Star.
London, England, 1814-11-10 00:00:00

lON, SEPTENII3,I:a 24.

In consequence ut the. death of Rear-Admiral
IlitowN, the nay.tl carnal:and devolves on Captaits
1,1,0 v D, of the Plantagenet, of 74 guns, senior O.
cer on the station, at present out on a cruiae. It has
been assumed, in the mean time, by Captain .Lhga-:
Fottu, of the Cydnus frigate, of 3(1 guns, who has
hoisted a broad pendant on bo.nd the Argo frigate,
of 41 guns, Captain Foruxitcatt, having invalid
and intending to go to England in the ltingdovehrigyl
The Cychius is to proceed on a cruiLe, with an acting
Captain. -
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the Ringdove brig, of IS guns, Captain. Dowers,
arrived on Sunday from Bermuda, which she left on
the 30th alt. No accounts had been received, for Sc.
veral weeks previous respecting the operations in the
Chesapeake. A report prevailed, but much reliance
Viii: not placed on it, that New York had been sum,
moned to surrender, with a threat, that it not imme-
diately complied with, it would be reduced to ashes.
We lea; n from Cal thagena, that a cessation of hos-
rilities has taken place at Santa F, between the
Royalist and Independent forces. Theline of demar-
cation is l'opiangan : General Montas commands
the former, and General Marino was to be released
from captivity the moment the articles of ceLs:t: ion
were signed, and would take the command of the Ln.
dependent for ct.s.
We are informed that letters from Carthagena, of
the 13th instant, state, that the interior 1-11 ovinces
of New Grenada have at length come to the resoiri-
don of contributing, in proportion to their respective
means, to the support of the Government of Cartha-
gena, and that such contributions were actually on
their route at tlr: date of the above communication."

By the brig Portsea, which arrived at Batbadoes
on the 2fth ultimo, from Rio•de-J.ineiro, and after-
wards touched here on her voyage to the Havanna,
it is learnt that the Achille, of 74 guns, was lying
there, for the purpose of conveying the Prince Regent
of Portugal to Lisbon, so soon as she:.hould be joined
by four line-ot-battle ships that were to entice in a
certain latitude, until the period that would allow of
their reaching Janeiro by the end of August. There
were sho three Portuguese ships of war at that an-
chorage, which were to sail in company with the
British men of war, so that his Royal liighnets will
be escorted to the capital cf his dotnioions by a semi-
droll of eight rail.

&IPA iktiii,ktAlil=
rAutiokitti, NoiEMßki I.
Arrived the Prince Ernest packet, with a itsd
from Lisboa, in 15 clays. No other arrivals, but a
few coasters. Sailed a few ships fur London, XC...4‘
Wind W.N.W. light breezes, and fine weather.

PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 8:
Came in the Jeans FRANCIS, from L'Orieht and
his Majesty's ships PUILOMEL and CoNerAtie, frnin
the Westward. Nothing saded,-.—Wind N.W.

PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 9.

the Ro:Gnove from Jamaica, in 40 days.
With dispatches; the PROM ETII ICC 6 Isom Newfound-
land, last from Lisbon; ana the MaAvDUa frnrn the
Downs, and joined the fleet in St. Helen's Road*,
for Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean, w:iete
they bull remain. Came into harbour the 'l'rac.

DOVER, NOVEMBER 9.
Cann 111 the Norwegian brig Providenf;a, from
Draham, with timber, deals, and iron, bound to Ply-
mouth. In coming into the hatbnur, she lost her
bo*sprit. By this arriv4l wO learn that Norway it
still in an unsettled state.
RAMSGATE, NOVEMBER 9.
Several ships have put into our pier for shelter
among them ate the bisry .transport! Brit.inni.:,
Sunderland ; bpeedwell packet, of Pool, and servsal
others,—hWind West, blows fresh.
• LTMINOTON, NUVEMIER 2.

Hic Majesty's ships 6WIFTSVItE, ANIMUS,
KARI), and. ReDWTNO, *it the West ‘2414 sohroyi
remain.—Wind W. N. W.

The Pntges REta•yr returned to town on Tuesday
night from Windsor.
The Pitmess of WALES arrived at Parma on the
21st, at two o'clock, E. m. A corps of Hunitarian
Hussars, and many ()dicers of the Regiment of Maria
Louisa, went to receiye her Royal Highness to thu
banks of the Taro.

