Star.
London, England, 1825-02-21 00:00:00

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SlR—There being some inaccuracies in the paragraph
appearing in your Paper of the 27th ult. relative to a
recent trial before the tribunal of this place, wherein
Mr. Hamilton, his Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul
here, was plaintiff, and Mr. Dunand, a French resident
physician, was defendant, instituted for an aisault,
with irritating and defamatory language, I take the
liberty of cot meting the same, and sending you a brief
statement of the case.
The Nobleman who was examined on the behalf of
Mr. Hamilton, was Lord Semple, and not Lord
Temple. The damages laid by plaintiff were 500 francs,
instead of several thous Ands, and no compromise, or
any apology was ever proposed by or for defendant.
The origin of this affair was in consequence of a
professional demand of one thousand and twenty-six
francs, made by the defendant, on the estate of the
late Sir Brooke Boothby, who rented apartments in
defendant's house, and where he died. This demand,
however, was resisted by Mr. Hamilton, as acting
executor for Sir William Boothby, conceiving himself
unwarranted in paying it, from his having ample tes-
timony that defendant was not professionally employed
by Sir Brooke, who was constantly attended by an
English Medical Gentleman, als' resident here ; and
pat titularly as Sir Brooke Boothby had informed him
to that effect a short time before his death; hut that,
as he bad shewn him some attentions, he should wish a
small pecuniary present to be made him, and in con-
sequence thereof, Mr. Hamilton offered the defendant
five hundred francs, which he accepted,* and for which
he gave a receipt. Notwithstanding this, defendant,
two days after, wrote a very abusive letter to the
plaintiff, stating that the sum he had received was only
in part payment of his demand, and observing, that
he should always consider deceased's family as indebted
to him for the remainder. The next proceeding of
defendant was repeated personal insult and abuse to-
wards Mr. Hamilton, whose pre.ence of mind properly
suggested to him that it wopld be disgracing the ho-
nourab:e situation he holds to resent this uniustifiAlble
conduct in any other way than by appealing to the
laws of this country.
Many very respectable English Gentlemen attended
the trial, and the warmth with which Mr. Hamilton's
cause was espoused, must ever remain a most gratify-
ing testimony of the high esteem which he has ob-
tained by his gentlemanly, impartial, and benevolent
conduct on all occasions.

A verdict was awarded against the defendant, with
300 francs damages, which has been appropriated by
Mr. Hamilton to the use of the ponr, and a further sum
of fifty francs by way of fine, besides the whole costs.
Iris reported, that since the blab Dr. Dunand has
imprudently committed himself by a libellous publica-
tion on the result, which is now under the consideration
of the Procuseur du Roi. _

By inserting the above in your Paper, you will be
doing justice to Mr. Hamilton, and oblige, Sir, your
very obedient, A CONSTANT READER.

We have been much gratified in viewing the Model
of Paris, now exhibiting at the Westeui Exchange, in Old
Bond-street. The whole is very ingenious as well as
accurate, and is the labour of nearly 15 years, being cut
out in wood, interspersed with trees and foliage, beating
proportion of about a thousandth part of the teal size.
The Alliance Insurance Company was the first to set
the example of incorporating, as it were, the interests
of Nations, by extending to foreigners the benefit of an
Insurance Establishment, of which they might avail
themselves with the fullest confidence, and with perfect
safety; an advantage of which the subjects of foreign
States canwell estimate the value. It is to the desire every
where felt abroad to benefit by this security, that the
Alliance Company owes its success and its prosperity.
Whatever tends to
.encourage the mutual confidence
between nations, and to multiply their common interests,
ought on all occasions to be cultivated. There is no
mode so effectual for preserving throughout Europe
l• the relations of peace and amity." Every day is
bringing the great Commonwealth of Christendom into
a state of mote intimate communication, and we rejoice
in every new communion of object and pursuit which
tends to make it lasting.
On the morning of Sunday se'nnight, John Seaton,
joiner, New Abbey, near Dumfries, was found stretched
upon the snow, a corpse, about a mile west of that vii.
lage, having perished by the inclemency of the weather,
before he could reach a house.

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A HottaTaose.—The late Dr. BUSBY, when Chap.
lain to the forces quartered at Dover, was one after-
noon delivering a discourse from the eighth Command.
merit, in which he animadverted on the sad conse-
Ruences of stealing.--" It is," said he," such an ungen-
lleinenly, beggarly thing for a soldier to steal. Not,
my beloved ftrethrers, that I would tax any of you with
the cOmmission of so' foul a sin. No, GOD forbid I
though I have lost a pair of boots, and several other
things,since.this regiment was stationed on the Heights r.
News of Litsfatarre and Fashion.
• Two persons were last week fined It. each, at Wm-
inner dip %et atlemilise Chun* the preview %May.

