Star.
London, England, 1814-08-30 00:00:00

IAPTBLLIGENCE.

CAPTURES BY THE AMEPICANg.
The Albion. ROBINSON, front Lisbon to Bourdeaux,
was takcn on the '29th of July, by the American pri.
vre:.,r David Porter
The Esperance, \Timm from Bay Chalehrs, was
tak,:ii, on the Slat ult. in lat 43. SU. long 14. 18. by
the Whig privateer :—she was, on the sth instant,
cri:i'zing in comrany with the David Porter priv iieer,
The iatter intruded to continue at sea two months,
rod then to proceed to Bourdeaux for a cargo.
THE JAMAICA FLEET.
The Middlesex, BARCLAY, from Jamaica to Glai-
gow, was spoke with, on the 21st inst. at sea :—she
!:ad psited with the fleet the day before, at which
time only thirty-five sail were in sight.
The RATTLER sloop of war, Rolla transport, Lion
• sehoetter, and a sloop, arrived at Bermuda the 23if of
Jul}, from Halifax; the RATTLER was to have pro-
, ceeded to the'West Indies, but some of her convoy
having patted, she remained at Bermuda the date
above Mentioned.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 29.
No arrivals to-day.-Came into harbour his Ma-
jesty's ship Boi,tr.—Sailed his Majesty's_ ships Cesr-
mutt, ALCESTE, GROWLER, and MISLETOE, f©r Ply-
mouth.--The outward tYnind still remain in St.
Helen's roads.—Wind Westerly.
DEAL, AUGUST 29.
Sailed, the REOPOLE, sloop of war, with the Duke'
or RicumoNis and family, for Ostend ; also sailed, a
division of transports for Ramsgate; and another d:-
vision for Dover.—Arrived his Majesty's ship FREYA
from the westward, and sailed for the river.
> A,MSGA'I'E AUGUST 29.
Arrived the Pearl, '255 ; Heart of Oak, CD ; and
the Mary; Victualling Transports, from the Downs.
The Guards still continue their embarkation at this
port.
CORKS AUGUST 22.
Yesterday arrived his Majesty's ship HORATTO, from
Plymouth, and C.ortly id ter hoisted convoy signaller
,America. Sailed his Majesty's ships ErHaueirr and
,America.
in pursuit of some privateers on the coast, one
of which had the audacity to chace a me-chant vessel
within IS or 16 miles of the harbour. .

Captain R. O'Connor is promoted to the tank of Pmt Captain ;
lieutenant W. Hall, of the Bellerophon, is promoted to the rank
r. of Connander, and appointed to the saline, vice Captain Wrot-
tpky, deceased; Liens. Duff, Flag Lieutenant to Sir A. Coal-
rant, to the raak of Commander, and to command I.'E.poir.

• Fifty nt the serliot Masters in tl.e Navy, are allow.
Ed to retire on• eight shillings per day.

. -Pie report of the loss of the Royalist, EDMONDS,
rid of the Greenland ships belonging to Hull, has

catised a deep sensation there. Out of 53 mu and
oy , principallY belonging to Hull, 30 of them were
married men ; and should they have unfortunately
Suffered-, above 100 -children will be left fatherless.—

Captain EnmoNns was a man highly respected for
Lis ami:lble and humane disposition, and a good and
sarettil seaman.
Friday the PWIFTSURE, of '74 guns, bearing Vice.
Admiral LA cGibtfttres flag, who held the cernmani.
at Malta, arrived at Portsmouth from Malta, %%hence
'she sail d on the 21st of July. The NALTILUS,

Swat.i.ow: and CEPHALUS, were. to sail for England
-4rt a very shost.time from that date, with a cousi-
igerable:convoy from Malta and Gibraltar. At the
time of the Swirrsuas's sailing we are happy in beig
infortneds that island was quite free from any con-

tagious disease whatever. She anchored at Mahon,
a few hours, on the 4th, and at Gibraltar on the 10th

. inst. The UNDAUNTED, Captain SNIIII, had lett
Nahoti, to relieve the G ANYSIEDE, Captain Putty's,
off Corfu. The ships were all leaving the Mediter-
ranean, except those which had been named to re:
main tinder Admiral HALLOWELL.

