Star.
London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Starling, DOUGLAS, was lost near Constantinople during
a gale, the lst ult. Crew saved. Two Imperial vessels were
lost at the same time.

On the 6th instant, the schooner Salmon, Captain Arrcotson,
of the port of Ann tin, sailed from thence for Liverpool, with a
cargo of potatoes, and when near St. Bee's Head, was struck by
a heavy sea, and immediately went to the bottom with all hands,
consisting of the Master, WALTER JOHNSTONE, of Kelhead, Mate,
and a Swede. They have all left wives and families.
Monday, seven Mateiand Midshipmen passed their examina-
tions for Lieutenants at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed the Lady Mary
Pelham packet, for Brazil; Hercules, NOT, for Gibraltar; and
Harriet, AND/RION, for the South Seas.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Elizabeth
and Jane, from Seville, in 20 days, with sails split ; and the
Princess Charlotte, from Lisbon, in 15 days ; Berwick, Gaor-
ray, from Van Dieman's Land. Sailed the Indian, MAYOR, for
Port-au-Prince.
Poernstouzu Dec. 15.—Wind E.—Arrived the Maria,
GREENSLADE, from London for Corunna. Sailed the Dash,
WICKLAW, for Leghorn; Borneo, Ross, for Batavia. His Ma-
jesty's ship VALOROUS went out of harbour for Spithead ; and
his Majesty's ship LEANDER came into harbour from Spam'.
DEAL, Dec. 14.—Came down from the River and sailed, the
Briton, °east, for Trieste.
Decimate 15.—Wind E.—Came down from the River last
night and sailed, the Pigot, Tostetx, for Bombay; Dorothy,
FOSTER; Reward, and Africa, for Jamaica ; Robert and James,
Havets, for Barbadoes; Recovery, FOTHERET, for New South
Wales; Success transport, MARTIN, for Barbadoes ; and his Ma-
jesty's ship GLOUCESTER, for Plymouth.
HARWICH, Dec. 14.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed the Henry Free-
ling packet, with Mails for Holland ; Lord Duncan ditto, for
Cuxhaven ; and Charlotte ditto, for Gottenburgh.
GRAVESEND, Dec. 15.—Sailed the Earl St. Vincent, Reeves;
and Ann, Fitaanceuv, for New South Wales.

Wednesday, Admiral Sir HENRY Flt.acxwoon ar-
rived at Portsmouth in the LEANDER, of 50 guns,
having been relieved in the command in the East In-
dies by Commodore GRANT, who arrived at Trinco-
malee, in the LIFFEY, on the Bth of December. Cap-
tain HARMER came from the Cape of Good Hope in
the command of the LEANDER, in consequence of:
Captain RICHARDSON being landed there in very ill
health. Lieutenant HAMILTON, of the LEANDER,
was promoted to command the HERON, in the room
of Captain HANKER. The crew of the LEANDER
were afflicted with scurvy, but by obtaining large
supplies of vegetables and fresh beef at Symon s-
town they were soon restored to health.
The LEANDER sailed from Trincomalee on the 21st
of August, the Cape of Good Hope the 20th of Oc-
tober, and St. Helena on the Ist ultimo. All the
ships composing the Indian squadron were left at
Trincomalee, viz. the LIFFEY, GLASGOW, TEES,
DAUNTLESS, SOPHIE, CURLEW, and SATELLITE.—
Tile GLASGOW was under way for the river Hoogly,
to take on board the Marquis of HASTINGS. It was
uncertain whether he would proceed to England or
the Mediterranean, thence to pursue his course to
Vienna, at which Court he is to succeed the Marquis
of LONDONDERRY. the present Amba,aador. The
LIFFEY was to sail in about a fortnight for Madras,
and thence to Cochin, to launch and fit out, for a
passage to England, the new ship TERMAGANT; Cap-
tain DUNLOP, and the Officers and crew of the CUR-
LEW, were to be turned over to her.
The MADAGASCAR, 46, is to be launched at Bom-
bay in January. Captain GAMBIER and the Officers
and crew of the DAUNTLESS, are to be turned over
to her for passage to England.
The TEES was about to sail for Penang, the
So-
PHIE to the Persian Gulf, the SATELLITE, for New
South Wales. The ships were all healthy.
The LEANDER was put under quarantine shortly
after her arrival, from having boarded the French
ship la Theresa, from Marseilles, in lat. 20. 41. N.
long. 30. 26. NV. She was released on Wednesday,
and Sir H. BLACKWOOD struck his flag on Wednes-
day night; she is come into harbour to be paid off.
The passengers by her were—Captain R. G•RE, R.N.
Captain G. BAKER, R.N. Lieutenant CROCKER, Mr.
GARROW, Accomptant-General of Madras, and Mr.
TWISTLETON, from Colombo.
The naval establishment at the Dock-yard at Trin-
comalee has been broken up. The Officers and some
of the artificers came home in the LEANDER; as did
also Captain ROBERT GORE, late of the SATELLITE,
and Lieutenant MAIER'. CROKER, of the same ship,
invalided. Lieutenant DUNLOP, late of the GLAS-
GOW, had been promoted, and appointed to the com-
mand of the TERMAGANT, a new 28 gun ship, which
was fitting out to proceed to England, and was ex-
pected to sail about October. Lieutenant M.J. CUR•
RIE had been promoted, and appointed to the SATEL-
LITE, vice Captain GORE. Mr. GRANT, Midshipman
of the LIFFEY, had been appointed Lieutenant of the
SATELLITE, in the room of Lieutenant CROKER. The
HERON, 18 gun sloop, was at the Cape of Good Hope.
HASTINGS,—Thursday se'nnight, this coast was
visited, for a favr hours, with a very strong gale,
during which one side of a new building in NVel-
lington -place was blown down. Several feet of a
wall, nine feet high, which surrounds the Pelham-
mews, was levelled with the ground, and panes of
glass in all directions were smashed by the blast ; in
one sash no less than six panes were blown in, and it
was with difficulty that the children, who were in
the bed-room, were rescued from their perilous situa-
tion. During the same gale a Dutch vessel foundered
near Dymchurch, and the whole of the crew perished.
The calendar at Maidstone contains a catalogue of
upwards of a hundred prisoners, many of whom are,
charged with capital offences. Amongst the latter is
the case of a man named Robert Hartley, who stands
indicted under Lord Elienborough's Act, for mali-
ciously stabbing Captain Owen, of the Bellerophon
convict ship, at Sheerness, on the 29th of August,
where the prisoner was confined as a transport, after
having been convicted of a capital offence. He bad
obtained a commutation of the punishment of death
to that of transportation for life, under pretence of
giving some important information. respecting the
murder of the Lite Mrs. Dpnatty.

