Star.
London, England, 1809-05-16 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GtAlritSIND. MAT 15.—Sailed the Dauntless, Rrnoks, for the
Cape of Good Hoye; Duke of Kent, vWebster, for Martinique.;
Drumm:4A Richmond, for Palermo ; Ann and Mary. Hender-
gh for Gibfaltar, and the Helm packer, Savage, for Newry.

The officers and trews of the Russian squadron,
lying at the Motherbank, will be sent home,•when an
account has been taken of their stores. Captain I li-
ma, Mr. BRIM' ( Master of the Royal William), and
another officer, are appointed CornmisFioners for this
purpose. It has been agreed that Admiral SINIA VAN
shall leave an officer and 20 men 01) hoard each ship.
to take care of them, with a superior officer to super-
intend the whole, until the squadron can be restored
according milt, terms of the Convent;on.

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Friday miming the Jane cutter, of Guernsey, Pm-
FURS 2 master, from Alicant, with a cat...) of
brandy and barilla, for Guernsey, arrived at Ports-
mouth. She 'touched at Gibraltar, and left there on
the,ilist ult.' his Majesty's ships. Bulwark and Vohm-
mire. an the 7th instant she Was boarded by the
Hero off Ushant, • with five sail of the line, 11 all we...
The Jane brought dispatches from General DOYLE, at
Alicant, which she landed at Weymouth on Wednes-
day. She is under quarantine.
The Britannia, -, of Leith, from Lisbon for
London, was spoke with on the 30th of April, in lath
43. 5.9 long. 13. W. leaky, making from 18 to
24 inches of water an hour.

The Samuel and Ann, Dowsing, was captured and
carried into Treport on the 14th ult.
The Alfred, Jackson, from St. Übe's for Gotten.
burgh, was captured on the I4th ult. and carried
into Dieppe. •
The Fortuna, Hasson, from Heligoland for Lon-
don, was captured on the 17th ult. off Yarmouth,
with four other vessels, by the Coupen privateer, trorn
Ca,ais.

LAW IN7'ELLIGEIMB.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY IS.
Mr. CARROW stated, that he was much pressed by
a respectable gentleman, of the county of Conbridpv,
to make a motion against a Magistrate of that county,
in a case in which that gentleman (Mr. Trotter) ha.i
supposed his personal liberty had been violated. He
wished much the Court would hear the gentleman
state his own case.

The CounT.—Mr. Garrow had better state it for
him, as parties themselves were apt to go into much
unnecessary detal.
Mr. GA KROW then stated :hat Mr. Keys, the gentle-
man, of whose conduct Mr. Trotter complained,
being a Magistrate for the county, sent for Mr. Trot-
ter, and informed him that he had received informa-
tion he was about to fight a duet with Sir Basil Hor-
wood, and required him to give security for keeping
the peace for twelve months. Mr. TroOer demanded
to see the information', which Mr. Kos peremptorily
refused, but demanded sureties cf"'ttie peace for a
twelvemonth. Mr. Trotter observed, that he coidd
only legally demand it noil the next Sesslon, and re-
fused to give it for a lodger period ; upon which Mr.
Keys commived him to the custody of a special con-
stable, and he was carried to gaol For this attack
upon his personal liberty, he wished the Court to
grant him redress, either by a mandamus, calling on
Mr. Keys to return the information, or otherwise.
Lord Ett.EsnoaotToH..—The Court will not cer-
tainly grant a Mandamus. It appears that the Ma-
gistrate acted with a view of preventing a serious
breach of the peace, and if the motion was made for
an Information, I do not apprehenii there is even
'grounds for granting a Rule to show cause.
Mr. GAHROM :ook nothing by his motion.

THE KING V. BLUNT.
Mr. GARROW stated this to be a rule, calling on the
Defendant to shew cause why a criminal information
should not be filed against him ; which he was under
the necessity of moving to be enlarged, on account of
its never having been served, the party against whom
it was granted still remaining abroad. Rule enlarged.

Lieutenant ANDEnsoN, of his Majesty's ship NIORT.
Captains GOLDFINCH and THOMPSON, of the Artillery,
are prisoners at Oporto.

