wottld they not say it was a libel on the Merchant ?
Arid should it now be said, that men in high official
situations, and connected with that which we had al-
Iva) s hither to respected as the bond of the Constitu-
tion, he meant the Crown, should be deprived of that
protection, which the law gave to the humblest indi-
vidual in the country ?
A Clerk from the Stamp Office produced the de-
fendant's affidavit, in which he stated himself to be
the Publisher, Printer, and sole Prorriettir of the
Ind./indent Whig. The Paper containing the libel
Was also put in and. read by Mr. Lorton.
Ai% Bicknell read the libel, soon after its publica-
tion, and had no doubt but that it alluded to the

Duke of Cumberland; the stars talikd with the
number of letters in the Duke's name.
The Plaintiff's 'case being dosed. 'Mr. SeattorrT
addressed the Jury on behalf of the Defendant.. He
felt the difficulty of the situation in which he stood,
as Counsel for the Defendant on the present occasion;
his professional duty, however, had imposed the task
upon him, and he would discharge his duty to his
client to the best of his ability. the learned Coun-
sel then proceeded to comment upon the libel, which,
he observed, when he first read it, Appeared to him
to attach suspicion to the Duke of Cumberland.—
After having had some conversation with the De-
fendant, who was a most ingenuous, and, as he be-
lieved, respectable, young man, and again reading
the letter, he was convinced it had no such tendency;
it merely went to canvas a point around which many
doubts had been thrown, namely, whether Sellis was
his own murJerer, or not ? It had discussed the ver-
dict of the Jury, which the learned Counsel con-
tended it was legal to do ; and he would produce
other Papers, containing letters on this subject, as
there had been a series of them published in The Inde-
pendent Whig, proving that the Defendant had no such
intention.--The learned Counsel was about to put in
the Papers to which he had alluded, when
The SOLJCITOR-GENERAL objected to it, unless the
letters in those papers were alluded to in the libel ;
and contended, that the doctrine laid down by his
Lordship, in the case of the King v. Perry, (The
Morning Chronicle), was decisive on that point.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, nothing could be in-
troduced to explain the libel that was not alluded to
in it.

Mr. SCARLETT said, he did not perceive any allu-
sion to the letters he had mentioned. He would not,
tharefore, press the point. One thing he wished to
state, and that was, the declaration of his client, that
he would rather have a verdict against him than
have it supposed that he, for a single moment, in-
tended* to insinuate that any suspicion attached to his
• Royal Highness, of having hen concerned in the
death of Sellis. The SOLICITon-Ges ERA L replied.
Lord Eurexnonoucti summed up, and the Jury,
without turning round, fotand a Verdict of—Guilty.
This important trial lasted nearly six hours ;
.and
from eight o'clock in the morning till its conclusion
the Count was excessively throng': in every part.

DRURY-LANE TIIEATRE.—The Sacred Oratorio of
The Messiah was.last night exquisitely performed at
this Theatre. Mr. SPRAY, whose voice is peculiarly
well adapted to sacred Music, gave the airs allotted
to him with great taste and effect.—Mrs. Dlocoss
was in excellent voice, and in the diffizult airs of
46 I know that rnis Redeemer lived'," and Rtivice„ greatly,
0 davhter of Zinn !" was highly applauded.
COVk.NT-GARDEN THEATRE.—A Grand Selection
of Sacred Muslc was last night performed. Amongst
the vocal corps, Madame CATALAN! and Mr. BRA-
HAM stood pre-eminent. The horse was filled to an
overflow, at a very early hour. Madame CATALAN!
was in fine voice, and executed several Italian com-
positions with great effect.
It is truly gratifying to observe that, amidst the
tumult of war, the Fine Arts are making an unin-
terrupeed progress in this country. The British
Gallery cf Pictures" is now delivering out its exquip
ite'y finished numbers with great regularity and dis-
patch ; and we learn with pleasure,. that its elegant
Exhibition in New Bond-street is just opened, though
so much earlier than in former seasons.
IsouEsT.—An Inquisition was taken on Tuesday,
at the Pigeons, at Eastgate, on the Oxford-road, on
the body of an unknown person, who died in conse-
quence of a wound he had received the preceding
day. The deceased had been brought to the house
! by two friends in a post-chaise, who lelt him, but sent
a medical man to his assistance.- It aapeared that a
duel had taken place between the deceased and an-
other person, but there was no evidence to show who
the survivor was. A ball was lodged in the left side,
and the Jury returned a verdict of Murder against
i some person unknown.
NEWRY, Pen. '27.—A Coroner's Inquest was lately
held on the body of Patrick Cavenagh, of Drumilly,
about four milesfrom this:own. The verdict was, That
the deceased had been murdered by John Graham
—This man had some time ago taken possession
of Cavenagh's house, farm, and goods, under pretext
that they had been assigned to him by the owner.
He alleged also, that the deceased had gone to Scot-
!
land, where he was to have met his son and Graham
on New-year's day, in order to procure a raification
of the deed by tile son. Meanwhile Cavenagh totally
disap primed, and his son having arrived from Scotland,
denied utterly that his father had been with him.—
I The friend of' Cavenagh began, therefore, to suspect
that he had been murdered. Graham being much
feared in the country, they were restrained by terror
from making the necessary search after the body; but
that active Magistrate, G. Araissox, Esq. rode to
that county, at the head of his Yeomanry corps, early
on the morning of the 19th inst. Whe lie got near
Graham's house, he hastened forward before his men,
whom he ordered to follow expeditiously.
Fortu-
uately he got into the house before Graham could
riseaiut of bed, or get to his file-arms. With that
promptitude and courage for which Mr. Atkinson
is remarkable, he had Graham secured before the
arrival of the corps. Every part of the premises was
searched fin the deceased, but to no purpose. The
Magistrate, however, very pi operly, kept Graham in
• custody ; and on Monday evening lust, bad the sa-
(inaction to find, that the friends of Cavenagh had
discovered the body very slightly covered with earth,
in the house in which Graham 'had lived, in Tullya-
gailaghan, previous to his removal to the farm of
the deceased. W. Reed, of Ballymoyer, Esq. and
John Russell, Esq. immediately attended, and aided
Mr. Atkinson, in holding an inquest on the body.
The verdict was as above stated. The corpse of the
' murdered man exhibited to the spectators a most
dreadful and shocking spectacle—the head had been
• mast inhumanly shattered. The unhappy sufferer
• had received a wound from some blunt and rugged
instrument„ which had penetrated to the back part
• of his head. His skull was fractured, and his under
jaw dislocated, and hanging to one side. His wounds,
• and the. putridity of the carcase, rendered disgustingly
horrible. The property possessed by deceased, con.
sisted of four acres of land in Drumilly, at half-a.
guinea per acre. Graham has been sent to Armagh
jail. Cavenagh was traced from his own house to
Graham's, where he was murdered, and concealed.
Graham's wife and daughter are also in custody.