THE PORTSMOUTH CASE.

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The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the Earl of PORTS-
smiles case, having sent the matter to an issue,
many of our Readers may not know what will be the
precise result of such a direction. The question of
Lord PORTSMOUTH'S sanity having been directed to,
' be tried, the next step to be taken will be the appoint-
ing certain Commissioners, before whom the issue will
be tried, and the proceedings regulated. Who those
Ccmmissionesa will be we are not able to anticipate;
but, doubtless, they will be Gentlemen of high pro.
fessional knowledge. A precept will then be directed
to the Sheriff, commanding him to empannel a Jury
for the trial of the issue. The Sheriff will return a'
sufficient number of Jurymen, and then a day will
be fixed for the trial. The Jury will assemble in such
place as may be deemed most convenient, and in the
meantime subpcenas, adapted to the nature of -the
proceeding, will be issued, for the purpose of com-
pelling the attendance of the witnesses. The case will
then be attended by Counsel on both sides. An open-
ing speech will be made on the part of those who
de.ire to have the Commission taken out, and he will
then proceed to the regular examination of his wit-
nesses, who will be cross-examined by the Counsel
for those who oppose the Commission. In short, the
whole will assume the form of an ordinary trial at
law, and be conducted much in the same way, with
the exception that the Commissioners will be the
Judges, &c. and, as we apprehend, the discussion will
not be public. The ulterior consequences to the par-
ties must depend wholly upon the result of the deli-
berations of the Jury. Should they pronounce in
favour of his Lordship's sanity generally, there will
be an end of the question ; the acts of his Lordship
will be the subject of legal sanction, and will be
upheld and maintained by the law, the same as
the acts of any other: man. Should he be found in-
sane, it will then, among others, be a question first,
with the Jury, how long he had been so? When
the fatuity commenced ? And whether it has con-
tinued with or without lucid intervals? Upon these
matters will depend the further directions of the
LORD CHANCELLOR.