Yeiterclty the Earl of Livettenot had an audien'ce
of the Paistc.z REGENT, at Carlton Hotue.
The Duke of Yousc transacted military business,
yesterday, with the PRINCE Itkozwr, at Carlton-huuse.
The Duke of CLAtteNce visited the PitiNCE ItZWIT
yesterday.
Yesterday the Duke of YORICt and a select party,
dined with the PitiNce Ream'.

Lord Butuvour will leave town tomorrow fur
Canterbury.
The wile of Lectex BonAmyl-a (now Plinco cf
CAl:inn) arrived at Rome on the oth iatant with
her children.

Yesterday the customary civic ceremonies were
observed upon the introduction of Mr. Alderman
Blum into the office of Lord Mayor of the Cty of
Loudon. The entertainment at Guildhall Wdi as
splendid non any former occa'ion, and his Lordsh:p
was honoured with di? company ot most ot his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, and die Foreign Ambassadors,
On the 3d instant, died at Glasgow, Professor
tdArtt RicurtnnsoN, who, for upwards ot forty.an,e
ram filled the Humanity Chair of that University.
—On the 10th ciair of October, he, as usual, corns
rnenced the business of the session, but death, preceded
by violent sickness and excruciating pain, soon ter-
minated his labours: .

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Last night a man fell down in the 1,4.4 Covent.
Garden Theatre, and, melancholy to relate, Alm sst
instantly expired.
Mr Lusulacrrorr, the worthy Member for Canter.
bury, with that munificence and public spirit or
which he is so eminently distinguished, presented AEA/
towards the improvements now netking by his consti,
tuents in the vicinity of that venerable and interesting
city. Mr. Ll:StilliGTONsb letter to the &fawn statest
that he had seen--,, with great pleasure, the list of
subscriptions made for the purpose of accomplishing
an object so imprtant to the health of the inhabitants
and the improvement of the city of Canterbury, as the
enlargement of the Dane John Field ;" and adds, " I
concur so entirely in the view taken of this bt wficial
;measure, that i maims ise you to put my name to the
list for Fifty Pounds."
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Letters Irons Leghorn announce that sixty Polo,.
new had arrive.' from the island of Elba in that city,
an.t had already taken the route for Parma, whim
they were constrained to return to the place from
Which they had set out.
As the British troops in the Netherlands have be.
come the subject of Psrliamentarr discussion, the fol.
lowing extract of a letter from Brussels, relative to
the armed force in those countries, will not be unin-
teresting to our Readers

" The distribution of the different carps et the artery sta.
ti4neti in the departments of Belgium has been Eually arranged—
Ostend, Nietiport, Furnes, Ypres, Merlin, and Courtray, Ire oc-
cupied bymunerous garrisons of Engli•h and Hanoverian troops,
consisting of cavalry, infaatry, dad artillery. In the surrounding
towns and villages corps of troops are cantimedproport;onate to
the population of the respective places, Ghent, Bruges, and 'ref.
nusnde, are also occupied by English, Hanovcrians, and Belgians
.
'4 The garrison of Tonruay consists ut three English regiments,
a corps of the Hanseatic Legton, and some stotadrous of cavalry.
Milli and Charleroy are occupied by Belgic light infantry and
tjragoons„ and Hanoverian hussars. Troops of the same descrip-
tion are cantontd in the villages situated between these tw.o
towns. Namur is the only place that has a Dutch garrison. The
hussars of Cuy are at Ath, and Lye light horse, and a consideratie
corps of artillery, are stationed at Malines. i.e garrims or Lou-
vain is composed of KIM' battalion, of Belgic infantry, and that
ut Brussels of some English guards, a c.rps of iiz'at artillery, atid
the Belgic carablneers, now forming here. The Cunreve r...td-
lery has been removed to Yelverd. Bead:. the corps already
enumerated, the garri,un of Antwerp, the troops at Mae ,tricht,
and all thus: along the Meuse to Namur, form also part of the
army of Belgium."

In the Ecclesiastical Code of Iceland, the Bishop,
or even the inferior Clergy, are invested with autho-
rity to prevent any marriage, where the female is un-
able to read. This law provides a powerful pledge
for the instruction of the rising generation,
On Tuesday night, about eleven, as one of Mr.
Burgess's hackney-coaches was returning to tows
through Brompton, the coachman W:45 stopped by
two armed footpads, nevi. the Swan, Brompton t the
windows of the coach being up, it is supposed the
robbers concluded it was filled with passenger s; after
searching it they allowed the C 044113411 to proceed.

