Star.
London, England, 1825-12-20 00:00:00

SIERRA LEONE.

FREETOWN. Sammus_lo.

Wedneday, the 24th ult. his Excellency Major-Gen.
Turner, C.B. embarked on board the Surrey transport,
for the purpose of visiting the Plantain Islands, and
Sherbro River. His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief
was accompanied by the Hon. George Rendall, Acting
Chief Justice, the Hen. Kenneth Macauley, M.C. the
Hon. Wm. Ross, M.C. and'Brigade-Major Robertson.--
On Monday his Excellency and suite returned in good
health, notwithstanding the numerous delays and incon.
veniences they had met with.
His Excellency Major-General Turner had a long
conference with the King of the Sherbro, during which
it appeared that his Majesty was wholly unable to pro-
tect his territories, or to repress the outrages which had
been committed upon the :Objects of this Colony. His
Excellency the Governor-General gave King Sherbro
clearly to understand, that he could not interfere unless
lie poscesed some guarantee for the security of the co-1
lonial trade in those livers; that the slave trade shall be
given up by him and his people ; and, in short, that the
only means left of saving himself and his country from
entire destruction, were to place the sovereignty of the
latter in the hands of the British Government.

His Excellency de,ired him to acquaint his head
men, and if they agreed to this mea‘use, to tend their
answer by Mr. Campbell, who would wait two days in
the brigantine for that purpose.
Thursday morning, Mr. Campbell an ived, bringing
with him the signstures of King Sherbro, King So-
mano, the Cauinlets, and other head mien, to a decla-
ration that they agreed to the propositi,,n made by
his Excellency, and were ready to ratify the treaty at
any moment.
The incorporation of such a valuable track of country
with this colony we consider one of the most impor-
tant measures of advantage which has ever been un-
dertaken; for, while it must prove the means of in-
creasing our commerce to a vast extent, it will at one
blow destroy that hateful traffic in human victims
which we have so long regretted. and the horrors of
which we have taken so much pains to expose. The
sanguinary war which has ravaged a large proportion
of those countries known under.the general appellation
of Sherbro, is now proved to have been originally
caused by that dreadful scourge of Afri,a.
Serrastasa 17.—Monday last, his Excellency the
Governor•in-Chief received in State, at Government
House, the Ambassadors from Alimarny Abdul Kadur,
the King of Foutah Jallon, who brought with them
some people belonging to a powerful Chief named
Kokari, whose country, called Tamba, is situated to the
North-eabt of Teembo, about eight Says' journey, and
is near the head of the Ba Flog, or Senegal. They
have brought down in this caravan nearly a ton of the
finest ivory, a considerable quantity of gold, and a
great number of bullocks and sheep. The following
proclamation has been issued :
CHARLES TURNER.
Si Whereas, by a convention, altered foto at the Plantain
Mods, on the 14th day of Sepessither last, and ratified at Yonios
likerbro Iskodoia the Ist day_of this instant month of October,
Hanka, Kim elf Shako, and Ye Omaha, Queen of Ya Combs, did,
=wide dee advice sad consent of their several tributary Kings,
and Head Men, cede, transfer, and make over to us. for and
ea
behalf of his Marity, the full, entire, free, and unlimited right.
tide, possession, set sovereignty of all the territories and dominions
of the Sherbro Mums, situate between the southern bank of the
Caramaaca rivers, in latitude 7. fie. N. ties the North, and the town
of Carnally. and the boundary line which Ikparates the dominions
of the King of Sherbets Bullonts, dame between the southern
bank of the Carona= River in latitude 7. Se N. en the North,
and the town of Carnality, and the boundary line which separates
the dominion of the King of Sberbro from these of the
ilallinas, in or about latitude 7 North on the South, extending
eastward to the acknowledged boundaries of the Sherbro and Ifm
condo kingdoms; together with all and every right and tile to the
navigation, anchorage, waterage Salting, and other revenue and
maritime claims in and over the said territories, and the rivers,
bathimeg• bays, crake. ink* and waters of the same.
" Now, therefore, be it known to all whom it may concern. that
possession of the said kingdoms have been by us taken in the name
and on behalf of his klainity, and that the same, by virtue of the
powers to us vested, are constituted an integral part of the colony
of Sierra Leone, and are thereby become subject to the navigation
and other laws of the mother country, and of the said colony.
" Given at Toni, oe tilorbna bland, this Sd day of October,lB2.s.
" By his Ettlelkiney's
~GEORGE KENDALL, A.C.J.
"ion save TUX WO."
112;;INI
The Madrid Genetic announces that four soldier's be
longing to the Constitutional :laity were hanged at
, ' Grenada on the 25:b of last month, for having batba.
rouJy murdered some p:iioners that they h id ter goat J.

