Star.
London, England, 1825-07-18 00:00:00

DOVER, JULY 17.

Our town has this day teen unusually gay, in consequence of the
ar:ival of very great numbers of persons from the opposite coast.
Three steam packets entered the harbour within a quarter of an
bcr..r, and in his Majesty's steam packet Srivrme, Captain Ktvo,
were the Prince Scbwartzenbrrg, and Count Harrach and suite,
(Chamberlains to the Emperor of Austria).
The families of Lord Viscount Strathallan and suite, the Countess
Ismvager Manvers and sister, the Hun. William Burrell and suite.
'Mrs. Stuckey and family, Lord and Lady Dc Dunstanville and
family and suite.
With the exception of Prince Schvrartzenberg, the whole of these
:mend sleeping to-night at Wright's Ship Hotel.

NAVAL IN I ELLIGEA CE.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.

The Warrior, for ti►a Danish gun-boat Teigeren ; the Cherub,
for the Esporanza slave vessel and cargo; and the Bann, for the
Tenterario slave vessel and cargo; on the 22d last. at 22, Great
George-street, Westmi►►ster, and recalled there.
The Bast India Company's ship Layton arrived off the Wight
the 14th instant. She left Bencoolen the 27th March, and St.
ilelena the 25th May.

"f he Boyne has arrived at St. Helena.
Arrived off Weymouth, the General Hewitt, from Bengal.
Off Dover, the Superb, -, from Buenos Ayres • Ann, FRA.
:as, from Paraiba ; and Grecian, Squaw, from St. John's (N. 8.)
Off the Start, the Sicilian, JAMISON, from the River Gambia;
IM 7.onisa, TMS, fi cm Grenada; and the Grampus, Our, from
Charleston.

Fa tmourn, JULY 16.—Wiod variable, light airs, chiefly from
tie South.—Arrived the Zephyr packet, from the Brazils--sailad
from Rio, 221 May ; Bahia, 29th ; and Pernambuco, 6th of June.
Spoke, on the 22d May, going into Rio, the John Frank, Lt.szne,
leaky ; and, the next day, the Swallow packet.
Pi.vatouTnr, JULY 16.—Wind S.—Off the port, the Britannia,
DAvis, front Tobago. Sailed the Colombia, Wu.sow, for Van
--fiemen's Land; and Pomona, Vzxcv, for Quebec.

POnTSMOUTH, JULY 17.—Wind S. to S. S. E—Arrived his
31a3etty's ship FLY, from South America, last from Rio Janeiro,
whence sbe sailed Bth May; his Majesty's ship Giaseow, from
; and Jubilee, Waszaas, from Gallipoli. Went out of
arbotif, the Joseph Green transport, for Halifax, and remains at
Spithead.
1 IThursday, the Ottawa, DOUGLAS, Master, arrived at Ports-
Tiotith,, from Quebec, in 27 days, bringing Captain Kra and
Lieutenant lhoon, Lieutenant Parents, R.A. Major Diestrox
(late of the Colombian service), a few invalided soldiers and others,
whiise- kerns of service had jexpired. All was tranquil and pros.
perouy in the Canada., which also presented the cheering prospect
of a plentiful harvest.
Drat, JULY 17.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Sprightly. Hennas, from the South Seas ; London,
Tnnaatill; Princess Charlotte, Mandy; Marchioness of Anglesra.
Run; and West India Packet, blunt°. from Dominica; Cectops,
Alexander, Dew; and Lady Helisastig Boasts, from Ja-
maica: Lord Wellington, Manors, from Miramichi; Lawton,
bin.tan, from India; Ottawa, Donau., and Ent...pa. Wails. from
Quebec ; David Owen. Wuxi's, from Pernambuco; William
Manning, SMITH, and Charles William, Sumo. from St. Kitt's ;
Sisters, Dues, front the South Seas; Mayflower. Manus, front
Irayal ; Enchantress, 'Caeca*, from St. Vincent's; and the John
Rickard, Duncan, from Tobago. Sailed the Kerswell, Aax-
armee, for the Cape of Good Hope.
Isnaeuoi, Jute I6.—Wind S.—Arrived the Indefatigable,
Sound, from Pernambuco; Diana, Masan frost Paraiba; Nap-
tone, Sat:., from Maranharn ; Beastly, LONSOALS, front the Ha-
vannah ; Thomas Dempsey, from St. Domingo; Hero,
Fowtta..frorn St. Vincent's; Montrose, Dave, from Demerara;
Royal Oak, —, from Barbadoes ; William Thomson, and
---, from New York; Fanny, THOMSON, and Mary, Ma-
Inawson, from New Orleans; Olive Branch, —, from Savan-
nah; NISI. Bacuetoa; Minerva, WOODURSY • Maria, TUYTOM;
and NeWharylPort. from Charleston ; Crown. Han:loci ;
Shaw, Bata.; Aid, Kmassaw; Ayrshire, Massasesa ; Lydia,
Itosstscot; Lady Howard, Doves as; and Concord, Norma.
from Minsmichl; Lady Gordon' Butz., from Quebec; William,
Oat avnilfrorn St. John's (N.R); Derwent, Rawson from Si
Andrew's (N. 8.); and Agnes, Bait., from Newfoundland.