• The Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards, under the
command of Colonel Ft•Li.rn, have left York, for
Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Wednesday, morning, the Dumfries-shire Militia,
'commanded by the Right Hpn. the Earl of DAL.
KEITH, marched for Haddington from Dalkeith,
where they have been quartered for nearly two years.
Major SMITH, of the corps of Royal Engineers, is
appointed, by the Master General, to superintend the
ordnance department in Scotland.

Thursday, a meeting of the Lords of the Council
took place in the Council Chamber, Cock-pit, White-
hall. The cause before their Lordships is from the
Island of Jersey, respecting an election, ARLEY
BRETON. Their Lordships heard Sir SAMUEL ROM ILLY
in behalf of Mr. ANLKY ; and Mr. DALLAS and Mr.
RICHAL4 cox on behalf of Mr. Le Burros. The Court
was very crowded, it being a cause of very great im-
portance to the inhabitants of the Island of Jersey.—
The Lords present wet-e—
-1 he Lord Chancellor, Lord Presilent, Fad of Liverrool, the
Master of the Rolls; Sir William Scott, and Sir John Nichol
—The Court sat from ten till three o'clock.
The Lords of the Corncil met again on Saturday,
at the Council Office, upon the above cause when Sir
SAMUEL ROMILLY was heard at considerable length
in reply.
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Ci;l:N TV 11TEETINO AT HERTFORD.--The Freeholders
of Hertfordshire, on Saturday last, voted a string
of Resolutions approving of Mr. WantLg's late Par-
liamentary conduct, and voting thanks to that Gen.
tleman and those who supported him.— On the vote
of thanks to the County Members being put, Mr.
PLIINIXR said, " It was always my opinion, Gentle.
men, that the best and dearest reward which a Mem-
ber of Parliament could receive, was the thanks of his
constituents. I was always of that opinion myself,
when I had the hono'ir to represent you—(Hear, hear!)
I—and nothing gave me greater pleasure than to re-
ceive such a testimony. Whether this Resolution is
carried or not, of which I have little doubt, I must
here personally, and for myself, thank my Hon.
Friend (Mr. Brand), and his worthy colleague, for
their Parliamentary conduct." On the subject of
Parliamentary Reform, Mr. PLUMER said, he had
read of Mr. Milward, of Hastings, having the whole
controul over that Borough. He knew that to he the
fact, and he once saw him have the Borough in his
pocket ready to dispose of—(Alaug4)—Mr. Milward
not only received money for it at every election, but
had likewise a d—d good place in the Excise-4, Take
that from him, and see what he will do !"Loud laughter.
•
BREAD—There being no Court of Aldermen held
this day, the LORD Mayon, after inspecting the Re-
turns, ordered it to fall 3d. per peck.
The Races at Goodwood, on Thursday last, at-
tracted a great deal of company. The Silver Cup,
value Fifty Guineas, was one by Mr. TREVANION'S
Bucephalus. The Duke of RICHNION. D'S Rosewood
won the Hunters' Plate ; the same horse walked over
the Course for the Ladies' Plate.
It was six o'clock, yesterday morning, before the
fire at Billingsgate was completely extinguished. The
warehouses were partly insured, but their valuable
contents, consisting of every description of merchan-
' dise, recently landed, Were completely lost to their
' various owners. The owner's of the vessels destroyed
have also to lament a very heavy loss, not only of
' their vessels, but of very valuable cargoes.
Friday se'nnight a groat part of the cliff land, in
the Isle of Sheppy, of about 500 feet in length and
150 feet in breadth, gave way and sunk into a valley,
carrying with it part of the dwelling-house, cow.
house, and other out-houses adjoining, called Bugsby
Hole, and 50 sacks of potatoes were buried in the
ruins : the widow of Mr. Davies, who was burned on
Wednesday, and lay dead in the house when the cir-
cumstance occurred, and a cow in the lodge were both
precipitated down the cliff together, and taken out
dreadfully mangled.
On the night of Friday the 28th ult. while five in.
dustrious fishermen, belonging to. the corps of sea fen-
c:bles, in the village of Cockenzie, parish of Tranent
were returning from their fishing ground, the boat
suddenly upset off Scoal, and all on board penis' el.
They have lett five widows and eleven children, the
oldest out y ten years ofage, to feel and lament their to is.

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INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE.

