Star.
London, England, 1830-10-19 00:00:00

THE EX-KINO OF FRANCE.

We are enabled, says the lc:Wards Observer, to announce from
from authority, that Charles of Bourbon, the Ex-King of France is
about to r,p, a to Edinburgh, and to• become once more our fellow-
citizen, though probably only for a limited space, and he will again in.
habit the apartments which he long ago occupied in Holyrood House.
This temporary arrangement, it is said, has been made In compliance
with his own request, with which our benevolent Monarch immedi-
ately complied, willing to consult, in every respect possible, the
feelings of a Prince under the pressure of misfortunes. The attend.
ants of the late Sovereign will be reduced to the least possible
number, and consist chiefly of ladies and children, and his style of
life will be strictly retired. In these circumstances it would be un-
worthy of us as Scotsmen, or as men, if this most unfortunate family
should meet a word Or look from the meanest individual, tending to
aggravate feelings which must be at present so acute as to receive in-
jury from insults, which in other times could be passed with perfect
disregard. His late opponents, in his kingdom, have gained the
applause of Europe for the generosity with which they have used their
victory, and the respect whit% they have paid to themselves in mode-
ration towards an enemy. It would be a gross contrast to that part of
their conduct, which has been most generally applauded, were we, who
are strangers to the strife, to affect a deeper resentment than those it
concerned closely.
Those who can recollect the former residence of this unhappy Prince
in our northern capital, cannot but remember the unobtrusive and quiet
manner in which his little court was then conducted; and now, still
further restricted and diminished, he may naturally expect to be received
with civility and respect, by a nation whose good-will he has done
nothing to forfeit. Whatever may have been his errors towards his
own subjects, we cannot but remember that be did not, in his pros-
perity, forget that Edinburgh had extended her hospitality towards him
in his adversity : for at the period when the fires consumed so much of
the city, he sent a princely benefaction to the sufferers, with a letter,
which made it more valuable, by stating the feelings towards the city, of
the then Royal donor. We also state, without hazard of contradiction,
that his attention to individuals connected with this city was uniformly
and handsomely rendered, to those entitled to claim them. But he
never did or could display a more flattering confidence, than when he
shows that the recollections of his tom er asylum here have inclined him
a second time to return to the place where he formerly found refuge.
If there can be any who retain angry or invidious recollections of late
events in France, they ought to remark that the ex-Monarch has, by
his abdication, renounced the conflict into which, perhaps, he was en-
gaged by bad advisers ; that he can no longer be the object of resent-
ment to the brave ; but remains to all the most striking emblem of the
mutability of human affairs which our mutable times have afforded.
He may say with our own deposed Richard—
With my own hands I give away my crown,
With my own tears I wash away my balm,
With my own tongue I do deny my state.
He brings among us his "grey discrowned bead;" and in "a nation
of gentlemen," as we we were emphatically termed by the very highest
authority, it is impossible, I trust, to find a man mean enough to in-
sult the slightest hair of it. It is impossible to omit stating, that if
angry recollections, or keen party feelings, should make any persons
consider the exiled and deposed monarch as a subject of resentment, no
token of such feelings could be exhibited without the greater part of the
pain being felt by the hapless females, of whom the Duchess of Angou.
lame, in particular, has been so long distinguished by her courage and
her misfortunes. The person who writes these few lines is leaving his
native city, never to return as a permanent resident. He has some
reason to be proud of distinctions received frem his fellow-citizens, and
he has not the slightest doubt the taste and good feeling of those whom
he will still term so, will dictate to them the quiet, civil, and tespectful
tone of feeling which will do honour both to their heads and their hearts,
which have seldom been appealed to in vain. The Frenchman, Alo-
linet, in mentioning the refuge afforded by Edinburgh to Henry VI. in
his distress, records it as the most hospitable town in Europe. It is a
testimony to be proud of, and sincerely do I hope there is little danger
of our forfeiting it upon the present occasion.

