Star.
London, England, 1822-01-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:

Fatootrrn, Jas. &--Wind &&W.--Arrired the Citnithlba
bliTAierny, from Cork. Sailed the Reward, bleu a, for It*
Maks ; Ealing Grove, nutrias, for Dominica; and John and
Richard, Duncan, for Tobago; also the Lady Arabella packet,
for I.l4tion ; For packet, fur the Islands; and Camden packet,
far the Brasile, each with a Mail.
PIAMOVIIIII, Jas. 5.0.-WilOd S.W.—Arrived the Placid*
Faun:Lawn, from London for Genoa, with less of boats and w
bulwarks, and leaky; also his Majesty's ship Cyan% from Ire-
land. This morning the wind was E. but shortly changed to
&W. with the appearance of a gale.
The Cr aus,whibt in company with the tender of the South.
arts, off the coast of Ireland, fell ip with and captured a valuable
smuggler, laden with silks, girt, and tobacco, supposed to be
' worth £40,000.
Port:moues, Jam. 4. —Wind N.N.E.--Salled a number of
the eutwar&bound ships, among them the following :—Belle
Alliance, for India; Sir David Scott, for &mound China; Nes-
tor, for the Mauritius; Nymph, for Naples; Helena. foe Mont.
serrat ; James Laing, Sir Kdward Hamilton, Princess Charlotte.
Dabadots Planter, and Tulloch Castle, for Jamaica; Britannia,
for Grenada ; Britannia, for Pernambuco ; and Elizabeth, -for
Africa.

DIAL, Jaw. 4.—This morning the wind got round to S.S.E.
and about noon shifted to the E. N.E and blowing so hard that
the ships could not get their anchors. The Briton, Mater ; Dark
Cora • Barnett, Scars; Flora, -Mimes; and several others out:
ward-bound, have cut and proceeded down Channel. The Ann,
Wntswoas, for Sierra Leone, got her anchor and proceeded down
ChanneL—Seven o'clock—lt still blows hard. The Berwick.
shire and Duke of York East Indismen appear to ride well, and
most probably will get their anchors as men as the tide slack*.
DARTMOVIIIt JAN. S.—Arrived off this port the Royalist, of
London, for St. Jaw's, New Brunswick, with stern knocked in,
loss of stern boat, sails, ate. and has sailed for Loadon. Arrived
the Ann, Sr. Cam, from Jersey for Ancona, with loss of boat
and sails, and leaky, and the Mate washed overboard.
Maaaart, JAIL 4.—. The Minerva, Ramer, from Limerick,,
ran on shore last night ea Foreness Rock, and will be obligelt
tighten, when it is hoped she will be got oft: The Adriana Ja.
cobs, Rees, from Amsterdam for Port Mahon, is brought in
here by a boat, having been out of her course and was running
on Margate Sand.
WHITIPIAVII3I, Jaw. 2.--Arrived the Queen Charlotte, Mos.
aov, from Dumfries for Sr. John's, New Brunswick, out eight
weeks: she had had very bad weather, and had nearly drifted
on the Irish coast. - -

RAstsaAra, JAN. 4.—Arrived, the Adeons, Ltotn, from Lon-
don for Londonderry, having ilipt her cable in the Downs • the
Twee Gebroeders, Umtata, from Riga for Cadiz, with ass of
anchor and cable, sails, &c. The Grant, Omen. from Hull,
bag lost an anchor and cable off the North ForelarsL The Doris,
Voss, from Hamburgh for Gibraltar, has been on the Goodwin
Sands, with loss of anchors, cables, and rudder, and is on short
to the westward of this harbour : if the weather moderates,
hopes are entertained that she may be got off nest tide.
luawacit, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Panope, Moore from tie
Forth, with loss of anchor and cable ; Anne and Sarah, Rooms,
from Hamburgh, with loss of ditto and windlass paub upset;
and Henry Freeing packet, with a Mall from Holland. The
BARaow, from Memel, went on shore on the West Rocks
yesterday, but was got off by four smacks, with loss of anchor
and able. _ _