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" 2. No member of the New Catholic Association shall be re-
quired to take any oath, or make any declaration whatsoever.
" 5. To avoid the possibility of its bring alleged, even by means
of any perverse interpretation of the Act of 6 Geo. IV. chap. 4,
that the New Catholic Association can come within the
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thereof, it is expressly declared, that the New Catholic As-
sociation shaU not assume, or in any manner, or by ary means or
contrivance, exercise the power of acting for the purpose, or under
the pretence of procuring the redress of grievances, in Church
or State, or the alteration of any matters by law established in
church or State, or for the purpose, or unth".r the pretence of car-
tying on or assisting in the prosecution or defence of causes, civil
or criminal.

" 4. That the New Catholic Association shall not be composed
of different divisions or branches, or of different parts, acting in any
manner separate of distinct front each other ; and that there shall
be no separate or distinct sectetary or delegate, or other officer,
elected or appointed by or for any particular part, or authorised to
act for any particular part; neither shall the New Catholic Asso-
ciation conunsinicate or correspond ; neither shall its constitution
contain any provision for communication or correspondence with
any other society, committer, or body of persons; neither shall it in
any respect act in any manner inconsistently with the said Statute
of the 6th Geo. IV. cap. 4.
" 5. The New Catholic Association can and may be formed
merely for the purposes of public and private charity, and such
other purposes as are not prohibited by the said Statute of the 6th
Geo. IV. cap. 4.
" 6. The first purpose of the New Catholic Association is and
shall be, that of promoting public peace and tranquillityi-as well as
prints harmony and concord, amongst all classes of his Majesty's
subjects throughout Ireland.
" 7. The second purpose of the New Catholic Association is and
shall be the encouragement and extension of a liberal, enlightened,
and religious system of education, founded on the basis of Christian
charity and perfect fair dealing.
"t The third purpose of the New Catholic Association is and
shall be that of ascertaining the number of the population of Ire-
land, and the relative proportions which the professors of the va-
ramie Christian persuasions bear the one to the ether; and in par-
ticular to ascertain the number of children of each persuasion in a
course of education.
" 9. The fourth purpose of the New Catholic Association is and
shall be, to devise the means of erecting suitable Catholic Churches,
for the celebration of Divine Worship, and to procure and establish
Catholic burial grounds, wherein the Catholic dead may be interred
without being liable to any species of contumely or insult.
" 10. The filth purpose of the New Catholic Association is and
shall be to promote all improvements in science and in Irish agri-
culture, to encourage the consumption of Irish manufactures, and
the extension of Irl.h commerce.

" 11. The sixth purpose of the New Catholic Association is and
shall be to encourage, as much as possible, a liberal and enlightened
press, to circulate works calculated to promote just principles, and
mutual toleration and kindness, and to vindicate the principles of
the Catholics against the unjust and slanderous attacks daily made
upon them.
" 12. The seventh purpose of the New Catholic Association wiU
be to prepare a detailed statement of the various charges made
against the Catholics, in the Petitions presented to Parliament
during the recent Sissions, and to publish authentic refutations of
such charges, in the places where they respectively originated.
" 13. That every person who shall think fit, on or before a day
to be named, to pay the sum of if. on this admission, shall be a
Member of the New Catholic Association • and after that day, each
person paying 11. and procuring one member to propose and soother
to second him shall also be a member.
" The Committee having thus stated affirmatively and negatively
the limits within which the New Catholic Association can and
ought to act, deem it their duty to call the attention of the Catholics
in general to those provisions of the statute of the 6th Geo. IV. c. 4,
which must restrain the sphere of the Ness Catholic Association,
and render it necessary for the Catholics in general to seek for re-
dress and relief through the medium of other meetings, and by the
Intervention of other instruments.
" That most unconstitutional statute prohibits these two things :
lc 1. The sacred right of petitioning for the redress of teal and
substantial grievances in the only mode likely to be successful—
namely, by the intervention of a Committee or Association of suf-
ficient duration to be able to make useful, and, in fact, necessary
arrangements.
"S. The right of such Committee or Association giving any
pecuniary assistance to the poor and oppressed, in order to enable
them to punish, by due course of law, their oppreesats, it being
obvious that, without money, there can be little prospect of being
able to take the measares necessary to obtain redress from any legal