SOUOKR v. PETERS AND OTHNIS.
Mr. HIALD said this motio 1, to dissolve the injunc-
tion, was ordered to come on to-day. The case related
to the late Mr. Courtois's property, amounting to about'
300.0001. The original cause was instituted fur a dis-
tribution of the property amongst the parties interested.
Mr. Courtois left three illegitimate children, whose.
right to legacies underwent a considerable discussion;
ultimately the money (a hich had been brought into
Court), was ordered to be transferred to the names of
the children, upon their attaining their respective ages .
of twenty-one years; one of them had attained that
age, and had got the transfer made; and the second
also would have had her money, had it not been that
the present bill was filed,.and an injunction obtained to
prevent the transfer. The bill allerd that Mr. Cour-
tois was of an infirm state of mind when he made his
will ; that he had been imposed on ; and that the ille-
gitimate children of Mrs. Peters were not Mr. Cour-
tois's • and upon those statements the injunction was
granted. Now, however, affidavits bad been filed,
:hewing that a more grossly wicked case of perfidy,
perjury, and fraud, never came before the Court, than
had been made by the injunction, bill, and the affi-
davits in support of it.
Mr. Moan, for the phintif, admitted that they could not sup-
port the injunedon.
The Loan Cassmarsoa accordingly directed that it be dissolved.
IN THR SIATTNI 01 MARSH AND CO. BANKRUPTS.
An application was made by Mr. Hut.n and Mr. Mottracu for
leave to =swine the bankrupts upon the mat of this issue.
The tioarctroa•Gameast. opposed the motion; he thought such
permission might change the aspect of the ease entirely.
Mr. HEALD said that was ale wanted.

Tne Loan ClllA)lCRLLOllobser—v—d, that the bankrupts
had been made defendants by this Court upon the trial
of the issue for the purpose of getting at the justice of
the case; and at. co :ninon law, they would have been
admissible witnesses had they not been defendants, the
technical objection of their being defendants ought not
to be set up; and therefore the Court made an Order
accordingly.

LkDY ANSON V. THE BRITISH MINING COMPANY.

The SOLIC.ITOR GIiNERAL moved for an injunction
to restrain the British- Mining Company horn pro-
ceeding to work certain mines in Cornwall, and to pre-
vent them from proceeding • against Lady Anson,. to
compel her to a forfeiture in the Stannary Court. Some
time ago Lady. Anson bought a gre‘t many shares of
a Mr. Thomas, in the Cornish mi..es, and also took se-
veral other shares as a security far 3,0004 which her
Ladyship had lent him. The conditions on both were
that she was not to be called upon for any expense in •
working them. Mr. Thomas, alter this, parted with all
his shares in the mines to the British Mining Company.
They took no notice of the conditions under which Lady
Anson had taken the shares, and called upon her for
her quota of the expense.
Mr. Solari ((showed on the sense side.

The Lotto Cuancnaos occasionally threw out doubts as to the
legality of the Company, and intimated that be was not quite sure
whether be could entertain the bill. The suit was not positively
defective for want of parties, yet there was only three out of a nu-
merous comp ay before the Court. His Lordship ordered t►e
matter to proceed to-morrow.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WEST hi INSTER, "DMA
LOYD V. ASHBY, snawa, AND ROLAND.
This was an action on a bill of exchange for 821.
drawn by Hugh Roland, father clone of the defendants,
and accepted by Ashby and Roland. •
The question was, whether Shawe, who was a dor-
mant partner, having no interest in the business for
which the bill was given, was liable? When Hugh
Roland did the business which became the considera-
tion for the bill, the firm consisted of Ashby, Osborne,
and Roland. Shawe was taken in as a dormant part-
ner, and O.,bnrne went out; but it did not appear that
Shawe had any interest in the work far which the bill
was given.
Mr. Sena:: contended that Shawe was wholly released from
theAdaindrs demand.
Mr. MASINTAII% in support of the sedan, cited several eases,
upon which be submitted that the holder of the biq of exchange
had always recovered against persons whe were in partnership when
the bill was slam
The Low) Oust Jurrics—l must take this bill to

