Star.
London, England, 1825-02-08 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL.

The following portrait Mr. O'Connell is given in
a letter from Dublin. Mr. O'Connell is the last man
to be a Bolivar, notwithstanding the broad hint in his
speech. In England he is thonght a revolutionist, and
he wishes to be thought so. But though his personal
courage is undoubted, he is one of the last men who
would hazard an infringement of the 25th Ed. 111.
Mr. O'Connell is at this moment in his element, and
if once taken out of it, he would politically mirk*.
Vanity is a universal passion here; and he shares it'
to excess. His rage for distinction is a disease, eves
'to the exclusion' of all views, promoting his own for.
Ltnnes or his personal ambition, in its ordinary sense.
He has not enough of system or consistency to pursue
any scheme of personal aggrandizement. Ever study-
ing to collect upon himself exclusively the public gaze,
he loses all discretion in the consciousness that he is
seen ; and frets, and bustles, and declaims, scarcely
knowing what he is about—lest, by appearing idle, he
should appear insignificant. He fancies himself leading
the people, when he is but the instrument of the priests,
and the driver of the populace. He is cursed with the
melancholy visitation of mediocre minds—the desire of
shining in whatever is popular and distinguished at the
moment—but wants taste and also scholarship to ap-
proach or imitate the happy brilliancies of other men,
which he rudely plagiarizes. With strong sense, still
stronger nerves, and the coarsest taste, he is an efficient'
Nisi prius lawyer. But his political capability is less than
mediocre. His eloquence consists in happily fallipg in
with vulgar sympathies. The fire •of true eloquence
'alone car electrify and enlighten a people. But if Mr.
O'Ccunell's speeches have roused a spirit among the
Catholics, it is only because a heated conception, with
the mere habit of public speaking, will communicate
itself kit means of the passions, where men's minds have
a feverish predisposition to receive it. This is the secret
of the public effect of his speeches, and of his dominion
over the populace.

-DREADFUL CIRCUMSTANCE.—This morning, at an
early hour, the attention of the passengers in Duke-
street, Bloomsbury, was attracted by a man in his
shirt traversing the parapet of No. 22, in that street.
They instantly, in a state of great alarm, called out and
knocked at the door, and this had the effect, it seemed,
of quickening the unfortunate man's pace, but he did
not appear to regard any of the persons in the street ;
at length some person having. from a window, touched
him with a broom, in order to stop him, as is supposed,
he started, and uttering a shriek, tumbled headlong into'
the street and was literally dashed to pieces. His body
was taken up, and he was conveyed to the Middlesex
Hospital. His name, on inquiry, we ascertained to be
ItWes. He had been subject to walking in his sleep,
agil leis wife had only left him in bed about half an hour
before the catastrophe.

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COURT OF COMMOIt PLEASE FEB.
FIRDOI3I7.DItAiNIAN AND AN6TIIBIt.
This was an action of trespass and false imprisonment, .
to which the defendant pleaded the general issue, and
several other special pleas, which stated that the de.
fendant Chapman, having lost a horse-, and findiq it in
the stable of the plaintiff, ordered the other defendant
Cousins, a police officer, to take the plaintiff into custody
on a charge of felony. In the execution of this order
the plaintiff resisted,when the defendant Cousins ordered
Chapman to assist him ; a scuffle ensued, and the plaintiff
was ultimately taken before a Justice of the Peace. For
this the plaintiff brought his action, and on his demur-
ring to the special pleas of the defendants, it now came
before the Court in the form of a speeial argument on
that demurrer, and the question was, whether the defen-
dant Chapman was not justified in assisting in the ap-
prehension of.he plaintiff, at the desire nt Corivits, the
officer; and whether, under such circumstances, he would
be liable to an action of trespass and false imptisonment?
The case WAS argued at some length on both sides,
the details of which were totally devoid of interest.
The Counr held it as an established and wise idle of
law, that whether a felony was committed or not, an
officer taking a person into custody by the order of
another person, could not be held liable for so doing,
and that on the broad ground of public policy; for it
Officers were to be liable, many a felon would escape
with impunity; but the case was different with a pri-
vate intyvidual, who could not take, or assist to take a
person i o custody on the mere suspicion of felony, un-
less be s the felony committed, or knew that it had
taken p 1 .' The defendant Chapman, by his special
and joint pleas, did not shew a justification, therebeing
no averment -in his pleas that a felony had been ci m•
mitted, the pleas were therefore bad in substance, arid
being joint pleas, they only justifying one and not both,
they justified neither, and therefote judgment should be
for the plaintiff. Judgment for the plaintiff.
MOODY V. KING.
This was an issue directed by the Vrce•Chancellor to
take the opinion of this Court as to the law in this
case, and the question for the Court to decide was,
whether or not the plaintiff, who was the wife of a per-
son named Frost (deceased) was entitled to dower out
of an estate, of which the husband Frost was seised in
fee,subject to an executory devise,which had taken effect?
The COURT said it would take time to consider before
it granted a certificate.

