Star.
London, England, 1807-03-07 00:00:00

SOUTEI AMERICA.

It is %%id] regret we announce to our Readers,
that though the troops proceeding thither have been
!mire time embarked, every Officer but the Corn
mander in Chief on board, or in Portfmouth, and the
bind favourable, the Expedition has not yet failed.
The amount of the force about to fail, dues not
exceed soon men, and confills cE
One Troop of Mule Artillery.
-• One Company of Fort Artillery.
The 89th Regiment, and Detachments and Recruits fcr all
the Regiments in South America.

In the STAR of the 24th tilt. we gave the Staff of
the South American at my, as it was then handed
about in the firfl military circles ; great changes and
new arrangements have fence taken place—at prefent
the Staff is as follows :
Lieutenant General WM[TLOCI:C, 89th, Commander in Chief,
probably with the brevet rant; of General.

Major-General Guava it, late of loth Rtferve, 2d in Com.nand,
probably with the rank of Lieutenant General.
Brigadier General BED asru u, 88th regiment.
• Brigadier General ACKLAND, Colt:are= Guards. •
tirigidier General Sir SAND L Aucit mu rv, lc th Font.

Colonel Lord &AT T, 89th. to have the rank of Brigadier.
Colonel CNA WYUND. 6otb, to he Deputy Adjutant Gencr.l.
tlajor Teo r I in, 83d. Affillant Deputy.
Quarter Mailer General—Not appointed. •

Major TUC KZ., 714 MGRant Deputy ditto.
Dr. CORDON, Deputy Infpcdtor of Hufpitalc. •
Two Phyfieians, two Staltdurgeons, and many othet'Mcdiesl
People. •
Commifrary Gencrtl—Nnt yct appointed.. . .
Pay mailer General —Di t• :

Hon. Lieut. Col. CAI:of :AN, Igth, Lieut. COL lwaltll ft, and I
FLClgns WI: V AkD and EMltll.l I f IL, o[ ON OtlifttS, to ix
A idrs du Camp.

Capt. It .tir 7tn Vo, Coloriial and Pfitnitt
CUL TORII/VS, 89th, Piiii ery Secretary.
Catt. rm.:7ONY., Chief Engineer.

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There win be A brawing Room at St. J arTICVS do
flaniday next, the txtb niaAnt.

Report lays, that the force for the expedition under
Sir ARTHUR WI LLEst.ty will be affembled fpecdily.
We have heard that that popular Officer, the Mar-
quis of HUNTLEY. goes out to command in Canada,
vice General Hew rt a, deceafed.
Lieutenant a:neral FRASER will very loon ftt out
for his Government, Staff.

The id battalion of the 39th have jufl arrived from
Ireland.
We lived on Thurfdav, bOftiflalce, that General
GRosvawna was prefented to his MAJISTY, upon his
being appointed Commander in Chief of the troops
',I South America : he was prefented upon his being
4opointed to the command of the 97th Regiment.
Genera: IVHITLLOCriPwas prefented to his MA ?STY,
upon his being appointed Commander in Chiet of
troops in South America.
On Wednefday evening the guard on duty at the
gnat d-honfe clofe to Buckingham gate, were drawn
nt ac anal to falute his MAJESI it on his leaving the
Queen's Palace. It being very late before his Majelly
lett the (teen's Palace, his grooms drove his Majefly's
chariot pail the Palace, to exercife the horfes. The
Officer of the guard millook this for his Majefly let-
ting off, and gave orders to the men to prefent arms,
the drum and fife of courfe played, which induced
the party of light-horfe, waiting at the bottom of
Contlitution Hill to efcort his Majetty, to fet off with-
out him full (peed on the road to clear the way.—The
Kt .n had in confequence to travel without a guard.
An Order of Council has been Wiled. allowing his
AJFSTY'S fubjetts to trade to and from the Ifland of
Curac fubjeCt to the duties, rates, and regulations,
the lame as aloft impofed on the Welt India Mantis.
Like allowing the growth or manufaCture of the
fame ifland, to be imported into any ports of Great
Bliktin and Ireland,

TRIAL OF SIR NOME POPHAM.

