Star.
London, England, 1822-07-09 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JULY 9, W.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDOAY, July 1, 1821.
FOR SALE,

lity Order *f the Not. Commissioners of his Mclnty's Customs,
On hionoar the 15th, Totowa: the 16th, Weoszloar the 17th,
and THuassAy the 111th instant, at One o'Clock in the After-
noun precisely,
At the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane,
THE FOLLOWING GOODS,
TOR IXPORTAIION.
East Inditi and other Prohibited Goods, Books, Prints,
Pictures, &c.

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TOR 11011 6 CONSUMPTION.
Cambric and other. Linen Drapery, Lace, Artificial Flowers,
Rough Amethysts, Or-molu Clocks, Jewellery, Books, Pictur..s,
Prints, Grocery, Drugs, Squirrel 'Pails, Lamb skins, Slate Pen-
cilq, Snuff Boxes, Toys; Whiskey and ether Spirits; Wine,
Oil or Mace, China, Sill Stones ; Deals, Mahogany, and other
Wood Goods ; Beats ; Three Vessels called the " Prosperous,"
" Vrow Susanna," and " New Union f! and Su►dry ether
Goods as mentioned in the Catalogue.

CLRAI. ST ALL Dents;
To be viesied at the Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe ; and the
King's Warehouse and Cellars, Custom-House; on Wednesday
the 10ifi, Thursday the 11th, Friday the 12th, and Saturday
the 13th Instant, from ten o'clock in the Morning to three in the
Afternoon.

N.B. Goods bought at th;s Sale most be paid for at the 'Re-
ceiver of Fines and Forfeitures Office, Custom-llouse, en or
before Monday, the .sth August, Me, •r the deposit's made
thereon will absolutely become forfeited.
Catilogues to be had at the King's Warehouse, Custom-house,
price One Shilling each.

COUNTY FIRE-OFFICE,

♦ND
PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,
Regent-street, London.
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES. •
The Duke of Noarour,
The Duke of RUTLAND,
The Marquis of NoaTunstrrow, •
Earl GRAY,
Lord BDATIBROOICK,
Lord Ku4a, &c. &c. &c.
MIRECTORS.
Sir HENRY PINY,
JAME 3 &enamor, Esq.
Hon. WASHINGTON
WALTDI STRICKLAND, Esq.
Sir W. E. Wilms, Hart.
Sir ROSIEST WILSON, M.P.
&c. &c.

Lord Noarnwter,
FRANCIS CONS?, Esq.
Sir JOHN DOYLE, K.B.
Bosnia Doirtar, F.sq. M.P.
Sir S. B. MCIRLANO, Bart. M.P.
WM. Plalb, Esq.

Managing Director—J. T. B A Beausteurr, Esq. F.A.S.
PERMANENT CAPITALS, amounting to'
.€650,000 have been formed, In addition to the fluctuating
Capitals arising from the Premiums; which, together, consi-
derably exceed a Million sterling.
Claims have been paid to Thirteen Hundred and Fifty Suf-
ferers from fire, without a single litigation. The Profits are di-
vided amongst those who now insure, as well as the original
Members, in just,proportion to their respective payments.
In the FIRS OFTICY, Returns of 20 and 25 per Cent. have
been invariably paid to • all persons who have continued insured
seven years, upon Annual as well as upon Septennial Policies,
and whether they have been claimants for losses or otherwise,
which Returns, during the last eight years, amount to f 56,000.
the laws Orem; Bonuses of 3E15. ss. and £26. 12s.
have been divided during the last fourteen years; and other very
peculiar Advantages are afforded.

DR. PHILIP ON INTERNAL DISEASES.
SECOND EDITION.
This daT was published, in Avo. price 10s. 6d.
AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY into the
LAWS of the VITAL. FUNCTIONS; with some Ob-
servations on the Nature and Treatment of Internal Diseases.
By A. P. WILSON PHILIP, M.D.
In part republi.hed, by permission of the President of the
Royal Society, from the Philosophical Transactions of 1615 and
1617. With the Report of the National Institute of France on
the Experiments of M. Le Gallas, and Observations on that
Report.
Printed for T. and G. Underwood, 32. Fleet-street.

DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 6.

WANT OF FOOD.—The afflicting cases multiply
from the provinces. Distress and fever continue as
yet to extend over a large track of our island. We
implore the humane and charitable not to relax.—
Unless the Churches replenish the fund for pressing
relief, the labours of the Mansion House Committee
must soon cease to carry their wonted and grateful
aid to an expiring peasantry.

COONTY GALWAY, MOYCULLIW FLAME, .71INI 27.—Our funds
are exhausted, and must fail long before the month of August,
as our lists are increasing, and must continue to do so as fast as
the resources of the population become exhausted. We are filled
with alarm and apprehension against the end of the summer,
unless GOD in his mercy and bountiful goodness shall regard
with kindness the sufferings prepared for our pour, in case re-
lief shall fail.

Stmo.—To-day a young woman fainted through hunger.
The district visitors feared deception, and, as is always done,
they entered into a strict investigation of the circumstances. It
appeared that she was the'eldest of ten children, all dependent
on the exertions of their once comfortable, but now destitute
parents. The mother had obtained a ticket for purchasing pro-
visions at reduced prices; in order to do which, having disposed
of every article of furniture, and parted with the shoes off her
feet, she had taken the ring off her finger, which she had worn
for twenty-two years as the sign of marriage and fidelity, and
sold it for ten-pence.
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Comfy CLasit.—Drearnolihy.—The greatest danger is still be.
fore us ; the alarm and daily clamour of the people for food is
dreadful; the kinds of green stuffs and sea rack. that hunger
obliges them to eat, are creating all kinds of distempers and
disease among them. the pittance of food allotted to them being
not nearly sufficient to keep them alive; one man in health and
vigour would do the work oY ten of these starving creatures.

GALWAY.—Clonfert.—Rev. Mr. Ilaunigan.—There remains
but tl of your remittance ! There are several ready to work ;
these are employed at id. per day ; many are incapable of work-
in* from age, infirmity, and debility'—these receive aid !rads.-
The Bishop has given away all his corn and potatoes. He writes
that it is impossible to describe adequately their distress and
their patience. Yesterday there were seven at once fainting on
the ground, and bad it not been that they devoured the raw oat-
meal, I ant confident some would have died ; some/are living on
cabbage alone ; some have dug up the seed potatoes to eat.

It appears that upwards of 1.50,000 persons are
now receiving charitable relief in Mayo.

At Castlebar, a horse having had his leg broken,
was shot by the owner, and the poor people of the
neighbourhood devoured the animal !
A letter from the Rev. D. Kelly, dated Westfort,
July 1, says—,g They are perishing here (in Achill),
in such numbers from starvation, that many of them
are found along the road side dead, without benefit of
clergy ! I go in to-morrow to visit the melancholy
theatre with a cargo of provisions that will afford
temporary relief."
The Dublin Evening Post of Saturday says, the

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parties arrested,.if belonging to any association, were
Ribbon:nen, and Oat High Treason is therefore out
of the question. • The same Paper contains the fol-
lowing AszioPg 'the persons arrested at. Armagh
is a man or the name of John Kelly. This man is a
Crown witness, in the prosecution of the King against
Hamilton, andcertain other Orangemen, for a homi-
cide
at Dromore. The man, in fact, was murdered
by the Oiange YemitanrY in Kelly's house. Several
persons implicated in the transaction are now in
OmaghJail, and are to stand their trial at the coming
Assizes for the alleged offence. But Kelly is the
principal witness for the Crown, and the Habeas
CorptuOct is now suspended. He cannot, therefore,
be brought down to Omagh except on a Petition to
the Government. We have no doubt that on appli-
cation to Lord Wellesley it would be readily complied
ith ; but it may so happen that the CoMmission in
Dublin and the Assizes might be proceeding at the
same time."

` lATELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 8.
SEDITIOUS LIBELS.
THE KING V. SUSANNAH WRIGHT.
(Concluded from the Star of yesterday,
Mrs. Wright, in closing her defence, said, she could
not but lament, that in the present enlightened age,
Judges and Senators should be found, who would
sanction such prosecutions as that before the Court.
Persecution, iti whatever way directed, was objec-
tionable, and particularly under what is called a free
Government—but to persecute the mind of man, was
of all kinds by far the most disgusting. -
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then commented, with
great impartiality, upon the various passages con-
tained in the libels, and sent the case to the Jury.
who, after a short consultation, found a verdict of
Guilty and the defendant was.immediately taken
into custody by the Tipstaffs of the Court.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 6.

THE DUKE Or BEDEOND V. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Mr. SHADWELL said, he had to srove, in a cause in
which .the Duke of Bedford was plaintiff, and the
Trustees of the British Museum, defendants, that an
order made by the Vice-Chancellor might be dis-
charged, and that an injunction might be granted to
restrain the defendants from erecting certain build-
ings intended to be attached to the British Museum.
The Learned Counsel stated, that in the year 1669,
Rachael Vaughan was seised of a mansion-house,
called Southampton Heine, and afterwards Bedford
House, in the parish of St. Giles, and a parcel of
ground called Long Field and Baber's Field, adjoin-
ing the gardens of Southampton House. That being
so seised she executed indentures in July. 1669, which
were expressly made, in contemplation of a marriage
between herself and Lord William Russell. By these
indentures she conveyed to the Earl of Northumber-
land, the Earl of Aylesbury, and Sir Richard Vernon,
the property in question upon trust, not for Lord
William Russell, but as she should appoint. At a
subsequent period, upon the death of the Earl of
Northumberland, Sir Phillip Warwick was appointed
A trustee in his room, and then an instrument was
executed, upon which the whole of the present ques-
tion would turn. It was between the trustees of the
one part, and Ralph Montague of the other part ; and
it witnessed, that in consideration of £2610, paid by
Ralph Montague, the Trustees conveyed, and Lady
Rachael Vaughan confirmed, to Ralph Montague,
the mansion-house and garden, with the fields ad-
joining, to hold to him and his heirs at a yearly rent
of five pounds. In consideration -of this conveyance,
Ralph Montague covenanted with Lady Rachael
Vaughan, that in case he erected any building, he
would erect a fair and large house fit for a family, and
that he would not make any public way to the north-
ward, nor erect any building beyond the uttermost
wall of Southampton House ; he also covenanted that,
if he should erect any buildings on the north end of
the ground, or should extend them beyond South-
ampton House, with the exception of a small sum-
mer-house, or banqueting-house, in the garden,
he should forfeit and pay ES a day as long as
such erections should remain, and until the place
was restored to the same condition as it was before.
Upon the execution of this conveyance Ralph Mon-
tague took possession of the ground, and erected a
building, which did not extend beyond Southampton
House. That house was afterwards destroyed by fire,
and another erected on its scite, which was confined
la ithin the, same limits. The house built tae second
time was the house which is now called the British
Museu'in. This building was enjoyed by the family
of Ralph Montague till the year 1733, when an Act
of Parliament passed in the 26th year of George 11.
the object of which was the preservation of the Curio-
sities collected by Sir Hans Sloane. By that Act the
Lord Chancellor and certain other persons were
formed into a Corporation to carry the intentions of
the Legislature into effect ; and it was enacted, that
they should have succession for ever, as Trustees of
the British Museum. Upon the passing of this Act,
the mansion-house was conveyed to the Trustees, and
they had been iu possession ever since, and had paid
the yearly rent charge of £5 to the present Duke of
Bedford, and bis ancestors. The Learned Counsel
then stated, that in the year 1800, the house called
Southampton or Bedford House, was pulled down,
and a range of magnificent houses built upon that
and the adjoining ground, and these houses over-
looked the British Museum and gardens. The Trus-
tees of the British Museum had recently given notice
to the Duke of Bedford that they intended to erect
various buildings beyond the line where Southampton
House stood, for the purpose of having them inha-
bited, by the statues of certain ancient heroes and he-
-1 r.)11113, gods and goddesses, there assembled and con-
' gregated by the laborious efforts of Lord Elgin, and
other industrious and persevering antiquarians. The
complaint of the Duke of Bedford was, that these