Star.
London, England, 1824-05-24 00:00:00

SIR H. HARDINGE AND MR. BATTIER.

We are authorised to publish the following correspondence :
" U. S. Club, May 22, 1824.
" MA% HARDDICT--I now address you on the subject of the
message of Mr. Battier, referred by you to me, and I shall begin by
noticing his letter in ' The Observer' of last Sunday, from which
the following is an extract But I have no doubt of being able
to prove that my friend's signature was obtained to a document
which he had not thoroughly examined, relying on Sir Henry Ilar-
dinges being incapable of recording the particulars partially or un-
truly.'—ln reference to the above, I need hardly say that the insinu-
ation thrown out thus, if proved, would have covered you with in-
famy. I have taken some pains, as you know, to investigate this
matter, and to place it beyond the contradiction of any man ; al-
though no one acquainted with you would consider you capable of
doing that which has been attributed to you, still it must be satis-
factory to you to see, by the accompanying document, that the re-
rotation is clothed in the substantial garb of evidence. I also send
you herewith my note of the conferences which took place between
Mr. Hunter, the friend of Mr. liattior, and myself, as well as copies
of our correspondence. My reasons for denying that Mr. Battier
had any claim upon you are there detailed, and you may make such
use of them as you think proper; and I trust that the perusal of
them will satisfy every man of high honour, and every friend to
good order, that by acting otherwise than 1 have done, I should
not only have betrayed the best interests of society, hut should have
greatly compromised the dignity of the profes,ion wf which you are
so bright an ornament, had I hesitated a moment in my refusal to
suffer you to come down to the level of a man who, at the same in-
stant in which he was making a personal appeal of honour to you,
was making to the world another, in the unmanly form of a foul
and flagrant calumny.—l remain, my dear iliardinge, s,ery truly
yours, •• CHARLES TURNER."

" On the papers of the late Colonel Western being opened in our
presence, there was found an exact copy of the statement which had
appeared in the STAR of the 15th instant, relative to the duel
which took place between Lord Londonderry and Mr. Battier;
which copy we find was forwarded with a note from Sir Henry
Hardinge to Lieut.-Colonel Western, through Mr. Battier, on the
9th inst. from which 'in.,: if appears that .ient.-Col. Western had
previously examined and obierved upon this statement.
There was also found another statement of the Same Officer
(Col.Wecern), in his own Isind-writing, which was, in substance,
sim:lar to that which appeared in The STAR, and to which Sir Henry
lardinge had affixed the si3nattlre of " H. H." But in which
statement several erasures and alterations in pencil appear to have
been subsequently made by Lieut...Culonel Western.
" There was also found a memorandum in pencil, relative to
what took place on the ground, on a d-tacked piece of paper.
(Signed) " CHAS. TURNER, Major-General.
" T. 11 U NTER, Lieut. I sth Hussars.
" B. 11. VI VIA N, K.C.B.
" M. FRENCH.
I " Friday evening, May 21st,

" Grosvenorylace,22d May, 1824.

" 51,1 DEAR Tuatata—l have received your letter, and the do-
cuments to which it refers, and entirely concur in every step you
have taken. I know I need not here express my acknowledgments
to you ; but I must state my conviction, thee having witnessed Mr.
Battier's incapacity' to feel and act like a man of honour, that I
could not without degradation to myself, and discredit to the pro-
fession to which I belong, have extendLd to him the consideration
due to a Gentleman. _ _

" ' This conviction, if it had needed any additional force, would
have acquired it from Mr. Battier's recent attempt to insult me in
the street. His statement that he ventured to raise his whip over
me is false, and; as you know, is disproved by a Gentleman, an eye-
witness of what did pass. Be assured no conduct of his can ever
provoke me to alter my determination to consider him as utterly
unworthy of my notice.
" I am, my dear Turner, very faithfully yours,
(Signed) " 11. HARDINGE.' "

At a judicial sale on Wednesday, a parcel of land in
Fifeshire was set up at 9,000/. and odd, and was sold
for upwards of 11,0001. the rental of which is at pre-
sent only 3001. per an*um. _ _ _

Ex ECU ri ON S.-W ednesday William 31.Teague, con-
victed at the last Circuit, for uttering forged notes of
the Royal Bank, and of Sir William Forbes and Com.

party's -Bank, was executed in front of the Court-house,
Glasgow. His daughter was also convicted of the same
offence, at the same time with her father, and sentenced
to transportation for 14 years.—Friday se'nnight John
Campbell, condemned at last Circuit Court at Sailing,
to be executed for housebreaking and theft, suffered the
sentence of the law in front of the Coot t-house there,
surrounded by a crowd of spectators.
DEATH OF SIR HENRY CLEMENT THOMPSON.—This
Gentleman died suddenly in the King's Bench prison on
Saturday night, where he had been confined since March
last. His day-rule had been provided in the morning,
but sudden indisposition prevented his using it, and be-
fore ten o'clock in the evening he fell suddenly from his
chair. Messrs. Easton and Ward wet e prompt in procur-
ing medical assistance, but the spark of life was extinct.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—An Inquisition was held on
Thursday evening, before THOMAS HIOGS, Esq. Deputy
Coroner, at the Triumphant Chariot, Pembroke-mews,
Upper Grosvenor-place, on the body of John Riley,
whose death was occasioned at the Marquis of LON-
DONDERRY'S. The deceased was a bricklayer, and
worked for Mr. TODD, who was employed in enlarging
a well staircase at his Lordship's house, in Park-Line,
in which was a scaffold thiety-seven feet angle from
the ground, the well-hole was in diameter twelve feet
by seven, and the scaffold consisted of three short poles,
which were across' the narrow way of the well-hole,
each end was in the wall, and over them scaffld-boards.
The deceased, with five others, including witness's son,
were on the scaffold, when, by reasan cid a knot in one
'of the poles, the weight of the men, and also a quan-
tity of bricks, the pole broke where the knot was si-
tuated, and they were all precipated to the ground.
The Jury returned their verdict " Accidental death by
a fall—deodand on the scaffold one shilling."
Among the various curiosities brought home in his
Majesty's ship THETIS, Sir JOHN PIIILLIMORE, is the
Sagassi Pecari, or Mexican Hog. It feeds on fruits and
roots, and also on serpents, lizards, and toads, and will
attack and devour the rattlesnake. IL is less than the
common hog, has bristles nearly resembling the prickles
of a hedge-hog, and is also distinguished by an orifice
on its back, from which perpetually issues a fetid wa-
tery humour. The Sagassi will skin snakes by means
of its teeth and feet, before it devout s them.
STEAM ENGINE.—The King of the Netherlands has
issued a decree, prescribing measures of precaution re-
lative to the employment of steam engines. By this
decree, whoever intends to introduce a steam engine
into the kingdom, for any purpose whatever, must
give notice to the Governor of the province ; he must
state the construction of the machine, the name of the
maker, the capacity and form of the boiler, with its
safety valves, &c. whether the boiler is made of cast or
hammered iron, or of copper or brass; and last, what
is the degree of pressure at wliich the engine is intended
to act. These declarations are to be transmitted to the
Ministers of the Department of National Industry and
the Colonies, who shall appoint two or more qualified
persons to examine the steam engine, before it is set to
work, and especially to prove the boiler, so that in pro-
portion to the material of which it is made and its con-
struction, it may be able to bear much more consider-
able high or low pressure than that required for the
force with which it is intended to act, and that in the
following proportions:
For a low pressure, th double.
For a high pressure, the holier being of forged or hammered
iron, of copper, or brass, the double.
If the boiler is of cast iron, sextuple.