YA %MOUTH, JAN. 4.—Tuesday, between ten and eleven o'clock,
a colds, in w►ich were four Corton men, and four men who
bad been lately %II necked on that beach, proceeded to sea, for
the purpose of obtaining a passage for the shipwrecked men, on
board some vessel bound to the North, from whence they came.
They soon fell in with a brig, on board of which they intended
taking their passage; a rope was thrown them, which was caught
by one of the men in the boat, and they held en for some littler
time, when the brig made so muck way, that the•coble was
drawn under water, when the whole tight were instantly ina-
owned in the sea, and three of them drowned. The three men
lost were the unfortunate ones who were Wendy wrecked in_
the Mary Ann, of Sunderland: A similar accident occurred
here the same morning, !attended with the like melancholy
effects :—About four o'clock, three men, named Antis, Wright,
and Wade, rowed down the harbour In a boat, for the purpose
of procuring cosh from a wreck near the North-star Battery,
and on going over the north part of the Bar, at the harbour's
mouth, their boat upset, when the whole three were drowned.
Curzon-House, JAx. 4.—Ships Entered Inwards :—The Na-
vigator, from Venice; Mount Stone, from Lisbon; Sarah, from
Antwerp ; Prince, from Gottenburgh ; Eliza, from Riga; Prins
of Orange, from Stettin; Reapers, from Daniels; 13elluncle,
from Stangate Creek ; Mehra, from Riga ; Pomona, from Peters-
burgh ; Friends, from ; liero, from Petersburglt; Jobs,
from three; Hope, from ditto; Hannah, frosts Dublin; and 1,01).
den packet, from Limerick. Entered Outwards:—The Mar.
garet, for Havannah ; Ardent, for Belfast; and Victoria, fee
Jamaica. Cleared Ourwards:—The Withelraina, fee Eisineur;
Ellice, for Cork; Nimble, for Lisbon ; and Ernest, for Bahia.

Monday last, as the King George smack wee en her pastas,
up (rum Leith, one of the top blocks gave way, and struck is
seaman, of the name of Golan: Slam., who was working on thp
rigging, So violently on the head, chat he fell upon deck, and died
en the spot.
! During the late gales from S.S.E. the sea ran so tremendously
high on the Hampshire coast, that the village of Keyhaven was
completely inundated. The inhabitants were driven from their
first Soots, and tut breakers ran so high in the very streets of
the village, that at one time the small boats could not venturs.to
row from house to house.
Yesterday morning a rencootte took piece in St. Martin's-Line,
between two Gentlemen whose umbrellas had come in contact ;
they afterwards struck each other, when Lieutenant %mutt
R.N.' one of the.Gentlemens received a severe blow from the
fertile of the umbrella of his antagonist, which cut through his
face to the inside of his mouth. it is expected that he will pre-
fer as indictment for the assault against Mr. Ltaicays, the Gen-
tleman who thus struck him.
Lord Anson's hounds meet on l(fooday at Rack Swan.
The Duke of Yost, who has been on a visit to the Earl of
Wessrmostat so, at Ap:horpe, near Stamford, honoured the Mae-
quis of EXICTAL on Sunday last, by dining with his Lordship
and a distinguished party at Burleigh I louse. On the following
day his ROYAL HIGHNESS the Duke of RUTLAND, the Marquis
Of EZATAIL, the Earls of WifiCHALIIRA and WICATAWALAND. Lord
Potsv, General Gainvaxoa, and a few other Gentlemen, formed
a shooting party on the Noble 3Jarquo's.tnanor of Easton ; and
so plentilul were the " wanderers of the wood and held," that
a cart, laden with the limits of the day, returned to Burleigh iR
the evening. His Royal Highness appeared to be a good shoe.
Some sportsmen would have called Monday a &Lusher day,
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numerous were the victims • and, besides those bagg‘d, or ratit r
corredonany were wounded:lnd left among the ‘thickeuing brakes'
to live " The bitter little that of life remained I"
Thursday his Royal Highness left flu:lrish for Belvoir Castle.
The Duke of Wat.t.u.o rost, the Earl 4 11' worst° ans.aso, and some
other Noblemen, arrived at thickish just as his Royal Highness
was starting thence, iiusi turning their carriages round, formed
part of the Royal suite. The Royal and other carriages pse
ch 64,11 Stond,turd xt one o'clock. •

