Star.
London, England, 1824-08-20 00:00:00

THE KING.

WINDSOR, AUGUST 19.-r-Sir CHARLES Lowc, Sir
EDMUND NAOLZ, and other visitors, called at the Castle yesterday,
and staid a long time inspecting the alterations now in progress,
there bring about 400 men at work in different parts of the Castle..
Sir CHARM{ Lonc had the honour of dining with the KING yester-
day, at the Royal Lodge, and returned to London in the evening.
Lord MARVSOROUGH takes up his new residence at Vern Hill,
on Monday next. His Lordship, on Tuesday last, went to Ascot
Heath, and after inspecting the King's Stand, gave directions for
some projected improvements to be carried into effect.
A large sturgeon was caught in the Thames yesterday, near Wind-
sor Bridge, where it had been seen for several days past. It was
caught by some of the bargemen. and put into a large punt filled
with water, and kept in that state till this morning, when the punt,
containing the fish, was put on a brewer's dray, and conveyed to
the Royal Lodge for the inspection of the KING. This remarkah'e
fish weighs upwards of a hundred and fifty pounds, and measures
seven feet and a half in length.

Lord ALVANLIT had a dinner party yesterday, at
his 'house in Park-place.
The Dowager Countess of STAMFORD had a select
party yesterday evening, at her house in Charlecst. Berkeley-sq.
Lord FIFE'S very extensive manors in Scotland, where
the game is preserved with so much care, abound with grouse; the
' black, the red, and the grey cock, being in the greatest abundance.
The Noble Lord's hospitable mansion is, as usual, full of visit :rs
for the commencement of this manly and healthful exercise.
Lord GIFF.ORD has closed his sittings for the present,
as Vices Chancellor.

We are happy to say, the answers given this day of
the state of his Honour the Vice Chancellor's health, were equally
favourable with those of yesterday.
Mr. ROTHSCHILD'S two brothers and his nephew at-
rived this morning in.town, from Paris; in their way from the
'coast the carriage broke down on Bexley Heath. We are happy
to say they did not sustain any injury.
Salisbury Musical Festival, which is held triennially,
and continues three days, commenced on Wednesday. Madame
CATALAN:, Mrs. SALMON. Miss CRORGE Messrs. SAPID, 1361.LANT,
HAWKS, Ifasaminx, Ste. are engaged, and dildayed their varirj
talent with great effect. The attendance both at the Cathedral in the
morning, and at the Evening Concert, was crowded in the extreme.'
It is not, perhaps, generally known, that the liou,e
which now constitutes the entrance to Inner Temple-lane from
Fleet-street, and which is at present converted into billiard rooms,
was originally the residence of Prince CHARLES STUART' son of
King Jamas I. of England. The front ttlevation is nearly iu the
same state as it was when it was first built.

ELOPEMENT.— It was yesterday rumoured in the
West, that the daughter of a wealthy tradesman in the
East had travelled for Gretna Green. The companion
of the young Lady's flight is said to be a gay and
'gallant son of Mars, whose sole patrimony is his sword
and a pair of colours.
Major-General Turman, who has been appointed to
succeed Sir CHARLES MICA rum in the Government of
Sierra Leone, went yesterday to Woolwich, for the pur-
pose of making himself acquainted with the new sys-
tem of discharging rockets. They will be of powerful
use should he be obliged to continue hostilities with the
Ashantee savages, who are in great dread of fire, and
are easily discomfited by the discharge of musketry.—
Under such circumstances General TURNER does well
to make himself acquainted with this very annoying
mode of attack. General TURNER is an experienced
and distinguished Officer. lie lost an arm in the ser-
vice about fourteen years ago.
During the storm of wind and rain on Wednesday,
much damage was done in the environs of London.—
Several of the nursery grounds sustained great injury
by having some hundreds of thriving plants torn up by
the roots. Between Loughton and Epping a large oak-
tree was broken in two. A boat coming from Green-
wich, with siz persons in it, was upset by a sudden gust
of wind : all were fortunately picked up by some barge.
men, opposite Blackwall. The damage at Camberwell
Fair was very considerable, from the sudden stripping
of the booths by the wind ; and the confusion, to get
shelter from the storm, amongst the assembled multi-
tude, was great : many being thrown down and tram-
pled on sustained much injury.
Cape of Good Hope Papers have arrived to the 6th of
June. They contain a Proclamation issued by the Go-
vernor on the Ist of June, in which he offers a reward
of Joe thousand rix-dollars to any person who should
reveal the author of a " certain defamatory libel, tend-
ing to disgrace his character and honour," which it ap-
pears had been stuck up on one of the posts of the bridge
leading to the Grand Parade. No mention is made of
any person having come to claim the reward by ful-
filling the conditions on which it was proffered.
Mr. BIGGE, one of his Majesty's Commissioners of
Inquiry, and Mr. GREGORY, Secretary to the Com-
mission, arrived at the Cape on the 24th of May, from
the interior. The ARACHNE sloop of war arrived in
Simon's Bay on the afternoon of the 28th of May,
with a Mail from England, in seventy-two days. Ad-
vices had reached the Cape from Bengal to the 10th of
March, but they contain nothing new respecting the
Burmese war.