LA IV INrELIOENCE.

• •
COURT OF •;CHANCERY, Nov. P.
EVANS AND OTHERS W. JENKINS. •
The petitioners in this case consisted of twenty per-
eons, forming a tart of the congregation, together
with the Minister, of a Protestant Dissenting Chapel
in Wales; and the prayer of the petition was teat the
defendant, Richard Jenkins, might be restrained from
interfering in the management of tee Chapel, and he.
terdicted from proceeding in an action of tresp iss.—
An injunction had been obtained, but 'it did not go
the length of the present petition. The facts of the
case were, that in 1749 conveyance was made of
•certain lands, to•certain Trustees therein named, for
the purpose of building a Chapel for Dissenters. The
Trustees were all dead, and by descent from the lasi
surviving trustee, the same was vested in the defen-
dant. It was stated, that he had interfered with his
trust by appointing a Minister of his own choice
against the consent of the congregation ; that he then
proceeded to place a lock upon the chip.l door, be-
cause they would not allow his Minister to pet form
the Unctions of his office ; that the congregation re-
moved the lock, and then he threatened them with an
action of trespass. The present bill was filed for the
purpose of getting new trustees. -• •
The LORDCHANCELLOII. asked whether it was stated
in the affidavits how the Minister was paid ? • -
Mr. HEALD replied in the negative ; but observed,
that the great objection of the congregation to the
newly appointed Minister was, on account of his hay-
ing gm/ is the pillory at Carmarthen. The bill was filed
to vest the trust tn the person having possession of the
real estate.
The LORD CHANCELLOR here said that it was expe-
dient to know what the constitution of a .Dissenting
Meeting is, for no Court could decide upon it with-
out such knowledge. The right of appointing a Mi-
nister must depend on the usage. It was material also'
to know whether there was tiny revenue derived from
the Meeting ?
Mr. Leecit contended that the defendant, as sur-
viving trustee; had the right of electing a Minister,
which right was vested in him by the constitution.
The Lotto CHANCKLLOIL informed the Learned
• Counsel on both sides, that he would read the Lill be-
fore he determined, for it was a diffieult point to as-
cettain on a suit of this nature, whether it must be
supported by a Bill in Equity, or by proceedings in a
Court of Law. The opinion of Lord Herd w icke, in
1747, in case similarly situated with respect to St.
James's, Clerk-nwell, was, that thii Court could not
interfere. In that case, which was an information filed
by the Attorney General, it appeared that certain
lands were vest.s.l in 1656, in trustees, for building a
Church, and maintaining a Perpetual Curate. The
e::::tion oh the Minister was set aside, the information
w.:), dismissed with costs, apd he kft the pelves to
their remedy at common law. It was therefore very
difficult to know what to do with these kind of Insti-
tutions ; it must he first ascertained what are their
legal rights. It could not be imagined that by de-
scent on descent, the right of management should be
vested in one man, who might be a Rom ill Cetholie
or a.lew, and yet he would claim the right of appoint-
ing a Minister for a Protestant Disseneng.Chapel.—
The original institution, no doubt, meant' diet s ma-
jority of voices should regulate the choice. The de-
fendaet could not imagine that he was to bP the sole
Judge.--Judgment deferred.
WAUGH AND • ANOTHER V. LAND.
A very long argument, wince, was supported by Sir
SANIOKL ItOMILLY, Mr. LEACH, Mr. Auaic, and two
• eth• r Gentlemen it the Bar, was heard in this case,
which had been before the Court some time, respect-
ing an equitable redemetion. The plaintiffs were
owners of a Di.ssenting Chapel at Leeds, and, being
in want of money, burrowed first E3OO, and then,
subsequently, £SUO, upon the security of their chapel.
A statute ot Bankruptcy was taken out against both.
'Waugh, after remaining in prisim three years, suc-
ceeded in setting aside the Comm'ssi in, he not being
a trader within the meaning of the Bankrupt Laws.
In the mean time the Chapel had been sold to Messrs.
Whitely and Griffin, and the Rev. Mr. King, a Pro-
testant Minister of ti.e Church. The present bib,
a sort of supplemental one, was tiled to secure the
moiety of Pike, one of the plaintiffs, by nn equiteble
ret!cmption. A case of }peat hardship was a:tempted
to be made out.
The Loan Cues/molt did not pronounce his
judgment, taking time till Friday to look at the pre-
vious dm co and order made: some time since.
Couter KINL:' BENCH, :40VEMBER 1.
CIHNUVAL IN101:1IATION.
Thi ATTORNEY GENERAL applied to the Corset for
a rule to spew elute why A criminal information
should not be filed against Colont.l lie Blaquire, for
an assault upon Mr. Serm.m, a Gentleman Of the pro-
fession, and well ki.own to their Lordships. The
circumstances of the case were these :—A Lady,
named Lee, the wife pf a respectable Clergyman,
who, it appeared, had been seduced from :her hus-
band and family by Ceronel De Bliquiree a Colonel •
ot Dragoons, had occasion- to appear in the Court of '
• Chancery, in a suit pending there, arising out of a
• settlement spatie on her previous to her marriage
ith Mr. Lee, and in her maiden name of till. At
the'time Mrs. Lee appeared in Court, Mr. Sermon,
will is a Solicitor of eminence, chanced to be in
Court, and tee Lord Chancellor did him the ho-
nour of committing Mrs. Lee, and the interests of her,
cause, to his care. Previous to this time Mr. Sermon
bad no knowledge whatever of Mrs. Lee, or her fee
lay j from this time, however, es was his duty, he
applied himself most indttstrionsly to the promotion
of her interest!. Some time afterwards, Mrs. Lee
had occasion to call on Mr. Sermon, to consult him,
• respecting a loan of money which she wanted to ob-
tain from a person, named Nies. Mr. Sermon con-
ceiving that, as her legal adviser, he was authorized
.to dO Ohenquired of her the purposes tor which she
.required this en ines ? and was, answered, it was to
gay. debts sbe had incurred. Mr. Sermon expressed
his len prise at this answer, as Mt. Lee, her husband,
could alone aloe been liable for her debts, whilst she
was living with him, and, as since that time, she had
n Jiving with Golonel De Blaquire, he ought, in
honour, to discharge any obligations she might have
josittr,,cted. Mrs. Lee said, Colt eel De Illequire ,was
pa tin . a sitnetion neck: so, and therefore it was in.
.cussibeie en her to do it. After some further ergu-
inteita from Mr. Sermon, ustiiig the imprudence of
her doing so; they reparated. Some time afterwards,

