Star.
London, England, 1806-02-25 00:00:00

MIDDLISII PITITION.

Mr. PETER MOORE prefented a Petition from certain Free•
holders in the county of Middle(ez, agaitilt Bit return of G. B.
Mainwaring, Efg.—This Petition, he bid, bad only been put in-
to his hands a few minutes before he enured the Hoare, and
therefore he could not be fuppoted to be accurately acquainted
with its contents. But be underftood it was the renewal of a
former petition, founded on the fuppoled ineligibility of the preterit
Member, which had been pet iented in the loft Scirion.
A long converfation then took place, in the courfe of which
Mr. PERCIVAI. objeeled -to receiving the Petition, on the
ground that the former Petition had been already decided upon
by the Committee.
Mr. FOX alto thought that the Petition could not be received.
But he obterved that it might perhaps be properly referred for
, further confideration till to-morrow.

This opinion teemed to meet the approbation of the Houle,
when it was fuggefted by
Mr. MAINWARING, that this Petition, as being a renewal
of a Petition protented in the hit Seflion, mould have been prc.
tented within four days after the commencement of the prefent
Sefton.

On this ground the SPEAKER declared that the Petttioo was
rase tuadouffiblee—,Adjourned.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY sg.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Confab, money 6o}+—for Feb 6of—ror April 6oi 6t.
Reduced 61—Eicheq. Bills, ti. to se. prem.

Our Paper of this day contains a Report of an
interefling Law Cafe—an Indiament againft Gene-
ral PICTON, for itylitting torture on a young woman in
the Wand of Trinidad, to make her confers the guilt
of another perfon, her gallant, who had committed a
Robbery. The leading feature of the defence was—
That torture goat legal by the Spanyb law in the Avid of
Trinidad, and that the General only *fled officially.
according to that law. The Jury found, that there
exiled no fuck low as that of tartan in the Amid of Tri-
nidad, at the tine of its furreader to the Brit arms, and
Governor PICTON was found Guilty.

By the AUCKLAND packet, arrived at Falmouth,
we have received the following information : His
Majctty's Clip la Pomona is auizing off the Bar of
Litbon. A Spanifh row-boat cut out fain days be-
fore the packet failed the brig Maid of the Mill, of
,Glafgow, from Newfoundland, bound to ,Lifbon,
lying at anchor within gun-thot of Fort St. Julian.
Both the row-boat and her prize were captUred by
la Pomona a day or two after ; and the row-boat was
cut up. On the day after this capture, another Spa.
nifh row-boat. of four carriage guns, and 42 men,
came into Lifbon from Vigo : the had captured the
brig Good Intent, from Newfoundland, bound to
Oporto, and fent her into Vigo, Whence the failed
again in a day or two, and was on the 6th infant
fent in by the Cumin gun-brig, who captured her
off the Burling,. The rowboat captured off the
Bar of Oporto five of the Newfoundland convoy.
bound thence under convoy of his Mijetly's Ship
MIICUAY, the whole of which were re-taken by the
Bras coop of war. On the 35(1 January his Ma-
jetty's fh;p la Sonia, from Gibraltar, arrived at
Litbon.

By the fame packet we have received letters front
Naples and from Gibraltar, which the prefs of other
matter prevents our laying this day before our
Readers. We are lorry to announce that on the 4th
ult. a large Ordnance tranfport was captured og
Europa Point by a Spanithgun•boat.
pe Spaniards have eight fail of the line ready for
lea at Carthagena.
It is generally believed in Spain that the Court of
Madrid will be obliged in the approaching Spring to
march an army into Portugal by command of 80.
AAAAA TI.

We Rated ye flerday,on the authority of a refpellable.
and, generally, a well informed morning paper, that'
a letter had been fent by the CHANCIELLOIL of the Ex-
cesouta to the Governor of the Bank, refpeiling an
inereafe of the Property Tax, and applying part of
the Sinking Fund to the payment of the interefl of
a new loan. It will be leen from what fell from the
CHMICILLOR of the Excesculta, in the Houfe of
Commons IA night, that the report is entirely
without foundation.

By accounts received yc(erday from the Continent,
it is Paid another continental war appears inevitable,
unlefir all the unconquered Powers fubmit at once to
the didation of the French Emperor refpeAing the
new demarcations of territory which he has &etched
out on the map of Europe.