Star.
London, England, 1822-02-20 00:00:00

Friday next is the but day for receiving Private 13111 s by the
Mouse of Commons.

Bouocx Hualtita.—Testerday a bullock was separated from
a drove in Smithfield, and hunted by upwards of 2110 black-
guards along West-street. The animal, to avoid his pursuers,
jumped through the shop-window of Mr. Walter, boot and shoo-
maker, on Saffron-hill, and shattered it to pieces ; it ran into the
parlour, and jumped out at the balk window into the yard : the
family were dreadfully alarmed, but fortunately received no
personal injury.
CHILD Dauer:sta.—A few nights back a fine female child, about
a.month or six weeks old, was discovered lying on the paventer.t
in Mint-street, Southwark, at the door of St. George's Work-
house. It was wrapped .up in some old linen, and a scrap et
paper was affixed to its pinafore, with the following words
scrawled --0 Nes me well, and keep me claim; my name is Elm
Barring:* Poor " Dien Barrios" is now in the Workhouse,
where a nurse has been provided for her, and the Parish Officers
have offered a reward for bringing the mother to justice.
At the late eclipse of the moon, about the time of the greatest
obscuration, the bottom of the darkened part became very red,
and remained so till near the end of the eclipse: it had meek
the appearance of rays darting upwards, similar to Oaf Aurora
Borealis.
The refuse of the Ring's stud was sold on Monday at Tatter-
sall's. The average price was about 30 guineas. One coach-
horse, Tickler,
Elit fetched 12.5. Another brought only 13.
CORM
catraxleoye,rellanuained
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PgiFits. 90.—A large quantity of
and over front Monday's supply, but we
had no fresh arrivals this morning, and hcarecly auy sales were
made: what little fine Whait was diipost d of obtained ?Joe.
day's quotat:o.is, but the Inferior qualities were unsaleable.--
Prime samples of wahine Harley sold on full as good terms as
on Monday, but there is no demand for the ordinary ,or. The
Oat trade w. exceedingly heavy, particularly the infedoe saaa-
pies. 1p Beaus, Peas, and other articles little variation.

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EPIGRAM.

"T am not changed, yet Henry files."—
" Not changed? Oh, sadly changed thou art!
When Flavia prompted Henry's sighs,
Her virtue forml her fairest part!
Then, Flavia, cease this idle rant,
Otte solemn truth let Reason speak—
When woman has no more to grant,
Iler !overlies no more to seek
Dublin, Feb. 16.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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VICE-CRANCEI.T.OR'E COURT, FEBRUARY 19.
This morning Mr. BELL moved, en the part of the
Duke of Bedfmd, for an injunction to restrain the
Trustees of the British Museum from erecting a build-
ing on the ground adjoining thereto, a covenant
Living been entered into at the time the grant was
made by Lord William Russell and Lady Rachel
Russell, that no building should be erected on the
north side, extending to Southampton House,
After Mr. BELL had gone through the statements
upon which he founded his claim, his Honour was
of opinion, that the case involved a very important
point of law, and directed that it should stand over
to the first day of Easter Term, in order to enable the
parties to consider the best mannerto try the question.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 18.
CARTWRIGHT V. WRIGHT.

Mr. trim. stated, that the plaintiff, in his declara-
tion, complained of a libel composed and published
by the defendant, who had pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. DENMAN addressed the Jury nearly in the fol-
lowing terms :—I have the honour to represent be-
fore you to-day, one of the most respectable men in
his Majesty's dominions—Major Cartwright, who has
been compelled, by the slanderous publication of the
defendant, to come before you for-the vindication of
the honour and the consistency of his life. In order
Oat you may understand the situation of the parties,
it is necessary to inform you that Mr. Wright, the
defendant, has been engaged in a violent controversy
with an individual with whose name you are doubt-
less well acquainted—Mr. William oobbett. In or-
der to cast odium upon his opponent, helves published
a work, called the Book of Wonders, purporting to
contain extracts from the numerous works of that •
lcbrated writer, illustrative of his principles and his
character. In the course of the work he has pro-
duced passages, as from the fertile pen of Mr. Cob.
bat-, which, if really composed by any one writer,.
exhibit a degree of unprincipled audacity—of gross
tergiversation—of profligate and unfeeling disregard
of every moral and social obligation never avowed
before by man. Whethcr these passages were really
smitten by Mr. Cobbett, I know, not ; but nothing
can justify the defendant in using his work as the
means of dragging forth one of the most venerable
men of his age ; and one, I will venture to add, who
has been most useful to the Public. This Book cy.
Wonders, for what reason does not appear, is dedi-
cated to her late Majesty the Queen, a gross carica-
Su* of whom is prefixed to it by way of frontispiece.
Mr. Cobbett was there stated to have avowed him-
self, on one occasion, to be a swindler, who would
not pay his just debts, under the false and contemp-
tible pretext that his creditors had upheld that Go-
vernment of which he (Cobbett) had personally a
right to complain. Arr. Cobbett having been forced
to abandon his country, according to this book, and
to have taken refuge in the wilds of America, was
there stated to have made a project of destroying the
Bank of England, by inducing persons to commit the
-crime of forgery, and to have had the meanness to
enter into the details of the manner in which these
forgeries were to be carried into effect. He was re-
presented also to have spoken with exultation of
the destruction which he was thus to effect, and of
the delight which he should feel when an Ameri-
can sixpence would be worth more than a ten pound
Bank of England note, and when the ruin and deso-
lation of his country would be universal. He (Mr.
Denman) would read the extract in which he pointed
out the mode of committing the capital crime of
forgery. It was this i
a Sappose me to be capable of forging notes—why need I
expose myself, or anybody else, in the uttering of them ? What
have I to do, but to forge a parcel, place them in the street --
tell my brother where they win be : he bads them, and takes
care td have some one with him when he finds them : be then
passes them ; and if traced back to him, proves that be found
them. The making of large quantities of notes, and sowing
them in the streets by night, is, however, the most efacient of
all she modes of attack."—Vol. 34, p. 1074.
—He only stated these things for the purpose of shew-
img to the Jury the character of the man with whom
Mr. Wright had thought proper to associate the name
of Major Cartwright—a Gentleman whose character
and principles were above all panegyric. In the
course of this book, Mr. Cobbett was stated to have
described " Major Cartwright's creed as the criterion
of excellence; It would seem that Mr. Cobbett had
had a strong desire to be introduced to the Parlia-
ment of England, and with that view had proposed
that L'..5000 should be raised by subscriptions of two.
pence each, among the artisans of his country. On
another occasion, he proposed.that Sir Francis Bur-
dett, whom he had previously vilified, should ad-
vance the suln in question to purchase a seat for him
in what, in a different part of the world, be was re-
presented to have called " a den of corruption ;" and
it was in the passage containing this proposition, that
Mr. Wright had thought limper to fasten the name
of Major Cartwright, than whom there could not be
a More decided enemy to the traffic for seats in the
House of Commons, as the whole tenour of his long
and honourable life had forcibly evinced. The note
in which the libel against the plaintiff was contained,
was placed after the following extract, stated to be