Star.
London, England, 1814-02-15 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION:

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A Calket Council was held this day, imolai:HA:elf
after the arrival of Mr. Fonca, as noticed in the pre-
ceding column.
To the particulars already mentioned to be brought
by Mr. FISHER, we have to add, that the Emperors
of RUSSIA and AusrutA, and the King of PLLUSSIA,
were at Troyes, whit:ier Lord CASTLEILICAGH had
proceeded with the result of the Conferences with
CAuLlNcoutt.r.

The Rus,ians arrived at Chalons on the 11 th
instant. The Cossacks were, on the same day at
Saone and other towns in the vicinity, about 70:nles
from Paris.

4 Private Letter from Chatillon-sur-Seine, dated
on the 6th instant, mentions that, with one exception,
the Allies have met with no sort of obstruction from
the Fret)* who remain perfectly neutral ; and that
the Allies are supplied with provisions, and every
thing necessary in abundance. The House of th*
inditidual who fired upon the Allies in one of the towns
through which they passed, was burnt to the ground,
as an example to the French. This punishment was
considered t cry moderate.

A Morateur of the 12th is said to be in town, con.
raining a confirmation of the reported Battles of the
10th and 11th.

_ The New York Papers, of the "18th of January,
notice a report of a partial engagement between the
President frigate and the British frigate ORPHIUN in
which action the ORNMUS was said to have lost be.
tween 60 and 70 men in killed and wounded ; bat the
report is contradicted in subsequent publications.

Some of the letters by the Fair American cartel
were delivered from the Post Office yesterday; those
however obtained are few in number, and all of them,
we believe, unsealed. The most important political
fact they contain is the information that the Plenipo-
teritiaries which are to treat on behalf of the United
States at Gottenburgh, are not to set sail from the
other side of the Atlantic until April hen.

We hear that Sir CHARLIN STUART, K.B. our Mi.
nister at Lisbon, is appointed Minister at the Hague;
and THOMAS SYnewunm, Esq. is appointed Minister
At Lisbon.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR
SIR—As an act of justice to a family suffering un-
der a most distressful calamity, I ask your insertion
of the following contradiction of a very false report
which has been attached (I trust from inconsiderate-
ness only) to some statements which have been given
of the ' late dreadful conflagration of the Custom.
House.

Sir, it has been asserted threGeneral KELLY had
returned itGal a convivial party very late in the even.
ing preceding the fire, and that he went to bed so
far dispossessed of the powers of recollection, as to
have left hil candle burning in his room.
This is not the truth—for the General has not
dined out since the 20th of January, and had been
confined to the house by an asthmatic complaint,
which (as I perceive you have correctly stated in
your paper of yesterday) first attacked him when he
was in Spain, tinder Sir JOHN MOORE, and was sub-
sequently fixed upon him by a very, sev.ere coil
which he caught when with his regiment jr Wal- •
cheren ; so that when under the influence of this ma-
lady, temperance may be considered as the only
tenure on whic.li General KELLY holds even the power
of breathing—but, Sir, at all events, on the evening •
alluded to, he had not been in the c. mp4ny of any
convivii party either abroad or at .aime, but bad
very sightly p :rticipated in the moderate cheer of
'he tamily supper-table.
Your statement 'of the most prom:nent facts rela.
Live to the col.flagration, is as accurate, I believe, as
any that has been given, except in on:. particular :
all the family had not arrived at 1-41 t past twelve : a
dart sat up for Miss KELLY, whr hod that evening
gone to Mr. SrxwAliT'S house in Alderrnanbury, for
, the purpose of .aking leave of Lady Isaast.La KING,
cwho was ahlutto leave town on the .iaturd ty morn-
!ing ; and it was nearly half-past one o'clock before
she returned. Previous, however, to going to. her
own chamber, she, according. to her usual custom,
went round the apartments, and all was safe.
I write this letter, Sir, at the instance of a late
Commissioner of the Customs, a friend to the family,
who observed, that as I was in possession of these cir-
cums'tantes, I could have no objection to aptly them
in contradiction of the report ; certainly 1 can have •
none, as I do it upon the most positive evidence of
-the truth ; Mrs. WRITE and my son having taken tea
and supped with the family cm the same evening,
and having-waited some time for the return of Miss
KELLY.

But, Sir, I also make the communication under the
impression of a feeling of duty which will not suffer
me to shrink from the publicity of this effort to ar.
rest the progress of so unwarrantable an asset tion as
that to which I have adverted, and which has add' .t
most oppressively to the distress that now overwhelms
the family ; for in truth, Sir, it is but to little pur.
pose that a man is rescued from the flaks, it his
reputation is to e thus wai.tonly bianded with ca.
lumnious opprobi tin/.
I am sorry, S:r, th it I have taken up so much of
rur Paper with so painful a subject, but es an evil
report cannot be ton soon cs,un di acted, I have nut
waited fur the publication ot the evidence already be.
lore the Commissioners, which, I presume, will at
once set at rest all the vague assertions o .4( ;.
and, among the rest, that ot which this afflicted hind,"
have just cause to complain.
In. his present dangerous state the General canroe
vindicate himself ; his sisters and bro.tier are iu.iier
my root, and 1 should think that I nut regarded
the rights of hospitality, were Ito resist the
,c.laina
which their affi t gives than to this nitcrvaititet
on the part of, Sit, your obedient servant,
it, Trinity-sluarr, Feb. L 4. . • • HENRY WHIM

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, FEBRUARY IL
THE OPERA HOUSE.
wATEns v TAY UM.

Mr. RICUARDS, supported by Mr. JOHNSOg, on
Saturday made :4 motion GPI the part of the plaintiff
in this cause, praying for a suspension or poslyaie-
ment of the intended sale (d the Opera House con-
cerns, now under advertisement for sale, pursuant. to
a late decrer of this Court.

Sir 6A MULI. Rostit.Ly resisted this motion, as ut-
te:ly unfoundefl in fair ptactice.or justice, as it ap-
peared tf 'V the pl iintiff seemed to wish to become
the Manap,er of the Theatre himself instead of the
defers.: mt. and Wlti the party creating the delay,
since ab ,ve thirty, or at least twenty warrants he-
necessary to erifia-ce his personal examinations
on nit.-rrogatories under the decree.
The Learned Counsel animadverted on the con,
tr wince of blending this case with the Opera-house,.
with which it had no connection whatever, obServing
:hat this motion ought, if feasable, to be -made be-
fit,. we Master of the Rolls.
Mr. MILLS, the plaintiff's Solicitor, disclaimed his
having aJvised it, but the contrary.
The' M Lion was dismissed.—Term ended.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FE3RUARY 14.
Load ELLxNBOROUGH commenced the Sittings of
Li.ety .;erm for the County of .11iddlesex, this day,
••
at Westminster H,ll.

I'REENIAN V. LAMBERT AND OTIIERS.

Tlii3 was an action by the Mayor of Pontefract.
against the defendants, who were Petitioners against
a Peii,rn in Parliament for the Borough of Ponte-
fract, to recover costs of defending themselves in a
Committee of the House of Commons. The clues-
tin dei.ended upon the constructionlipf several Acts
of Parliament, and it was agreed to teserve it in the
shape of a special else.