PREROGATIVE COURT, FEBRUARY 7.
ROLLS AND OTHERS V. ROLLS.

Dr. ADAMS said an allegation was offered to the Court'
foi the purpose of obtaining its opinion as to the effect
of certain alterations which the deceased had made in'
his will with pencil. The deceased had, long previous
to his death, intimated his intention to several persons
of altering his will, and he did so alter it. The Learned.
Counsel prayed, under these circumstances; for probate
on the will as altered by the deceased. •

Dr. Jamas opposed the allegation. The will wa;l
of considerable length, bearing date in the
.year 1815,
and was regularly and formally execute& The de-
ceased died ..tddenly in July, 1824, having the will in
his own posset:ion until then, when it was found that
several pencil marks were on the face of it which seemed
to alter the original legacies. There was a legacy to
John Rolls, his nephew, of 5004 which, with a pencil,
was altered t 0.1,0001. to Samuel Sars 501. which, by
the same method, was increased to 1001. and to his wi-
dow the sum of 8,0001. which was increased to 9,0001.
these alterations were pleaded to be in the deceased's.
hand-writing. Now, in order to raise any queition
to the validity of those alterations, it became necessary
to plead certain collateral circumstances to shew the
deceased's intentions to effect them ; it was therefosi
pleaded, that the deceased had expressed great affection
for the persons whose legacies had been augmented,
'and bad declared to his wife in December, 1823, his
intention to alter his will, and make a greater provision
for his nephews and nieces • and that he then wrote
something with his pencil. Those alterations, Dr. Jen. -
nee contended, were not the deceased intentions
completed; they most be taken as an intention to do
something; but,not having a fixed and determined mind,
he did not conclude his testamentary intentions. This
was a regulary-attested will, and it was most unlikely
that the deceased would have made those alterations withl
an intention to give effect to them as they then stood.l
The bequest of 8,0001. to his wife occurred three times
in the course of the will, and yet the alteration to 9,0004 I
occurred only once. Looking at the whole of the al-
terations, it was impossible the Court could give effect
Ito those alterations, imperfect as they were, with the
full knowledge that the deceased lived seven months
afterwards, daring which he might have formally ful
filled his intentions if he bad been so inclined.
Dr. LUBHINGTON followed on the same side, and
contended that the alterations were a mere deliberative
act, and although they might shew that the deceased
wished to make further provisions for some of the par-
ties, yet he had not accomplished all his intentions.
Dr. ADAMS replied on behalf of the allegation pro-
pounding the will with the alterations, and contended
that it was evident the deceased did with to make some
further disposition of his property in favour of his rela-
tives, and although he lived for seven months after-
wards, he was suddenly seized with death before he had
completed them.
Dr. Just ADAMS followed Dr. Addams. .
Sir J. NICHOL said, the case first came before him in
the shape of a motion, praying for probate on the will
with the pencil marks, but he had thought proper to
put the party on the proof of the deceased's intentions,
and his opinion was not now altered—that the deceased
did not intend those alterations to be a complete and
full testamentary disposition of his property. On the
face of the will there were 4 variety of marks, which
denoted more the appearance of a person taking op his
will and making some memorandums which occurred
to him at the time, with an intention probably, at some
future time, of making more formal alterations, but
what the effect of his ultimate disposition might have
been, there was no arriving at. Betides the alterations
alluded to in the allegation, there were several others
which bore similar appearances, and many words and
names were underscored, as if they were mere memo-
randums. He would be doing a great injustice to the
general principles of the Court if lie were.to admit such
an allegation under those circumstances, and he there-
fore declared probate of the will in its i\riginal state,
and decreed the costs to-be defrayed out of the estate.

