Star.
London, England, 1822-04-20 00:00:00

RAMSGATE, APRIL 19.

Wednesday the foundation stone for the Pyramid
to be erected in honour of his MAJESTY'S visits to
this town was laid at the spot selected on the l'ier ;
a large space, upwards of twenty feet deep, having
been dug for that purpose. The stone lowered to the
foundation for this purpose was a fine Cornish granite
weighing three tons and a half. It is said that the
Pyramid is to consist of one entire granite of nearly
50 feet above ground, after the plan of one at ancient
Thebes, in Egypt.

Friday se'nnight, Sir M. M. Loess, with his Lady and suite,
arrived at Maristuw-Hall.
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

Sir Charles and Lady Morgan, from Ireland.
Earl of Belmore and family, in Hamilton-place.
Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Warneford, in Wimpole-street.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wall, Mrs. Wall, and family, in Waterton-
place, Pall.mall, from their seat, /tallow Park. Worcestershire.
It. Price. Esq. M.P. in Portland-place, from Lord R. Spencer's.
Lady Chetwynd and hiss Chetwynd. in Nottingham.place.
Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgerald, in Green-street, Park-Lute.
Mr. Lockhart, in Blanchester-square.
Mrs. and Miss Hamilton, in Lower Seymour-street.
Mr. and Mrs. Lane Fox, in Grosvenor-square.
Rev. Francis and Mrs. Sullivan, in South Audley-street.

At Marshal Thompson's hotel, Cavendish-square—Captain
Franklin and Mrs. Franklin, from Windsor; Captain Noel, Mrs.
Noel, and family, from Kingston-upon-Thames.
At the Waterloo Hotel—Mrs. Usher and family, from Nor-
folk; Mr. and Mrs. Lane and family, from their seat in !Jerks;
Edward Simeon, Esq. from a tour.
DEPARTURES.

From]Marshal Thompson's Hotel—John Proctor Anderson,
Mrs. Anderson, and family, for France; Evan Nepean, Esq.
Henry Dickenson, Esq. William Casamajor, ,Esq. for
.France ;
Captain Wm. Milligan; Captain Barton.

The Duke of DEVONSIIIR F.'S first Concert, at De-
vonshire House, on Thursday evening, was attended
by 200 Fashionables. The apartments thrown open
at ten o'clock were, the grand saloon, the green, red,
and blue drawing-rooms, and the dining-room ; the
whole were illuminated by a profusion of wax lights
placed in gold and silver candlesticks. After the
Concert, the company promenaded through the
rooms. The refreshment tables abounded with all
kinds of light delicacies, and punch a la Romaine.—
The party broke up at four o'clock.
Thursday, in entertainment was given by the Fish-
mongers' Company, on presenting the Freedom to
Mr. flume.
The inimitable singer, Ixo.Enox,last evening took
his final leave of the Stage, at the English Opera

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House, before an audience which filled the Theatre Tut SECRETARY OF STATE TO GOVERNOR A. JACKSON.
almost to suffocation in every part, and numbers of " Department of State, January 1.
persons retired without being able to obtain even areceiving
" SIR-4 have had the honour of your letter of the
02d of November, with its inclosures. Translations are now
peep, at the drawing up of the curtain. transmitted to you, by the direction of the President of the
On the 15th of March, there was a terrible fire at United States, of two letters received from the Minister of Spain,
Sensburg, in the Govet nment of (iumbitinen, in the
opportunity definitive answer
of receiving
rteteowtehg yeichweit llbe deferred until I shall have
Prussia, which, in the space of a few hours, consumed the reply to this letter, with any
i remarks you thnk proper to make on the letters of the DI i-
-47 dwelling.huuses (rfloAl y of wood), 70 bat ns, 27 i ni.tt.r. You willobserve,hat in the one relating to the seizure of
,t tbles, an at two niag:.aintfs. 1 the papers at St. Augustine, berelwells with much earnestness on
Matte-ea-gowns ()rru:E.—Yesterday W. .Tayee was brought the agreement which had been made between Colonel Butler and
up by Staples, the officer, charged with defrauding Mr. Nutting, the late Governor Cuppinger, concerning these pallets. If th tt
of Lean-street; Soho, of a piano-forte, value about thirty guineas. agreement was known to you at the time when you issued the
It appeared that the prisoner was an active member of a gang order for demanding and securing the papers, you will have the
of swindlers, three of whom have been held to bail. Ile wai goodness to State the particular grounds on which you judged it
fully committed for ttial, the °drolly amounting to felony.— oecessary to resort to compulsory measures fur obtaining poss..-
Staples, the officer, and several of the tradesmen who had been sion of them. 1 have the honour to be, &c.
defrauded by the gang of sw hullers, succeeded in discovering two " JOHN QUINCEY ADAMS."
depots where the property had been carried to, the one at [sling- Thursday se'nnight, a small thatched house, at
ton and the othei at Petitotivill.:, which being entered by means Brampford.Speke, was burnt down, and another par-
lot ladders, were searched, and an intmenee quantity of property
tially dattured.
was found of ever), &sail:don, at present unclaimed. i

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ALDERMAN tt. *Mtn 111 Q. SHACICHLI, ARROW'
SMITH, AND WHATICIt•
`This was an action brought by Mr. Aide-min
WAITHMAN against the defendant; who are the
Printers, Proprietors, &c. of the John Bull Sunday
Newspaper, to recover a Compensation In damages
'for injury sustained by, the publication of a libel in
their paper, imputing to hirti the receiving of stolen
goods, and also his having committed wilful and
corrupt perjury.

