Star.
London, England, 1809-02-16 00:00:00

No. 4, CORNHILL, and 9, CHARING CROSS.
TDISH solicits the atteution of the Public to the
• Scheme of the ensuing Lottery, which contains the same
number of Prizes and Tickets 'as the last, but with an ADDITIO-
NAL BoNus given by the Contractors, which may entitle the for-
tunate Holders of a single Ticket or Share to an immense and in-
calculable Benefit—The first-drawn Dire above £l5 on the first
Day, will be entitled, over and above the Prize, to 1000 WHOLE
TICKETS ; and the Holder of the first-drawn Prize .above £l5
on the second Day, will also receive, over and above the Prize,
500 WHOLE TICKETS; which Tickets are Sealed up and de:,
posited for security in the Bank of England. The Numbers of
the 1,500 Tickets so given are inserted in the Schemes which
may be bad gratis at the above Officei, where Ttcketi land Shares
are selling in great Variety; and as there are but 18,500 Tickets
for Salo, the earlier the purchase the better.*
T. Bins has been remarkable for selling a prodigious number
of Capital Prizes ; and it is extraordinary that he sold the last
£'20,000, the last £95,000, the two lest £30,000, and the last Prize
of 500 whale Tickets ever drawn, all in Shares, at No. 4, Corn-
hill, and 9, Charing Cross.
• Notwithstanding there were SOO more Tickets for sale in
the last Lottery than In this, every Ticket was sold, although the
price was £55 per Ticket.

GRAND LOTTERY.
FREE GIFT of ONA THOUSAND Wilma Timms
the First Day, Numbers u follow :
-1.- •
8,001 4 - to
' 4,01 /... to 1 4,600.
5,001
6,501 ...... ............ to .......
7,001
8,501 ...... to ........... .—.... 8,600
9,001
10,541
11,001
12,501
Also a FREE GIFT of FIVE HUNDRED WHOLE TICKETS
to the first drawn above £l5, the Second Day,
Numbers as follow :

13,001
14,101
15,001
16,501
17,00.1 - to
The above Ticket' may
CAL in the whole of the following
CAPPRIZES:
4 ........ of
......... .. 10,000 10 ......... of 500
2 .........
2' # ........ ooff
Begins APRIL 12th, Aim
In coniequence of the above Gifts of 7500 Tickets, there are
only 18,500 for Sale.
Tickets and Shares are telling at all the licensed Offices.

necessary, in order to vacate his seat in that House, where Peers
of Ireland and Scotland, not i f the Upper House of Parliament,
might sit as Members. Besides, so far from beit•.g actually in the
possession of the title of Lindsay, it was necessary Mr the Hon.
General to go into the investigatioc of records for MO years, in
order to prove his claims. He, therefore, concluded by a wish to
put some motion for withdrawing the writ, or annulling the order
of yesterday.
Mr. MADOCKS said, that• he was not aware of the circum-
stances now stated by the Noble Lord, when he made his motion
for the Writ yesterday. It had been communicated to him, that
General Bertie was come to the title, and summoned to the Upper
House, and therefore feeling that the right of election and repre;
se!!tation was the privilege of the electors of Stamford, he had
moved for the writ.
'lke SPEAKER rose to state, with leave of the House, what.
ocsurted to him on the subject. It was usual with the House to
give credit to the statement of any of it. Members which met no
contradiction, and therefore when the I lonourable Member sta-
ted yesterday as a fact the circumstance which was the ground of
his motion, and no objection was made, the House, as a matter
of course, agreed to it, and the order was made accordingly.—
But now that the House was better informed upon the subject, it
would be competent for them to amend the proceeding by an or-
der to supersede the writ. Something similar had occurred in the
case of General Egerton, the presumptive heir to the Duke of
Bridgewater. The writ was then ordered to be superseded.
MAJOR COVEL.

Mr. WHITBREAD rose to throw himself upon
the indulgence of the -Rouse, having no motion to
offer upon the subject to which he wished to call their
attention. It was the case of a vety meritorious officer,
,Major Covel, who felt himself extremely hurt by
something which was stated before the Committee last
night. He (.Mr. Whitbread) l4eld in his .haad a let-
letter from Major• General Leith, which. fully testi-
fied Major Covel's professional abilities,' and
was the decisive opinion of those appointed to in-
quire into the competence of Major Covel that he
was fully adequate to the duties of the rank which
he sought. • Major Covel had said that he had
nothing to impute to, the evidence of Colonel Gor-
don, as injurious to his character or feelings, in the
course of his examination. It was from the public
papers he feared some misrepresentation of the
questions and answers which related to him : but he
hoped the Committee would do him justice. Here
Mr. Whitbread read a letter from General Lcith to Sir
John Moore, bearing high testimony to the character,
talents, and conduct of Major Covel, who acted in
the command of the 76th regiment, of which he was a
Major in the late expedition to Spain, in place of Col.
Symes, who.from illness was prevented from 'taking
the command of. that regiment more than one day.
It was on this account that Major Covel had felt the
severity of being refused the liberty to purchase pro-
motion in the regiment wherein he had so long served
with honour and reputation, in preference to an officer
from another regiment.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY said, that Colonel
Shawe was formerly, as he had been himself, an Of-
ficer in the 76th regiment. He had served with the
regiment in India under Lord Cornwallis, and had
therefore claims to promotion in it. He was Lieute-
nant-Colonel, and Mr. Covel but a Major, And he
himself had recommended him to the Commander in
Chief as a person highly worthy of promotion to the
command of the 76th, in case Colonel Symes should
sell. That Officer, however, was removed, but not
allowed to sell, surd Colonel Shaw was promoted to
the command of the regiment.