Keter.—We have received, says the Chronicle, the fol-
lowing communication from a gentleman of high character in Kent, on
the subject of the outrages in that county, which have lately excited so
much attention. We can place the utmost reliance on our Correspon-
dent, and we have no doubt that we, in common with most of our con.
temporaries, have been led greatly to exaggerate the extent of the out.
rages. We can understand how the labourers organised themselves with
so much ease, and acted by signals, when we know that they are all oc.
casionally engaged u smugglers

" Oct. 16, 1830.
" The information which occasioned the paragraph in Wednesday's
Chronicle respecting the disturbances is erroneous, and has led you into,
an exaggerated account. I will state the ease truly for your future
statements. The mischief is almost entirely confined to East Kent,
where the population is more redundant, and wages are lower. The
destruction of threshing machines is the principal object, and the fires
that have taken place have been principally the consequence of ill-timed
threats, harsh observations, or wages lower than those generally paid.
These machines were erected during the war, wheu wages were much
higher than at present, and are only adapted for wheat, as they injure
barley for malting, and oats could always be threshed cheaper by the
flail. Since the labourers have become more redundant, they have there.
fore been chiefly laid aside, except when the necessities of the far-
mer oblige him to raise a sum of money quickly, or brisk
prices tempt him to hurry his crop to market : the destruction of
them is, therefore, scarcely regarded as an evil. I have used
one for many years, but before these disturbances occurred,
I determined to use the flail, seeing nothing in the present prospects to
induce me to get my corn quickly to the market. If it were of great
importance to the farmer to prevent this destruction, I have no doubt it
might be readily accomplished : but at present the thing goes on as a
matter of course. In those disturbed districts almost every agricultural
labourer is occasionally employed by the smugglers to land • cargo—
hence the facility of combination by means of signal!: but in the other
part of the county such an organization is impracticable. In short,
you may be assured it is not by an agricultural population that any re-
volutionary movement is to be originated; doubtless much mischief
may be effected by midnight incendiaries, but this can only be accom-
plished by a few individuals. These signs are, however, not to be dis-
regarded, and I inculcate upon all that I can, the necessity of con.
ciliation. If, however, all the peasantry of the country were in the
training of smugglers, then woe would soon betide us."

An agent from Belgium has been in London for the pur-
pose of inviting the Prince of Coburg to accept the new crown of that
country, but he quitted without seeing the Prince, on receiving an as-
surance that the invitation would not be accepted. The party from
which it emanated Is said to be very Bathed—Court Journal.
The Austrian Count Bombelles, the rumoured Envoy to
Lisbon. is son-in-law of the well-known authoress, Frederica Brunn, of
Copenhagen. Prince Metternich once said of him, "He was neither
bow nor be I."

The new Bishop of St. Asaph having occupied three
See.; within the short period of ten months, occasioned a wag to
observe---., That the Sahel Union was now part of the establish-
ment."

The Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, during
the month of September only, received nearly 30,000 visitors. The re-
ceipt for admission to the gardens during 12 months to Sept. 1829,
was 7,0551. ; and for 12 months to September 1830, B,32BL—Covet
Journal.

It is said to be highly probable that the House of Com-
mons will postpone the consideration of election petitions until after
Christmas. This course was adopted upon the last occasion of a similar
nature that occurred, and it is therefore inferred that, for the convenience
of the House, it will also be pursued in the present instance.
A correspondent informs us that on the dismissal of a'
police-constable, by order of the Commissioners of Police, the Inspec-
tors of each division are furnished with the a hole of the particulars con.'
nested with the cause of his dismissal from the service, which they read
to the whole of the police in their respective divisions.
The London Dick Company are now forming a new en-
trance for shipping to their extensive docks. It commences at the south.'
cast side of the Docks, and passing across New Gravel-lane, and se.
veral small streets, enters the Thames at what was Bell-Wharf, Shad.
well. Until the completion of this work a temporary but substantial
wooden bridge, to connect Wapping Wall and Lower Shadwell, has
been erected for the accommodation of foot passengers.
The /Etna surveying ship, Commander Belcher, went
out of harbour this afternoon, and will proceed to her destination on
Tuesday or Wednesday next. She is intended to survey the coast of
Western Africa, from lat. 10, to lat. JO N. on one portion of which '
coast the shoals extend many miles off the land, the currents over which
are not at all understood.—Harapshire Telegraph.
UPSET OP A SHlP.—Saturday afternoon, the brig Queen
Adelaide, Captain Bell master, lying off King-stairs, Botherhithe, op.
posite the Thames Police-office, went down, and turned bottom up-1
wards. The vessel had discharged her cargo of coals, and was lying
in the tier for ballast, which she was about to receive, when ber head.
lashings broke ; she ben swung round with the tide and turned over,
keel upwards. The crew escaped by clinging to the side of the no-
el, and were picked up by the Thames Police officers. The brig
as launched at Sunderland three months sines, and had only made
one voyage.

LAW REPORTS.
COURT OF KING'S BE Oct. 18.
Lord TExTzurtax this day resumed his sittings in Loudon, and
tried Common Jury causes.

