Star.
London, England, 1809-02-18 00:00:00

SALES BY AUCTION.
PORT OF BARNSTAPLE.

By Order of the Httnourable Commissioners of his Majesty's
Customs.

On Wednesday, the 22d day of February, 1809, by Ten o'Clock
in the Forenoon, will be exposed to PUBLIC SALE, at the
Custom House in this Port,
THE Broken-up HULL of the IDA Cutter of
Powey, Burthen 130 Tons per Register, with her Mast,
Boom, Bowsprit, Yards, Sails, Anchors, Rigging, Cables, and all
other Stores, which are nearly new and in very good condition.—

DIMLNSION3 :
Mast - - 70 feet lung, 14 inches diameter.
Boom - - 56 ditto 1-0 ditto.
Bowsprit 40 ditto 101 ditto.
Also about 14 Tons of Cast Iron Ballast. _ _

The above Goods will be put up in suitable Lots, fur the con-
venience of purchasers, and may be viewed three lays previous
to the Sale, on application at the Custom-House.

SHARES in NAVIGABLE CANAI.S and WATER-WORKS.
By Mr. SCOTT,
On Friday, 3d of March, at 12 &Clock, at Garraway's, London,
THE RIVER TRENT NAVIGATION, Eight
Shares of £5O each. The Staffordshire and Worcesteribire
Canal, Three Shares, dividing £43 uett per Share per Annum.
Shares in the Leeds and Liverpool, Kennet and Avon, _Ashby-
de-la-Zouch, Southampton and Salisbury, and Oakham Canals.
Also in the East London and West Middlesex, and Portsea Wa-
ter-Works, and East Country Dock.
Particulars at the New Hotel, Birmingham ; at Garraway's ;
and of Mr. Scott, No 28, New Bridge-street, London.

MOULSHAM HALL, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, VALUABLE FIXTURES,
PICTURES, • and numerous Effects.
By Messrs. SKINNER, DYKE, TUCH IN and FORREST,
On Monday, the 6th of March, and Five following. Days, at
Eleven o'Clock, on the Premises,
THE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Valuable
Fixtures, Pictures, Oriental Articles, Library of Books,
a capital 'Turret Clock, Fire Engine, Lead Figures, Scc. at Moul-
sham Hall ; comprising a drawing-room suite of crimson silk da-
mask, hangings of rooms, bedsteads, with a variety of furnitures,
beds and bedding, window curtains, a real India scarce black and
gold japan cabinet, linen chest, chairs and tables, mahogany
wardrobes and drawers, library cases, dining, card, and dressing
tables, capital marble pier tables, pier glasses, carpets, kitchen
ranges, stoves, coppers, reservoirs, cisterns, pumps, pipes, presses,
dressers, and fittings-up of the offices, kitchen utensils ; fencing,
fruit trees, plantations, and shrubs.
To be viewed three days precedine the Sale, (Sunday excepted)
when Cataloguee may be had, at Sixpence each, on the Premises;
and of Messrs. Skinnei, Dyke, Tuchin, and Forrest, Aldersgate-
street, London. . .

MOULSHAM-HALL--CHELMSFORD, ESSEX.
VALUABLE MATERIALS OF THE NOBLE MANSION-
HOUSE, OFFICES, AND OARDEN-WAP S.
By Messrs. SKINNER, DYKE, TUCHIN, and FORREST,
On Monday, the 20eh of Match, and five following days, at 11
o'clock, on the premises,
11-IHE whole of the valuable and well-conditioned
MATERIALS, which comprise the capital premiaes,
MOULSHAM-HALL MANSION-HOUSE, occupying a scite
of 150 feet by 120 feet, with numerous oSces, Coach-houses,
Stabling, and Out-buildings; consisting of several thousand rods
of brick-work and squares of patent roof slating and tiling, capi-
tal stone pediment pilastres and flight of steps, stone coping, cor-
nices, pediment, and sash culls, large quantity of stone and clinker
pavement, marble and stone chimney-pieces, &c. capital roofing,
oa,k and fir girders, bressumers, story-posts, rafters, and quarter-
ing, several hundred squares of oak and fir flooring, boards and
joists, wainscoting and partitions, many tons of lead, in roofing,
gutters, stacks of pipe, ridges and h;ps, about 200 sash-windows,
frames, and shutters, capital doors and cases, staircases, and water
closet; also, the Erection of the Coach-houses and Stabling, Gar-
den-house, and the extensive Garden-walls.
The whole of the Materials are exceedingly good, aad conve-
niently situate for water carriage, being within a mile of the
Chelmsford Navigation. •
To be viewed six days preceding the Sale (Sunday excepted),
when catalogues may be had on & premises, and of !Views. Skin-
ner, Dyke, Tuchin , and Forrest, Aldersgate-stre...t, Loudon.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17.
On the motion of Lord FOLKSTONE, Captain Huxley San-
den, now a prisoner in Newgate, in consequence of an order of
this Honourable House, and Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke, were or-
dered to attend this evening before the Committee of the whole
House, on the Inquiry respecting the Duke of York.
A new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a
Member for Stamford, in the room of General Berrie, who had
accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
Gregson's Divorce Bill, from the Lords. wao read the first time
and ordered for the second reading.
The House resolved into a Committee on the Irrie Militia
Bill.-.-Ordered to be reported on Tuesday.
I*. O'HARA presented a bill to regulate the office of Con-
stable in Ireland. Read a fitst time, and ordered to be printed.
Alderman COMBE brOtiNt up a Bill for extending the power
of an Act passed, during the last Session, for improving and
widening the entrance to the City of London, at Temple Bar ;
which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time
on Monday.
Mr. WHITBREAD presented a petition from the debtors in
Bedford gaol.