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COURT OP KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 4.
LIBELS ON TILE LATE QUEEN.
THE KING v. WEAVER AND OTHERS.
This was an indictment against the defendants,
Thomas Robert Weaver, Thomas Arrowsmith, •and
William Shackell, for publishing in the Sunday News-
paper, called John Bull, five several libels of and
concerning her late Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort
of these Realms.
Mr. DENMAN, in an able and eloquent address to
the Jury, opened the case for the prosecution. He
said, that this was an indictment which his Leaped
Friend, Mr. Brougham, and himself, in the disch*ge
of their duty, had caused to be preferred against the
defendants, on behalf of her late Majesty, whom they
considered entitled as much to the protection of her
feelings and reputation; as the meanest of the subjects
of her Royal husband. In consequence of the la-
mented death of her Majesty, those official situations
which his Learned Friend and himself had held, and
which entitled them to a different station at the Bar,
bad been discontinued, and it not suiting the pleasure
of those who had the distribution of professional ho-
nours to continue their rank, the honour of conduct-
ing this prosecution had devolved upon himself, in-
stead of his Learned Friend, and not from any sup-
position that his Learned Friend had withdrawn his
sanction of the prosecution, or from his wish to throw
into much weaker hands that duty which belonged
to himself. They had found it to be their duty to
bring before the Jury, for their consideration, no less
than five publications, which they could not abstain
from doing consistently with their feelings of respect
and attachment for the dead, or with a proper regard
to the public justice of the country, or with the least
attention to the first interests of society. The Learned
Counsel, after stating the proofs he should lay before
the Jury to convince them most satisfactorily that the
defendant; were the publishers of the Paper in ques-
tion, proceeded to read the different libels, and com-
ment upon them in energetic terms as he went along.
The first libel was published in the Paper of the 25th
of February, and was contained in an article upon
Mr. Wilberforce, in the following terms—" We can-
not bear that the only House in England in which a
shagreless woman is to be received with honour,
should be the Hpuse of GOD, and that the only place
in- which her name could be pronounced without he-
sitation and a blush, should be before the table of the,
LORD."—" Amidst all the frightful consequences
which have followed, or may follow, this unhappy
discussion about the Queen, it is a consolation to think
that it has at least had the good effect of unmasking
the pious, the patriotic, and the literary pretensions'
of Mr. W. Wilberforce, who will be known to poste-
rity as the saint of the 19th century, who wrote a
book against cards and playhouses, and published a
speech for admitting a woman convicted of an adul-
terous intercourse into a station of distinction and
honour in the prayers of the Church." The next libel
was published on the 11th of March, and was in the
following terms :—" We should be as much surprised
to see figs growing on a briar, as to see sentiments of
duty, propriety, or modesty in the Queen. For what
purpose she Olinks fit now to assume those qualities,
we cannot guess, but we can tell her that-the result
will be to disgust the Public ten times more than her
violent, undutiful, and seditious conduct has hitherto
done. We think it unnecessary to add a syllable
more, except to entreat our Readers to keep their
eyes fixed on this new manoeuvre, and to be on their
guard against what the character and principles of
the Queen convince us is but a new device of mis-
chief. Whenever we see Old Father Thames change
his course, and flow back again from Westminster to
Henley Midge, we shall believe that the Queen is
returning to a due sense of her domestic duties, her
private honour, and her public station."—The next
libel was published on the Bth of April, and was as
follows The Queen has been declared guilty of
adultery by the highest 'Faunal in the country. The
Queen is degraded, and her name excluded from the
Liturgy: The Queen has admitted th•justice of all
this, and has taken the price of her shame. In short, the
Queen has fallen into oblivion, and had she one spark
of decency, one feeling of remorse in her whole com-
position, there she would remain. But no; callous,
heartless, and hardened as she is, she is making great
and frightful struggles to be received into society ;
knowing her assurance and insensibility,this does not at
all surprise us, but that two respectable women are to be
found to aid and abet her in her monstrous efforts to de-
moralise the country, does, indeed, fill us with wonder.
Party feelings, we all know, carry men great lengths;
hut we never did suppose that they could have led,
or rather driven, Lord Jersey to have suffered, and
Lord Grey to have ordered, their respective wives '
to visit a profligate woman, who has been de..
clared guilty of adultery in open Court, ac."—
In the Paper of the 14th of May, the following al-'
leged libel appeared :—" It is a fact, incontroverti-
ble, that we never noticed any female whose name
had not been previously printed is the Times and
Uronicle, as associates and supporters of the Queen.
In analysing those Ladies' characters, after they.had
volunteered them for the sake of the most abandoned
of her sex, we did justice to the thousands and tens
of thousands of modest and unpretending females
who shuddered at the vices and profligacy of the
Queen, and who, but for our -salutary explanations,
might have been induced, by the high sounding
titles of Duchesses and Countesses, to have wavered
in their belief of the Queen's guilt, and have been be-
trayed into the infectious vapour of Brandenburgh
ILJuse. At the success of our efforts, in the cause of
morality, we rejoice; and we promise our Readers,
that every woman who is bold enough to brave the
contaminating association with the Queens and whose
natne shall previously appear blazoned forth in the
Papers as her companion, shall in like manner be
elposed and laid open to public inspection, public
obloquy, and public contempt." And the last al-
leged libel appeared on the 27th of May, and was
in the following terms, under the head " King's
Theatre :"—" Cold, however, as has been the recep-
tion Of the Queen at other places, where, as Mrs.
James, she ventured to sit amongst decent women,
the mortification, the neglect, and silent contempt
given her, must have been light compared with the
pangs which she must have suffered when she heard
the cries .of Out, out Sharine, . shame Be
of r —' Get out!' which were loudly -and
sparingly shouted forth by the husbands and bro-