be either an acceptance or consideration of a debt due
from Ashby and Roland, before 81.twe became a
partner, or I must take it to be an accommodation bill,
for which Shawe had received no consideration. If I
took it to be a bill of the latter description, and that it
appeared that Shawe was known to be a partner, thee
he would be liable to the plaintiff, who is a holder, for
valuable consideration. But, as it does not appear that
Shams was known to be a partner, I can't say that the
bill was taken upon his credit. I rely upon the fact,
that at the time this acceptance was taken by the plain-
tiff Shawe was not known to be a partner.
Platatiff
COUNT OF COMMON PLEAS, Thwessaaa 19.
• LlNat.-91t1s3AR1 v. CLEMENT.
Mr. Serjeint VAUGHAN stated the case to the Jury.
The plaintiff had be. n accredited to this country from
Chili, at the time it was battling for independence, and
emerging from the galling y ke of Spain—that they
wanted support in money—and that everything tending
to throw discredit , n their views, or those of their agents,
must be prejudicial to the cane of freedom; and that,

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therefore, their exertions to obtain independence ought
to be viewed with a friendly eye by a people to whom
freedom was dear, afl everything connected a ith the
dawn of-iliberty in alter countries. The defendat t
tad artfully and insidiously l üblished the libel prides
a comment on the speech of Mr. Canning on the
affairs of South America, and might thus be mis
taken as to the opinions of that statesman. The Jibe
was published on the 243c1 of July, 1825, and was in
substance, that the plaintiff had raised a loan of one
rnillion sterling, in-collusion with Messrs. Hullett and
Co. by falsely representing that the revenues of Chili.
were four times as large as the interest of the loan—.
that the plaintiff had gone to Paris with 200,0001. of
the money, which he converted to his own use, and
there lived in greater splendour than even Royalty
iuelf. The Learned Serjeant then commented on the
scandalous tendency of the libel, and its injurious con-
s luences to the plaintiff, observing, that the loan had
been made in 1822, and that it was not until three years
afterwards that the libel appeared. He then explained
the manner in which the money had been expended,
saying; that the Government of Chili had .ratified the
loan, and highly approved the conduct of the plaintiff
—whose object in bringing this action was solely to clear
his character—not to obtain large damages.
Don Garcia del Rio, examined by Mr. Time tr.t.—l
was Under Secretary of Chili, I am acquainted with
plaintiff, Don Jose Antonin Yrissari. We came over
here in December, 1819. kle came as Minister Pleni-
potentiary. I was acting as Under Secretary of State
in 1818. Don B. O'Higgins was Director then. The
document I now bold was signed and sealed by the
President O'Higgins, and another Member of the Go-
vernment, and all other public documents were signed
and sealed in the same manner. It was a Republican
form of Government. It had Courts of Justice and
Laws, which were submitted to by the people.
Mr. John Behn.—l ant a Notary Public. I produce some
powers from the Government of Chili. I deposited them in the
Bank of England, from which I took them out now.
Mr. Garcia Del Rio recallud.—These instruments produced by
the broker were signed by O'Higgins.
[The powers were then read. They were the appointment of
the plaintiff as Minister Plenipotentiary, and empowering hint to
raise a loan, acc.]
Mr. Charles Octavius Newman was subscribing witness to the
contract for the loan. He saw the deed executed.
Mr. Behn stated, that he was subscribing witness to the mort-
gage of the revenues of Chili, for the payment of the loan. It was
dated the 21st of May, 1822. The witness also proved one of the
Chili bonds.
'There was here put in a di.patch from the Chilian Govern-
ment, acknowledging and confirming the loan made by the plain-
tiff, and exonerating Messrs. Hato, &alms, and Co. from all
responsibility.]
It was admitted that the defendant was proprietor of the Mons-.
ing Chnntide.
The libel was here put in, and read by the officer of the Court.
Another Number of the Morning Chronide, of the 11th of Do.
umber, was proposed to he read, but was objected to on aceount