Mr. WHITBREAD moved for a copy of a letter from Mr.
Pinkney to Mr. Canning, which accompanied his official Now.—
Ordered.

IRIS PECULATORS.
'Sir JOHN NEWPORT rose, pursuant to his notice of yes-
terday, to move for leave to bring in a bill to render the embez-
zlement of public money, by any Collector, Agent, or other per-
son entrusted to receive the same, felony without benefit of
clergy. Not anticipating any objection to the bill, he felt it us•
necessary to trouble the House at any length sow. He found
that so long since as the 29th of h 6 late Majisty a bill had passed,
to render it felony without benefit of clergy, for any person em-
ployed in the collection of public monies in Ireland, to embezzle
any sum above fifty pounds. That bill, however, had become
obsolete, and was not sufficient to answer the objects of this bill,
which was to carry the law further, and reach the principal as
well as the deputy officers entrusted with the receipt of the pub-
lic money. He therefore moved for leave to bring in the bill.

The SPEAKER suggested to the Right Honourable Baronet,
that the regular course of proceeding in such cases was to move
for leave to bring in a Bill for the better prevention of frauds
and embezzlements in such cases, and leave It for the Committee
on the bill to insert the punishment to be inflicted on offenders.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT amended his motion.
Mr. FOSTER wished to apprize the Honourable Baronet that
he had a bill in contemplation, which he intended shortly to in
troduce, and which, besides embracing all the objects of the bill
now proposed, would extend much farther. He therefore wished
the Right Honourable Baronet to postpone the introduction of
his Bill until the other should come before the House ; if, how-
ever, he wished to persevere, there would be no negative to his
motion.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, it would be time enough to
withdraw histill, when he should find that his• objects were an-
swered by the bill now announced. It bad been already provided
by a regulation, that no greater sum should remain in the hands of
any Collector than 3001. notwithstanling which, it was found
that there had been left in the charge of one officer upwards of
90,0001. and recently, the Collector of Cork, Mr. O'Connor, had
embezzled 23,0001.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY admitted that the Collector of
Cork had embezzled this sum ; but it was the collection of only
one week; and he eloped at the moment that a Commissioner
was sent down to enquire the reason of his delaying his pay-
ment.

After a few words from Mr. WYNNE, leave was given to
bring in Sir John Newport's Bill.
The Report was brought up from the Select Committee, to
whom had been referred for selection, certain papers laid before
the Committee of the whole House on the preceding night, rela-
tive to the inquiry into the conduct of the Commander in Chief.
The Report was to this effect :
" Your Committee having inspected all the said letters, are of
opinion, that they 'all contain inatter relevant to the matter now
under investigation."—The papers Were accordingly referred to
the Committee of the whole House.
• Lord FOLKSTONE having moved the order of
the day for going into the Committee,
. Mr. BERESFORD rose and said, that as he sel-
dom troubled the House, he hoped for their indul-
gence while he stated a circumstance which regarded
heir privileges. In a _Morning Paper of this day,
appeared a statement of the proceedings of the Com.
mittee last night, in which words were imputed to
him, reflecting on the conduct of an Honourable
Gentleman, which he certainly never uttered. The
words were these :—" Mr. Beresford, addressing him-
self to Mr. Wardle, said, he could not refrain from
animadverting on several parts of the Honourable
Member's conduct in reference to him from the com-
mencement of this inquiry. He considered it un-
handsome and ungentlemanly. Upon this, some
smart retorts passed between Mr. Wardle and Mr.
Beresfind." Mr. Beresford thought it quite unneces.
sary for him to appeal to the recollection of the
House whether he had ever addressed any such words
to the Honourable Gentleman. In fact, none such
were uttered by him ; and he should have felt it ex-
tremely unmanly not to take the first oppoitunity of
making this explanation, in order to remove any im-
pression which such a publication might make on that
Honourable Gentleman's feelings. It was a gross
misrepresentation, and therefore he should move that
the Printer of the Paper in question should appear at
the Bar to-morrow, in the custody of the Serjeant at
Arms.
The SPEAKER said, that the course usual on
such occasions was to give in the paper containing
the misrepresentation to be read by the Clerk ; and
then to move that the Printer do appear at the Bar on
a .future day.
Mr. BERESFORD accordingly gave in the Paper,
when the passage was read by the Clerk. Mr. B.
then said it was not his wish, from any personal feel.:
ing, to proceed to extremities with the Printer in this
case : he had merely taken up the matter as a gross
mischievous breach of the privileges of the House.
He would rather leave it to their discretion ; but if
they encouraged him, he would repeat his motion.
The SPEAKER said, if the Honourable Gentle-
man did not wish to make any formal complaint, it
would be best to hold the business over in suspense,
in order to see rhether the party persisted in state-
ments of the same colour and tendency ; and there-
fore he suggested that the subject should be farther
considered on that day se'nnight.
Mr. BERESFORD acquiesced.