HORGAN AND •NOTHER T. READ.
This was an action brought to recover salvage from the owners of the
ship Providence, which run aground upon the Chaplin Sands while
coming up the river, heavily laden with East India produce. In getting
her off the plaintiffs, who are Gravesend pilots, were mainly instru-
mental.

It appeared, in evidence for the plaintiffs, that the Providence ran
upon the above sands at three o'clock in the day, from which time un-
til one o'clock the next morning, the plaintiffs exerted themselves so
successfully that they, with other assistance, were enabled with the re-
turn of the tide, to get her off without any material damage. It also
appeared in evidence, that had not the Providence been got off at the
time she was, she must have gone to pieces, for it came
on to blow a very strong gale with the return of the next tide.
and at high water the tide did not rise within throe' feet of what
it was when the vessel was got off the Sands. On the part of the
defendant, it was contended that in point of law the action could not
be maintained, for to sustain an action of salvage, it must be shown
that there was peril of life attending upon the services performed,
and here there was no pretence that there was any kind of peril en.
countered by the plaintiffs. It was also contended that the vessel
was never for one moment in the slightest danger ; but it was ad-
mitted that assistance was necessary to get her off the Sands, and
that the plaintiffs and others exerted themselves in a very skilful
manlier to effect the desired object, for which services the owners of
the Providence offered the entire of the persons concerned 131. as for
the work and labour done. In the course of the evidence for the de-
fendant, it was also attempted to be shown that an agreement had
been entered into between the captain and those employed to get the
vessel off the Sands. The evidence in this respect did not, however,
appear to be very distinct.
For the plaintiffs it was given in evidence, that from 301. to 501. amen
was usually paid for salvage; while, for the defendant, it was proved,
that 131. was quite sufficient for the services performed.
Lord TENTERDEN left it to the Jury to say, whether or not an
agreement had been entered into between the parties? If they did be-
lieve that such was the fact, the action must fall to the ground ; for
then all the persons engaged should have joined in the action. If, how-
ever, they believed the contrary, they were to consider what was the fair
amount which should be paid to the plaintiffs for salvage.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintifib--Damages, 101. thereby
giving each 61.
In a second action, brought by five others for the same service, the
Jury gave 251.

CZELEY V. MILNE.

This action was brought by the assignee of a bankrupt, named
Blason, to recover a balance due upon a settlement of accounts to the
bankrupt's estate.
It appeared that Mason was the owner of a ship called the City of
Edinburgh, and the defendant was his Captain. The ship, in her home-
ward bound voyage from Madras, stopped at the Cape, and the Captain
incurred expenses which were placed to account, and a balance of 281.
struck in favour of Mason. The assignees consequently claimed the
said balance.

It was contended on the part of the defendant, that a chronometer had
been bought fur the use of the ship, and that the price paid for the same
more than covered the balance.

Lord TZNTEIDEN said, it was unusual after a captain had rendered
an account to his owners to demand more than the amount.

The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 281.
IVAN! V. WILLIAMS.

The plaintiff, a carpet-manufacturer, in Holborn, brought this action
against a wine-merchant, to recover 151. for goods sold and :delivered.
It appeared that the defendant having occasion to furnish his house, at
delivery of
to the plaintiff, in Nay, 1829, and received carpets
and other
The of the goods was admitted, and the only question was,
whether they were sold on a credit of 12 months ?
After the witnesses had been heard in support of the assertion, that
the defendant was to have credit for 12 months, it was proved that the
goods were sold in Nay last, and the action brought in February this
year, consequently the alleged credit had not expired.
Lord TENTERDEN left the Jury to say whether there had been a
distinct bargain for 19 months' credit? If they should be of opinion
such a bargain had been made, they would find for the defendant; if
not, for the plaintiff.
The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 851.
POLICS REPURIW.

