Star.
London, England, 1822-11-20 00:00:00

DOVER, NOVEMBER 19.

Their Royal Highnesses the Princess AuourrA
and the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, arrived here this day,
about twelve o'clock, in four carriages, under a Royal
salute, from London, and alighted at Wright's Shit,
Inn. Owing to the boisterous state of the weather
their Royal Highnesses havedeferred their deOarture
till to-morrow morning, when they will embark on
board the Dasher Government ,:team-packet, frit.
Calais. Their Royal Highnesses this afternoon visited
the Heights and the fortifications, attended by tha
Officers of the Garrison.

THE MERMAID!

COURT OF CHANCERY-THIS D.Y.

Mr. HART moved tie LORD CHANCIA.:.ott, iMMe-
diately on the sitting of the Court this day, for an In-
junction, on behalf of a Gentleman of the nann: ~i•
Stephen Ellery, against' a Gentleman of the tiani.2
Darreiti, urging that he, Mr. Darretti, who wa.
Pendant, by cau-e of a sill filed against hirn,, may
restrained from removing a certain dried
men or article, now exhibited as A Mermaid.

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the room in which it is now depr4site.ci,
ra -
James's-street, London. That Mermaid, or imit4t:..n
of a Mermaid, or whatever it was, had been bun; t
by the defendant with the money of the plaintiff. e
plaintiff and the defendant, in the month of Au ors,,
1817, bought, for the sum of 1.:1200,
,a certain
jointly, of which the plaintiff had seven-eighths, and
the defendant one-eighth, and the defendant was ap-
pointed Master and Commander. He received ii.-
structions from the plaintiff to go to Boston upon
the Southern Whale Fishery, and to proceed
cargo thence to another port in America, for thc
purpose of disposing of it, and to 'mike the be
running voyage he could, fur their mutual benefit.
The plaintiff gave the defendant credit •to draw to
a large amount, to answer his wants whi;e abroad ;
and also gave him instructions from time to time,
at different ports, communicating to him the inannc:
in which he should traffic, whether there should Li
gain or loss in the coarse of the voyage, which wai
to be a running voyage; and the defendant kept up
the communication as if .he were following his in-
structions. In the month of Dezember, 18'11, the
plaintiff received a letter from the defendant, in-
forming him that he was about to obtain a cargo to
come to Europe, and should arrive shortly; but on
the 25th of January, 1522, the plaintiff, to his sur-
prise, received information that the defendant had
sold the cargo of this vessel for 6000 dollars and
cy -
wards, for the purpose of going to Antwerp, in,tead
of going to some port ii America. The pretence
under which this was done was, that he wanted io
go to Antwerp in order to obtain from the Govern-
ment of the Netherlands a recompense for the treat
risk he had run in saving sorre persons and pre-
perty belonging to a Dutch man of war ; but
stead of this, the defendant purchased, with the
duce of the sale of the ship and cargo, belongi7..;
7-Bths of it to the plaintiff, and only one-eighth t,
himself, that which is now tailed a Mermaid f-r
about 6,000 dollars; and, in another vessel, came
from the Cape of Good Hope to London, keepit7;
this a total secret from the plaintiff, and then pr.:-
ceeded to exhibit this Mermaid, or whatever else it
was, as his own property, to public view in London,
out of which he had already made, and was now
making considerable prOfits ;. and that he has threat-
ened, in case the plaintiff makes any claim of pro-
perty to this Mermaid, he, the defendant, will re-
move it to another country. The present application
was for an Injunction to reEtrain him from doir:-
so, until he shall have answered the Bill now tired
against him.
The LORD CHANCELLOR desired Mr. Hart to state,
particularly, the manner in which the plaintiff stated
tke property to be his, the manner in which the de-
fendant was stated to have disposed of it, the use he
is now making of the produce, Ere. which Mr. flanr
having done, his Lordship granted the Injunction till
answer or further order, and directed that the Re-
gistrar should sign the minutes of the Order, so that
the parties have due notice that the Order is granted,
and that it shall be given to the agents or servants of
the defendant; and, as it was alleged that the de-
tench:it was keeping out of the way to avoid being
served, they should do all they could to serve him
personally with a subpoena to answer the bill, and,
in case of failure, to come to Court with the bc,:
statement they could make, that the Court may con-
sider what further may be done. In the meantime,
the Injunction must issue, to restrain the defend:nit
from disposing of or removing this Mermaid, or what-
ever else it is, from the place of its present
in London.

It is rumoured in political circles, that in CNC of
the present Lotto CHANCELLOR resigning, be mil be
succeeded in his high office by Lord Chief JUStiC:
ABBOTT.

We understand Lady ANNE Cots It is at present " ai
Ladies vv6h to be who love their Lords '

Lord HOLLAND entertained the Marquis of T. S 9.
DOWN and a select party to dinner yesterday, at Hol-
land House.

The Duke of NORTHUMBIRLAND is entertaining a
party of distinguished visitors at his seat,
Castle, Northumberland. _ .

An elegant farewell dinner has been given so ir•
T. Moose at Paris. Fifty.five persons sat down L. A
splendid repast at forty francs each.
The jail at Boulogne is called the English ift, r.
and is much better teequeuted, it is said, than ail
Odle, iu the own.