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• MIDDLESEX sgsszaws, FEB.
David Pugh was indicted fort fraud, in-falsely ine-I
tending to Benjamin Early that he was a sheriff's
officer, and had authority to arrest •hint, and obtaining
Rom him 21.-10 s. The Prosecutor stated that he is a
builder, and resides at Chehea I at ten o'clock at night,
on Saturday, the 22d of January, the prisoner came to
his house and produced a writ against him, at the snit
of a-person netted Bryant, for SOS. on which he, arrested
him, saying he was a she, iff's officer. Witness's wife
was so frightened, that she fainted. The prisoner pre-
:posed to witness to give him a fee of 51. and he would
allow shim to remain at home, and on Monday he might
Live bail. Witness consented to give him 21. 10s.
which he took, and went away. Witness gave bail to
the-writ on Monday, and the- prisoner came to bi
house again the next Saturday night, with another per-
son, and made a disturbance at the door, which witness
refused to open. Witness did not owe any money to
Bryant, who was then a prisoner in the King's Bench,
and considet ably in debt to witness.
Alr. Henchman, the Under Sheriff, proved that the prisoner was
not a sheriff's officer.
King proved, that he was an acquaintance of the
prisoner, who, on the Saturday after the arrest, asked
him to walk with him to Chelsea, where he said he bad
a flat, from whom he had got one fee, and expected to
get another.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he had sent in the
names of his securities as a sheriff's officer, and
thought he might call himself one; and he took the fee
to settle the business for prosecutor, and save expense.
The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner awiliy, and
he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the House of
Correction.

The King of the NETHERLANDS has contributed, out
of his privy purse, 100,000 fl,)tins (or about 80001.) for
the relief of the sufferers by the late inundations. As
his MAJESTY'S income is not very extravagant, this
must be considered a most princely donation. His
Ministers have proposed to the States General a vote of
credit of eight millions of floc ins, to repair those disasters.
In the New York Evening Post of the 24:h ult. there
is an extract of a letter from Washington, dated Ja-
nuary 21, in which the writer, speaking of the contest
for the Presidency. says," The success of General
Jackson is morally certain. I will not pronounce what
will be the result of the first ballot, but I have not a
doubt that he will get eight Western States, three Mid-
die, and two Southern."
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A few weeks ago, an alarming robbery was com-
mitted on the premises of Mr. Matthews, a wholesale
boot and shoe-maker in Blackfriarr-road. Several per-
sons were apprehended, and after severah examina-
tions,committed for trial as persons concerned in tie
burglary. A crowd of persons have been collected
around Mr. Matthews's door and shop all day, at-
tracted by broken windows; placarded with large bills,
offering handsome rewards for the discovery of the de-
predators; who, it appears, have been hourly in the
practice of annoying Mr. Matthews, and taking every
opportunity to destroy his property, by throwing stones
and other missiles into every window of his house, so
that it now presents the appearance of having stood a
regular siege; he has also received many anonymous
letters of a threatening nature, declaring iihe persists in
prosecuting the parties committed, he shall have greater
cause to lament than the loss of his three thousand pair
of boots and shoes.

Friday evening, 23 two of the Bow-street patrol were
passing through Lamb's Conduit-street, their attention
was attracted by a sudden burst of flame in the interior
of the shop of Mr. Henry Evans, silk-mercer. The
officers crossed over, and found, to their amazement, a
young woman totally enveloped in liquid fire, and a
young boy looking at her. Thompson, assisted by his
companion, lifted the young woman between them, and
having hid her on the ground, rolled her over and over.
until the flames were entitely extinguished; but when,
taken up, a horrible spectacle presented itsel, the
clothes round the body being burned to tinder. The
stomach and bosom were terribly scorched. Surgical
aid was called in by the family with whom she lived as'
servant, but her dissolution is hourly expected. She
had been ordered to bring up the tea-kettle from the
kitchen, and it is presumed some part of her garments
caught fire when in the act of taking it off, for she ran
up stairs to the shop screaming for assistance, and had
burst in the side•door when the officers were attracted
by the sudden glare of light.
MIDDLETON COLLIERY.—The melancholy sequel to
the tragedy at Gosforth Pit has now been performed.
&am at ter midnight Sunday week, Mr. BLENKINEOP and
Mr. BEDFORD repaired to the pit, attended by a number
of the woi k-people, and prepared to open it. The shaft
had been fastened up with boards, covered with earth,
in which a tube six inches diameter, with a cover, was
at the same time fixed. On removing the cover of the
tube, the carburetted hydrogen gas rushed out with so
much force, that the persons in the tunnel were obliged
to retreat for nearly a hundred and fifty yards towards
the mouth to find a breathable atmosphere. They then
quitted the pit, leaving the process of ventilation to go
on till Tuesday evening, when they still further pro-
moted it by such means as they judged necessary. On
Wednesday morning, the air was sufficiently sure to
enable them to remove the covering, and to commence-
the search for the two bodies that were missing. The
body' of Joseph Haigh was found almost immediately,
with his hands over his face, as if attempting to prevent
suffocation; but that of John Ramstien was sought for
a long time in vain; at length it was discovered by the
accidental removal of a piece of timber; his death had
no doubt been instantaneous, an 3 his body could scarcely
have been more dislocated if he had been shot out of a
mortar. The first care of those engaged in the search
was to take the remains out of the pit, but so rapid had
been the process of putrefaction, that it was only by
their clothes that they could be recognised by their
friends. The same day the Coroner held his Inquest
upon them, and after the examination. of Moses no.
bens, the only witness examined on the occasion, the
Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict-0 Died in
consequence of an explosion of car buretted hydrogen
gas in Gosforth coal-pit, on Wednesday, the 12th of
[January, 1825."
By ROLA ay.—Wednesday evening last, between seven
and nine o'clock, a burglary was committed in the house
of Messrs. Drury and Son, the silversmiths, corner of
Villiers.street; in the Strand. The thieves obtained an
entrance to the adjoining house in Villiers-street, which
is at present unoccapied;by picking the lock of the front
door, from whence they went up stairs, and along the
parapet wall, and forced open the attic window -of
Messrs..Drurys' house, and succeeded in canyina off,
unobserved, from one of the bed-rooms, a quantity of
Gentlemen's wearing apparel, linen, itc. of the value of
about £3O. They effected their escape.

