Star.
London, England, 1824-09-27 00:00:00

GLASGOW. SEPTEMBER 423.

The cloth lappersiuGlakgow lately struck work, and
many of them being under attual contract for periods
unexpired, their masters presented applications against
these to the Justices of the Peace, founding them both
on the Common Law, and also on the Act 4 Gen. IV.
c. 34, sec. 3. It is enacted by that Statute, that if arti-
ficers, handicraft-men, or other persons, shall contract to
serve for any period, and shall absent themselves befote
the completion of the contract, or shall be guilty of any
misbehaviour or misdemeanour during their service,
they shall, on conviction, be committed to Bridewell,
and kept to hard labour for a period not exceeding three
months, and forfeit their wages during their confinement.
The complainants craved that the offenders should be punished in
terms of the Act, or, in the masters' option, be imprisoned until
they found security to-returit to their service, and complete their
contracts.

Four of the cloth Tappers were apprehended, and brought on Sa-
turday List before J. Wingate, Esq. one of the Justices, when the
contracts were clearly proved.
The reason assigned by the workers for desertion of their service
was, that the masters refused to accede to certain proposals, one of
which was to shorten the hours of labour.

To this it was answered, tbat the defendants were bound to fulfil
their contracts.

Mr. Wingate stated, that he had no alternative but to inflict the
penalties imposed by the Act of Parliament; but before pronounc-
ing sentence, be asked the masters whether they would take the
defendants back to their employment, on their finding satisfactory
security to complete their contracts ?—adding, however, that this
was entirely in the masters' option.
The latter agreed, as the defendants were individually respectable,
to take them back on these terms, and of this indulgence they availed
themselves by finding security accordingly.
The journeymen shoemakers have struck work ; and yesterday
the workmen in the extensive foundery of Messrs. Girdwood and
Co. of this city, after having struck work. and again returned to
their business, gave Notice that, at the end of a fortnight, if the
rules they had drawn up were not acceded to by their present em-
ployes*, they would drop work. These rules, we hear, generally
go to prevent any persons but such as they consider proper from
getting into the business, or of being employed by the masters. In
consequence of these proceedings, the masters of the fonnderirs in
this city and neighbourhood, have, at a general meeting held here
on Tuesday, resolved not to employ any of the workmen from
Messrs. Girdwood and Co.'s works, who may leave them, fur the
reasons and objects specified.

JAMES 11.

FRO( A PARIS PAPER.

In announcing that the remains of James the Second,
King of England, had been found at St. Germain-en-
Laye, we believe, we remarked, that it seemed to ut
George the Fourth would display a noble generosity,
by offering to the manes of an unfortunate Monarch
some striking proof that he took an interest iu the dis-
covery. The wish we expressed was not expressed in
vain: the English Ambassador was ordered to pay all
respect to the mortal remains ofJames ; M. A. Paterson,
Bishop of Cybistra and of Edinburgh, in partibus, was
invited to preside at the ceremony which took place at
St. Get main, on Thursday, the 9th instant. M. Shelon,
a Catholic Gentleman, represented the British Ambas-
sador; Marshal M'Donald, the Sardinian Ambassador ;
the Duke Fitz-James, the Abbe Mellott, and many
other English and French persons of distinction were
present on this occasion. The Bishop celebrated Miss,
assisted by the Vicclesiastics of his nation, and pro-
nounced a discourse, in which he dwelt on the misfor
tunes and the courage of a religious Prince, and on
the magnanimity of the present King of England. It
was really a singular spectacle to behold such honours
rendered to a Stuart, by a Prince of the House of
Brunswick, and George IV. by conduct so noble,
seemed to atone for the rigour of his ancestors. On
this subject, the Bishop of Cybistra offered some re-
Sections, which were equally wise and pious, and re-1
mat ked that England had given to our Princes, and to
many French refugees, the same aid which LOUIS XIV.
had granted to James the Second, and to the English
devoted to his cause.

We see with pleasure that the French Guards were
I ordered to render to the remains of James the Second,
the honours due to Royalty. The heart of the Monarch,
that of his Queen, and that of, their youngest daughter,
who died at the age of nineteen, remain in the Chapel
of the Scotch College, in Paris.

A Jamaica Paper of the 11th ult. says—" We some
time ago briefly noticed the death of George Frederick
Augustus, King of the Mosquito Indians. We have re-
cently acquired the particulars of his decease. It ap-
pears his Nlajesty retired in the afternoon, in a state of
intoxication, to his royal couch, and•to the arms of his
Queen, who, taking advantage of his condition, with the
assistance of two Nobles of the Court, strangled him
in his first nap, and afterwards deposited the corpse in
a piece of water contiguous to the Palace. Suspicion
of the foul act having fallen on her Majesty, the sages
of the kingdom assembled for the purpose of investi-
gating the circumstances relative to the traitorous as-
sassination. After four deliberations, a conclusion cri•
minating the Queen and her two associates, took place,
and they were sentenced to be hanged, which ignomi-
nious award was speedily carried into effect. At the•
foot of the gallows, the guilty Queen acknowledged the
justice of the sentence, and confessed having been insti-
gated to the deed by a foreign resident at Cape Gra-
, tins a Dios. It appears the throne of the kingdom is
lelective, and that the Strpetintendant at Honduras has.
a political influence in the election. There are at pre-
sent two candidates for• the vacant throne—the brother
and the ceusin of the murdered King ; and the voice of.
the Soperintendant, through the agency of an envoy,•
will decide the election."

Wednesday rr.orning, a fire broke out in the oast
house of Mr. Annarws, at Longford 11W, near Meophant. It de-
-troyed the o.tsthouse, and a large table adjoining, and about
twelve hundred weight of hops.