Star.
London, England, 1815-01-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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The Bonita:ll,' Heidtman, from Meant to Castrapol, put
into Carthagena the 24th ultimo, with loss of main-mast, and
wai repAiriog.
1 he Nancy, Patterson, from Malaga to Belfast, is retaken b 7
the Papillon sloop of war, and airrW Into Olbrakar.
The Regent, Brown, train Laden, arrived at Brouvrenhann,
:he 16th instant, with loss of anchor and cable, bound to Rot-
•erd3m.
The Theodore, Dorenbes, from Boordeaux to Ametardans,
was writhed the middle of this month near Ansehind—part of
the cargo saved.
ihe 'fris, Anderson, from Lerwig, was on shore near Yar-
ao.cth yesterday, but expected to be got off.
FALMOUTH, JANUARY 24.
Arrive:! the Marlborough packet, from Lisbon,
vita mails, in 15 days s also a man of war brig, name
otknown. Wind S. strong gales and dirty weather.

PLYMOUTH, JANUARY U.
S.,iled the Onssics, sloop of war, for Ireland, with
.1 convoy ; and the ARGO and HELICON on a crnize.

PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 26.
Sailed his Iklajesty's ship DEXTROUS to the East-
Dropt d )wn to St. Helen's Ruads, his Ma-
i):stV. elrp CIIATHAII, and will sail tatuotrow to
uize A the Western hies.

DEAL, JANUARY 26.
Nothing arrived or sailed. Wind S. with snow.
GRAVESEND, JANUARY IS.
Arrived the Jane, Fish, from ROMA • rAlleilly Onfl6. frftln
ihinlirk; sad I'Delhe, Dehen, from Caws.—WM the Usenet,
Baker, fur Malta; Cenci, Ben, for Tenerife ; Sipplewarth, Hoe-
tea ; and Loyal Briton, Harris, for hawks ; Apes Mstarting;
and Navi:acor, Brown, for St. Christopher's; and idwerd, Pit-
tner, for Madeira.

LADECIL OF THE REDOUBTABLE 7+ Gins SKIP AT
WOoLWlCll.—Yesterday being the day appointed for
the launch of this magnificent man of war, notwidi•
standing the extreme severity of the weather, by.
twelve o'clock crowds of pelile of all descripsionn
were assembled. The REDOUBTABLE was laid down
at the same time as the NELsON, which was launched
last summer, and has been five years in building.—
Her burthen is 1758 tons, gun deck 176 feet five
inches, keel 145 feet, breadth in extreme 47 feet 8
inches, depth in hold 21 feet 4 inch. By one o'clock
the whole yard was so much crowded that it was
deemed expedient by the Commissioners to place
extra officers at the gates leading to her bead, where
the ceremony of christening was to be performed. At'
the stern of the ship several seats were erected for the
accommodation of the friends of the Lords of the
Admiralty and others; they were lined with crimson
cloth, and occupied by elegantly dressed females.—
About half-est one o'clock, Mr. Commissioner Cue-
Vinume arrived with his daughter, an elegant young
Lady, and conducted her to the ship's bows, =aril*
Nobility, Gentry, &c. A bottle of claret being intro.
diced, the Master Shipwright pawed ont a glass,
and gave se Success to the Rmovaraaut." The glass
was ..hen passed to the Commissioner, Officers, /cc.
who cheerfully joined in a sentiment so purely Bri-
tish. A full bottle was then handed to Miss Cue-
aiNcliAli, who, dashing it against the ship, gave her
the name of 41 RnourrmiLa. In a few seconds
afterwards the shores were knocked away, and she
moved from the cradles amidst the shouts of many
thousand spectators. An excellent band at the in.
.sta:a struck.up Rule Britannia, and the effect is only
to be conceived by those who have been witnesses of
such a scene. The ship dashed into the water with-
out the slightest accident ; the' greatest regularity
prorAilcd in every department; sad. after her immer-
sion, she dropped anchor, proudly distinguished by
the flag she is destined to defend. An accumulation
of ice coming in contact with her bows, made a
(rash, but the velocity of her motion soon opened a
clear channel. No accidents happened, thoogh, fpm
the immense crowds several persons were plac.ed its
perilous situations.