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The Foot Race 'betimes Captain Allen and H. Won the
latter. jiving one mile #pitipen, was run in Ashted Peak, Malt the
two-miles circle, on Thursday. The Captain performed his Mani
miles of ground. in one sour and forty minutes, and Wending did
his sixteen miles in off hour and thistroine minutes.
Townsend, the pedestrian; was at Exmouth on Ft iaq last, where
he performed the task of walking four miles backwards in an .htstir;
picking up one hundred stones with his mouth in an siinutes and a
second, and svalkingeixsuiles in an hoar, all which he accomplished.
Saturday, a bunt took' place, to decide a wager of a rum!)
and dozen, heti/Celt two Gentlemen (Mr. T. Bert and Mr. CA
Wigney); It Was which of the two; eaeh.taking half the Brighten
harriers, drawn by themselves, the fernier having the Fridayl
country, and the latter the Monday's and Wednesday's, could catch
the greatest number of hares. Mr. Best threw, off at l'ortslade,
found near Southwick, and after a chase of about an hour, killed
his hare near Portslade. The field afterwirds fbund a second hare
oa Fonda& Tenantry Hill, and, after a chase of three hours, ran
into her at Cock-on-Roost, close to a gorse cover,. but a pyrsort
on foot who was near the spot, took her front the hoimds, and by
some means let her get out of his bands. Is was supposed by' the
sportsmen present, that she had hid herself near the spot where
caught, most likely dead from the injury she received front the
dogs • they afterwards tried a considerable time but could not reco-
ter hcr.—Mr.: G. Wigney threw off in some plantations near the
'dog-kennel, found within a mile, and, after half an hour's ten, lost
the hire near. the Brighton Race-course. A second hare was found
near the same place as the first; she took across the hills towardd
Mr. Smith's farm, at Bevendean, where they had a check ; she
proved to be in the garden, and being turned out led them towards
Stuner, where the hounds ran into and killed her. Mr. Wigney
had the huntsman with him, and Mr. Best the whipper in. The
wager, under these circumstandes, is considered a drawn one.

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CAMBRIDI3E, FEBRUARY 18.
Mammas' Pants—The subjects for the present year are—
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For the Senior Bachelors—Dc statu futuro quanam fuere Vete-
rum inter armor et Romano. Philosophorum dogmata?
Middle Bachelors—Quantopere sibi invicem prosint populi
rnutandis inter se mercibur.

OXFORD, FEBRUARY 19.
Wednesday, Mr. Anthony Grant was admitted Scholar of New
College.
Saturday, the following Gentlemen were admitted to Degrees;
Docros IN Minscitic—Francis Bissett Hawkins, Exeter College:
Baciimon IN DIVINITT-1 lerbers Oakeley, Oriel College, grand
compounder.
Masrmis or A Itll-11obert Perfect, Queen's College; Rev.
Thomas Ilattam Wilkinson, Exeter College ; James Ilardwicke
Dyer, Trinity College ; Rev. William Hest Everard, Balliol College.
BACHELORS or ARMS—Robert Sherson, St. Mary Hall; Thomas
Archer Rewes, Exeter College; William Polwhele, Exeter Col-
lege s Egerton Venable' Vernon, Student of Christ Church ;
Francis Bassett, Trinity College; Brook George Badges, Oriel
College; Edward Harbin, Wadham College.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, M.A. Woodwardian Professor, and
Fellow. of Trinity College, Cambridge, is presented by the Master
and Fellows of that Society, to the Vicarage of Shudy Camps, in
Cambridgeshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. George
Milcfarlaue.

