Star.
London, England, 1822-02-18 00:00:00

PORT-AU-PRINCE, DECEMBER 7.

(By the schooner Vary Ann).—You have no doubt
ete this heard of the energetic measures taken by the
President to compel the inhabitants to industry : he
has given orders throughout the Republic to put the
whole military force into requisition to enforce his
orders, that every plantei shall cultivate all his plan•
tations to their full extent.

The news of the taking of Car thagena, by the Pa-
triots, gives a fine .peration here for speculations.—
Flour is now selling at from 30 to 35 dollars.
The City of St. Domingo has also declared itself
independent: the Patriot flag is no flying on its walls..!
President Boyer, by a Proclamation, dated N0v.25,
continues tile prohibition to export from Hayti specie,
and silver and gold in bars, under penalty of con-
fiscation.

According to advices from Havanna!), received at
Charleston, it appears that Vera Cruz finally surren-
dered to the Independents, or Imperial forces, on the
night of the 26th of October. General Dovn.at being
left without all support in the Castle of St. Juan de
Ulloa, had been compelled to make an unconditional
surrender, and his opponents had agreed to bury all
past offences and differences in oblivion. An Address
to the People had been published by the Intendant of
Vera Cruz, calling on them to submit cheerfully to'
the new of der of. things. Thus the revolution Of
Mexico is completed; for the rest of the country, it
will be recollected, had long before embraced the
ca'ise of independence.
Letters from Amsterdam state, that a mercantile
house in that city is engaged in expediting several
thousand muskets for the service of the Greeks. They
are consigned to a British merchant at Marseilles.—
It is also said that a great demand exists all over the
Continent, at present, for Prussian and other cheap
muskets, destined for the same purpose. The average
purchase is about 1:1 sterling each.
The friends of humanity in this country will learn
with pleasure that the Spanish Cones have not merely
prohibited, by words, the continuance. of the un-
christian and barbarous merchandize in negro slaves,
carried on by Spanish subjects, but made it punish-
able by distinct and serious penalties. After. the
scandalous duplicity displayed by certain European
Governments, which have ostensibly forbidden, while
in reality they both protect and encourage, this in-
kraal traffic, we are refreshed by the honest manli-
ness of the Spaniards, who practically enforce the
principles which they have recognised by treaty. All
Spanish vessels employed in the. Slave Trade are to
be forfeited, and the owners, fitters out, masters, and
officers, condemned to ten years labour on the pub-
lic works. All foreigners entering Spanish ports with
slaves on board shall be liable to the same penalties,
and all slaves found on board shall be set' free.—
With regard to the bona fide execution of this law,
there is nothing in the Spanish character to justify
any doubts among the friends of humanity. The right
of search by the men of war of friendly nations would,
no doubt, be a satisfactory security on that point;
but such a regulation must .be made a matter of
compact with foreign Governments, and does not
constitute a natural provision of any fundamental law.

An alarming fire broke out on the premises of Mr. John
Clarke, of Chediston, near Halesworth, on Monday morning,
at five o'clock. It broke out in an oat stack, and soon com-
municated with a barn, stables, cow-house, and other buildings,
which were completely destroyed before the engines could get
to the spot. Three large hay stacks were afterwards nearly
consumed, and another oat stack entirely so ; a considerable
quantity of corn in the barn was either destroyed or spoiled.—
The amount of damage sustained is estimated at £lOOO.
Last Monday, a woman, named Town, living at Coxheath,
west out to a neighbouring well for water, leaving two children
in a rootn where there was a fire. Doling her short absence, a
brand fell from the fire, and caught tk pincloth of one of the
children, a boy of about six years of age, and burnt him so
dreadfully that he expired next morning.
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LAW INtELLIGIPNCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FXBRU4RYIII..
TEMPLER V. ARTHUR.
This was an action by the endcirsee against the Ac-
ceptor of a bill of exchange, dated at Newcastle on
the 3d of February, 1821, by which the drawer re-
quested the defendant, two months after its date, to
pay to Messrs. Sykes and Co. bankers, London, the
sum of £92. The bill was accepted generally, but
the place of payment was thus made part of the re-
quest of the drawer to the party. by whom it was
subsequently accepted. It was proved that the drawer, I
for whose accommodation the bill was made, remit-
ted to the bankers mentioned in its body, before it
became due, funds sufficient to pay it ; but, finding
it was not presented, he withdrew those funds from
their hands. Payment, in fact, was not demanded
till a month after the bill became due, when there
were no effects in the possession of the bankers.
Mr. Trunk/ A. now contended that the acceptor was
discharge:l6y the laches of the holder. It was, in-
deed; solemnly decided, that where a place of payment
is specially mentioned in the acceptance only, no
proof of presentment or notice of dishonour is requi-
site to charge the acceptor. But here the place of
payment was part of the original contract; a circum-
stance which brought the case precisely within the
principle of the cases of Saunderson v. Bowes, 14
East, 500, and Roche v. Campbell, 3 Campbell, 247;
in which it is decided, that if a promissory note be
made payable in the body at a specified place, it must
be duly presented there, though the case is otherwise
if-the place is only specified m a memorandum at
the foot, when it forms no part of the instrument.—
Besides, here the damage to the acceptor was not
matter of possible speculation, but of actual proof ;I
for, had the bill been presented in time, it would have!
been paid.
The LORD CHIEF JusTicg intimated a decided
opinion that neither presentment nor notice was made
obligatory on the holder by the words inserted in the
bill. He, however, gave Mr. Tindall leave to move
for the entry of a nonsuit on the point, if, on consi-
deration, he should think there was any chance of
success. and directed a verdict for the plaintiff, with
1.16 damages.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEBRUARY is.
WILLARD v. moss.