ASTONISHING Luce—No. Nip drawn thhaamere-
iag a Prize of £20,000, being the first-drawn above
‘25, was entitled to the additional sum of .2%000
making a Prize of 4840,000! !I in One Half, One
Quarter, one Eighth, and Two Sixteenths, bold by.
Marna and Co. 8, Cornhill.
Friday a Common Hall was held at the Guildhall,
Wcrcester, to deliberate on the propriety of petitios-
ja: Parliament respecting the Tax upon Property
Lid Income, and other War Taxes. At .this Meet-
.ng a considerable difference of opinion aloes es the
distinction between the Property Tax and the Income
Tat. All were petitioning.agausst the latter; but a
coimiderable number spoke an fav6ur of retaining the
termer, apd R. SPOONER, Esq. moved Resolutions to
that effect. After a long discussion, the Resolutions
moved by Mr. SPOONER were carried by a great ma,
prity ; and it was farther resolved, that a Petition
upon the subject should be presented to the House of
Commons by the City Members, or, in their absence,
by the Cotmey Members. The Hon. W. H. Lvvrt.a.
TON expressed his acquiescence in this arraogesalmt•
He said he should always be happy to study the wishes
and interests of the City of Worcester; as fire his opi.l
sion of the subject under discussion, that seazained
Wbe expressed-la attache: place.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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• LENT CIALVIT.
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The 14km/ism Circuit; ante fixed, yesterday-1
Noaroca--Lord itieuls.sro an; IV:r. Justice Hee& ,
Mincents—Lerd Chief co ,stud PO% hid.
Bayley. • •
Noatiptitui..6Lerd CAI Met Tlielipeolt Jade*
Le ltwitax. • .
Hoses—Mr. Justice Chunk* and Mr. Ser. Ilk
Weeniest—Mr. Baron Graham and Mr. ittinei DielPfer,
Oiroart—Mr. Justice Mlles and Mr. Berea Riau*.

PREROGATIVE =mg', I,9IUAItY
CUALMICItS V. CATHIAN/OOD Uli OTHERS.
This case came befire the Court on the admissirm
of the allegation. The question arose with respect
to several iniesecuted papers, propounded as codicils
to the will of W. Looker, formed y of Great Carter.
lane, Doctor's Commons, anti lately of the Excise-
Office, avtl of Islington, in the county of Middlesex
Gals dec aced. It appeared that the deceased
diet on the 25th of November last, at the advanced
age of 70 years, and upwards, his death.hiseinkbeen
occasioned by being run over by a ceariage, leaving a
widow, three sons, and one daughter. That in the
year 1807 he made a formal will, attested by three
witnesses, in which he gave to his dim Mark*
11192 per annum, and totally, .his eldest
That afterwards he drew up a paper be called ,a ;
en, in which he gave to his daughter Charlotte 41
per annum, and the use of hisemie and. furniture'
,during her life. . •.
The Court (Sir Joint Ifscsoitir) thee recapitulat
theiffticles of the alltgation,vas dearlY of opinion,
that these.several usexecuted papers war to be eon•
sidaed only as deliberative memorandums, and
fore pronounced for the regular executed paper, ditek
in 1807, as containing the last will and testament if
the deceased, and rejected the allegation.
MOWS AND gammon v. HARMON.
This was a similar question, upon the validity of a
testamentary paper, pleaded as a codicil-to the will'
of William Parke, Esq. formerly of the Hermitage
house, Jamaica, but late of Gower-street, Bedford-
square.
The deceased had, whilst in Jamaica, duly execs.
ted his will, appointing hi:. brother, Charles Parks,
Esq. and John Risen and Glorge Harrison, Elgin.
executors and guardians of hi children.
He afterwards came to England, and resided in
Gower-strcet, Bedfot d-square, where he died sud-
denly, being found dead in his bed on the morning
of the 27th April, 1813. Search being made by the,
executors, they, in the drawer of a book-case, found,
a marble-coveted book with a piece of paper robnd
it, fastened by wafers, on opening which, they found
it to contain, in the deceased's hand-writing, a copy
of the will in Jamaica. Eleven other papers were
(mud in the same drawer, three of them tied up with
the copy of the will, and the rest loose. These pa-
pers being all iu a very informal and imperfect state,
d several of them operating to the prejudice of
three of the defendant's children, who were minors;
the-executors deemed it necessary to take the opinion
of the Court upon their validity.
An allegation was therefore now offered on the
part of Samuel Baldwin Harrison, Esq. the executor
named in one of them, pleading the circumstances be-
fore stated, with the addition of certain declarations
of the deceased to Mr. Harrison, to the effect of the
alterations which the papers alluded to, but which he
delayed first until' be bad seen his professional ad.'
risers, and afterwards until the arrival of a friend,
from Jamaica, which never occurred.
The same objections were urged to those papers,
as in the last case; and Sir JOHN NICHOL'. was of a
similar opinion as to their being merely memorand
contemplative of some future testamentary disposi-
tion, but never intended to operate in their present
form. He therefore pronounced against them, re-
jected the allegation, and granted probate of the
will only.
alt JOHN MATHUEN POONA, BART. AND DORYILLE
FOWL" AND ITN&
This was a question upon the validity of two pa-
purporting to be codicils to the will of Edward
Cre Esq. late of West End, Hens, but propoun-
.dad the one as the will, and the other as a codicil
to it.
The deceased had made his will, dated April 19..
1803, and attested by three witnesses, appointing Sir
John Methuen Poore, Ban. and John Dorville, Esq.
executors. Immediately ander the attestation was'
this memorandum in the deceased's hand-writing :-
61 There was a codicil whith I have cut off, having
made two others on a distinct sheet of paper, but
without any date." The second paper purported to
be a codicil to the first, and was dated the 24th Fe-
bruary, 1814, and attested by three witnesses. It ap-
Stinted William Fowle Walpole Eyre, and John
Esqrs. executors, but without revoking the
*raciest:met in the will, of Sir John Poore as an,
executor.
Tile third japer was a letter addressed by the de-,
erased to John Dorville and Walpole Eyre, Esqrs:
as his executors, but taking no notice of the others,
'containing directions relative to his funeral, and subs,
joining a draft for te3oo on his bankers, payable tit
m. On the oilier aide of this letter, however, w
this memorandum :-64 This is a codicil to my will
is the blue bag at West End ; but which will I have'
iince cancelled, purporting to make another. The,
codicil .P.ust. however, 'stand for a will.—Edward
Poore, 2'2d June, 1814."
The deceased died at the Portland Hotel, in July
last, where he had been staying some short time pre-
viously For the benefit of better medical assistance
than he could procure in the country; and the will
and other papers alluded to were afterwards found in
the blue bag which he bad there with him. The
will was not cancelled, as stated in the paper of the
22d of June, but underscored in many places, with
several marginal notes, and tbe pin relating to the
funeral struck through. •
An allegation was now offered on th codicil of Mr.
Fowle and Mr. Eyre, propounding the of the
24th February, 1814, as the last will, and the letter
or paper of the '22d of June as a codicil to it ; and it
was contended, that from the terms of the latter, it
was evidently the deceased's intention that they should
le so considered. •
On the other hand, it was urged, that the terms of
the paper of the 22d of June merely imparted the de-
ceased's intention that the codicil of the 94th of Fe-
bruary should stand as a will-only in contemplation.
lathe will itself being cancelled; that no act of can-
cellation having taken place, it remained, as. before,
Merely
.4 codica, and roost therefore be proved with