Rev. George Pearson, B.D. Fellow of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, is presented, by the Governors of the Charter House, to
the Rectory of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the death
tel the Rev. Wiltred Clarke.

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A Dispensation has passes! the Great Seal, enabling the Rev.
Thomas Cox, 1). D. Rector of Dahill, to bold the Rectory of
Atherston-upon-Stour, both in the County of Warwick, and Dio.
cese of Worcester.

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MEETINGS of CREDITORS at BASI NG lIALL-STREET,
TO-MORROW.

FIRST
T. Bowden, Museum-street, stationer, at 10,
J. P. Knight, Fulham, hop-mercbant, at 1.
J. Lock, Baker-street, St. Mary-la-bonne, chemist, at 10.
W. W. Smith, Holborn-hill, silk-mercer, at 10.
G. Smyth, Camberwell, grocer, at 11,
J. Storer, Mount-street, Hanover-square, undertaker, at 12.

SECOND PIECTINCS.
S. Groeork, Gray's Inn-lane. road, oilman, at 11.
T. Ilughes, Burton-crescent, draper

, Spelahurst-street, _
M. Nathan, George-street, Adelphi, bill-broker, at 12.
J. Wuod, Great 111'55A-street, Bloomsbury, silversmith, at 10:

at 10.

THIRD RI risme.

J. Humphreys, Vaughan Bridge-road, carpenter, at 10.

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DIVIDENDS
J. Bond, Cawston, Norfolk, farmer, at 2.
Dann and Co. Chatham and Sheerness, bankers, at 12.
W. Fry, Type street and Peckham, let►er-founder. at 10.
Hayes and Minden, Oaford.street, linen-drapers, at 12.
J. Newell, Beaconsfield, draper, at 10.
R. Sharpus, Davies-street, Berkeley square, glass-dealer,at 12.
T. Welles, Croydon, watch-maker, at 2.

PETITIONS of INSOLVENT DEBTORS, to be beard in
PORTUGAL-STREET, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, on WEDNES-
DAY, February 23, at Nine in the Forenoon.
Jane Badcock, China-row, Lambeth, laundress.
James Burford, Swallow-street, St. James's, carpenter.
James Tebbutt, North-place Ball's-pond, shoemaker.
Benjamin Hill, New-street:Battersea-fields, bricklayer.
Griffin Hugh, Kent.street, Southwark, rope-maker, &c.
Henry Lewer Sanders, Beaumont-street, St. Alary-la-bonne, sur-
geon and accoucheur.
John M' William, York-street, Commercial-road, traveller.
Charles Frederick Downer, West-place, City-road, ostrich-feather
manufacturer.
Thomas Driftkid, Essex-street, Strand, journeyman painter.
Thomas Ambrose, St. John's, Hackney, baker.
Henry Staples, Marine Crescent, Bermondsey, town traveller.
James Boustead, Tash-street, journeyman coachmaker.
John Burlington, Peckham' victualler.
William Wright, Deptford, stable.keeper.
George Phficox, Canterbury, watchmaker.

BIRTHS.
February 1, at Chatitaan, the Lady of Lieutenant P. L Dora,
24th Regiment, of. son.
Friday, the. Lady of T. It. Kemp, Fa+ If. P. of a daughter.

MARRIED.
At Stoneham Chapel, Wiz& Lucinda Harden, daughter of Capt.
Baden, deceased, to Lieut. Archdale Sharp's), late stth Light
Dragoons, of Bade., Suffolk.
Thursday, at Brighton, William Rams' Esq. of Allerton, Lan-
cashire, to Charlotte Mary, daughter of the late William Ewart,
Esq. of Liverpool.
At Torquay, Devon, the Rev. W. Gretton, Vicar of Withingtou
and Preston Wynne, to Lucy, second daughter of' the late Rev.
Wm. Ireland, Vicar of Frame, Somerset.

DIED.
Thursday, at his house at Islington, the Rev. Wm. Dram la
his 00th year, universally respected.
At Vicarage, East Farldgh, en the 9th February, Louisa
Harriet, eldest daughter of the Rev. Allen Cooper, aged three year'
and nine months.
A few days sin m, at Imam, Staffordshire, the Hon. and Rev.
John Chetwynd Talbot, Rector of Ingestre, M.A. of All Souls'
College, Oxford, and formerly Fellow of that Society.
Wednesday,; a few days' illness, of an inSammatien on the
lunge, the Rev. Herbert John Beaver, B.D. Rector Bareomb,
near Lewes, Sussex, and formerly ellow of Corps. Christi Colo.
lege, Oxford.