- Mr. CArdPBELL opened the pleadings, and
Mr. SCARLYTT stated the case. In the progress or
which he described the defendants as wholesale dealers
in libel, and that by such proceedings they derived
considerable emolument; that no character escaped
their attacks ; and also, that they, by such means,
put into their pockets upwards of £2O a week each.
—The libel in question appeared in the Paper of Sep•
ternber 9, in the last year, and imputed to the plaintiff
the having purchased some shawls, in'the year 1809,
that had been fraudulently obtained from a Mr.
Cooper, in Bond-streer, at a price far below their
value; and that, in his return-of the amount of profits
under the Income Tax Act, hi had made a false re-
turn, and afterwards sworn to such falsehood. The
Learned Counsel proceeded to impress upon the
minds of the Jury the injury inflicted upon the re•
putation pf the plaintiff, who had, for a period of
more than forty years, conducted himself in that un,
impeachable manner that juttly entitled him to the
protection of the law, and the verdict of the Jury ot
the present occasion:

Mr. GURNEY called Mr. Pressey from the Stamp..
office, who proved the proprietorship of the Johie
Bull to be in the defendants, from affidavits made
and filed at his Office.

This witness underwent a close examination by
Mr. Serjeant VAuctus; nothing was however eli.
cited by it to shake his testimony. The publication
of the libel by the defendants was here admitted by
their Counsel.

Mr. Bensley proved having printed the Paper in
January 1821, for the defendants, and also that at the
time of the publication of the libel the Paper wa4 set
up at the house of the defendants, inJohnson's-court,
Fleet-street.

Mr. Mallison, from Somerset-House, produced the
Paper filed by the defendants, it was the 9th of Sep-
tember, 1821.

Mr. Abbott, the Clerkof the Court, read the affidavit
of the defendant Weaver, by which it appeared that
in July, 1821, the weekly sale of the Paper was from
8,000 to 10,000. This being the case for the plaintiff',
Mr. Serjeant VAuctrAN rose to address the Jury
on behalf of the defendants. The Learned Serjeant
proceeded to state, that there not being a justification,
prevented him from entering into the proof of the al-
legations in the imputed libel ; but he should put in
evidence to shew there were circumstances of strong
suspicion attaching to the plaintiff.
The CHIEF JUSTICE expressed his doubt as to the
propriety of receiving such evidence, and, after a long
consultation between the Counsel for the plaintiff and
defendant, it was decided it should not be received.
The CHIEF JUSTICE then briefly summed up.
The case went to the Jury, who, after being out
one hour, returned at a quarter past one with a ver-
dict for the plaintiff. Damages Five Hundred Pounds.

THE PRESS IN INDIAIt will perhaps be recol-
lected that, some time since, a corre-pondence took
place between Mr. BUCKINGHAM, the Editor of the
Calcutta Journal, and the Government Secretary at
Calcutta, in which notice was given that Mr. BUCK-
INGHAM'S license to reside in India would be annulled,
if articles which the Government should judge to have
violated " the laws of moral candour and essential
justice" appeared in his Paper. Subsequently to this,
however, a bill of indictment was preferred al;ainst
Mr. BUCKINGHAM for libel, and found by the iirand
Jury of Calcutta. Besides the Calcutta Journal, there
are two other Papers at Calcutta, the John bull and tl:e
Hurkaru, and while Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S cause re-
mained to be tried, much discussion took place ill these
Papers on the matter of the alleged libei, the two other
Papers being violent opponents of Mr. BUCK INGHA
In the course of this controversy, several letters ap-
peared in the Cakutta Journal, which the Government
construed into attempts to impede the administration
of justice; and Mr. SPANKIE, the Advocate-General,
applied to the Supreme Court for a rule to shew cause
• why a criminal information should not be tiled against
Mr. BUCKINGHAM for these several publications.--
The rule to shew cause was granted on the Bth,
cause was shewn against the rule on the 16th of No-
vember. The alleged libellous matter, which was
contained in publications of considerable length,
was chiefly concentrated in the followinwassages :
" It is rumoured that, after a stormy .debate, which
lasted till a late hour yesterday afternoon, a small.
majority of the Grand Jury were prevailed Upon, not
without great difficulty and strenuous &torts, to re-
turn a true 8i11..0.n" the matter of the united Secretap
ries versus Buckingham. , . . . Tie difficulty espe-
rienced in this prelintinar y stage, it is to he hoped, is
only the precursor to the greater difficulties that
await the Holy League in the further progress of their
operations."—There was also a call for " the names
of the Grand Jury," and a rem.o k that the prose- •
cution was a confession on the part of the prose-.
cutors, that they needed white-washing. with some
other observations of the same kin.l. Mr. Fratoussox,
the ADVOCATE-GENERA and other Counsel, ad-
dressed the Court at considerable length ; after which,
the Hon. Sir E. H. EAST, Chief-Justice, and Sit:
A. But.t.t:ft, were decidedly of opinion that a cri-,
urinal information should be granted ; and it was.
granted accordingly. Sir F. MACNAUTON, the other
Judge on the Beirch,• is said to have declared bin
opinion, " that the Court ditt IttZt
Ito Want criminal informatietts

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possess the power
all."