LORD PAC;ET and LADY CHARLOTTE WELLESLEY.
Wheo this unfortunate t nnitecLinn was publicly an-
nounced. Cnlonel CannoAv wince to Lord PAGEr a
letter, of which the following is a copy :
" C,tok'‘ Hotel, Dover-mireet, Ntareh es, I so 9.
" Mr I nen—l h,reby ri•gne+t you to naole a time and place
where I may meet von, to obtain garigfactinn for the it-pry done
mymplf and my whole family by your conduct to my sire*.
" I have to arid, that the titre molt he am early am posmible, anti
the place not in the immedia•e neighbourhood of London, as it is
by concealment. alone 1 -n1 able to evade the Prilw-.
" H. CADOCAN."

LORD PAGET'S ANSWEII.

" Nlarch qO, 1809..

" Ste--1 have to ti-,•.o—tee .e the receipt of your letter of the
!nth inst. I have at thing to say in justification of nly conduit
towards vnt!.. sister, but that it has been produced by an attach-
ment perfectly unconquerable.
" Shr lost the wo-Id upon mv.aecount, and the orly atone-
ment I c Age i, to etym. mv.elf, not to her happines,, (whirls
with t.e ire of mind i., under the circumstance., impossible)
lin• to emits': hy every means in my power, to alleviate her
s 'ffori!‘v. 1 fetid 'her.-true, that my life is hers, not my own. It
clis•r 's.r• nwht.i.o"(l *I d, arription to refuse you that satisfaction
which I 'am iiin* *earls' to admit yna have a right to demand ; but
tun', the rsonse-ra!A.re reflection, I have determined upon the
proprirty of atiii line of enneue.

" 114 v cause i. bye) ; hot my motive for acting thus, is
good; ear wis I wi•Lnnt hopes t'•a• you a•nu'd have made alsw-
ants • for th'A n:y very nr•irvl..r and thereby have
(,reel'• added to the extreme itimincKs you have already shevea to
TOUT sist-r ”per, this afnictirt erasion.
" 1 have the honour to be, air, your obedient servant,
in Pacer"

s. to ere of vnur Teter, it bezornes or-
cessaiy to assure you that I have oily this moment received it."

COLONEL CAT/OGAN To It. SLOANE, ESQ.
1115 INTENDED SECO!'
" London, April 2, 1809.
"MrDr AR SIR—I have availed myself of the very first mo-
ment in my power to relive you from the arsiety you have for
some days past beet, feeling no my account, by assuring you that
all communication between Lord Paget and myself has ceased.
" And in order that what has'passed may notbe misrepresented,
I herewith inclose copies of the only letters that have been ex-
changed, and I have to request that you will shew them, together
with this letter, to any of my friends, or of your own acquaintance,
that might wish to read them.
" When my sister, after a separation of a very few days, re-
turned to Lord Paget, and when I was convinced, Isy a variety
of circumstances, that the fear of my resentment had no further
effect in deterring her from that convection, I could no longer
restrain the impulse of my feelings, and immediately demanded
that satisfaction from Lord Paget, which the laws of my country
do no' afford, but which I had a right to ask, and he was equally
botmd •o gi-'e me, for the injury be had done myself and my
whole family. This satisfaction, however, Lard Paget thought
proper to deny me, alledgine, as his letter expressed it, " that his
lif^ is not his own, but my sister's," and thus making the very in-
jury for which I demanded satisfaction his excuse for not meeting
'Tie. It is not unknown to you, that I have by concealment alone
been able for some time to evade the Police, who, having antici-
pated the step I was likely to take, are still continuing in pursuit
of me.
" Under these circumstances, it would ill become me to apply
to thn conduct of Lord Paget the expressions that my feelings at
this moment dictate; and I shall therefore leave it to you and
others to determine whether the line he has thought proper to
adopt on this occasion, is or is not the most honourable.
" I remain, my dear Sir, yours most sincerely,
" To H. Sloane, Esq." " W. CADOGAN."
After this correspondence Lord PAGET and Lady
CIiARGOTTE retired to a village in Devonsh::e, where
another letter arrived from the Colonel, it is said, on
the same subject as his former ; and his Lordship
bein, still d,termined not to meet him, the fugitives
forsook their retreat at a moment's notice.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIEU 74. DAVID !ARIES
RALLINGALL, OF THE RGYAL NIARINES, TO
HIS FATHER, COLONEL BALLINGALL.