This very interefling trial commenced yeflerday
morning eiaaly at nine o'clock, on hoa►d the Gla
diator ; the proceedings were condu4led with much
folemnit y. The crowd wa, very conliderable, among
other.ditlinguiffied perfonars, we noticed the Earl of
CAVAN, VirCOIIIIS MELVILLE, Sir GEORGE. PREvosr,
Generals AUCKLAND, GOWER, ELLIOT, EVILEIGH,
Admiral PATTEN, and a great coocourfe of naval
and military charaaert, and Mcilis. HUSKISON,
STURGES BOURN!, BAXILOW, &C.

The profecution was finifhed by one o'clock, by
the Honourable Mr. Pavis, Connie' for the Admi-
ralty—Sir Hosts was very firm, and in contefling
fame points with Mr.
.11.10/IS, (hewed great acutenels
and ability. Admiral YOUNG, the Prefident, told Sir
HOME that he might hays the indulgence of a feat,
but of this he did not avail himfelf.
Lord Mst.vit.ce had a chair near to Admiral
YOUNG, and looked in the belt health and fpit its : he
occafionally walked the quarter-deck, and joined in
converfation with different officers. Molt of the
cisteitions were put by Admirals STANHOPE, ROWLEY,
Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, and the Prefident.

The Court was adjourned to eleven this morning,
pro forma: it is underflood that Sir Home cannot
pmceed in his defence till Monday : the defence
is of great length, and we are told will difplay great
ability, this may be readily expo led when it is known
that Dr. MiAernua and Mr. LAVIE the connect,
gave their lid in drawing it up.

The decifion of the Houfe of Lords. on Wednef
day, on the appeal, HACKWELL L. jkFFRIES, is of
great importance to the inferior Clergy. The canfe
arole ut of a will, by which upwards of 200,0001.
were dilated to l-e didrilotted among p.or Clergy.
men of the Ellablithed Church with large families.
The term poor Clergymen was confidered by the appel
!ant as fo indefinite, that the will could not he exe•
cuted, and that ground aff.,rded a quellion of litiga-
tion, which occupied the Can't of Chancery for feveral
years, but was at latt determined in favour of the will.
The decree of the Court of Chancery has now obtained
the foietion of the bighen Tribunal in the Country,
and the intention of the benevolent teltator, wilt of
mole be carried into execution.

The Committee of the Houle of Commons, ap-
pointed to inquire into precedents of cafes of expel-
led Membets, in reference to the CAC of Mr. CAW•
THORNS, exrell‘d from the Houle of Commons in
1796, and eleeted to ler ve in the prefent Pat liament,
for Lancaller, have made their Report.
The Cafes which the Committee have crllefted as
relevant, amount to 66 ; and thefe they have arrang
ed into five Claes, according to the nature of the
charge, viz.—
r. Offences againft the Sate, and fraud: if:rolling the public.
a. OffeilecS agaiult thc Houle.

3. ether tiffcners.
4. Dirqualificatiets by Stitute.

5. (MKT klifqualibc.ations.
The firlt dais i; divided into two, viz.—after legal
conviction and without legal conviction ; and, of the
former, the Report Dates only four cafes, viz. Sir
Thomas Strickland, expelled in 1676, and Sir
mon Swale, 1678, as Popilh Recufznts ; Mr. Wilkes,
in 1769, for a lediii,ais libel, and Mr. Cawthnrne,
the relent party, in 1796, for fraudulent milappli-
cation of the public money, as Colvinel of Militia.—
Neither Sir Thomas Strickland, nor Sir Solomon
Swale, were ever re elated. Mr. Wilkes was re
elected in 1774, and is a cafe in point, except in
I.:gar(' to the difference of the offence. Of the
latter, viz —Offences againli the State, and frauds
affetting the public, without legal conviction, the re•
port enumerates 25 cafes, viz. Sir Robert, Fluid,
Sir Giles Monperfon, Mr. William Sandys, Sir Jdhn
Jacob, Sir Thomas Webb, Mr. Edmund Windham,
Mr. Connilby, Mr. Long, and Mr. Hook, for being
concerned in Patents of Monopolies, voted grie-
vances by the Houle. None of dick were re-elated.
Mr. Piercy, Mr. Wilmot, Sir Hugh Pollard, and
Mr. Albion' nhani, for high treafori and milprilion of
treafun. None of thefe four .were reelected. Mr.
llntchinfon, Mr. Francis Laffells, Mr. Robert
lop, Mr. Luke -Rohintnn, for having fat as judges
tin King Charles I. None of thefe were re eleCtecf.
John Knight arid Mr. Duncombe, fur falfe inchife-
merits of Exchequer Bills. Two perfois, viz. John
Kinglit and Sir Charles Duncombe, were repeatedly
returned to Parliament, after that event, hut the
Deport does not notice, whether they were the iden-
tical Members expelled. Lord Ranelagh, for ruif.
application of the public money, as Paymafter of the
Forces, not re elected. Mr. Ridge, for frauds and
abules in contracts with Government, not re eleeted.
Mr. Steel, afterwards Isllr Richard Steel, expelled in
1713, fur fcandalous and fedirious libels, returned for
Boroughbridge in 1714. Mr. Foller and Mr. Car-
negie, for high treason, not re elected. Mr. Wilkes,
for fear.dalour and leditious libels, re-elected.

