Star.
London, England, 1825-11-17 00:00:00

EAS I' INDIA SHIPPING.

Yesterday a Court of Direttori was held at the East India House,
when the following Captains were sworn into the command of their

respective ships:
Captain James Walker, of the Macqueen ; Captain William Ha-
viside, Thames, for Bengal and China ; Captain Edward Maxwell
Daniell, Duchess of AthoU; and Captain Alexander Chrysde,
Thomas Coutts, for Bombay and China.
The undermentioned ships were thus timed, viz.
The Prince Regent, Captain Henry Hosmer ; Rose, Captain
Thomas Marquis ; and the Marchioness of Ely, Captain Oaarles
Edward Mangles, for Madras and Bengal—to be afloat 22d Feb.
sail to Gravesend Bth March, stay there thirty days, and be in the
Downs lltb May. The Asia, Captain Thomas Francis Balderston,
for Bengal direct, to be afloat 21st April, sail to Gravesend 6th
May, stay there thirty days, and be in the Downs 9th June.
The Faune, Gezenac, from the Mauritius, arrived at Marseilles
November S.
Nsw Sturm WALIII, May 24.—The Lady East, Talbert, sailed
from Sydney 24th May for Bombay, and was all well 21st June. in
lat. 11. 3. S. long. 120. 54. E. 7he Lady EAU was in company
with the Hooghley through the Straits of Torres, when the latter
got on a reef near li.df.way Island, but was got of without damage.
The Royal Charlotte, Corbyn, was to convey troops from New
South Wales to Madras.

APPREHENSION AND EXAMINATION OF

S C.INLEY DE COURCEY IRELAND.

Yesterday Mary-la-bonne office was crowded, in vms-
sequt-nce of the apprehension and expected examina-
tion of Mr. Wiley de Courcey Ireland, Mho, it will be
remembered, in conjuncti• n with a person calling liim•
self the Honourable Frederick Ponsonby, obtained pos-
session of Captain Burton's house, in Gloucester-place,
and of goodsfiom several tradestiten to a large amount.
At on. o'clock, the prisoner, and a woman who had
aced as his housekeeper in these transactions, were.
placed at the bar. Ireland is a gentlemanly looking
man, al:ytut five feet eight inches high. He was very
shabbily dressed in black, and bowed.on entering the
ffice %Ail)) a subdued air.
The Magistrates on the bench were, Mr. RAVILINSON, Mr. G atr-
run, Lord Alen:Troop. and Sir Prrsa Lamm.
The mate prisoner gave his name as Stanley Ireland. The female
her'. as Elzabeth Gravest.

Ilrnr St,,well, one of the police officers, was first
examined. He stated, that having a warrant against
the prisoner, he went, abeut eight o'clock that morning,
to a narrow court in William-street, in the Borough, and
inquired for a person named Jones? He was answered
that Jr.N Jones had not come to breakfast yet. A boy
was sent to fetch him. Witness followed the boy to
another house in the same court, where, in the back
yard, he saw Ireland cleaning his boots. Witness
stepped in and accosted him by the name of Jones, to

which he answered. Witness then told him his name
was Ireland, and inquired after his friend the Hon. F.
Ponsonb)? The prisoner denied all knowledge of such
a perwii. but after a few words acknowledged who he
was. Witness then took him into custody, and searched
his bed-room, but found nothing. lie afterwards
searched the prisoner's person. and found some letters
and papers, and a card of Mr. Amway's. Among the
papers were two duplicates—one for knives and forks,
and the other for muslin. The female prisoner had been
living as savant to a Mrs. Saunders, in the King's
Bench Prison. and was tak, n into custody at the lodge,
as she was g, ing out.
Mr. Joseph Daniels, silversmith and cutler, of No 214.,
Oxford-street, identified the prisoner, whom he bad seen
going out of his shop, after having apologised to wit-
ness's wife for tile non-payment of some goods delivered
to the order of " The Hon. F. Ponsonby. The goods
consisted of three dozen table knives and forks, three
dozen dessert ditto, and two pair of snuffers with stands.
IVolliarn Western, shopman to Mr. George Benton,
pawnbroker, of lligh llolborn,produced tin ee dozen of
knives and forks, and two cut glass jugs, which had
bet n pawned at his master's shop for 61. Part of them
was brought by a man, and the rest by the female pri-
soner. A letter wai sent with the articles, as is the cus-
tom when Gentlemen send their property to be pawned
by servants.