tribunal.
" Now, as the New Catholit Association cannot interfere in any
way toirrocue redress from Parliament. or the Courts of Law, and
as the tatboncs certainly suffer the cruelest oppressions. and the
aesi mien exclusions from the undoubted rights of British sub-
jects, it Is incumbent on them to adopt other means, altogether un-
ameeted with the New Association, of preparing and presenting
Petitions to Parliament, and also for preventing and punishing acts
of individual oppression and of party violence.
The Petitions to Parliament must of course be altogether un-
impeded with the New Catholic Association, and must originate
wkkeed be conducted by, General or Aggregate Matiogs, which,
as the law new stands, may be continued by adjournment for four-
teen days' and no longer.
" It is obvious that itwould be impossible to arrange all the Po.
alone necessary to be presented to Parliament during the ensuing
&seises in the space of 14 days.
" It Is deemed advisable to have a Petition presented from every
pariah in Ireland.
" The country should be therefore taken separately by counties.
There can, in point of law, be fourteen days given to each county
separately, and distinetly, but the business of petitioning for each
county must be conducted by General or Aggregate Meetings, un-
connected with the New Catholic Association, and such General
or Aggregate Meetings can continue to sit' for the Petitions of
each county during fourteen days, according to the provisions of
the Statute.
" Thus the New Catholic Association win have to attend to dr
tails in Catholic affairs, consistent with the duration of our present
grievances, and with an acquiescence In our present sufferings.
" The separate or Aggregate Meetings must and will seek for
the redress of grievances, and the alteration of those matters la
Church and State by which we are oppressed.
" The Committee further very earnestly recommend to the Irish
people to make the repeal of the said Statute of the 6th Geo. IV.
cap'. 4, the hest object of a Petition to the Legislature, and that
such Petition do state to the Legislature the unconstitutional and
oppressive nature of that Statute, and expose to Parliament the
falsehood of the pretexts on which it was enacted.
The Committee further beg leave to suggest, that In the ma-
naganciit of the future reitiots of the Catholics of Ireland, Clse
•be taken to have e,..r claims ler rclicf brought Infure

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firg Carib. itsd 141 free front any •
extraneous .tritter, or any deadlier/ soh-
Ad ORrC itsTiri Aro oF
Lam or .tssuma.; - -r josett at any other description, we being convinced that the dimple
and single object of obtaining uncondition4 enctunqualiaed teller
from our disabilities, should be ioiely mended to as well by the
Wednetday, an Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics Catholics themselves, as by their friends in Parliament.
of Ireland was held in Clarendon-street Chapel, Dub- " The Committee further agreed to the following Resolution:
lin, which was most numerously and respectably at-
wished t" ' Resolved—That the Committee of twenty-one gladly avail
opportunity tended, 411 the distinshed Catholic leaders beinsel.vei oafrkthepresent
thanks for the ity to return to Daniel O'Con-
g peu their markedundiminished zeal and talent with
present. Viscount Gormanstown (the Pritnier Viscount which he has prepared the plan of a Report for the formation of a
of Ireland) was called to the Chair. , New Association.
The first act of the Meeting was to re-appoint. Mr. O'Gorman " Gonville Pfreneb, Chairman ; Gormanstown, Killeen, E.
their Secretary, as, tinder the late Act, his ease exPists four- Freston, John Burke. O'Connor Don, Nicholas Mahon. C. M' Dinh-
teen days from each appointment. lla. James John Begot, Daniel O'Connell, Nicholas P. O'Gorman,
Mr. O'Gonsiaw, in returning thanks, observed, that
Wichae lliam Murphy, Michael O'Brien, Richard Shell, Philip Fogarty,
Mil Bellewephen
his Majesty's Ministers were not lying on a bed of nor.—July 11, fists. Coppinger, George Bryan, Hugh O'Con-
roses—(Lareghter and applause).—lndependeat of their
internal dissentians, which he hoped GOD ALMIDUTY
would increase—(great laughter)—their finances were
in rather a ticklish situation; John Bull was begin,.
ning to get uneasy, and a cloud appeared to be gather-
ing in the N :rth, which there was no knowing how soon
it might burst. Russia had thirteen hundred thousand
men in arms. Looking to all these cheering prospects,
it was sufficient to inspire Irishmen will hope; he hoped
they would never abandon the CALM, either by night or
day—(Great applause,.
Lord KILLERN presented the Report of the Com-
mittee, which was read by Mr. O'Gorman, why was
frequently interrupted by the loud cheering of the
Meeting. We subjoin a copy of the plan of the new
'Association :
PLAN OF THE NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.
" No. 1. As it is desirable that the proposed New Catholic As-
sociation should combine Irishmen of all religious persuasions, it
is expressly declared, that no persons professing any of the forms of
religious faith allowtd or tolerated by law, shall be excluded there.
from ; but, on the contrary, Christians of all denominations are
invited to become members thereof.