Wechtsday we stated that the illegitimate infant of
young woman, named Taylor, was found in the privy
of a house in the London-road. Yesterday aninquest
was h.:ld on the body, when the Jury, after hearing
every evidence that could be brought beforethem, came
to the conclusion that the child was not unfairly destroycJ•

COURT 01 CHANC'ERY.-17113 DAY

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szita AND PETITIONS sire at LORD CHANCELLOR, PREVIOUS TO
VESCUALLMAI TER at, 1824.
Monday, November 1, First Seal; Tuesday and Wednesday,
Bankrupt Petitions.
Th„taday, November 4, Second Seal; Friday, Petitions.
SLR, DEMURRERS, AND PETITIONS, REPORE THE VICE-CHAnEL.
LOR, PREVIOUS TO RtICHAELHAS TERM, 1824.
Monday, November 1, First Seal; Tuesday and Wednesday,
Pleas and Demurrers.
Thursday, November 4, Second Seal ; Friday, Petitions.

DISPATCH OF BUSINESS.
Our Readers are aware that his Lordship had intimated that he
shouldclose his present Sittings yesterday. His Lordship, however,
having been informed that there were several causes of considerable
importance,. which strongly pressed for disposal, consented to pre-
side in his private room; and, pursuant to that regulation, came to
the Hall this day at half-past nine o'clock.

COMYN V. SMITH.
This was an application, praying the Court to order the delivery
up of certain deeds and writings, relative to two of the tstates
n.imed iu the pleadings ; and also praying the payment into Court
of between 12 and 13,0001. in addition to the fund already in the
Bink- of England; and that two of the. plaintiffs, the surviving
clad • 2n of the plaintiff in the former suit, might be at liberty to
receive out the in:erest on the former fund, to be divided in equal
shares, as the Master should direct.
The Loab Ca.tt4cittaant—Take the order as preyed.

LITERARY PROPERTY.
BARFIELD tt. NtenotsoN AND KELLY.