The Theatre Royal, in the Haymarket, will open on
the 15th of April, aided by the admirable talents of LISTON, and a
long list of personages from the country, wbo have conspicuously
figured as kings sod heroes of the mimic scene during the last year.

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The Room to-day was tolerably attended, and sOnts heavy sa-
mem cuts were entered ban for the St. Uri; Mach excited tine
most attention. The Odds are as follow ;
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8 to 1 apt Muleteer tid to 1 apt beinnie
;O to 1 apt Rufus 30 to I lig matte
12 to 1 apt Bolero 30 to I apt Oberon
14 til agst Parisot SS to 1 apt Nigel -
in to I.agst Webb 40 to 1 apt Jenny
20 to 1 agst Canvas 46 to 1 agst Mittimus
SID to 1 apt Legacy 50 to 1 apt Mims to Neekit
es to 1 apt Spermaceti
25 to 1 apt Gobaniii
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As en laps First Fli
20 to apt Pipylinn
30 to Apt Shovellik
so to apt 2uleiki

11 to 2 apt Aline
9 to 1 agst Soccer),
10 to 1 agst Tontine'
11 to 1 agAt Attica
12 to 1 agst Pastime
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9 to I agst Memnon
12-m 1 agst Cleveland
14 to 1 agst-ltedgauntlet
90 to 1 agst Androgeus
25 to I apt Homer
50 to 1 apt Cow Uoy
30 to 1 agst.3luleteer
30 to 1 agst Brigand
HUNTING.
The tatl of Darlington's Fes Hetindspieet tin Friday, at Lang;
ton Village. . ,
The Lambton Fox Hounds niter.= Thursday, at Holdfortli
Bridge; Saturday, at Emblem&
The Ilurworth Fox Hounds iiieet on Fiklat, it Dalton Wood:
The Hampshire Hunt meet on Thandat, it RoChetfield Park;
Saturday, at Abbotadon Down.
The Ilambledon Hounds meet to-mofiow, at Presliam House;
Friday, at Fair Oak.
Last week the Northumberland fot bounds had One of the most
brilliant runs ever remembered in that county. They roan& t
Hare Deen, immediately on throwing into cover. A most gallait
fox broke away to the south, up the bill toward] Stanton, passed
the lime kilns to Ashfieid's Wood; from thence he turned north-
wards over Longborsley Moor, leaving Ruffslaw plantatiotii to the
hit: He kept that line, painting towards Oarrett Lee Wood and
Todburn, till he reached Southend Edge; here he turned west•
ward over the Reeburn Moor and Dancer's Know, and skirtiog
the New Park Wood, at Netberwitten, ran through Park Wall-
whin Cover to Dixon's Wood, through which, and Galloehaw
Wood, he pressed to the south, across the Font; thence, }gavial;
Longsbaw's MW to the left, he ran through Longshaw's Weed,
past 13tickshaw,and across the top of the Nun Barn, where he tVallt •
a direction to the right, passed Needless Hail, and Temple There.
ton ; then& through Meldon Park, and across the WaNsbosk,
sotithwards over Angerton Pastures, by Howlett Hall, Oallow
Hill, and Foulmart Law, through the fir plantation at Belsay Like
to Bitchheld Boundary. Here he turned to the west, try)ng to
gain the main earths at Belsay Craggs, when the bounds ran into
and killed him in the open field, within 100 yards of the wear,
after a run of two hours and five minutes.

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35 to apt Crew/talc •
40 to 1 apt His Tate
40 to I agst The Iderinad
40 to 1 apt Daredevil
1000 tp to asst Diana (taken).
17 to I apt Lard
Ltit

Mr. Thornhill was offered 3,800 guineas for Sailor, winner Of
the Derby, in 1820. He rtfused, and shortly afterwards the horse
broke a blood vessel, and died.—Mr. Gulley offered Mr. Batson
3,020 guineas for Serab, winner of the Newmarket Stakes, 1824.
It was refused, and two days before the Derby was run for, Serab,
who was first favourite, caught a cold. He has never run well
siace.-.-The Doke of heeds refused 1,500 guineas for Mercurio,
winner of the Gold Cap at Doncaster, 1824. A feW days after-
wards Mercado died of inflammation.