DRURY-LANE THenTne.—Saturlay night, Mr,
KEAN performed Hamlet, for the first time this sea•
son, to a crowded and elegant audience. His per.
formance was marked with great power, and the
deep pathos of his lover tones gave toll effect to the
philosophic melancholy of the character.
COVENT-GARDEN.—Maid Marian continues to be
acted with unabated success. The acting and sing-
ing of Miss M. TREE have never been strewn to greater
advantage. Much of the popularity of this Opera,
however, in addition to its interesting story, arises
from the admirable acting of Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE,
in Friar Tusk ; there is a rich and mellow merriment
in his personation of the jolly friar, which we did not
previously conceive Mr. kesme could have assumed.
ADELPHL—Tom and Jerry attracted as crowded
an audience as ever on Saturday evening.
POLITICAL PUNS.—Among the many expedients
resorted to by the depressed party in a State to in-
dulge their sentiments safely, and probably, at the
same time, according to situation, to sound those of
their companions, puns and other quibbles have been
of notable service. The following is worthy of no-
tice :—The Cavaliers, during Cromwell's usurpation,
usually put a crumb of bread into a glass of wine,
and before they drank it would exclaim with cau-
tious ambiguity, " GOD send this Crum well down !"
A Royalist Divine, also, during the Protectorate, did
not scruple to quibble in the following prayer, which
he was accustomed to deliver 0 LORD, who host
put a sword into the hand of thy servant Oliver, put
it into his heart ALSO—to do according to thy word."
He would drop his voice at the word also, and aftey
a significant pause, repeat the concluding sentence in
an under tone.
When FERDINAND returned to Spain he gave to
each of the religious orders of Spain four titles of
Nobility, with authority to sell them. In this way
Mossa ROSALIA, a lawyer, purchased for 50,000
francs, the title of Marquis, and became Marquis of
Mata-Florida. In his flight, as President of the Urgel
Regency, he is said to have been entered in the Post
Office Register by a much higher title—the Consti-
tutionnel says, " a title so elevated that we cannot
venture to copy it." It appears by letters from Paris,
that the Marquis had called himself King of Spain I
Drinking of healths was customary amongst the
Roman gallants, who used to take off as malty glasses
to their mistresses, as there were letters in their names,
according to Martial, who says—
Nista sex cyathis, septem Justina bibatur.
Now let Six cups to Nzvia's health go round,
And fair Justina's be with Seven crown'd. •
Hence, perhaps, arose our custom of drinking healths
or toasts, a ceremony which Ps ynne, in his " Healthe's
Sicknesse," inveighs against with all the madness of
enthusiastic fury. This extraordinary man concludes
his " Address to the Christian Reader" thus :—" The
unfained well-wisher of thy spiritual and corporal,
though the appugner of thy poeular and pot-empty-
ing health."
New MARRIAGE ACT.—Another instance of the
universal dislike in which this most unpopular Act is
held, occured at Feliskirk church, in Yorkshire, two
or three Sundays.ago. When the Minister began to
read this obnoxious document, the congregation
evinced strong signs of uneasiness; still, however, he
proceeded. At last a venerable village sire seemed
to have lost all patience, and hastily rising, ex-
claimed—" Come, come, Mr. , give us some-
th:r.g else; we've had enough of it." This unex-
pected interruption, though so congenial with the
thoughts of the assembly, caused a burst of laughter,
which continued to display, itself in many a half-sup-
pressed titter, even unto the end of the chapter. •
The Assizes for Essex finished on Saturday at
Chelmsford. No case of general interest occurred.
Sentence of death was passed upon seven unfortunate
convicts, but none were left for execution, except one
—namely, Benjamin Cooper, convicted of breaking
and entering the dwelling-house of a widow Lady at
Thasttd, during the time of Divine Service, on the
4th of September, and stealing money to the amount
of £l7O. No hopes of mercy were held out to him.
The Grand Jury found true bills against Mr. Caw-
thorn,. the late keeper of the House of Correction at
Chelmsford, his wife, and one of the turnkeys, for
cruelty to prisoners, and for defrauding the County
of nno.ney which came to the hands of the defendant.
These prosecutions went off to the next Assizes.

SPORTING. INTELLIGENCA
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BOXRRS.
Tow Drumm—lli consequence of the treatment he reedy*,
in seconding Shelton on Tuesday last, he has since mattes pair
JAs declaration to all his friends, that he will not appear again.ii •.
the Prise Ring in the capacity of a Second; having made up Ms
illui
nd that, in future, he will be nothing, more than a spectator.
Shelton, on Friday evening, made his bast to the DIY C tab,
at the Castle Tavern, Holborn ; and in the snuggery, foto-re-
ceived the 2100 stakes, as the reward of his victory. In addi-
tion to which, we believe we have to record an unprecedented
circumstance, from one dghtkli man to another: 'rem Weber.
made Shelton a present of 20 sovereigns, for his honest and •
brave conduct in the fight. , - .
Graxers.—This hero of the fist can he backed against Abbott
for 50 or 2100 a-side: or any other pugilist of his weight. Gyb-
letts is an EasPender, and nothing else but a good lad. He de-
feated Sampson, and also Rasher, in great style.
Ges.—lmiloodiately after the ght between Hudson and Shel-
ton. Hickman declared that be was sorry, on his own account,
that Hudson had lost the battle, iebeing the intention of the
friends of Josh, in the event of his having proved the victor, to
have backed him against Hickman, for 2500 a-side ; and be .
laughingly observed, " 0, my nig, if I shouldn't like it vastly I"
It is rather a curious coincidence, that on that day twelvemonth
a report reached Loudon that lhcfmao was dead, in conse.
quence of the severe blows he received in his battle with Neate.
It perhaps may also be necessary to state, that Hickman had
been thrown out of single horse chaises several times, owing to-
his furious mode of driving. On being picked up a few months
since, nearly killed, he then bitterly exclaimed against the use
of such vehicles, and in the beat of his px.sion, wished that if
he ever rude in one again he might have his brains knocked out.
His wish, too lamentably for his unhappy wife and two small
children, has been verified. His remains are to be interred on
Thursday, when most of his brother-pugilists will follow him to
the grave. A benefit at the Fives-court, for his widow and fa-
mily, is talked of.

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