FIRE IN BOUT/iWARK.—The dreadful fire Which
• blast forth so suddenly on Sunday evening last,
and which has made a most tremendous chasm
on Bankaide, cud continues, at intervals, to blaze
out from among the ruins, and to require the
.opetation of the two floating engines moored in
,front of the site where the various warehouses that
have beef% eonsumed stood but two days ago. Un-
fortunately when the fire was first discovered in the
.Thustard:staills,of Messrs: Lingard and Jones, it was
nearly low water, and one of the floating engines,
. which was moored below London-bridge, could not
be worked up against the tide, and it was near nine
o'clock before it could be brought into action, though
it Was silly a minute and an half alter i. came in front
of the fire before it btgan to pour forth its showers, at
the rate of a ton, per ininuye. The extensive premises
.of Messrs: Lingard and Imes were Ole first which
were demolished. The fire in a few ft:inures after it
got to a considerable head on these warehouses, was
seen to extend its horrific approach both ways, and
continued to spread each way with equal iwy till it
l reached the Bout warehouses of Mcssrs.Thell and Steel,
which, fortunately, being a new and very substantial
erection, with a very thick party wall, prevented the
*antes from extending themselves further eastward,
. and saved not only those warehouses, which were full
of flour, belonging to that Company, but a great
many others between them and London-bridge, which,
had they caught fire, must have inevitably shared
t the same fate. Mr. Hammock's corn warehouse, in
which were immense quantities df various kinds of
grain, and a large portion of fine old beans, and
those of Mr. Resden, which adjoined them, we are
sorry to be informed, were all burnt to the ground.—
' Messrs. Clark and Myers's hop warehouses, and those
of Mr. Evans (in the s:ime line), followed next.—
Messrs. Ball and Jones's . iron foundry, Mr. Ayres's
corn warehouses, part of the premises belonging to
an eminent dyer, and a great deal of stabling belong-
ing to Thell and Steel, were totally consumed. Se.,
. )reral of the warehouses near the river side, appear
stn= to contain a volcano uf fire within them, as their
wails are not consumed witi.in three or four feet of
. the foundation.; and we should not be surprised if it
should be some days before the engines can cease
front their labour: they are now playing upon this
burning and thickly smoking pile of ruins, and on
the desolated walls still remaining of the adjoining
houses. On viewing the extensive scene of devasta-
tion which this frightful ciassm presents, it is a source
• of the highest consolation to learn, that, after the
most minute inquiries, we could net find any one who
had heard of a single life being lost, or even that any
material accident had occurred to any one who en-
deavoured to assist the Walker%

L 4i9 INTELLIGEiVCIS:

COURT OF CHANCEItr, AbOLIS r

Ex-PARTE ithimtnr:
The Loan CHANCELLOR desired that Mr. Limbrey.
:night be introddeed into his private room. his Lord-
ship there proceeded to converse wi.h him. In abciiit
half an, hcur. Sir S. ltommuy and Mr. 11AnT were
caked in. On their return,
The Loan CHANCELLOR said he had had authentic
information that the Commissioners o: o,llege of
Physician: had vbited Fisher's llouse, • and he hail
reason to believe that they concurred in t'ie opinion
of Dr. Monro, that the state of this Gentleman's
mind was such as to render him au object of atten-
doh. He should recollect the request made to him
for a further visitation. He apprehended it was a
duty he could ex( rcise at any time. With respect to
this perscui's mind being in a state that required him
to i.e under some custody, he should feel himself in
a painful filial:akin if he differed from the sworn opi-
nions of the medical men. Having conversed uith
Mr. Limbrey, he should say that in his judgment
—Goo knew he was liable to err—he was an object
that required custody to guard him against the con-
sequences of his own acts. It was his wish to make
that custody as lenient as possible—but a great deal
must always depend in these cases upon the pecu-
niary circumstances of the party. With respect to
Dr. Leach, on whose certifiCate Mr. Limbrey had
been confined, he appeared to be a person who bad
known a great deal of Mr. Limbrey—he was be-
sides a Doctor of Physic, and a Member of the
College of Surgeons. Whenever a question should
arise on the clause in the act of Parliament whe-
ther a person not actually engaged as a physician,
surgeon, or apothecary, was within the meaning of
the Act of Parliament, he should decide the ques-

tion. He thought that it would be prudent for Dr.
Monro to certify his opinion to the Commissioners,
that there might be a certificate, of the validity of
which there could be no doubt. Upon the whole, the
proper mode of disposing of this case would be, as
he was authorised by a precedent adopted by Lord
Mansfield, in the case of a lunatic brought into Court
upon Habeas Corpus. He should postpone the return
of the writ till the first seal, with liberty for all per-
sons to apply for an earlier return. He wished that
those who were interested in this pet son's happiness
would consider whether any other house than that
where he at present was, would be preierable. He
should be open to any application during the vaca-
ticn ; if not in tow..n application might be made to a

AUG. 29.-IN THE IqATTER OF LEITH, A LUNATIC.

