Star.
London, England, 1824-05-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Six—lf any principle of gratitude exists in the hearts of Britons
towards those who have perished in the pursuit of knowledge, I
sincerely trust it will be most strongly exemplified at the present
moment. This leads me, in a single word, to suggest, that a sub-
scription should instantly be raised to form a fund for his relict, in
the evening of her days ; and further, that a Monument he erected
to the memory of this enterprising and undaunted individual, who
his devoted so many years, and, alas! now lost his life in his arduous
undertaking, for the benefit of science, literature, and humanity,
and in order that future ages may mark the estimation in which he
was held by this country.
If ever a traveller had strong claims on the liberality of Britons,
let me ask, is not the indefatigable Belzoni most unquestionably, of
all others, " the man ?"—I am, Sir, your bumble servant,
Grosvenor-square, 6th May. VIATOR.

Thursday night Mozart's grand opera of Don Giovan-
ni was selected at the King's Theatre, with singular good taste, for
Madame Caaanosit's benefit. The house was excessively crowded
in every part. The novelty of the performance. the opera not having
been represented for some years, and the amiable character of the
individual who on this occasion solicited the public patronage, united
in producing an extraordinary demand for tickets.

Tuesday night twenty-five male convicts were re-
moved from Newgate to Portsmouth, for transportation.
Castles, the seaman condemned for stabbing his captain,
was among the number.
The tax on Foreign Spirits consumed last year in
England, amounted to nearly one million and a half,
and in Ireland to twenty-two thousand pounds.
Cardinal Zarlar, Vicar of his Holiness, has been no-
minated Protector of the English College, in the room
of Cardinal Gonsalvi. His Eminence has entered upon
his office, and was received into the College by the
Rector, Mr. Robert Gradwell, with the pupils of the es-
tablishment.—Paris Paper.
Norfolk (United States) Papers to the Bth ult. have
reached us, but they contain no intelligence. An article
from a Jamaica paper notices the j lf the an ival
of the English Commissioners had excited in Mexico,
and stating that Mr. WARD was the bearer of a com-
mercial treaty proposed by the Mexicau Government
to this country.
The Grand Jury, at Liverpool, have found bills of
indictment against five individuals for not having pro-
vided guards to the cellars of their respective premises.
Tuesday last, as a young man was trying his luck at
a gaming table at Laceby Statute, he observed that his
opponent always deposited what he won in his right
hand pocket, and paid what be lost from the left; this
conduct appeared singular to the youth, and Ile men-
tioned it to some friends, who, suspecting the troth,
caused the man to he apprehended, and taken before
William Marshall, Esq. a Magistrate at Grimsby, when
base coin, amounting to upwards of thirteen
.pounds,
was found upon him.—He was fully committed to
Kirton for trial.

A Gentleman calling upon a friend in the City, who
was attended by a celebrated physician from the West
End of the Town, asked the doctor if he did not find it
very inconvenient to come to his fu lend from such a
distance?__" Not at all, Sit," replied the phystctan," for
I have another patient in the next street, and can there-
fore kill two birds with one stone." " Can you so?"
replied the sick man," then you are too good a shot for
me," and immediately dismissed him.

MERCHANT SEAMEN'S BIBLE SOCIETY.

• m01.1.M.•.--

Yesterday the Anniversary Meeting of the Society
instituted for the supply of Merchants' Seamen with the
Holy Scriptures, was held at the City of London Ta-
vern. The great room was filled by an elegant assem-
blage of more than 600 females.—The Rev. Mr. Cun
ningham, Lord Rocksavage, the Hon. Elptist Noel, the
Right Hon. Robert Grant, J. Stephen, Esq. and a num-
ber of other eminent individuals, addressed the Meeting
in able speeches: and after a liberal subscription had
been made, the Meeting separated.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF CUANCEPY, MAY 7.
JUDGMENT ON BEER AND tVARD.

The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case,
which had been interrupted by the r ising of the Court
on Wednesday. His Lordship ordered the case to be
sent to a trial at bar, in which the opinions of all the
Judges would be taken, as well cm the law as on the
general eiictims..ces of the case. The trial should be
had in the King's Bench.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 7.
vEsGA V. MACKINTOSH.