" His Maksty's ship REsisTANcE, off Gijrn, 27th April.

We have just heard from Lord GAME/ER the ac-
count of the destruction of the French fleet, in Basque
Roads, by our brave countryman, Lord COCHRANE.
A vessel has arrivedhere with money, arms, and ammu-
nition, from Cadiz, for the Marquis Rom-Mit% army.
A few days since Captain —, and myself, were with
the brave and gallant Marquis at Oviedo. I dined
with him and the Members of the Junta of the Pro-
vince, together with a vast number of nobility, military,
&c. and had the honour of accompanying the Marquis
at the Review. This army, which is at present on the
frontiers of this province, within twenty miles of the
French, consists of 7,000 armed, and 5,000 unarmed,
in good discipline and high spirits, exclusive of sick
and wounded. The Marquis is of opinion the French
can never conquer this country.—Their armies are not SI
only reduced from fatigue and sickness, hut also from •
the infinite number of places they have garrisoned.
I have been told by French officers, that in the dif-
ferent towns they garrison, they cannot appear in un-
frequented streets in the day-time, or move out any
where at night, without the chance of being assassi-
nated ; indeed. wherever a Frenchman is seen by him-
self, he is cute to be killed. They let slip no oppor-
tunity of wandering from their camp, with the intent
of entering into the Spanish service, in doing which
they are ofteo met by the peasantry and murdered ;
no wonder, for their cruelties to the Spaniards have
been beyond description. The French General Lots-
SON entered Oporto with 5,000 men. The Mar-
q R(")M A NA is quite overjoyed at Sir ARTHUR WEL-
Li. ',LEY'S being appointed to command our army in
P ,rttigal, and so must every man who knows him,
and \s isl,es success to our cause. Dr. AttusrnoNu,
the 26th Regiment, who was taken prisoner within a
few levues ot Corunna, was very well on the 29th
ult. He had chargc of the sick at Astorga, was treated
well by the enemy, and he and his servant have per-
mission to walk about the whole town. Lieutenants
Casit-BELIa Es, and CLARKS, were also well,
and in Boyd spirits, nn the 7th of March, at Villa
Franca, where 'sere also a Captain of the 91 st, and
a Lieutenant of the 5d regiment, and well treated.—
All this information I have gained front men who
have effected their escape lately from these places._
I have been just now conversing with a French officer
of rank, who has been long continued in irons.—
There ate 'upwards of an hundred French officers,
prisoner. on hoard ships in the harbour. French
prloners :,,re brought in here every day in great num-
bers, to b' sent to Cadiz, where they are confined on
boarcl.hulks. The boats faun the ships go off every
morning •ts t ,Ve the deal n share. Their is a fever
aumngst the French prsoners, which carries off from
twelve to twenty a day. I have been for days toge-
ther with Colonel CARROLL, and offered my services
t,) the Jtmta, but Captain ADAM did not think him-
self auOlosised to discharge me from the ship with-
'43rder horn the Admiralty, which has been a
great dhippointuant:!

Bony: ACADEMT.

EXHIBITION-M.DCCC.M.

175. The Garretrer's Petition. —J. M. lAI. TURNER,
R. A.—We have here hut little either of invention
or expression ; some effect is, however, produced .by
an ingenious Ailistribut;on of kilt and shadow thrown
into large masses. Excuring the figure of the poet,
which is poorly conceived, there appears to be nothing
original in the composition of this pict,re. The out-
line of the apartment is probably taken from some old
print, and not much attention is paid to truth in the
colouring of the ditFereat objects introduced.
182. A Herd attatkel 19 Lions—a Design from one
of the Compartments of Me Shield of Achilles.-1:. WES..
TA ta., R. A.—Homer never considered the Shield of
Achilles otherwise than as the work of a God, dis-
playing all the perfections of relief given to such an
assemblage of objects as were not supposed to meet
in nature ; it were, therefore, to have been wished,
that Mr. \Vestall had, in attempting to give form to
the poet's thought, confined himself closer to the sub-
ject, and mlde his delineation in simple chiero oscura
as the resemblance of a metallic cast or sculpture ;
he would then have been better warranted in prefer-
ring, as he has, the forms of bulls given in antique
gems, to those of the modern breed ; his lions, how-
ever, are charmingly drawn : the groupe of figures
on the middle ground is also finely composed, and
most brilliantly coloured, and the distance dies away
in a rich and mellow tone.