The LORD Cuasekaaant said, that in this case an
application had been made to him by petition from
Mr. and Mrs. Leith, relations to the lunatic, praying
that he should find out that which had been referred
to the Master, in March last, and of which no report
had been made to him. It was to say, what increase
should be made to the allowance of the lunatic, as to
her comfort ; namely, whether she should be allowed
£loota a-year, and be removed from Fisher's house,
Islington, to the louse of Mr. Leith, it being disco-
v,.red that the establishment at Islington was not a
proper one for the care cf Miss Leith.
The LGRD CHANCELLOtt said, that du: discovery of
the unfitness of the place of confinement for the luna-
tic had been made since he had referred the inquiries
respecting the situation of the lunatic to the Master,
and whitt ground there was for it he could not find
out. If they grounded their application for a change
of the lunatic's place of confinement, on any thing that
had transpired in a recent casenhich had been before
him (that of Mr. Limbrey) he could say, that no-
thing had transpired in any of the affidavits in that
ca-e, to fix the least imputation on that establishment.
On the contrary, he had beta told by the Commissio-
ners appointed by the College of *Physicians, that
there was not a better estaltbstiment of the End in
this country. As to the application of the petitioner
it furnished him with no account of the procLedings
before the Master, and he was convinced that the ne-
cessary information had been afforkled to that Gentle-
man. This was not a way in which a Master of drat
Court should be treated in so important a case as that
of a lunatic's situation. Neither was it n proper way
of treating him in a matter of this kind, which le
(wired the earliest relief and attention. All he could
say was, that he would refer to tt►e Master, during
the vacation, to say what•was to be done in the case
of the lunatic, so as to add to tier comfort by any addi-
tional allowance, or change of place of colifinement.
The Solicitor for the others, nest of kin to the lu-
natic, stated, that the Master (Simeon), had offered
to stay in town to receive any information that could
be laid before him, as to the situation of the lunatic.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was aware that no
Master of that Court would act otherwise in such an
important case as one of lunacy.
IN THE MATTER OF l'ltiCE AND JUDSON.
•

The LOAD CHANCELLOR said, tins was a case of
two eminent Tutors at Oxford, who had been put in
custody of a Serjeant at Arms for a supposed con-
tempt. The Lord Chancellor said, be had looked
into all the affidavits on both sides with the utmost
attention ; and had found that die defendants should
be immediately discharged, which he had directed.
The two Solicitors, (who he understood to be most
respectable men) had sworn as oppositely as it was
possible for men to do. He had looked in the affi-
davits for some of those minor circumstances which
would enable a third person to judge of the. real
facts between 'two others, each cf whom swore, he
had no doubt, according to his conviction. But of
these Minor circumstances he could find none in any
of the affidavits. He could not, therefore, direct any
costs to ba paid in this case; but let each party pay
their own.

EXPARTE STEIN AND CO. IN Tilt MATTER OF KENSING-
TON AND CO-

The CHANCELLOR yesterday pronounced judgment
in this case, which was an application from Mr. Lip-
trap, of the late house of Stein and Co. at White-
chapel, to be released from the obligations of an
Agreement entered into between him and the assig-
nees of Kensington and Co.. with reference to a debt
of R 291,000 proved by the latter, in the bankruptcy
of Stein and Co. and upon which his Lordship had
directed au issue to try whether or not the debt was
aftecttd by usury.
It appeared that there were two houses of Stein
and Co. in Fenchurch-street, and Stein and Liptrap,
distillers, in Whitechapel. Since the bankruptcy of
Stein and Co. Mr. Liptrap had putchased all the et.