This was an action, as cur readers will recollect,
brought by Mr. Raverga against Mr. Mackintosh, for
a malicious arrest aad false imrriLonment. The case
was tried before the Lord Chief Jastice during die late
sittings at Guildhall, and a verdict V:Ri taken f rr the
plaintiff—damages 5001. At the time of the trial we
stated the case fully to our readers.
The ATTOR NEY-GENERAL now moved to set the ver-
dict ~side, or to enter a nonsuit, and in addre,sin the
Court, urged, that the present verdict could not be
...:.rained, inasmuch as there was no nralLe on the p:u t
ti:e defendant, and that he had probable cau e for ar-
resting the plaintiff, and had acted upon what be con-
sidered the best legal advice he could obtain.
The Loma Cumv JusTrca observed, he could not
agree that a man had probable cause to arrest another
when he had no right, and could have no expectation of
recovering. The evidence in this case also fully proved,
that the object of Mackintosh was to induce Mr. Ita-
vena to sign the debentures.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted, that had the de-
bentures been signed, tat would have been a payment.
The LOUD CHIEF Jtrilcm.—Vott were over and over
again urged to produce the debentures at the trial,
which you had the rower of doing, and would net. It
was asserted on the other side, that they contained a
clause distinctly exempting individuals from liability.
The AProarirEv-GENettAr. submitted, that the Go.
vernment of Colombia were declared liable individually,
and Mr. Ilavenga was one of that Government at the
time the debentures were issued.

Mr. Justice BAILEY.—We cannot know that; the
Secretary might have been merely an agent. The Go-
vernment might have been an absolute one. In France,
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs for instance is not a
member of the Government, and the Secretary of the
United Provinces has never been held a member of the
Government of that Republic. Under the Consular
Government in France the Secretary was not considered
a member of the Goven nrnent.

The Judges then gave their opinion seriatim, and
were decidedly of opinion there was no probable cause
for the arrest, ard therefo:e no ground for disturbing
the verdict.--Mule to spew cause refused.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 7.
nAwmiNs V. HOWARD AND GIERS.

Mr. Serjeant BOSASQUET moved for a rule to she..v
cause why the defendants should not account for the
improper disposal of two sums of 3,0001. and 1,2001.
which they lent to the Marquis of 131andford, his estates
being then, to their knowledge, under judgments to the
amount of 295,0001.—1tu1e granted.

By the last letters from St. Thomas's, it appears that
the French cruizers in the West Indies are in full
' activity, affording protection to the :ships of that coun-
try, and assisting in the suppression of piracy. An
American schooner from Guadaloupe had been captured
and sent into Martinique, . under suspicious circum-
stances ; the Captain was taken out and put in irons on
board the frigate, notwithstanding, he had regular
papers and was regularly cleared out ; but the cause of
her detention was having several muskets on board, and
one 4-pound gun.
Captain Clat k,who art i ved at New Redford lately from
the coast of Japan, states, that Captain Frederick Coffin,
(formerly of Nantucket) of the English ship Syren, while
off the Pellew Islands, about the last of March, 1f193,
getting refreshments, suffered about twenty of the na-
tives to be on board his ship just as he had filed away
to leave the coast—the natives rose upon him, killed
two men, wounded the Captain, mate, and boat-steerer,
and several of his people.. The crew being so suddenly
attacked, flew to the shrouds; they then rallied, and
succeeded in clear:Eg the deck. He finally got off,
after having had his mizen shrouds cut away, and other
damage done to his rigging. The n:e.ives seized the
whale spades, and broke off the handles, which gave them
very powerful missile weapon. Captain Coffin stated
that the cook defended kis castle alone, and drove off
eve: y attack with tvater.—Anunican Paper.
FOREIGN DEBT cr. COLOMBIA.—The Gaccla de CO-
bonisia of the 18th of January, pulahed at the seat of
Government, contains an official statement of the whole
of the foreign debt as registered, up to the 30th of De-
cember, 1823, by the commission of liquidation, ap-
;:ointed on the Sth of February, 1822, to inquire into
the claims on the Republic. This debt amounts only
to 1,345,355 dollars, which is less than 300,000/. ster-
ling. Toe two principal creditors under these claims are
General DavErtrxx, for the charge incurred by raising
the Dish Legion, and Colonel JAMES 11ANttr.ToN.
official statement has of course no relation to the loans
contracted in tbii country, but may he considered a
return of the in ivate debt of the Colombian Government
for assistance rendered by private individuals in achiev-
ing its independence.
Easter Sunday has been kept with a degree of pomp
the more striking at Rome, as it is the first occasion, for
a long time, that the Head of the Church has shown
himself to the Faithful. His Holiness had the service
in the Papal Chapel, in the Quirinal ; afterwards he
slimed himself in the balcony, and gave his bencdic-
, tion to the immense multitude assembled in the square.
Plenary indulgence was afterwards proclaimed in the
usual form.