Cllr. Daniels identified the knives and forks.

Mr. William Vickery, of 151•, Regent•street, identified
the glass, which had been obtained from him by the
lttisor.er Ireland, who then called himself Ponsonby.—
A desert service of china was also ordered ; but witness
declined to leave it, as the prisoner told him that Mr.
Ireland was gone to Richmond, and had omitted to
leave the money. The glass WAS left as a pattern.
Mr. Itawurssori—llave you any doubt that the prisoner used
the name of Ireland, and not Ponsonby ?
Mr. Vickery—He positively said Mr. Ireland was out of town,
and I think be said gone to Richmond.
Ireland— Did I nut tell you to take back the goods, and the
GeLtleman would call and pay for them?
Mr. Vickery—You made use of no such observation.
Ireland—l'►ay recollect yourself; you are positively mistaken.
It is quite impossible 1 could have used any such terms.
Mr. Vickery—You really did, Sir.
Mr. W. Selby, of No. 41, Albemarle-street, stated,
t e had been defrauded of a splendid service of tea china,
which had been delivered by his servant at Gloucester-
place. He imagined the fraud, from ihe description,
ss as effected by Ponsonby. Witness never saw either
of the prisoners.
George 11111, servant of the last witness, proved the delivery of
the china.

Here I%lr. Ideate, the pawnbroker, of Duke-street, Manchester-
square, ran into the Office in breathless haste, and said he believed
lie had Ponsonby that moment in his shop, and begged some officer
might be sent instantly.
Mr. Rawl-mum handed the warrant to an officer,
who went off directly, accompanied by several of the
auditory. This little incident excited a considerable
commotion of surprise in the office. Ireland seemed
amazed, and smiled.

Mr. George Miller, of the firm of Miller and Co. of
Piccadilly, stated that he had been defrauded out of
two lamps by the person calling himself Ponsonby ; the'
1 .mps cost about 24 144. 6d. The female prisoner alter-
warcis came to the shop, and ordered above nine guineas
worth of wax chandlery, which was not supplied.
Mr. Itywunsorr said, that upon looking over some of
the papers taken from the prisoner's pocket, he found
an allusion to those lamps. The Magistrate then read
an • xtract from a letter dated November 2, as follows :
"I beg you will be so good as to get my letters from Colonel
Martin, and also call upon Mr. Itawlinson for my papers, over
which he has Dm contruul, legally, and must give them up. Marsh
bac. no claim upon lie, therefore cannot detain my clothes.
Then follows an enumeration of his things felt in the house, viz.
lamps, desks, clothes, papyri, Ste.
Mr. RAWLINSON also read an extract from a note,
addressed to the cs orthy Magistrate himself by Ireland,
in which he says—" My name has been unjustly abused,
and a most flagrant violation of my papers has taken
place. I have been hunted frr:rn my house, and pro-
claimed a scoundrel." . .. . I cannot be in any way
considered accountable for the acts of uther s
There is no claim upon me 1 will punish those
cao, have published such vile calumnies And
tvt ith reference to the worthy Magistrate) I do not by
any means bold you accountable for the way you have
acted. It is, I know, the acts of others. lam the
victim of a vile conspiracy of persons v. ho shall be
nameless," &c. &c.
At this stage of tl e business the officer returned with
the supposed Mr. Ponsonby, but it ss as evident to all
present that the suspected individual bore noresemblance
to that person. Tire Gentleman in custody appealed to
Sir Peter Untie, who knew him, and he was immedi
ately discharged. 1-1: manifested great indignation at
the treatment he had suffered.
There being no other charge against the prisoner,
Mr. Itswxmoti addressed Ireland, and said the he was bound
to remand him for a few days, as many other accusations would.
be expected, be preferred against him ; and asked him if he had
any thing to say? "and (continued the worthy Magistrate) as Au
told me this morning that you had not the menus to supply yourself
with legal advice, I would recommend you not to say anything—
but act as you please."
Ireland—l assure you I had nothing to do with this business;
)lr. Ponsonby thought proper to order gqods unknown to me.
klt. Ilawurasoti-1 will bring your mind to one fact of evidence,
namely, your representation to 'Mr. Vickery.
Ireland—That is a mistake—(and turning to Mr. Vickery)—
pray, Sir, reconsider your conduct; you are mistaken, I As-
taire you.