The following are the queßions for the Bachelors'
pt ize-eset cites in Latin prole, at Cambridge, this year:
For the Senior Bacheluol—nrims morn civil,'" CAremJet an car-
rul.V.Zl former ? .
MiJdl liachelors—t WM Medi pr ft I;km-we quantum nu-c
J•': Arum cpia ?
Thofe who erercife any branch of trade are able
to conceive of the wonders which al Ile from the ag-
gregate of the fmallea things. Li erasure has re-
cently furnifhed an intlance of the wonders of accu•
mutation worthy of being recorded. Ten'Th,orfand
Copies of 1)r. GREGOR Y% NeW Cyclopedia were
Printed within a tingle year, an example of typo
graphic difpatch which has perhaps never been
exceeded. Every copy of Ibis capital work contains
Two Hundred and Fifty Sheets of Letter Prep, and
One Hundred and Fifty Engravings, confequently
it would confume neatly fix thoulana teams of paper,
or as much as would load forty waggons. The En-
gravings and their collateral expences would. as may
eafily be calculated, coil Nine Thonfand Pounds,
and the whole \Vol k nearly Twenty•five Thoufand
Pounds, giving contlant employment for R year to
nearly Two Hundred Perfons ! Such are the miracles
to which the liberal patronage of Literatute gives
rife ; and we are proud to lay, that inch things, in
every fenfe, could be perfottned in no other ctuntry
in the world.

LINEA,

WNITTEES ON VISITING THE TOMB OS JULIA.

ST A TOUNO NOSLSWAS.

Seel thou that fod, which tears bedew ? ;kJ
'Twas there I laid my love to relt :
Remembrance, fad, will oft renew

The aching thoughts that read my knit.
0 Jolt A ! dear departed Maid!

if friths ever earthward flee.
Thine, Purely, oft has palling raid

A figh to Cunftancy and Mc.
Oft have I wander 'd round thy tomb.
Oft have I thought of days now pall,
Olt wifit'd that Fate had (card my doom,
With your lilt figh t' have breath'd my Taft.
One fltrouti had then our afhes grac'd,
Your talent grave been alto mine ;
That heart to your's been elafely plac'd,

Which ever was and dill is thine.
But near's the time, th .t hour draws nigh,

When, as foretells this breaking heart,
My Spirit lhall to JULIA fly,
To meet, ah ! never more to part!

A Correfpnndent, who has.tead with ranch alien.
Lion Lord SELKIRK'. Thoughts on Emigration, fog
gels, as this Empire mull, from its extended Colonial
Conquer-le, be neceffitated to keep up a large perma-
nent military force, that (mall allotments of Crown,
or Waite Lands, in the interi..r. parts of the kingdom,
thanld bi offered to the Highlanders for cultivation,
under agreement, in cafes of neglea or aband mment;
that the fime (hall Levert to the original proprietors.
A plan of this nature w• uld render produttive
corn, vegetables, &c. (*rne of the dormant lands of
the country, and in a century, perhaps, add a million
of inhabitants to its numbers ; of the ptontife of
which we are now deprived by the encouragement
given to emigration.
A Court of Common Council was held on Thurf-
day at Guildhall, at which the LORD MAYnR, fever al
Aldermen, and a great number of Commoners at.
tended. •

Mr. Deputy BIRCH brought forward a motion to
petition both Houfes of l'atliament againtt the Bill
for enabling Papills to fill Commiffions in the artry
and navy, and to profefs the Roman Catholic Reli-
gion, under the fandion of law, which was fecouded
by Mr. SAMUEL Dixow.

