Star.
London, England, 1807-11-23 00:00:00

SPECIAL yultlls.

On Satorday, Mr. Sulam Num,: attended
with the Freeholder's Book of the county of Mid-
dlefex. at the Office of .the Remenibrancer of the,
Excheqner, and performed a branch of the Sheriff's
duty, which it has been ufual to leave to the infe-
rior clerks of the Sheriff's office. Two Special
Juries were to be Ilruck, and the Attornies in the
caufes attended for the purp,fe. On the Remem
brancer opening the Book to name the Special
Jurymen, who, as is well known, are generally a
repetition of the fame names, oven and over again,
the Sheriff produced- the As of the 4th of George
the Second, chap. 7. rec. ii. which forbids the re-
turning or fummoning of any perfon as a Juror, at
Ny Prism, in Middlefix, who has ferved within two
terms, under the penalty of 51. for every offence.—
The Remembrances- very liberally admitted the force
of the Sheriff's' argument, and agreed nut to name
any perfon who had ferved within the time limited
by the AS ; but as a lift was not then prepared for
the perfons who had ferved within two terms, the
Attornies agreed to defer the ilriking of thefe Juries
till Monday, (this day). Indeed, it is very credi-
table to the Attorney for the Defendant, that he
entered his formal proteft againft the nomination of a
Jury, except with the limitations preleribed by the
AR. For general information, we think it proper
to infest the claufe itfelf

" 4 Oeo II chap. 7. tee B.—Provided always, and be it en-
aZted by the authority 'foretold, that re perfon hall be returned to
Strve as a Juror at any Selhons of Nib Prius, ip the county of Mid.
Alerts, who his bun returned to terve as a Juror at any fuck Set-
ae° of Nlh Prius, in the laid county, in the two terms or vaca-
tions nest lonmediately preceding, under filek penally upon the
Sheriff, Under•Sherif, Bailiff, or other Officer employed or con.
cerncd in the fummoning or returning of Jurors in be hid county
of Middlefez, as might have been 'nettled upon them, or any of.
them, for any offence againft the hid recited claufc."

Mr. Sheriff Peemit's, by enforcing this Mutsu/
claufe, and fecuring that degree of variety and con•
fequent independence in Juries, which was the ob-
vious defign of the Legiflature, will effeEt a public
benefit, which ha• fcarcely been exceeded, in prac-
tical utility, by any meafure, fince the enailing of
the Habeas Corpus Aft, or the Bill of Rights.

Saturday afternoon, the Chairman and Sub Com-
mittee of the American Merchants had a meeting
with the Prefident of the Board of Trade, when his
Lordfhip (Barnum) communicated to them the
determination of Minitters in regard toithe navigation
of neutral Rags, under the prefent fyftem of blockade.
Mr. &pleura, the Chairman, immediately after
leaving the Treafury, convened a meeting of the
Committee of American Merchants, and made the
following Report on the fubjea of the recent Orders
in Council :

" London Tavern, November u.

That American veffels cannot fail any initance diredt from
the ports of the United States to any port of the enemy in Eu
rope. American veffels may proceed from the ports of the United
States to the ports of the colonies belonging tc the enemy, and di-
red back to the ports of the United States. The Order does not
prohibit them from going aired from the ports of this kingdom
to the colonial ports in the Welt India illands belonging to the
enemy ; and it is not intended to prevent them from proceeding
from this kingdom with colonial produce to the enemy's ports,
whenever Parliament Mall have decided on the duties to he int-
poled on filch exportation.
" American veffels may continue to trade from the ports of
this kingdom to the ports of the enemy, and from the ports of the
enemy to this kingdom, and from the ports of his Majefty's allies
to the enemy's ports • but not from the enemy's ports to the ports
of his Majc Ity's allindiredt, nor from America to the ports of his
Majefty's allies, with colonial produce.
" There is radon to believe that an Order of Council will.
iffue, regulating the periods at which notice (hall be cosifidered to
have been received of the Orders in Council, of the sith isiftant,
in the United States of America, by which regulation, veffels that
Man have cleared, or than clear, out from any port in America
before the acth of January next, Dull be confidered to have clear-
ed out before notice of the order ; and veffels, which man clear
out between the soth January and the soth of February, will be
liable to be detained, fubjedt to the queftion, whether they had
began to be laden before notice had arrived at the port from
whence they failed. From the toth of February all American vet.
felt will be confideted as having begun to lade after notice, and
_will thereby be ftsbjedt to the provifiems of the aforefaid Orders.
Certificates of origin will not be required to be delivered up,
which may be on hosrd veffels which than have failed previous to
the notice of this Order, at the port from whence they failed.
" There Isidro realms to believe that so duty is intended to be
laid en the re-exportation of any articles which arc the produce of
the foil.of neutral nations, with the exception of cotton ; and that
the trade between this country and the ports of the enemy's colo-
nies by neutrals, will be regulated by licence, and confined to the
export of MLitt% manufadures, until the meeting of Parliament :
and that the trade between this country by neutrals, with the co-
lonies of the enemy In the Welt ladies and South America, will be
-placed on the fame footing. (Signed)
" Joan Onar,Seeratary.'