Mr. Vickelly--There Is no reconsideration necessary ; I am per-
fectly satisfied you are the person.
Ireland—l am totally unconscious of any offence. I endeavoured
to restrain Mr. Ponsonby ; I had a quarrel with him for so doing.
Mr. IlAwwwsow—Really I base a letter in my possession contra-
dicting you. I mean the one purporting to come from him in Bel-
mont, Kilkenny, desiring you to get him a house, &c. which letter
I have no doubt wa- concocted by you together in London, for the
purpose of imposing upon the house agent.
Ireland-4 never had any fraudulent intention.

After some conversation between Mr. Girard, the solicitor for
the prosecution, and the Magistrate, as to the hest day for examina-
tion, the prisoners were remanded until Wednesday.

The Hanseatic Towns are about to send Consuls to
Hayti. The town of Bremen sends one to reside a,
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Putt-au-Prince; Hamburgh nominates one on her part,
who is also to take care of the interests of the merchants
of Lubeck ; and the Northern Governments, whose
States have any maritime trade, have followed tl'c,e
examples, and nominated successively Consuls at Hayti.
It is said that the number of bankruptcies during the
present year has been smaller than for any similar'
period during these last twenty years.
MAZURIER (the Polichinello), at Gwent-Garden, is
paid the enormous weekly salary of 1501. being at the
rate of 25/. p! r night. Previous to his treaty with Mr. C.
KEMBLE, MAZURIER was applied to or. the part of Nlr.
ELLISTON, and refused to take less than 401. per night,
and sixty pounds each for the masks which he m'ght
require! Those indispensables are certainly masterpieces
in their way; MAZURIER'S eyes alone are all 'hat can
he seen of his own countenance. The mask is so
firmly fitted to the face as to be susceptible of the most
minute contraction or expansion by the motion of the
actor's muscles.