SUMMER- ASSIZES.

. WINCHESTER.
SHOOTING A SMUGGLER.
Lieut. Jaynes Pullen. an Officer in the Preventive
Service, attached to the SoUthampton station, was put
to the bar, charged on the . requisition of the Coroner's
Jury, with having, felonioesly, wilfully, and of malice
aforethought, made an assault on James Reade, on the
Sd of June, at Milton. in this county, and with having,
then and there, discharged a pistol loaded with gun.
powder and ball at the said James Reade, by wh!cli he
was m•atally wounded, and died on the following day.
William Young, an extra man in the same service, was
charged with havin4 aided and abetted the said James
Pullen in the murder of the said James Reade. Both
the prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Sedum Wane took a preliminary objcetion to the form of
the indictment.
Mr. Justice Gaut.re, after ccnsulting Mr. Justice Lirrumaxa,
said they were both agreed that. the trill should proceed, and
if the prisoners should be found guilty. if there were -any weigh
in the objection, it might be urged in arrest of judgment.
Mr. Mums stated the case for the prosecution.
Tim -thy Dawkins, a carpenter, heard the firing on
the 3d of June, while at Milton; met a number of
people coming from the cliff ; does not know whether
James Reade was among them ; Lieutenant Pullen ran
up from the cliff; there %ere two more persons with
hum ; he came up and said, " What are you up to?"
or some such words as that; one of the men answered,
" I am not up to much," or something like it ; he then
spcke to t.is men, and the others walked away from
the shore; when he had grit about ten yards further,
Lieut. Pullen ran and caught hold of one of the men
by his smock frock, and. said " Are you ready, for we
are ?" There was no answer that I heard; he then
stepped back one step and fired at him with his left
hand ; I can't say whether he had let gO the man, or
whether he had not ; when the WO was first seized, he
struggled hard to get away; I 'can't say whether he
got his frock away; there were men all round him and
at the side of him ; they were near him when he was
first caught; they were walking away, but they turned
round and looked back ; I did not see them doing any
thing else; Lent. Pullen ordered the men with him to
fire; I Was close to the deceased when he.dropped, but
I did not hear him say anything; the men with Lieut.
Fullest were William Young, and a man named
Williams ; Lieut. Pullen said " Fire l" I could not see
them fire, but I heard the firing ; the smoke from the
first came in my eyes; immediately after the second
shot, one ist the, lot of men stood to pick up the man
that was shot, and Williams sprang in with his cutlass
and chopped at him ; the min drew back.
Cross-examined :—I stood among them looking at the
Preventive men; I did not talk to them, except saying
what are you up to ? I tiw. them go by, and then I
followed them. but I did not then recognize them ; on
the next Saturday night I found I knew some of them.
Some of these men had frocks and some jackets ; none
of their faces were blacked, nor did they wear masks ;
they had no disguise of any sort ; they were in their
usual dresses.—Re-examined :—There might be about
40 or 50 men in the lot.
• William Gibbs gave similar evidence.
John Holbrook, a boatman in the Preventive Service, had been
in Lobjl_Hole, on the night of the 3d June last ; his evidence was
of no importance to the case.
Mr. Goddard, the Surgeon. said he attended the wounded man,
and extracted the ball; before he died, he informed the witness
that it was Mr. Evans, of the Preventive Service, who had shot
him when only five yards from him. This closed the case for
the prosecution.
Lieut. Pullen was then asked by the Judge, whether
be had anything to say in his defence? towhich he an-
swered in the affirmative, and immediately proceeded
to read a written paper, containing a narrative of the
events of the night. The paper stated, that on the
night of the 3d of June, Lieutenant Pollen having cause
to suspect that a smuggler's boat would be soon ashore,
was on the watch to prevent it ; he bad stationed his
men on different parts of the coast under- his com-
mand, and on hearing the signal pistols fired by.some
of his men who were stationed near Lob's-hole, he pro-
ceeded thither, where he found a number of men had
been assembled—these men he met on his way,
and succeeded in capturing one of them, who was,
however, rescued from him. Having given some
orders to his men at Lob's-hole, he proceeded
after the company of men who had, retreated up