JOINT-STOCK COMPANtIIS.—We rejoice to fee that
the Attorney General has turned his attention to a
prallice highly injurious to the Commerce of the
community, and big with ruin to the country. Can
any thing be conceived more inimical to the induftry
of every daft than a regular fyßem of gambling, by
which the cupidity of individuals is tempted to hazard
fmall fume in the hope of large returns—returns
which can only be obtained by the ruin of thoufands
By Inch a fyftem, large turns are drawn from their
regular channels, and the argument of every indi•
vidual is briefly this: '6 My advance will only be a
tribe ; if I lofe the whole of it, I can bear it—but
&Mild the febente anfwer, I (hall be amply re-
paid."..—Were the individuals, who fuhfcribe. the
,only perfons that coubd fuller by a failure, it would
,a ferious evil to the community.; but this is
a trifle compared with the flow but certain ruin
which the progrcfs of the undertaking, whether it
fucceeds or not, brings on all thole individuals
who are engaged in a fimilar line of bufinefs. II
They cannot abandon their trade—Thec mull make !
efforts to keep their cuftomers from the net of the
joint Rock company. They are tempted to fell at
a lofs, in a hope of better times—find their families
are ruined. Even if thefe wild fpeculations fhould
prove a fource of profit to the projeaors, they fhould
not be tolerated. Na benefit of this kind can corn-
parfaits the Inifehief done to the community.—See
bur Law Report.)
On Saturday a Spanifh tailor was brought to the
Public Office, Bow-ftseet, charged with having ef-
aped from being a prifoner of war. Mr. GRAHAM
ordered him to be taken to the Tranfport Board for
them to difpofe of him.

The Counting-houfe of the Powder-mills, belonging
to Mr. butts, on Hounflow Heath, wati broke open
oa Friday night. The thieves entered by a window,
which they forced in, and broke open the writing-
defks, but finding aching there, they carried off
threes ieces of Rabe linen, and a quantity of
oacbihr cad.

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LAW INTIILLIGEAT i.

COURT OF FfN4'S BEN 211, NOV zt.

The ATTOINIT GENERAL moved for a rule to
(hew caufe why a criminal information Mould tr.,t be
filed againft.Mr. Ralph. Dud, a Gentleman who, af-
t, having let on iciot a fchetne making a turn.
pike road under the liver Thames, hai now become
the founder of twoinfikutions publicly advertifed in
the papers ; the oae- for conaittring a public diftil-
lery, the other for the manufatture of paper. Tilde
inflitutions were contrary to an ACt. of Parliament.
(the flat. 6 Geo. J. c. iB, f.. s 4) which, aler recitirg
that feveral undertakings and practices had hecu
publicly contrived, &c. fince the 24.1) day of j me,
1718, which manifeftly ten to the common gritv.
ante of great numbers cf his Majelty's fubjetis in
their trade or commerce and other affairs. At.d the
petfons pretending the public good, lo open books
for public ftibfcriptions, and draw in many unwary
perfons to fubfcribe therein towards raifing•great
fungi of,Knoney, whereupon the fubfct ibers pay finatt
proportions, which amount in the whole to large
turns, which dangerous projeets do relate to Mertes
and other affairs, wherein the trade of many of the
King's fubjeCts is concerned ; and whereas in many
cafes fuch undertakers have prefumed to ad as if they
were corporate bodies, and have pretended to make
their 'hares transferable, and many other unwarran-
table praltices, too numerous to mention, have been
and daily are contrived and let on foot to the ruin of
many of the King's fubjefts. Enaits, that after the
24th of June, t 720, all undertakings as aforefaid,and
all undertakings tending to the common grievance of
his Majeftes fubjeas, or great numbers of them, in
their trade, and all public fubfcriptinns, &c. and
more particularly the ailing, or prefumiag to aft, as
a corporate body, the relYing or pretendins to raffe tranf
ferable ftock,lhall be void. And by the tp.h ration
of the fame flature, all fuch undertakings are deemed
public nuifances, and the undertakers therein are
liable to punilhment, by fine upor. inditimerat, or in.
formation, and all) to incur the penalties of a 're.
munire, by Oat. 16, tic. 2.
Mr. Dod, in defiance of this flatute, had advertifed
a plan to iaife Tco,ocol. by 2000 transferable !bates
of set. each, payable by iritlalments ; no payment to
exceed ten per cent. and notice to be given at lead`
twenty days. The general management to be vetted
in directors. Several fums of money had been railed,
and it appeared by an account given by Dod himfelf,
there had been between fourteen and fifteen thoufand
pounds paid in advance by perfons who had taken
thares. This related to the ditlillery. In the adver-
tifement relating to the paper manufaftory, the in-
ducements held out to the public were fimilar, but the
fum railed was to be larger, and the fuhfcribers were
not to be liable beyond the amount of their fubfcrip-
tions.
Lord aerie soanuort...".4l Have there perfons, par-
ticularly the defendant named, only made there pro-
pofitions—or have they acted tinder them ?"