the int ; Whilst tie paper of 22d 11.3und Could only '
I.lowa 11111midsied as an evidence,
.that the deceased was
dam upon an act, that of cancelling the will,
ich bii,piter afterwards tarried into effecf...--
" fili Joist Mends. coacurted- la the' lotteriitgb
ateist.,Asserving in particular, that from the deceased
alluding in the paper of 22d of June to the will
Wag Mien in the blue bag at West End, and its' Ge-
is* found it his death in his possession at • the oort-
load hotel, it was evident that he might have Corti;
Omitted the act of cancellation had he thonet pro-
wer The will and codicil of the 2i-th of February
e therefore established, and the second codicil
pronounced against by the rejection of the allegation.
COURT OP CHANCERY, JANUARY 26.
ZARL CUOLUONDELET AND LORD CLINTON.
4111 E LORD CHANCELLOR stated as follows :••••44 In
this case, in which a Solicitor has become concerned
for two opposite parties, I requested die two Chief
Justices of the Courts of King's Bench and Common
Pleas, and, the Chief. B iron of the Exchequer, to
procure for me. the opinion of the Judges. 1 have
not yet had the opinion of the Barons of the Exche-
quer; but the opinion of the Judges of the Courts of
Ling s' and Common Pleas was laid before
Ma yesterday, aftd,that opinion is—' That no Solici-
tor is authorised as %act. 6 The same is the opinion
of the Master of the Rolls, and of the Vice-Chancel-
lor likewise.' When I shall have had the opinion of
the Barons of the Exchequer, I shall let you know."