The plaintiff in this action had been boatswain on
board the Bucephalus, and sought to recover from
the defendant, who is a navy agent, the amount of
several large sums of prize-money, to which he was
entitled for the capture of the Isles of Java, Batavia,
&c. but which the defendant refused to pay, on the
ground that he (the plaintiff), in the year ISIS, had
assigned over all his right to this money to him (the
defendant), in consideration of his paying him the,
sum of £lOO. It was contended for the plaintiff, that
by the statute 55 Geo. 111. the deed of assignment
was not binding, except to tl i• extent of the consi li
-
deration given ; and that, at all events, it had not
been executed pursuant to the provisions of the 45th
of the late King.
After a good deal of evidence had been adduced
on each side, to prove the circumstances of the case,
the parties agreed to a verdict for the defendant,with
liberty for the plaintiff to move to set it aside, and
enter a verdict for the plaintiff for such sum as the
Court shall think fit, in case it shall decide against
the validity of the deed of assignment.
Lord Chief Justice DALLAS took that opportunity
of exp essing a hope, without intending to allude to
the conduct of the defendant, or any individual in
particular, that a poor simple seaman would not be
called upon to acknowledge a deed like this, executed
in the office of a prize agent, in the presence only of
the parties and the agent's brother, without any per-
son to advise him, speculating on all future prize-
money to be earned by the shedding of his blood.

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—Mn Ikiaplniailisiwirittyor- stain mule'! trio is In the habit •
if twill*" 'B,lLln!bah 4,*.lakede on Nips= Ave Comtnon,
Wm& tinisourbr eau flare, than+ from boa,. On Thursday
week Lel these yeeng fellows Went to the Commits), where the
asseeseere feedingi•fend- drove 'several 'et taint swan bet on
their .mad to town. thep,tvere net by *jell. in'the employment
of Mn liamptost. and by; inknegered, of Abe theft. upon which
they deserted their booty snilitadi'ibilrewape. The boy went
borne auctinformed his Master of the oceurience, *he not having,
then ntissed•the aniniaii; wid the lad was mistaken, till In the'
aber •pstrt of the day the information was found to be correet
and means were.takee to apprehend the thieves. The uses were
left on the road, add were impounded in the course of the day
by the Parish Oftleer of Camberwell, which having come to the
knowledge of the young fellows, they impudently applied for,
and claimed them .as their own, but the • robbery having pee-
viowdy Come to the knowledge of the keeper of the pound, he
detained them, and, upon the bearing of the case before the Ma-
gistrates, they were fully cotemittedior trial

UNIVERSITY LZ'YGLLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, FEBRUARY 15.
Wednesday, at a Congregation, the following Degrees were
conferred : •
BAC/lIILOS IN minim
The Rev. Thomas Rennell, of King's College, Vicar of Ken.
sington.
3IASTIR Or ARTS.
George Frederick Parry, Elq. of Trinity College.
BACHELOR tN ruystc.
Abraham Edward Gregory, Esq. of Jesus College.
OXFORD, FEBRUARY 16.
Tuesday, in Convocation, the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor no-
minated the Rev. George owley, O.D. and "Master of Univer-
sity College, to be one of his Fro-Vice-Chancellora; in the place
of the late Rev. Dr. Hodson, and he was immediately invested
with the said office.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROVOIJANS. •
The Very Rev. the Dean 'f Ikreford, a' Prebendal Stall
in that Cathedral.

The Rev. Henry Huntisgford, LL.B. Fellow of Winchester
College' to tha Rectory of Hampton Bishop, nc-ar Hereford.
The Rev. David Williams, LL.B.. second Master of Win-
chester College, to the Vicarage of Wigmore, Herefordshire.
The Rev. William Michell, M.A. to the Vicarage of Comp-
ton Dundon.

The Rev. Thomas Davies, to the Vicarage of Ilansaintfraed,
Radnorshire.

The Rev. John Rolleston, to the Vicarage of Burton Joyce,
in Nottinghamshire.
The Rev. Mr. Jenour, to the Rectory of Epperston, in Not-
tinghamshire.
The Rev. J. Footkt, to the Vicarage of lkanby in the Wil-
lows, near Newark.
On the Cth inst. the Rev. William Welsh was ordained Pastor
of the Relief Congregation at Falkirk.
Mr. James Thomson, Preacher orthe Gospel, under the
United Associated Synod, was, on the 30th of January, unani-
mously called to be Pastor of the United Associate Congrega-
tion, in Glenluce.
The Bishop of Cloyne has appointed the Rev. Charles War-
burton, Chancellor of the Diocese of Limerick, to the Living of
Cove, void by the death of Dr. Atterbury.