tilers of the respectable females present. That she
felt this marked and positive reprobation of her scan
dalous life we fully believe, for sfie get away before
the end of the second act of the Opera. If her Ma-
jesty was sufficiently sober (ito insinuation which, the
Learned Counsel said, was as foul and as base as it
was uttetly false), when she came to. the • house to
remember what happened while she was in it, she
will perceive, hat however hirelings in a one-shil-
ling gallery may be inclined to cheer wantonness
and support proffigacy for pay, that in an assembly
of women of virtue and men of honour, she must not
shew her face." Upon some of the passages of these
several publications, the Learned Counsel commented
with marked indignation. If the Press of this coun-
try, so conducted, were directed against the Govern-
ment, no Government could stand against it ; and if, a 1
on the other hand, it were countenanced by a Go-
vernment,
a more odious, a more cruel, or a more
atrocious system of despotism could. not be esta-
blished against the liberties of a people. He should
leave the case to the calm and sober deliberation of
the Jury.—The publication of the libels by the de-
fendants was proved by incontestible evidence. After
thelibels had been read,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, he appeared as
Counsel for the defendants, but it would be idle for
him to pretend to deny that many passages of these
publications were not libellous; it would be a waste
of time to attempt to contend to the contrary here;
and he should be better discharging his duty by
reserving whatever he had to offer in mitigation of
punishment, when the case should come before the
Court in another shape. •
The Cater Jounce left it to the Jury to say whe-
ther they were satisfied with the proof of proprietor-
ship and publication by the &fen lants, and the
Jury, after a few minutes deliberation, found all the
defendants Guilty.

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