of its not having been legally proved to have been published by the
defendant.
A clerk of Messrs. 'Juncos proved that the sum of 675,0001.
was raised by the loan, about 62,000/_ of which was retained by
the plaintiff, and the remainder was appropriated to the use of the
Government of Chill.—This was the plaintiff's ease.
Mr. Serjeant TADD's addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant. Ile said the staaon by whcm the defendant's
case had been prepared had put a plea of justification
to'f Irt of the libel r the record; but he found that
V-e witness who had been subi cenaed to prove that part
the case was not in attendance, and therefore he
would not state what he was not in a condition to prove.
Still it would be a quest.on for the Court to decide she-
titer the plaintiff was entitled to maintain his action, or
what damages, if any, he was entitled to recover?
—The plaintiff had produced evidence to shew that
:t person of the name of O'Higgins, and a .per son of
arother name, had appointed him Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Govern-
ment of this country amongst many others ; but they
had not proved that the.Gavernment of this country
Ltd ever received him in that capacity, or recognised
1 is appointment; and if that had been, the mere
fla of his being • received by Government as an Am-
tssador or Minister Plenipotentiary would not au-
t:asrise him to raise a loan in this country for the
ioe of his Government, which would still be an illegal
transaction, incapable of sustaining in aCourt of Law any
action of which it formed the basis. It had been re-
walked by naturalists, that nature was on a larger scale
in America, than in the countries of Europe. Their
lakes were larger—their rivers were larger. Father
Thames was but a brook compared with the Oroonoko,
or the Amazons; but their Ambassadors were out of all
measure larger than curs. The plaintiff, it appeared,
was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to all the countries of Europe. He
c sale from the country of the Andes, and. like the Andes,
it • appeared the giant of the western star, who, with his
standard to the windeunfuri'd,
Leeks Irani lds throoe of cloudy o'er half the world.
Ile flew from the summit of the Andes towards all the
countries of Europe—to all the countries of which he
was appointed Ambassador
.Extraerdinary and Minister
P:enipotentiary, but. unfortunately for error John Bull,
I e thought proper to dtep on this? island. Flom the
y e.ir 1819, however, he remained harmless, till the year
1 S-22—that yearmemorablefor"bubbles and delusions of
t very description.. In. that yearhe negotiated 'a loan
kr' a million of John Bunt money, to be taken out rf
E ;,Land to Chili. 'Happy would • ft. be for the peo-
p!e of En4land, and ittost honourable to the public
pct ts. that it should be exerted to raise a warning voice
t.' call the unwary from the danger of engartsg in those
mid speculations, to which was to be attributed the ruin
-o.:st was now surrounding us. Ti) give such warning
eas the duty of the public press, and in the faith-
ft l of that duty it Should be protected;
rill nothing more than that useful public warning was
sr:.nded in the publication alleged to be a libel. Thai
el.tiotiff had not proved that it had done him the slight
(Kt injury. 01-hggins, and. his partner in the Govern.
r ent of Chili may, for anything the Jury knew, have'
as much confidence in their Ambassador Eats aordinaty
Minister Pleniperentiary as ever. The mention in
Alleged I.bel of his having made 200.0001. by the
lo tn, did not mean thathe had defrauded his employers
f that or any other sum. They all knew that a pasty-
t speculate in a loin--might bold bonds till trey'
i's e to a ptemiuna,a-d then sell them for a con:idesable
r.a'a ; and in this w y. the plaintiff mighthiveacquired
II c .um he had taken to Paris, without having defrauded
Inc Goverim tr, . whose confidence in bins, it did -not
appear, had been at all irjured by .the alleged libel:
ti-e whole of the ease, it the Court should not think
that the illegality of the transaction m which the plain
tiff was e- gaged took froth him all foundation for his
action, the Jury,-be was satisfied, vrtadd think very
suoll damages sufficient.
l'he Loan Cuter Jewett!, in charging. the Jury,
said, he agreed lotfectly w tat hie- brother TaddT, that