PROVIDENTIAL EscArE.—Sunday last the scrvaiit
of Mr. Jchu Carpenter, of Rome, having left
child in a room•at the top of the house, while she was
fetching something from below, -she was soon alarmed
by the screams of the little one, who had clambered up
to the window, and, at the moment of its tun:Wing out,
the sash fa, and caught it by the feet.

C.4PT. PARRY'S FETE, ov 110.1.71 D THE lIECL

Captain PARRY'S Fete, as we have already stated,
was sp!eodidly :,nd numerously attended, and formed
altogether a scene as novel as it was interesting.
Among the company we noticed the following dis-
tingnishei individuals
_

Dut:rs—'\l;‘.rlborough, Athol.
Duchess of Athol.
The Arneric-tn Ambassador.
MA mens:r.s—Chandos, Lansdown.
MAliciu.)::Es.;cs—Clanricarck., Lansdown, Chandos.
EARLs—Bathurst, Sheffield, Cowper, Belmore.
CorxTicssys—Bathurst, Sheffield, Belmore, Cowper, S:Mitk.
Loans—Sidinouth, Stowell, Nugent, De Dunstanvill:. James
Stuart, Ashdown, Raclstock, Gifford, Clinton.
Sidmouth, James Stuart, Nugent, Asliclowni
I:ads:oak, Howe, Bathur,t (two), Georgian& Lennox.l;.,ryKtn.
redy, Susan Eliot, Ann Hulroyd, Marla Stai.ley, keley
Louisa Lanibton, Alice Ped, Henry l'aulet, Charlotte lieikelc-,
Gifford, B. Martin, Bowler, Johnstone, MALIK!. Keats, 1.4"„ i.,
ton, Home, Martin, Popham, Hobliouse, Copley, Hammond, Mil-
may, Hamilton.
Rioter I.loNotirtao.ni—The Chancellor of the Fxcheq,n.r,Williari
Sturges Bourne.
I lON. AIESSIIS. F.ardley, Trefusis, Berkeley Paget, De Gres.,
Twistleton, Wahlegratte, Scott, Douglas Kintivird,
IIoN. MitiTtt - Beikeley Paget, Atinesky, L'ercy Fra:er,
Bowles, Scott, Dc Grey, Shore.
Si RS-11. Martin, Charles Rowley, Richard Keats, Alsx. Jokn.
stone, George Clarke, John Il.::rniton, Iltnry Martin, .11lin Gore,
Evcrard Home, Charles Hamilton, George Warrehtler, Jostyli
Yorke, William Eden, Watheti Waller, John Copley, John FEW.
more, George Smait.
CA PTA INS-11on. Berkeley, Hon. Charles Irby, Hon.--- 'pre.
fusis, Franklyn, Lyon, Poprier, Buchan, Batty, Byrm:,
King, Seymour, y.i!braharo, final I !all, Beckford.

OiTicers (..f Ole Reval Artilicry.
The Officer,: of the Royal Marines.
7Nlr.:sits.—St. John Mildmay, M.P. M.P. Wilt7tct
Horor, M.P. Tornline, F. B.lring, S. Whitbread, M.P. A. Co?.
land Illocl.inson, E:q. F. Dchee, B.:rrne, Chantr••y,
Mortagr, Ko::ig, Sebright, Marti”, W.:11)01e, Georg, Speacer, Ha.
rni!ton, Bed:Cord (two, Fit!gerild, To!!entache,
4. D. Hunter, Russell, M.P. Sz.c.
Mtsses—lion. (,!..v0), I len. 11.1.1ingtoo (tw, ),
degrave (two), I Basset, IJ. Scywoor, 'Milt:-
may, Trench, De Grey, Vansittart, t..;,rnicr (two). t t• y (two),
Johnstone (two), (Away rave (two), Kiegiton, Rowley,
U. Paget, Martin (two), Lascelles, Itotion;;ct,Waller, risher (two),
Athol Murray, Popham, Jenison, Smith. Mrs. (.7.Ttain Napier.

POLICE L\ L LIGE.% Ct.