Mr Quin followed in a fpeech of confiderable
length againft the motion. After a variety of argu-
ments, he conjured the Court not to place thernalves,
at this enlighreiged period of civilized fociety, by
agreeing to it, in a defcending, inlicad of an afcending
fcale ; and call off the prejudice:7, antipaihy, and
bigotry of the darker ages. He earnellly exhorted
them not to lit in inquifition on the confeicnces of
their fellow creatures and cr,untr ymen ; and not to
carry the fpirit of religious and political flavery irPo
the fanduary of that Goo, whole fervice was perfed
freedom.

Mr. Btu. fpoke againfl the motion. He did not
feel all thole horrors at granting certain indulgences.
to the Catholics which' had been deftaibed by the
wroth!. Deputy, neither did he confider the men del-
titute of honour or honelly. He was petfuaded they
regarded the fandity of an oath as much as other men,
whether it was made to a Catholic or a Proteflant.
He read feveral patlages in favour of the Catholic•.—
Mr. Belt concluded with moving the previous quellion.
Mr. S. DixoN fupported the queftion. He °Wiry-
ed, that according to opinions he had heard, a King
aught always to change his opinion ro that of the
majority of his fuhjed.s. In that cafe, a Sovereign
might change as often as B Inaparte himfelf : he
might be it Muffulman in Egypt, a Turk at Conflan-
tinople, and lo on, according to time and circum-
(lances. It tvaiwell known that the Catholics were
not to be trotted, for they did not allow, like Pro-
tenants, that the King ought to be at the head of the
Church as well as of the People. Could he once be
perfuaded that they would 'be reilrained within
bounds, he would like to fee them participaze in the
'odd thing; of the country.

tgs•
Mr. SLADE was againli the motion. He Paid the
worthy Deputy reminded him flrongly of a Phan-
tafmagotia; he was always Winging forward fume
phantom ur other to frighten them with.. S time
ago he alarmed them with treafon and feditton, and
now he wifhed to tertify them • with great apptehelt•
lion and danger from the Catholics: The worthy
Deputy had conjured up the Pope and the Devil, mid
he only wanted the Preteader, to make his machinery
complete. Mr. Slade thought the better the Catholics
were ufed the lets there was to fear from them.
Mr. Alderman kowcaorr fupported she previous
queilion. He trotted, thatin that enlightened dais
we (hoold not heatek)f perfecutiOn, but that m all his
Majelly's fubjeas the rights of juftice Would be ad-
miniflered. He apprehended no danger. fiom the
introduaion of perfolis of the Roman Catholic per.
fuafion into the army and navy.

Mr. WAITH MAN delivered his fentirneritc at length
againll the original motion, and ufed many convin-
cing arguments on the uccafion, as well as leveral
apt quotations from Locke.
Mr. Alderman WATsoN faid;the Catholics of Ire.
land only rtquelleii to defend this country, and to
prote6l it against the general enemy of every religion.
Ireland had 500,000 men to offer. Thefe ivere to
contend agaiiill an enemy who was the foe both of
Proteltant and Catholic ; and, in fait, of every nation
upon earth. Can an initanee be (hewn- wherein the
hint had failed in their ditty? The worthy Alderman
Paid he knew them well, they were brave and manly
in the field, and as anxious as any men to defend the
BIWA empire. He therefore would fuppoit
,the
previous queltion.

Mr. Alderman Comas contended at cntne length
againll the do trines laid down by the wnttliy De-
puty, and lamented that he had condueled himfelt
with 10 much warmth. He was afraid, after what
had been advanced by the Deputy againft the Secre-
tary at War, that there was fomenting like party ma-
lice in the bufinefs.

On 4 divifiun there appeared, for the original mo-
tion—

3 Aldermen, 31 Commoner, s Teller, - - 36
Againft it, 7 Aldermen, 44 Commormrs, s Tellers SI

1%41,44 againa M. Butca's moths, • - z 7