Mr. HEALD applied to the Court in this case, com-
plaining that the plaintiff had not the benefit of the
order which his Lordship had made in it. The case ii;-
volved a question of literary piracy by the defendants,
in publishing a book enti:led the Practical Guilder,
the matter of which the plaintiff alleged was pirated
from • The Archit(ctural Dictionary. The plaintiff
had eng:igcd Nichohon to write for the Achitectural
Di,iianary, and contracted with him to coofive his
literati) exertions on that subject to his vor k. However,
in violation of this engagement he conti iboted to the
Practical Builder, into which many of the plates and
i!oigns were copied from the Architectural Dictiouary.
A, Kelly was not a party to the contract, the motion
for an injunction to restrain the publication of the
Practical Builder was (as we understood) refused on a
f irnei day, and an order made to prevent the pub:ka-
t:on of any of the plates, designs, Bcc. in the name of
Nichn:s rn. On the two first parts of the order birth
parties agreed, hut on the third ra: t there was a dif-
ference between the parties, which reatraineJ Kelly front
publishing and selling, in the name of Nicholson, any
part of the Practical Builder, wfrich•bad been printed
or engraved* since the filing-Of the plaintiff's bill in
this cause.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL read his. Lordship's order
from tite shin t-hand writer's notes, which 'varied from
the order of his Lordship as stated by Mr. Heald. It
did not, he contended, prohibit the publication by
Kelly, but merely prevented him from publishing or
wiling, in Nicholson's name, any part of the book which'
had been written or designed since the filing of the bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, after having reviewed the
order, was of opinion that the difference as to the mean-
ing of the third part of the order arose from the misap-
prehension of the meaning or the terms " in like man-
ner," which might mean that the defendant be enjoined
in a manner similar to that in which he was enjoined in
the fotegoing parts of the order, or it might bear the
simple meaning of the word " also," which was the
sense in which he intended, it should be understood. His I
Lordihip accordingly altered the order to the effect that
" the defendant, Thorne.' Kelly, be also restrained, in
the nettle of Peter Nitholstm, from publishing or selling
any part of the said book or work called the Practical
Builder, printed or engraved since the filing of the plain-
tiff's bill in the cause, s hick has Leen written or de-
rigned by the defendant, Peter Nicholson, until the hearing
of this cause, or until the further orders of the Court.

LORD BYRON'S LETTERS.
HOBHOUSE AND HANSON •V. DALLAS.

An injunction had been obtained by the executors of
Lord Byron to prevent the defendant horn publishing
private letters horn his Lordship.
Mr. SHADWELL now moved to dissolve the injunc-
tion, because the letters were actually delivered by the
deceased Nobleman to the defendant for. the purpose,
and with the admitted design of publishing the parti-
culars of his Lordship's life.
Mr. HEALD contended that the letters were chiefly
written by Lord Byron to his mother, as he had at first
stated when the Court granted the injunction ; and be-
ing private letters, in which the defendant had no pro-
perty or right, or at any rate but a very limited one,
and certainly not such as to entitle him to publish them,
he trusted that the injunction would not be dissolved.
The Loan CHANCELLOR directed the affidavits to be
handed up to him, and observed, that although he
could not sit after to-day hi open Court, yet in this, and
another injunction,respecting the Glamorganshire Canal,
he had no objection to give up a morning or two in the
course of the ten next ensuing, to hear one Counsel on
each side, but he could not hear more than one Counsel.
He extended that offer to any other matters which were
SO urgent as to tte threatened with great danger by delay
or the proceedings till the next sittings of the Court.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, AUGUST 19.
111. A. Magrath, late of Peartree row, Lambeth, clerk in
the Office for Liquidating the Debts of the late Nabob
of the Carnatic, applied for his discharge, which no cre-
ditor appeared to oppose ; but the insolvent underwent
a ligid examination by Mr. Commissioner Bowser. •
The petitioner attributed his insolvency to the accept-
ante of sundry bills for the accommodation of a friend.
The Learned Commissioner observed, that persons
were highly culpable who put their names to bills, and
ente,cd into engagements of a pecuniary nature, when
they well knew their inability to fulfil them. It was ex-
tremely fortunate for the insolvent that none of the
holders of the bills appeared to oppose him ; for had
that been the case, the probability was that he would
not have received the discharge to which, in their ab-
sence, he was declared entitled.
Mr. P. E. Stroehling,- of Leicester-square, historical
painter, was opposed at the instance of Mr. E. Solomon.
Tie n olvent stated, that he occupied a picture-gallery
LeiceAer-square, the rental of which was 4.oogoineas
Year. The pictures in the Exhibition were many of
them of his own painting, but part of them belonged to
persons ho had paid for them, and left them there for
public view some of them belonged to Lady Burge,
Monsieur Bourdeaus, etc. &c. In the spring of the pre-;
sent year his landlord put in a distress for a year's rent,
and swept away all his pictures, finished and unfinished;
t"ow belonging to the persons specified were sut
kred ir, he sent away; after this he Was arrested, and '
went to prison on the 41h of May ; did not remember
'lmp., that several Noblemen and persons of distinction'
Cr,. iiidebted. to him in large.sums of money; never
mid :%tr.Soleanon So ; might have said that Lord Peter-
s,arn •
did ; he was painting a picture for bin), for which