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lord FOLKSTONE now rose to Move the Order
of the Day for the House to resolve into a Committee
upon the Inquiry respecting the conduct of his Royal
Highness the Commander in Chief. But first he
hoped to be indulged with the liberty of a few obser-
vations, In consequence of what had pasted last nights
He felt it unnecessary to say any thing with respect
to himself, or the part he had taken in this proceed.
ing ; but he hoped the House Would do, ustice to the
motives and conduct of the Honourable Gentleman
whom he was happy to call his Honourable Friend,
but who had been more than once stigmatized in the
course of this inquiry by the appellation of the
accuser. His Honourable Friend, he would say, had
not been fairly dealt by : for in the arduous and im.
portant task he had undertaken from an imperious sense
of public duty, he had not been allowed to proceed
in the mode he himself would have chosen, but was
forced to adopt the line suggested by a Learned Gen,•
deman in that House, who was, the avowed friend
.and adviser of the party accused. He believed this
was the first time when, on any .similar proceeding,
the person bringing forward a charge for the sake of
public justice was refused the liberty of choosing his
own mode of conducting his proceeding, and forced
to adopt the line pointed out by the friend and ad-
viser of the accused. His Honourable Friend had
been obliged to go on day after day without in-
terval or respite, under the fatiguing exertioas inse-
parable from the duty he had undertaken". up to the
very moment when he (the Noble Lord) seeing. him
oppressed, and sinking under the task by mere fatigue
of mind and body, had come forward to his assist,
ance. His Honourable Friend, in the side he had
taken, was allowed no such assistants us Loa:atom
and Mr. Wilkinson. Ho was obliged to do the Whole
duty, and seek evidence where he could find it. The
Noble Lord trusted it would never be forgotten in
that House, that his Honourable Friend had been
obliged to follow up his duty under threats repeatedly
held out to intimidate him. Menaces had been fre.
quently uttered, that infamy would attach to him if
he failed in his pursuit. Such was the language eil-
- over and over again to deter him from the
task ; but nevertheless his Honourable Friend had
gone on, day after day, in spite of such menaces, and
performed his public duty as became a Member of
that House. Having stated thus much on behalf of
his Honourable Friend, there were some other points
to which lie had now. to call the attention' of the
House, in respect. to some papers to which he had al-
luded yesterday, and the particulars of which he did
not think he was bound to conceal from the House.
As to any attempt at stigmatizing the motives by
which he was actuated, he felt the most' perfect in.
difference. In addition to the proofs in the hands of
Ins Honourable Friend, a clue- to other document;
had been given him by a gentleman who did not wish
to be brought forward ; but who stated that he had seen
in the possession of a person in the city some papers
of an important nature, chiefly affecting the Duke of
York. Those papers he said were in the hands of a
1, person who did not wish to produce them. He did not
1 name the man, but left it for conjecture to find him
out fi om the mere suggestion of a remote clue, that
he was the Solicisor to a Bin krul.t, whom he named,
and thatthey had come into his Lana in consequence
of a bankruptcy. There were sever al bankrupts of the
time name ; but he (Lord Folkstrne) undertook the
inquiry, and found out the solicitor, called on him,
dnd asked him if he had the papers ? He said he
.had. He was then asked whether he would pro-
duce them ? He answered, that he wished not to do
it. His reason was asked ; and he answered that he
did not wish to appear at the bar of the House of
Commons, lest he might be looked upon as an in.
former, or his name held up to the public coupled
with some of the persons who had been examined
there. Some pains were taken to obviate his jec-
.tions ,• but he said he was afraid the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
his connections, might injure him in his professional
pursuits : indeed his principal apprehension seemed
to be of professional injury. He was asked, if it was
a matter of dire/tit in his profession, in cases of bank-
ruptcy, not to produce such papers, and he answered
; but said, that as the matter was taken up as a
ministerial question—[No, no, no I from the Treasu-
ry Bench]—he was afraid to produce them, as the
consequences to his family might be injurious, and he
shouldbe ruined in his profession. This case, to the
Noble Lord's own personal knowledge, was not the
only one in which important evidence on this subject
had been kept back on similar grounds, for he knew
of several officers in the army who could offer very
important evidence in support of thetharges, but who
could not be induced to come forward, avowedly
through the apprehension that they would in conse-
quence suffer severely in their professional pursuits,
and be ultimately ruined.—lt was early in the
ing of this day when he had last seen the
Inquiry was made whether the papers were .
his possessioa and he answered «No P' frankly

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