Star.
London, England, 1812-02-10 00:00:00

HIGH TREASON.

This morning, at ten o'clock, came on, by Special
Commission, at the Sessions House in Horsemonger-
lane, in the Borough, the trial of the twelve men who
were taken prisoners at the capture of the Isle of
France, and who being subjects of this to dm, were
found aiding and assisting the French in the defence
of that Island.

This case was opened on the part or the Crnwn hT
Sir V. Ginis and Mr. GARROW, before Sir ARCHI-
BALD M.Doigisco and Sir SIMON LE BLANC—TRIT.
TEN, Sh:riff, and a Special Jury.
The Counsel on the part of the riisoners were Mr.
Brum:chum and Mr. Joie;.

The Court was crowded to an extreme; and the
Trial was going on when this Paper went to press.

NAVAL IN

FALMOUFH, FEBRUARY 7.

A rrive&l the Windsor Castl?, SUTTON, from the Bra-
zils :at Madeira Sept. 16, sailed 17 ' • Rio Janeiro
Oct. 25, sailtd Nov. 17 ; at. Bahia D::.n. 8, sailed 10 ;
found at Rio Janeiro his Majesty's ship FOUDROYANT,
Vice-Admiral de Couircv ; LatmesriNus, and Mc-
TINE brig—on the Bth November the tt‘o latter sailed;
On the 17th November sp• ke his Majesty's sii:p
PHIN, from the Cape of G.,:rd Hope; lett at Rie
neiro his Majesty's ship FOUDROV ANT, and Princess
Elizabeth packet. On the 3d I.)ec. in lat. 16. 16. S.
and long. 33.7. W. spoke the American ship Inde-
pendent, of New-York, from the Isle of May for
Monte Video : on the 7th, in lat. 1.^,. 4. S. lung. 37.
58: W. spoke the Portuguese brig Aurora, two days
from Bahia, for Gibraltar ; on the Gth January spoke,
in lat. 22.18. long. 34. 19. W. the Ann brig, Prost.
ERING, from Madeira for New-York, 21 days our.—
Also arrived the Flora, YULE, front Oporto, with
wines ; and Spartan, FURNELL, als with wine, from
said pace ; sailed three weeks since, under convoy
of a gun brig.

PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 8.
Arrived the TZMERAIRC, 98 guns, from Ports•
mouth ; WHITING, 4 guns, fr .m Milford; Nee..
TUNE (2) tender, with new raised men, Ir. m ditto;
ELIZA 4.nd JANE tender, from Dublin, with ditto ;
the Emu. SPENCER cutter, from Cink ; and the PE.
LORDS, 18 guns, from Corunna.
Sailed the NONPAREIL, 12 guns, f.r Lisbon ; the
PHEASANT, 18, on a cruize; the MERMAID, 32, with
the trade under convoy for the Downs; the Lome,
38, on a cruize off Brest; the BULWARK, 74, Captain
&coml.', and ARROW, 12, for Rocheforr.—Put back,
and sailed again, the l'itzmAxr, 18.—Went out of
harbour to the S iund, the ARMIDE, 38, after having
undergone a thorough refit.

We are sorry to hear that General CRAUFCRDPS
wnuni is of a very severe description. The ball en-
tered his arm and lodged afterwards in his si,!e, fry en
whence it had not been extracted at the date of the
last accounts.

LoRI WILLIAM' Russmt, it is sa7d, is appointed
Aide-de-Camp to General Gn.►H.lDt; and proceeds
immediately to Portugal.

Two troops of the 10th Light Dra,Poons are or.
dered to Worcester, where one troop df the 7th is
on duty.

The 2d. battalion of the 59th regiment expect or-
ders 1... r foreign service.
The Pist•Office Clerks, Sorters, and Letter Car.
niers, all expect to work double tides this week, in con-
sey ticuce of VALENTIN/CIS Day felling on Fridaf, and
the multitude of Com Missions likely to arrive from
all parts of the kingdom, for Tickets and-Shares in
so unprecedented a Little Lotter! Scheme, with
0:20,000 Prizes, as that which will be drawn on
Tuesday, the 113th instant.
Marta-LANs, FLIS. M.—To-day the minis of Wheat make
but a short supply, 3:1(1 'ales briskly made, :it an advarte of
about 3s. per quarter on Fridsq's prices—Rye II clearer— and
Barley likewise—Malt and White Peas soppnit prloes—bet
few Beans of either kind, and higher—the s,.pplies of Oats are
also short, and salt stn this tradt readily supgui t the late increase
in price—Flour folly at the last coot& ion.
MARKt. I .—Ftbruary 10.

Beef be 24 to 6s V 4 Veal is 041 to tes Od
Mutton Si Od to 60 04 Pork is Od to 7s :4
■?AD ➢r CATTLI TRIS DAV.
Beasts, &bait 1940—Sheep and Lambs, 19,550.
Ca/ves, 100-IV, 9.10.
PRICE OP HAY AND SIRAW IN SMITHFIRLO.
Hay 41 Os to 51 Os New Clover 51 Os to 61 Os
Nrw Hay Oi Is to 01 01 Straw 21 Os to sl toe

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TOLERATION ACT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR,