fects of the other hotise, and now stood, both as to
debtors and creditors, in the Situation of Stein, Sm:th
:tad Liptrap. In the cot rs of the dealings and trans-
actions between Stein and Co. and ltensingtons th
bankers, the debt supposed to be usniions had been
contracted . and the assignees of Kensington now
trtld eight bills of &MOO° each, drawn by the house
in Fenchurch-Street, and accepted by Stein, Smith,
and Liptrap, which had been lodged in the hands of
Kensington and Co. as securities for their debt.—
These securities; joined to an overdrawn cash. ac-
count, and a sum due to the ast:gnees. constituted an
entice debt, to Which Mr. Liptrap had incurred the
liability, of .4114,40). In discharge of this and all
other clainis whatsoever, Mr. Liptrap had offered a
compromise, and agreed to pay the sum of .16.3,959,',
subject to an meat. of excise duties, amounting to',
£20,000. This agreement had been drawn up, and
was now in his Lordship's possession : the quastion,
therefore, was--Whether this agreement was bind-
ing, the debt for which the bills were given as seen.'
rities being to be tried at law as an usurious contract ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that it was clear
that Mr. Liptrap, who had become liable in the place
of Stein and Co. could have become no farther or
otherwise liable than they were ; and if their debt
should prove tainted with usury, he who had suc-
ceeded to that debt must be equally discharger; frem
it; nur could the bills be withheld from him, the ac-
ceptor, as against the drawers. But t!.e. point here
was—Whether, whilst this question was depending,
Mr. Liptrap was not competent to enter into an
Agreement, by which he should bargain, that, instead
of abiding by the. r.: -alt of that trial, and in order to
secure himself against what might be its event, be
should pay one-half or any other proportion of the sum.
10 him it appeared, that whatever might be the
equities between Liptrap and Stein and Co. such an
agreement :,ed all the requisites of validity, AL.: that
there was no recessity for placirg Stein and Co. in
mrdio, to impede Y. execution of this agreement on
the part of Liptrap. It was neither more nor less
than the purchasing off a tea .t'i'. By a provi.su in
the agreement, this ci)inion of his derived great tone
firmation, fie it was therein stipulated, that this agree-
ment should affect no akin of Liptrap against any.
other party. It appeare! to him, therefore, that he
could cot make the order prayed for, but that the pe.
tition might be reheard after p;:yrnent.
COUNTY OF DOWN ASSIZES. •
BARON )I•CLELLAND'B ADDRE,S TO ALL THE PRI.
SONELIS ON PASSINO SENTIViCE.
At the conclusion of the Crown btitiness, Baron
Weeeleetxo ordered these prisoners who had not
already received their sentences, to be set forward).—
His Lordship addressed them in a very energetic
speech of considerable length, previeus to the assign.
ing of their several punishments. Of this cogent
address we cdllected the following short abstract—
which, however, forms but an imperfect sketch of his
Lordship's admirable and impressive speech :
Addressing himself to some of the most turbulent
of the ccr;victed rioters, his Lordship said, he should
select the first in point of delinquency, and the most
eminent in the riots which had lately disgraced this
county. 'nese, hii Lordship observed, appeared to
have risen out of a party spirit, which unhappily agi-
tated the county, and destroyed the peace of soc4ety.
Unfortunately, at the last Assizes, a Juror falling
sick had suspended the operation of the law againtt
the rioters at Seaford, in September last; and in the
mean time a second, and, if possioe, a still more
outrageous disturbance had takee I.lece at that
town : this sheaved th elle same party spirit still
raged there. Betli li.om these riots, and the disturb-
ances et the Down Races, it evidently appeared that
they were the result of previous combination in the
parties with whom they originated, for the purpose
of disturbing'the public peace, and destroying their
opposers: This, however, was not conducted with
so much secrecy, but that it came to the knowledge
of the Magistrates in the latter case, who had the
military prepared to protect the peaceable part of the
community.
His Lordship said, he should hate imagined, that
at present no one would have dared to commit such
outrages, but by the case of Denvir, tried for the riot
at the Race Course, it appeared, that the moment
the carriages were ?one, attacks on the military and
insults to the Magistrates commenced. His Lord-
ship pointedly observed, that, in the eye of Goo,
every man who took an active part in that riot was
guilty of the death of the unfortunate men who be-
came victims of their infatuated opposition to the
civil and military power ; and, although they may
escape arraignment at an earthly tribunal, will have
to answer to their GOD for it hereafter. Had any
Magistrate or soldier lost his life on that occasion, he
would have the painful task of condemning to death
those who had been found guiltrof that riot.
His Lordship said, the body of one unfortunate
yOut.g inan was borne away, he was sorry to say, not
with :iecoming emotions of grief, but in a kind of
triumph, as if it was intended to be a standard of se-
dition ; for the very people who were bearing the
corpse, baying Met a party of yeomen, rushed out
and attacked tnem, crying out, " Damn their mur-
dering, Orange, heretic souls!" What kind of mind,
said his Lordship, must those persons have who
could dare to make use of such language as this ?
They deserve not the name of Christians; nor ate
they worthy of the privilege of the Christian Reli-
gion, of the principles of which they themselves are
totally destitute. Can you, said his Lordship, ad-
dressing hithself to the person wile. uttered those
words—can you imagine that the Roman Catholic
Religion inculcates the destruction of your leilow
creatures, merely becae.e they diff2r from you on
same inferior points of religion, and which even do
not affect its essential truths ? 'When I meet with
such coadoct arising out of such principles, sanction-
ed by the name of religion, thus prostituted to serve'
the vilest passions of human nature, I shall always
visit it with the severe.t punishment.
I now come, said his Lordship, to the outrage
committed by the I'rctestants, and I am happy, since
offences have been committed by them also, to have
both before me at the same time, to shew that the
law mikes no distinction of party in the administra-
tion of justice ; hut the man who outrages the law,
whether Catholic or Protestant, shall be equally pu-
nished, without respect of person. of professions.—
I know, said his Lordship, that some persons have
spread reports, that the Roman Catholics could not
obtain justice in the Courts of Law : I shall this day
shew.them the contrary, and let every one see, that