it appearing that the &ice sought hr Mrs. Lee, in
the Court -of ChaucerY, could not be obtained, Mr.
Sermon returned Mr's. Lee's papers, and their inter-
course terminated: Several days alter this, Mr. Ser.
mott was met by Colonel
,De Blaquire, as he was
coming out of the Master's Office. The C..lonel
seized him by the collar, and -charged him with
•haVing behaved insolently ma Lady. 'Mi. Sermon
ehdeavoured to defend himself against this impota-
tation, but Colonel De Blagitire•struc.k him a violent
blow with a stick he had in hisohilid, and was abaut
to ,repeat,his blow, when Mr:Sermon, succeeded in
wresting the stick frac: his hand, and this prevented
him ; Colonel De Blaquire then e'xclaimed—" If you
are a Gentleman,••you'know where, to find me."—
These were (be circumstances as set furth. in Mr. Ser.
motes affidavit. The Lord Chancellor had been ap-
rlied to and urged to take notice of Colonel De
Blaqoire's conduct, as being a contempt of Court.—
His L r.fship, however, declined taking any steps in
the boswess, oirthe.grounds that the assault had not
been committed either in the Court itself, or within
any of the Offices belonging to it. Under these cir-
cumstances it bad become necessary to apply to their
Lordships for a criminal information. •
Lord ELLIMBOROUGU" Take your Rule to shew
cause."

NOVEMBER 9.—DYOTT v. DUNN.
Mr. REs•sours applied to the Curt to have the
proceedings in this case stayed, or set aside, on the
grounds of irregularity.
The proceedings were in an action of trespass. The
Judges' order set forth assault and trespass. The
writ set forth assault, trespass, and further, that the
defendant had held criminal conservation with the
• plaintiff's . wile. The Learned Counsel observed, he
was not aware the law knew of any such offence as
criminal contervaticn ; hut the irregularity he ha.l here
to complain of was, that the warrant differed from the
order of the Learned Judge, the one stating assault
and trespass, as the offence ; the other setting it out
is assault, trespass, and criminal conservation. Rule
to shew cause granted.