the Cliff, and succeeded in capturing another of the
company after some resistance. H. had no sooner
done so, than the man called out to his companions to
rescue him, and the company, which was fainted of
men with their faces blacked, and their persons other.
wise disguised, and armed, some with large sticks, and
vane few with pistols, formed into a body, and using
the most violent, abusive, and threatening language,
said they would have their comrade again. He warned
them to desist, and observing a man whose face was
blacked, appear about to lead on this company to the
attack of himself and his men, he attempted to seize
that person, when he was struck u ith great violence
over his arms, and a man from behind aimed, with all
his force, a blow with a heavy bludgeon at his head,
from the fatal consequences of which he was fortunate
enough to be saved by one of his men, Wm. Williams,
who caught and parried the blow with his cutlass; at
the same moment another man in the ranks of the coin-.
piny rushed forward-with a pistol, which he discharged,
and some of the others cried out, 64 We have pistols as
well as you ;" and feeling under their smock frocks,
and in their coats, as if searching for their pistols, and
fearing that the very few men he had with him,
would be overpowered and killed, unless he and his
very small party had recourse to their fire-arms,
he did order them to fire among the company.—
The fire seemed to have taken effect upon one man.
who tell; the company, however, still continued their
resistance, using at the same time the most abusive lan-
guage, and the most violent threats, and he believed
tut lie aid his men would then have been over-
po a ered,but that some
tive station came up '
then tett rated. Ilc
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la ;ten to tnenearert noose, anti speletitirni alas veZa
and t:+ :t everyassistanee should 'be rendered to him.
Ile declared most .solemnly chit it would always give
him the greatest pain •to have caused the cleatllick any
individual, and nothing but the most pressing any ab-
solute necessity should have compelled him to give the
orders to fire.. Under these circumstances, be trusted
the Jury would take his situation into their most.wriocs
consideration, that they wr.uld remember the difficulties
and dangers by which he had been snrrogrided, anl
would he convinced that the facts which he had dis?
closed formeda sufficient justification, of his conduct,
and fully entitled both himself and his fellow-prisoners
to an honourable acquittal.
Wm. Young said; he had nothing to add to what his fellow.pti-
sneer had said ; he declared he was innocent.
Two persons of the commissioned boatmen, in the service of the
Customs, were examined, for the parpore of-showing that the men
called the Company had assembled for the illegal purpose of land-
ing smuggled goods.
William Williams proved the rescue of Isaac Riede, the man
whom Lieutenant Pullen had first seized; and the subsequent
violent conduct of the Company, as described in the statement
read in defence.
Mr. Justice Osaziza summed up the evidence, and explained
the law to the Jury, who immediately returned a verdict of Man-
slaughter against lAeutenaat Pullen, and acquitted Young.
Mr. Justice Gasstaa thee said, he would reserve the objections
taken to the Inquisition, and would consider them as having been
made in arrest of judgment. In the meantime, his Lordship in-
timated, he would accept bail for the appearance of Lieutenant
Pullen, himself in X2OO, and two others in XlOO each.
The required bail was immediately offered and accepted, and
both the prisoners were discharged.
Ames Pitman,. charged with having in the night of
$d June last, at the pari,l2 of Milton, with other per- ,
sons at present unknown, assembled together and ob-
structed Lieutenant James Pulling, Wm. Young, .and
others in his Majesty's Preventive Service in the execu-
tion of their duty, was sentenced to six calendar months'
bard labour in the House of Correction.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ARCHERY.

Tug Kruo's Bory Guaas.--For some years past, the Ravel
Company of Archers, his Alajesty's Body Guard,. have shot
matches between the married and bachelor members of the Com-
pany, with nearly altnate success • and on Tuesday last, the
match was most keenly cOstested, when, after a great deal of es-
cellent shooting, the bachelors counted 16, and the married glen
15, the last point being gained by a very close measure, decided in
favour of the bachelors.
CRICKET.

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