179 —l9O. Keho-- Bat:tab.—W. LSON.—We
really think great injustice is done to the talents of
this very ingenious Artist, in placing the only two
pictures which he has in the Exhibition, highly
finished landscapes, on rather a small scale, at so
great an elevation, that a contemplation of their mi-
nutia is impo►sible : they are, however, manifestly
painted with great attention to pure natural effect,
and are sweetly coloured.
100. Portrait of Sir C. Brisbane, representing hir At-
tack on Curacoa.—J. NORTHcoTE, R. A.—This has
the appearance of being a faithful likeness ; in other
respects it is a very animated figure, painted in a firm
and brilliant stile. The back ground is also well ma-
naged, and the lights and shadows are se well ba-
lanced, as not to offend by the contrast, which is, in
some parts of the picture., rather sudden. There is,
perhaps, a little deficiency of grace in the attitude in
which the painter has placed the gallant commander.
149. The Encounter of Romeo and Paris in the Mo-
nument of the Capukts..—H. FusEtt, R. A.—Here is
dreadfully bloody work.—Romeo has killed Paris,
and the painter has murdered Romeo. We know of
no fitter place in which to leave this picture than—
" the tomb of all the Capulets."

On Wednesday the 3d instant, The BRITISH and FOREIGN
BIBLE SOCIETY held their firth Annual Meeting at the New
London Tavern, Cheapside, which was most numerously and
respectably attended. The Right Hon. Lord TZIONMOUT u, the
President, read the Report of Proceedings during the last year.
Lordship then di livered a brief Address,. which, by its sim-
plicity, energy, and piety, produced a sensation throughout the
whole Assembly which no description can represent: 'I he Bishop
of DURHAM, in moving the Thanks to the President, expressed
in very emphatical and imprevive language the sada. action it gave
him to be connected with the Society, and to witness the happy
effects with which its exertions had been attended; a.td Mr.
WILBERFORCE in seconding this Motion, as well as afterwards
in moving the Thanks to the Secretaries, delivered his sentiments
to the sant- effect with his u-ual eloquence and feeling. After
reading Extracts of Correspondence from different parts of the
world, each of the Secretaries (viz. the Rev. Mr. OW 4N of Ful-
ham, Mr. HUGHES of Battersea, and Mr. &rustic) ere of the
Savoy,) addressed the Meeting ;. as did several Gen•lemen from
Ireand, Wales, and Reading. The Archbishop of CAS HEL and
the Bishop of SALISBURY expressed through the President their
regret at being prevented by urgent business limn giving their usual
attendance. No language can convey an adequate idea of the
union, cordiality, and devout gratification which distinguished this
ii.teresting Anniversary.
When it is considered that tbis Society has appropriated already
30001. to translations of the Scripture in Bengal; that it has given
hitch to Institutions similar to its own in Germany, Prussia,
Sweden, Pennsylvania, and Nova SCOILI, abroad ; to five in dif-
ferent parts of Ireland, and to several in England ;—that it has
printed, or aided the printing or translating of the Scriptures,
either in whole or in part, in not less than 27 languages ; that it
" has been the instrument (as the Report very impressively stat-
ed) of communicating the words of Eternal Life to Cottages and
Prisons, to Kindred and Aliens, to the Poor and the Afflicted, in
our own and foreign Countries ;" and that in its administration
and support, Christians of all denominations, who make the Scrip-
tures the standard of their faith, most zealously and harmoniously
co-operate ; it will scarcely be thought extravagant to atfirns,
that no Institution of a religious nature ever accomplished so
much vs ithin the same period of time ; or promised, wader the
divine blessing, to produce so rapid, peaceable, and effectual a dif-
fusion of the Christian faith over the habitable world.—Subscrip •
tions and Donations to the Society are received by the Collector,
Mr. SMITH, 19, Little Nfoortields ; Mr. SEEL EY, Bookseller to
the Society, iti9, Fleet-street ; the Treasurer, at Dow N, Tithe N•
TON, and Co.'s ; the Secretaries; and most of the principal Bank-
ers in the United Kingdom.