CITY COURTESY.
The new LORD Misvon, as is usual, after having
been sworn into other in the Exchequer Chamber, be-
fore the CIIIEF BARN, appeared at the liar of this
Court, accompanied by the late LORD NlAvoit and
the RECORDER, and invited the JUDGES, AT fORNEY.
GENERAL, and King's Counsel present, to partake of
Civic hospitality, at Guildhall. The invitation being
graciously accepted, his Lordship and suite made their
bows and retired, and shortly after the Court rose.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 8.
GREENWOOD AND OTHERS V. THE BISHOP OF LONDON,
Chief Justice Gums delivered the judgment of the
Court this morning in this important cause. It was
originally before the Court in the form of a motion
quare impedit, against George Pawson, for impeding
the right orpresentation to the advowson of Brad.
well, juxta mare, in the county of Essex. The plain-
tiff (Sir H. B. Dudley) claimed presentation, as exe-
cutor of Thomas Hammersley, Eq. It appeared,
that in 1792 the advowson was conveyed to Sir H. B.
'DndleY, but that in consequence cf alleged simony,
the living escheated to the Crown, who thereupon
presented the Rev. Mr. Gamble. That Gentleman
died subsequently, and the present plaintiffs claimed
the right of presentation, denying the simony, but
averring (if the Court should be of opinion that simony
existed), that the simony attached only to the next
presentation, previous to the induction of Gamble, and
could not affect the rights of the next presentation.
On this question, two very learned arguments had
been heard.
The CHIEF JUSTICE took a review of the case, and
the plea.ings in cl..murrer, observing, that the whole
case turned on the last question, which, if the Com:
determined right, left the others not entitled to a de-
cision. The statutes cent:tined no expres• prohibition
for simoniacal contracts. The present charge only
apt lied to the presentation immediately preceding the
induction of Gamble, and the Crown having seized
upon the advowson, and p:esented that Gentleman,
had purged the crime, and there the simony ended.
The rernaiuiug interests stood clear of the object,on.
The Learned Judge referred to the opinions of Chief
Justice De Grey, quoted by the defendsint's Counsel,
in which it was insisted, that where simony existed,
the whole cf the right was void. But upon looking
at the de.ci,ion of Chief Justice De Grey, it was evi-
dent that the question for the consid' ration of the
Court on that occasion was confined solely to the next
presentation. The Court, therefore, to-day, could not
be called upon to abide by so loose a case. The opi-
nion of the Court, therefore, was in favour of the
plaintiff,. and judgment must be entered.—Judgment
for the plaintiffs.
This case is of material importance to Sir H. B.
Dudley, involving a property of upwards of £40,000.

A Gentleman just arrived from Vienna states, that
the greatest attention is paid there to the young Bo-
NAPAIiII4 the ci-devaut King of Rome. There are
two coaches and six in attendance upon him, one to
carry him* to Schoenbrunn, and the other to carry
him' back. The carriages are ornamented with the
arms of France and insignia of the Legion of Ho-
hour. He is a very fine boy, fair complexion, blue
eyes, and a very animaled countenance. When our
informant last saw himite was walking, attended by
four ladies of quality. He was dressed in mourning,
with a cavalry sword at his side.
cORONERIS INQUEST. --Tuesday, an Inquest was
held at the Black Horse, in Tottenham-Court.Road,
on the body of John Hounswell, a farrier, whose death
was occasioned by his being choaked by a bit of veal,
whilst dining in the above house on Sunday last.—
James Veign, a farrier, lodging in the above house,
deposed, that on Sunday he was dining with deceased
and about fourteen others, at. the Black Horse, the
landlord of which generally provided a dinner for
them : the witness sat next the deceased—he had not
eat above four mouth-fulls when he dropped his knite
and fork, and pointed to his throat, but could not
speak—witness saw him change colour; he imme-
diately took him up in his arms and carried hirii into
the yard ; some vinegar was given him, but he could
not swallow—he appeared to be lifeless, his lips were
quite black, his face pale, and his eyes turned np ;
surgeon was sent, for; by means of his forceps he
extracted some chewed veal, bit by bit, an 1 at length
made an opening in the windpipe, and endeavoured
to inflate the lungs, but without effect. Verdict;
Accidental Death.