ATTORNEir GIiNEILAL-•-" My Lord, they have, in
a multiplicity of initances, aged under them : I can
(hew, that, in one inflance, they have altually, in the
hands of Smith and Co. backers, a fum not las than
15,0c0 or i6,000l."

Lord ELLimaozouCH44 Have they ufed the fame
principles, and abed upon them, in the paper mann-
fabory fpeculation ?"

ATTORNEY GENERAL" They have, my Lord,
precifely."
Mr. A asorr, alfo for the profecution—li Yes, my
Lord ; and in all the fpeculations they have fubmit-
ted to the public."
ATTORNEY GENERAL-m. 46 This Mr. Dod, my Lord.
is the perfon who called for fubfctiptions iu a like
manner, fome time ago, for making a turnpike road
under the Thames."

Lord ELL I, N aoaouc m ...4 Mr. Attorney, take put
rule."

LlIkL.

Mr. Jollie was brought up to receive the judgment
of the Court for a libel on certain perfons in the
county of Carlifle. Affidavits were read in vnitiga-
tion, and the defendant. was ordered to be brought
up again on Fziday next.

RAPS.
Faden, charged with a rape, was brought upp.
by habeas corpus from the jail of Portrinouth ; ando
in confederation of the peculiar circumilances of the
cafe, from which it appeared that the pasfon making
the charge againft him had the free exercife of her
will at the time, was admitted to bail
.in four lure-
ties§ to take his trial at the next Affixes for the
county of Southampton.

SINGULAR. A ccroser.— A few evenings fence, while
the fervent., belonging to Hatchett's hotel, Picea.
dilly, were employed in their kitchen, they were fud-
denly alarmed by flames of fire burning forth from
the bottom of the room ;—water was immediately
thrown on it, and it was put out, as was luppofed ;
but on bringing a light to the place from whence the
fire was thlught to have proceeded, the Aerates fud-
denly burn forth again with double fury, and very
much (cot died one of the dreffers. Freth water was
irisniediitely got, and again thrown on it, when in a
few minutes a molt dreadful explofion took place,
which (hook the bogie fo much, that the waiters and
perfois %Olio were running down flair, to alGft in
putting ous the fire, were thrown down, as were fe-
veral perfons (landing in the coffee room. After the
alarm bad fubfided, it was difcovered that the ceff.
pool, which runs under the kitchen, had burn with
the above explofion, at the fame time throwing up
nearly a barrel of foil. The flames were canted by the
foul air (in 'this cafe fulphurifed hydrogen) which.
burning through a crack took fire by coming into
contatt with the fire or with tome candle. The ca.
pool had not been denoted for Come time pall, and
the fmell was mon intolerable.

FIRES.—On Thnrfday morning, the cotton fac-
tory belonging to Mr. Thornley, in Stockport, was
difcovered to be on fire, which raged fo furioufly,
that, though there was a plentiful fupply if wine?,
the building, with the whole of the machii ery, %vs
confumed.

A few days (lace the weaving fatory, belonging
to Mr. Scott, of Sherborne, was discovered to be on
fire, and in a very short time the whole of the pre.
mires were dettroyed, with" the valuable machinery
and every thing elk which they contained. By the
exertions of the inhabitants, and the favonttble di.
ration of the wind, the devafiation extended no fax.
that.