imtice is administered without prejudice or with-ut
_ _ _

The Yeomerl and Orangemen at Crosrgar behaved
io badly as to call for the interposition of a Magi-
'trate; Who very properly took a bayonet born Yeo-
who had presumed to draw it upon that
Arate's son. He was light in refusing to num, it
under the then existing circumstances. 11 s Lord-
ship considered some GI the expressions used on that
occasion egkibLy violent and improper will those
used by the evitholics 'on the Coute. As he told

the persons of that faction who had been convicted
before him, so he would teil those Yeomen, they
were equally a disgrace to their religion, who har-
bour such sentiments as were indicated by their in:
temperate expressions. And he would tell the Pro.
testant, that he considered him more liiyhly ctripab:e
in using such language than es-en the Roman Catho-
lic ; for the Protestant was, or might be instructed
in the benevolent orineil,les of that Religion, which
was the essence of benevdlence, and incap.ib!e of
being pressed into the diabolical syttem of persecu-
tion. You have heard no such principles from your
Pastors; poll have net derived them from your creed.
If the Protestant thinks his religion sto,:erior to t%ax
of the Catholic, let Lim, from thit eminence on which
he stands, exlAit a more digniti;:d and bezoniii.g
conduct ; and it there is any contention, let it be
only who sh.til act most worthy tit the reli:ior. he •
professes; and outdo the oiler in acts of b:,:evolence
and virtue.

His Lordship regretted.that lie felt it necessary to
impose severe punishments upon those pers,tis whit
had thus presumed to Lastage the laws, viol:4w the
peace of the country, and who had dsgraced Hie re-
ligion they proiessed t it might probably tiling tutus
an themselves and distress on their famili.s, bur they
had themselves only to blame.
Mere) to them, he was sorry to say, wneld be se.
vet ity to the country, and, lice vcr.4, t.::vaity to them.
would be mercy to the community. he it-listed the
kaample he should make that day would s.ttii•fy both
Firties, th it the name of rAigion, degraded by being
used az a to is!: tor the o,nrdge of the law, only ag-
gravated the crime. his Lordship hoped the people
wonl.l now tefleet tlicir conduct, and oil the state
of the prisoners, with, ie.stead of crijoyi:er,th.2ir liberty
and following o:Lir iadustry, would be •ibl;taal to
languish many month; 10 a gaol, will:: their tamilies
were suffering the want, pertain, of the necessaries
of lifir. He ttust&l, however, tile punislitu-nt would
not be lost upon the safferers, but Ott t:iey would
c:2ane ont of prisla ref, tu,d, asid cured of Ova in-
tempo ate co., fact whizh h td ()bilged film to sen.•..tce
them to a long and con:inc.-neut.