' RODLEY W. INGLIS, lELLIS. ADD co.
Mr. HART, in this case, applied to his Lordship
for an injunction to restrain the defendants from pro-
testing certain bills of exchange given by the plaintiff
to Mt. G. Mattison, and to prevent them from send-
ing them out protested to the Nand of Tobago.—
The application was founded on a number of affida-
vits, the substance of which was, that Mr. Rodley
bought an estate, called MoontPleasant, in the island
of Tobago, of Mr. G. Morrison, for which he gave
six bills for £lOOO each, dated the 2.5 th of March,
1811, payable at one, two, three, four, five, and six
months after sight. The bills were accepted by the
house of Rodley and Co. of London, and lodged in
the hands of the defendants. It was, h.-sever, dis-
covered that Mr. Morrison was not enabled to pro-
duce a legal title to the estate; on which it was
agreed between the Plaintiff and Mr. Morrison's At-
torney in Tobago, that the former should retain pos-
session of the estate till April, 1816, upon granting
Mr. Morrison a bill of exchange for £3OO, which he
granted, with this special indorsement, that it should
ooly be accepted by his house in London, when the
Illiefendants had given up a set of six hint of 411000
each, as before-mentioned. This was all agreed to
ems both sides ; but when the plaintiff's house be
London came to ask the defendants for she bills, they
'would not return them ; but declared they would
mom thencas not having been paid, and would re.
tist* dim to Tobago as so protested. The object of
the prelim application was to restrain them heft
doing either the one thing ar the other."
The.LoaD CHANCIILLOa said, that it was impose
sible for him to grant an injunction of this nature,
which would go to take away the legal liability of
those bills of exchange, provided the plaintiff was
liable to pay them; especially us this application was
made unknown to the defendants, at least as far as
the Court was informed, of the progress of it.
Mr. HART thought his Lordship might grant an
injunction to stay the protesting of bills, on the eppii.
cation of the party liable for them, as it would not
remove his liability, since be himself was the person
applying for the injunction.
His Lordship asked, how he could do a thing of
that kind, anticipating the decision of a Court of
L:tw ; that an injunction -granted under such circum-
stances, would not take away the plaintiff's legal lia-
bility to pay the amount of these bills ?
Mr. HART then proposed that his Lordship should
then grant the latter part of the injunction, testraining
the defendant front sending out the bills protested to
the I4.:nd of Tobago.
The LORD CHANCELLOR did not feel himself au-
thorised vven to do that, unless the defendants had
received notice to appear against the application it
they so pleased. It was therefore ordered, that the
defendants should have notice of a motion on this
subject for Saturday next.
IN THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT,
. UNION DISSENTING CHAPEL AT ISLINGTON.
BARN ELL W. BLACRITT.
This wits a most interesting case, arising on the
Annuity Act, respecting an annuity granted by a
Mr. Cowen, lessee of the Earl of Northampton, and
builder of the Union Dissenting Chapel, at Islington,
erected by his Lordship's direction, for the accom-
modation of all the Dissenters of every description.
Two other houses were built adjoining to and belong-
ing to the Chapel.
An anneity was granted of the whole to the Plain-
tiff, of £450. per annum, which was, by a subse-
quent contract, in which the annuitant concurred, re-
duced to £Booa year, by sale of one of the adjoining
houses, which of course had diminished the orignal
security of the annuity. There was an omission in
not duly registering the memorial of this new mar-
shalled and reduced annuity, as required by the Act,
which, with a variety of objections, was contended
on behalf of the Plaintiff, to be sofficient for.violating
the contract which the bill sought to set aside.
After much learned discussion on both sides, by
Mr. FoNaLaxoun, Mr. LRACH, Mr. BRLL, Mr. SHAD.
WELL, and Mr. TaasLova, his Hoeotnt adjourned the
further consideration and reply on this new and intri-
cate question, which was rendered still more corn-
plea by the not having made the pew-owners interest•
ed in the concerns, parties either to the annuity con-
tract or to the present proceedings.—Judgment was
postpoued. •

couar OF LINO% BENCH, JAN. se,
USHER V. DAMS, SQUIRE AND CO.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a Rule to
shew cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should not
be set aside, and a new trial granted. The action
was brought by a heafide holder of a bill of exchange
for £1574. 17s. dated 27th February, 1813. against
the drawers and indorsers, of the Tamar Brewery,
Plymouth, Devon. The bill was payable at six
months to the drawer's own order. There were other
facts in the case, but those upon which the Court de-
cided.the present question were, that Mr. Thos. May,
the brother of the late unfortunate John Drewe May,
being clerk to the defendants, was in the habit of
drawing bills in blank for the Tamar Brewery, to be
remitted to Jas. Hallett, Hardie and Co. of Lc!.