SHOOTING PARTY AT STRATH"IELDSAYE
Among the distinguished guests entertained by his Orace the
Duke of Wellington, at his recent shooting party, were his Royal
Highness the. Duke of York, Earl of Westmorland, Lord
Frederick Cholmondeley, Lord Palmerston Marquis of Salisbury,
Sir John Shelley and Lady, the Honourable Charles Arbuthnot, his
Lady and two daughters, Colonel Ponsonby, and C. S. Lefevre,
Esq. They were out leer days, and enjoyed most excellent spoil.,
as will be seen by the annexed return of .the neither of bit ds; .
killed. First day, at Micheal+, 78 pheasants, i woodcocks,
' hams, fourteen rabbits ' • total, 119. dewed day, at Strathfieklsayeo
119 pheasants, 4 woodcocks, 101 hares. 39 rabbits; total,
Third day, at Hecitileld,l24 pheasants, 3 partridges. S woodcocks,
is hares, 38 rabbits ; total, 201. Fourth day, at Risell, 93 phea-
sants, S woodcocks, 71 hares, 51 rabbits,4 wipes; total 924—Grand
total for the four days, 887. A large portion of the guise was distri-
buted among the tenantry of each place.
GREAT FOOT-RACE,
The thatch for 500 sovereigns, after two months training, bee
tween Captain Owen Osbaldeston apd 'reeling, the Staffordshire.
man, took place in the presence of Many hundreds of persons; over
two mike and a half of prepared groind, at Hnowle P4tk-line,
near Daveatrf, on Thursday morning. The distake war Site
miles, and Captain Osbaldeston received five miles at the start,. it
opposite ends of the ground. The Captain won thetnitchi He'
was backed at 2 to 1 after going the drat to miles.
PEDESTRIANISAL .
Malcolm, the famous Scotch walker, 'started t estettlay akimbo .
two miles on the Watford road, to walk toe and heel twelve miler •
in two hours, for twenty sovereigns. He had performed* six Wes
and a half in one hour before he had left Scotland, and 'be did the
same distance in something less than the same time ups* thienceer
sion ; but his speed began to sleeken in the eighth mile. and at the
close of the ninib,jte had half an hour left to. do the other three
miles in. The two' hours had expired when the pedestrian war
more than half a mile from home.

Sir ROBERT WILSON, after stopping twenty days at
Ostend, embarked for Londor, with his two sons, on the 3d last,
SACRILEGE.-Information vfas this morning received
at the Mary-la-bonne Police Office, of the Chapel in
Shouldham• street having been list night plundered of
every portable article of value by some persons, who
contrived to secrete themselves in the Chapel at the
close of the preceding evening's service. It appears that,
after removing every valuable article from the body of
the Chapel, they. broke into the Vestry, and stole there-
from the service of plate employed in the administra-
lion of the Sacrament, also a quantity of wine which was
kept for the same purpose, and part of which they drank
betore quitting the place. With these and many othei
articles of value, they finally made their escape, by un-
screwing the door-fastenings, and letting tht mselves out:
The crime of horse-stealing appears to be tali on the
increase, information having been this morning received
at Mary-la-bonne Police Office of two valuable brood
mares having been last night stolen from the stables of
W. BURGESS, Esq. at Aperton, near Harrow.
Letters and papers have been received from Jamaica.
They are not so late as the accounts by the packet, but
they furnish the intermediate dates 'which were want-
ing. The Gazelle of the 11th of December contains
an extract from an Act of the Assembly, authorizing I,
Loan of 500,0001. for the island, to be contracted for
in England, at or ender the rate of six per cent. interest
per annum. Commissioners are now appointed to
carry the Act into exception. The purposes for which
the Loan are to be applied are the building of
Churches ; the making of roads into the interior, to in•
troduce settlers in the mountainous districts, for which
purposes grants of lands would be given.
Advices of the 14th ult. from Odessa, state that the
Emperor ALEXANDER and the Russian Cabinet had
been much pleased at the manner in which M. Min-
stactv had been received at Constantinople, and felt-
less disposed than they had done befor e to interfere, even
in the way of mediation, between the Gr-
ruthless enemies.

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Frankfort Papers to the Ist inst. contain
from Missolonghi to the 6th January, wt.
that the civil broils in the Morea Fere
quelled, and that general tr anquillity was

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;reeks and their
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vhich announces
rere completely
ras restored.