A LEGAL BAEZlL—Thorsday, a man named Slier

lock was summoned before the Magistrate of the !lead
Office, Dublin, for exercising his trade, as a baker, on
a Sunday, contrary to the provisions of an Act passed
in the reign of William and Mary, commonly called
the Lord's Day Act. The baker, however, produced
an Act pasted in the 45th of the late King, which vir-
tually repeals the Act under which he was sought to be
convicted, and imposes a fine of €2O shillings on any
baker who shall refuse to sell bread to any person,
without miking any exception as to Sunday. Under
those circumstances the complainant was dismissed, and
a whole batch of bakers who had been summoned,
matched off in triumph.
Monday evening, as Mr. C. Weaver, an officer in his
Majesty's Customs, was. returning home, about half-
past seven o'clock, he was met in Water-lane, Fleet-
street, by two men, when within about twenty yards of
his resi2ence, and robbed of a half sovereign, some
halfpence, and other family necessaries, with which the
thieves got clear off. From the effects of the blows
which lie received, he was rendered incapable of resist-
ing them, and they effected their purpose with ease.
An immense quantity of fine herrings have been
caught in Dover Roads lately, both by day as well as
night. One boat had so many in her nets, that she
could not take them all on board, but was obliged to
make signal for another to take part.
Thursday, the servant of Mr. Tweedie, writer to the
signet, Edinburgh, was unfortunately killed at Dreva,
in Tweeddale, by the accidental discharge of his gun,
whilst amusing himself in shooting.
To DISCOVER A THIEF.III the month of May last,
a desk was stolen from a M. Bornet, containing from
twelve to thirteen thousand francs. The authors of the
robbery were a young woman, who was M. Bornet's
servant, and two men, one of whom had been in his
service. Three of them were arrested, and one Boutry,
the man who had been in the service of M. Bornet, dis-
appeared, carrying with him the greater part of the
money. To get him apprehended, M. Barnet, from
memory, drew a portrait of him, which was litho-
graphed, and a copy sent to every Procureur du Roi in
the kingdom. It was so good a likeness that it led to
the detection of Boutry, who was apprehended at Laigle,
where he had gone for safety. Three of the criminals
were sentenced to five years' imprisonment, the fourth
was acquitted.
Early on Wednesday morning last, some thieves
broke open the wine cellar of Messrs. Purday and Son,
at Sandgate, and stole therefrom every bottle of wine it
contained. During the time they were emptying the
cellar, they baited their horse behind the Chapel built
by the Earl of Darnley, on his estate. They broke off the
necks of several of the bottles and drank the contents,
during the time they were carrying it off, the fragments
of which were found next day in the shrubbery. The
same gang stole a horse belonging to Mr. Filcher, of
Cher icon, ou Thursday night last, and on Friday night,
a gig and harness from Mr. Marsh, of Coolinge._

ILiiISONS FOR NOT EMPLOYING FEMALES.—II Is a Ca-
rious fact, that the great retail linen-drapers and haber-
dashers of the Metropolis defend the employment of
men in their shops upon the ground that the employ-
ment of women is impracticable. Females are to be
got cheaper, they say, and can perform the same ditty;
but where numbers are employed, what between their
mutual squabbles, and their disposition to quiz cus-
tomers, many, who began by retaioing them, have been
compelled to change, to avoid a total loss of trade.
M. NECKER DE SAUSSURE. nephew of the celebrated
Minister, wha died lately at Geneva, was passion ttely at.
tached to the independence of his country ; and while Ge-
iieva vas united with France, lie constantly refuse.] every
employment offered him. I•r 1814 he contributed, as
a Member of the Provisional Government, to re-establish
the independetice of Geneva. He was an independentl
politician, an am able man, and attached to learning.
The ( French Paper, gives a most sin-
gular article :torn the Editor of the Metture du 19th
Siede, who declares that he had received 1,5(X) francs
to abstain for a whole year from attacking the adminis-
tration of the King's Household, or the person of Vis!
count Sosthene De La ltochefoucault, and that he had
entered into that engagement in order to be able to
apply those 1,500 fiancs of the Government money to
the serv:ce of the Greeks, by paying them to the Pari-
sian Committt ein their tiehalt". The following pledge'
and receipt on the subject appear in the Alercure of
Saturday :
•' Posescatrr.—We inform our subscribers, that we yesterday
evening, at four o'clock, concluded,the following engagement :
" I acknowledge to have received the RIM of 1,500 francs, ee
account of the Mercure, in order that this Journal shall not, for oar ,
year, attack the King's household, nor the person of Viscount Sos-
thcne de la llochefoucault.
" Pang, Nov.ll, 1825.

~ CHIEF EDITOR."

We will faithfully observe this engagement. Being masters of
the sum placed at our disposal, we thought our Readers would for-
give us the loss ut a few jukes, good or bad, in favour of the mode
in which we have employed this part of the Minister's Budget, as
explained by this receipt
• I, the undt-tsigned, acknowledge to have received of the Chief
Editor of the Meressre du 19 Siecle the sum of 1,500 francs, to be dis-
posed of in favour of the Greeks
" Faris, Nov. 11, 1823, Five o'Clock in the Evening. .
" For M. G. G. L. Terneaux, sea. President of-the Greek Corn-
tee." " TI!. CLIQUOT."

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