Sin—There is one view of the Toleration Act of
William and Mary, which in neither of the cases that
have lately come before the Court of King's Bench,
respecting Dissenting Ministers, has been taken ; and
which appears to me to be decisive of the question
that has been raised upon it.
The question has been whether certain persons
were intitled to be admitted to take the oaths, and
make the declarations prescribed by the Act, in or-
der to qualify themselves as Dissenting Preachers ?
To make a question whether a pe, son be entitled
to declare upon oath that he will be faithful to the
King—that he abjures the impious doctrine that
Princes excommunicated may be deposed or murder-
ed—that he believes there is not any transubstantia-
tion in the Sacrament of the Loan's Supper—and
that he approves of nearly the whole of the articles
of the established Church, seems to be on the very
face of it an absurdity. In stating the question it
appears to solve itself.
What is the question, to state it in ether words but
this—Whether it is the duty of the Justices, at their
Quarter Sessions, to administer the Oaths of Alle-
giance and Supremacy to such persons as may offer
themselves fix the purpose of taking them, and to re-
ceive their declaration of cenlorming in opinion to
the leading doctrines of the Church ?
Can there be a doubt that any persons may take
these oaths and subscribe these declarations ? Or that
it is the duty of Justices in Sessions to administer and
receive. them ? Read the Act.—What was its de-
sign ?—To exempt Protestant Dissenters from certain
penalties ; and to obtain from them a pledge of fide-
lity and of doctrine. The administering of the oaths,
&c. is therefore not left optional with the Justices ;
or the taking them optional with the Dissenters; but
it is made a positive duty on the part of the Justices
to tender and require the oaths ; and it is equally a
dutrimposed on Dissenters to take them : and it is
an offence against the laws to refuse them. It is not,
indeed, au offence to refuse to subscribe any of the
Church articles ; but if to be a nonjuror, or a non-con-
fortnia be an offenc it is a manifest absurdity to hold
that a person has not a right to be otherwise.
The taking of the oaths, &c. prescribed by the To-
leration Act, so far from being a thing hardly to be
granted, they are to be administered to all who offer
themselves without any exception ; and if it needed
any further proof that they were to be administered
freely and with.mt distinction, persons actually con-,
',Acted of recusancy were on taking them to be exemp-
ted from punishment ; and every Teacher or Preach-
er of a Congregation that should take the oaths, &c.
Was hencefotth to enjoy the privileges of exemption
from Parisli and Ward Offices.
It was of some importance that the privilege of
'exemption from these offices should not he conferred
vn persons indiscriminately; and it was therefore pro-
perly confined to Teachers of Congregations ; but
the exemption from penalties was a benefit to be ex-
tended to all nho should be willing to give the pledge
required—cf Dissenters generally was to be required
the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the de-
claration against Popery. Of those who were Preach-
ers or Teachers, or who intended to become such,
was to be required something else in addition, name-
ly, subscription (with some exceptions) to the thirty-
nine articles. Though the Legislature did not make
it penal to refuse signing these articles, it never can
be believed that they ever intended to throw any im-
pediments in the way of persons willing to subscribe
to them. An oath or a declaration as a qualifica-
tion for an (Alice is natural enough; but to require
an appointment to an office as a qualification for tak-
ing an oath, or making a declaration of faith, is to in-
vert the order of things completely. It is impossible
that such a construction of the statute can prevail.
Hans, 7th February, 1812. A. B.

A farmer at Wingham, Kent, was last week con-
victed in the mitigated penalty of 2Us. for making a
false return of his age, to exempt himself from service
in the Miliiia. _ _ _

On the 28th of June, W. R. B. Bennett, Esq. was
brought to the bar of the Supreme Court, at Calcutta, ,
and tried for the murder of 'l'ukoora Kulleefa, on the
24th of November list, at Daup, in the district of
Rungpore. The evidence for the prosecution being
gone through, the Jury, after a short deliberation, re-
turned their verdict—Manslaughter. The Chief Jus-
tice sentenced the defendant to be imprisoned in the
jail of Calcutta for six mouths, and to pay a fine t f
400 rupees.
Mr. Grant, Overseer en Mammee Bay Estate, in
Jamaica, was murdered, some months since, by six
run-away Negroes, who entered his dwelling at night,
and finding him sick in bed, they, after a severe
struggle, strangled him. They then lighted a candle,
and put a dean dress on him, and sent, as from him,
for some friends, who, on arriving, found him dead ;
his previous illness occasioned less surprise, and he
was buried without any inquest being held on the
body. Five of the wretches are in custody.
The body of Mr. Bailey, a farmer at Wellington,
Salop, was on Friday se'nnight found at a distance
from his own house, with his skull fractured and his
throat cut. His house was ransacked, and all the
drawers, &c. opened, every thing of value taken, and
the keys were put in his pocket. J. Griffiths, of Red-
lake, has been committed to Shrewsbury jail, charged
with committing the murder.

To Medic4l Men of all descriptions, residing in
any ;)f the Provincial Cities or Towns in the United
Kingdom.—BARNETT GUEST thinks it necessary to
inform them, in order to save trouble and ezpence of
postage, he sells his Medicines for ready money only ;
but. they may be had from any of the respectable
wholesale houses in town (which sell Medicines) and
receive from them such a discount as will be found
unusually liberal, on quantities not less than one dozen
of any of his undermentioned new-invented Chymical
Preparations : the Guestonian Lotion, for Gout, &c.
Guestonian Pilisefor Gout, &c. Guestonian Bilious
Pills, Guestonian Nervous Pills, Guestonian Asthma-
tic and Consumptive Pills, Guestonian Tooth-powder,
which cures the Scurvy, and prevents the Toodr-ach,
Guestonian Tooth-powder, which cures the Scurvy,
and gives the Teeth a most beautiful colour, Welcome
Guest, wl,ich cures all descriptions of Tooth-ach,
Face-ach, Ear-ach, and Gumbiles.—An eztraet from
this pamphlet may he seen in the Sr.tte Newspapers,
from July, 1811, to liouary, 1812.