MANSION-Houtz..—SZIRURZ Or STRAYING PROPZRTIN.-.A
case came on upon the subject of the right of the keeper of the
City Green-yard to charge an ad Mews price for liberating ozen
and sheep, which had been seised in the streets upon various pee.
tencea. It has long been matter of complaint that the penalty at-
tached to the Green-yard seizure is enormous, and in no instance
proportioned to the offence.
The keeper of the Green-yard and a catcher of straying cattle, were
summoned by Mr. Scales, the Common Councilman, who has ahewn a
determination to try the validity of the claim for poundage.
The complainant stated, that as one of his drovers was driving a flock
of sheep, to the number of 107, through the streets, one of the sheep ran
away, and the drover ran after it, leaving another: person with the
dock in his care. Up, however, came an officer or catcher of sheep, and
off he drove them to the Green-yard, where the extruordinary penalty of
41. 4s. was demanded ; half of which was to go to the keeper, and the
other half to the catcher, by way of emzttragement. Now, it was but
fair to require by what authority the keeper detained the sheep until that
sum was paid. Mr. Scales then produced the receipt for the 41.45.
which he said his son had inconsiderately paid while he was in the coun-
try. The catcher's reward was, he said, calculated to establish a very
strict look out for cattle of all descriptions, and to encourage the practice
of falqe swearing in an alarming degree.
The LORD MAYOI asked the City Solicitor whether the keeper was
not sanctioned in the charges by the Court of Aldermen ?
The City Solicitor answered in the affirmative.
Mr. SmWi• said he did not blame the defendants for taking as large a
sum as they could get. it was the City authorities he blamed, for set-
ting up a catch for the people's property ; and they had done so in the
teeth of the Act of Parliament, which directed that fourpenee should be
the sum for the whole of the seizure. The inducement to catch at pro-
perty of the kind was so stroog, in consequence of the improper and un-
reasonable sanction of the City authorities, that the practice had become
a dreadful nuisance.

Mr. Mohler said that a list of fees had been regularly made out by
the Court of Aldermen, and that the keeper of the Green-yard was
bound to observe the regulations therein stated. The Court, it was
known, had privileges quite independent of the Act.
The City Solicitor said, the eat and second of %Pillion and Mary, to
which the complainant had referred, contained nothing that could be pro-
perly construed as relating to the we. That act merely referred to the
impounding of cattle, &c. upon a distress warrant.
Mr, Sales stated, that it comprehended his cue. He did not see
why the City authorities should at all, under such circumstances, seize
upon his property, sod then sanction an exaction ; they had no right to
make him pay the enormous sum of four guineas, because his drover
followed a runaway sheep under unavoidable circumstances. If he
(complainant) had been in town when this act of injustice was done, he
should have scouted the demand, and let the authorities detain his pro-
perty at their peril.
The City Solicitor declared that Mr. Scales was most decidedly in
error. As to the assertion that the Court of Aldermen had no right to
make a scale of prices for the green-yard, that was nothing but Mr.
Scales's dictum, and would be found to have no efficacy.
The complainant said he should apply to a Court of Justice for re-
dress. The complainant called upon his Lordship to act according to
the Act of Parliament.
Alf. Roble: said that a ease similar to•that of Mr. Scala was now be.
fore a committee is Guildhall, and that it would be advisable to wait
for the decision of that committee.

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The complainant was evidently dissatisfied at this suggestion, and re.
tired declaring that he considered the city authorities exceedingly cul.
pable in sanctioning so scandalous a system.
BUWAIT REET...SEAMk:TUL ROIIIIESIEL—Yesterday three women,
named Donovan, Andrews, and Green, were brought before Mr.
Hawes, charged by the Overseers of St. Martin's parish with robbing
the sick paupers of that workhouse of caps, tea, sugar, and money, be-
longing to them.
It appeared, from the statement of Mr. Do Ville, the overseer of the
parish, and of Mr. Smith, the governor of the workhouse, that the pri-
soners were paupers in the establishment, but, from their central good
character and conduct, they were appointed nurses to the Sick Ward._
The patients were ordered, according to the regulations of the house,
certain portions of wine, and tea and sugar and other comforts; but
use prisoners vatted these and substituted slops of their own mix-
ing up. At length the practice became so barefaced that the patients
themselves complained of it, and the prisoners Donovan and Andrews
were watched, and detected in purloining wine and two caps, which had
been ordered by the overseen tor a poor sick pauper natned Ellen Jen-
kins. The trunks of the two were searched, and 47 paupets caps, be-
sides a great quantity of tea and sugar, soap, and other articles were
found.

Ellen Jetakine, the sick pauper, was aupponed into the office, and
placed on a seat to give evidence. She stated, that she had seen the
prisoners Donovan and Andrews take the tea, sugar, soap, and other
things ordered by the Overseers, as well as the comforts brought by the
friends of the sick paupers, and place them in their own bores. 'This
had been done in many instances, and, very recently, Andrews, when a
poor old woman was just yielding up her last breath, gave her some
warmed-up slops, instead of tea, that had been ordered for her by the
surgeon; and, as soon as the breath was out of her body, she (Andrews)
picked her pocket of all the money it contained, amounting to some
shillings.
Mr. Gosling, the pariah surgeon, corroborated this statement.
Mr. HALLO, after some suitable observations, committed Donovan
sad Andrews for two months to the House of Correction, there to b.'
kept to hard labour. There being no direct evidence against Green, she
was discharged.