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Tine following is posted at Lloyd's s • • COURT. OF CHANCERY-4BH DAY.
" St. Petersburgh, 4th (16th) Noi. Mr..HORNC, soon after the sitting of the Court,
" The bridge over our River was Carried away at one o'clock
this morning, intonsequence of the appearance of ice, and we addressod the Lord Chancellor on the subject of this
consider ouenaeigationas closed for the season. As yet we have very important matter, observing, that the main bent
not much ice In this vicinity, being detained by the contrary of the last cloud of affidavits went upon the subject
winds. In the Little Nelta there is a good deal, and below on
the Bar and the shallows it is forming. Should the frost not of the adultery of Lady Pornmokith ; she protested
abate, it is doubtful if all the vessels loading will get away. • The against going into that question. In this colliteral -
wind here•is south, so that vessels may yet sail from Cronstadt if manner she was as ready. as ever to insist on her. ..-
the Channel be free from ice. The weather here is cloudy, and innocence, but being advised that such a question Intel
now likely to fall. I nothing to do with the question of the sanity of bord
•
An extraordinary Courier arrived from St. Petersburgh brings Portsmouth, which was the only real question before
letters to the 20th ult. which state, that all the vessels had sue_
erected in making their passage from Cronstadt before the closing the Court, rather than carry on the dispute any further
of the ice, except the Maria, Dauntless, London, and filo. The on the collateral issue ofadultery, she shduld withdraw
Exchange had experienced a slight advance, being at 10 1-32: her opposition,provided it was understood that Mr.
The Henry I V. steam packet, from Calais to I)over, for whose p
..etn .
erell, who was one of the leading Counsel for
safety great fears were entertained, put into Ostend on Friday. W
The Lord Nelson, of Plymouth, laden with butter and oats, the petition, desisted from touching upon any but
Is lost near St. Ive's. the real point in issue. The Learned Gentleman corn-
The Alciope, ADAMS, from Glasgow to Virginia, is strandi'd plained of the publicity which had been already given
near Carnarvon.
to this case, and to avoid any more of it, her Ladyship
The Diligence, DAVIS, of Bristol, has been condemned at Ca-
diz as unseaworthy, and would be sold. had rather let the Commission go on, that the inquiry
The Active, from Malaga to Liverpool, is on shore in Holy- might take its due course.
head Bay. The LORD CHANCELLOR spoke at considerable
The Noysomherd, from Volda to Newcastle, has been car-
length on the subject of publication of proceedings
rind into the Bridle by two fishermen, without masts, anchors,•
or cables, and was to be sold. ex-parte, in a Court of Justice ; and he observed that it
Extract of a letter from Sierra Leone, dated June 2 :—" By had been stated that he had held them to be legal—he
his Britannic Majesty's ship.aIYK)IIDON, arrived on Monday lasts had done no suclithing—he had been always of a con-
we received the distreasitig information of the loss of one of the teary opinion ; and lie remembered when he first came
Spanish prizes, the Yeanam, of Havannah, taken in the Bonny,
on board of which nearly 400 slaves, and 16 seamen of the Im- into the profession, there was not a lawyer who walked
mo:Le perished. The officers in charge, Messrs. lirrry and in Westminster Hall thought such publication legal.
Helremembered also an Attorney-General giving
Douoarry, are unhappily among the number. ilt the same time
the dreadful catastrophe occurred, the Ycanam was in sight of . • ;
milt fishers notice, that if they should publish any pro •
the MYRMIDON, and from the violence of the tornado in which . .
ceedings which took place against any persons who
she was upset, any as,istance was totally impossible. A boat
with seven of her seamen, who had miraculously saved them- were afterwards to be tried for life, that he should
selves from the wreck, were picked up four days after it hap-
file Criminal Informations against every one of them.
pened."
, Since that time, the rule had not been followed ; and
FALMOUTH, Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived off this port the Judges of different Courts had declined to inter•
Hannah, DIXON, from St. John's, New Brunswick, in 28 days; the
and Fortune, Wassaas, from Bremen, in 50 days. Put back fere in such. matters, and the practice had been
the Hope, Hams, for the South Seas. allowed to be continued for a very long period=not
that he ap _ Tended that the law had been thereby
PLYMOUTH, Dec. B.—Wind N. and N.E-Arrived the Dutch
sloop Petronelfe, of and for Amsterdam, 154 days front St.
altered :b * complaint, on that account, should
George's D'Elmine (Africa), with loss of all her sails, cables,
and anchors, very leaky, bulwarks clove, stauncheons gone, ever come b ore him, he should take care to do
plank stave ripped oPi and in want of every description of pro- what, in his judgment, should be his ditty between the
visions.public and the individual ; but the practice had now
Uri the 2d October, in long. 9.1 t. 46. lat. 7. 55. spoke
the Swallow, front Bombay for London; and on the 16th of
October, the Orpheus, in ht. 12. long. 25. bound to the Isle of become so general, that he should not, however clear
France and Ccylon ; received supplies and very great attention the matter might appear to himself, decide upon it,
and kindness from Captain Fno.xv. The wind this morning at without having the assistance of one or two of the
Judges. He observed also, that it would appear to him
N. and N.E. the outward-bnpnd made a movement, but only
the Caledonia, for Africa, got out.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 9.—Wind S. W.—Arrived front the to savour of harshness to proceed to inflict anything in
Downs, the Abeona and Thisbe, for Jamaica; Harvey, for the way of punishment on the party so illegally pub-
Trinidad; Aran, for Alicant; North Pole, for Marseilles; and lisbing anything, without sufficient notice. Such

Providence, for Brest.
DEAL, Dec. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived this morning and
the Wyton, COLLISON, from Hull fur St. Johns; the Claremont,
from Shields for Jamaica, and remaitts.—Put back this morning,
the Melpomene, for Bombay ; and Alfred, fer Tobago. The
Royal George, for India, was In sight this afternoon, but bore
up again for Margate Roads.
HARWICH, Dec. 9.—Arrived the Ceres, Crow, from Berwick
for London, with loss of anchors and cables; and Industry,
MITCHELL, from ditto to ditto, with loss of bulwarks. •
NEWHAVEN, DEC. B.—The Liberty, LAKINa, from London to
Africa, is off this port, with loss OF bulwarks, sails, part of her
materials, &c. and some of her cargo thrown overboard, during
the gale on Thursday night, off the Owen. She will be brought
In next tide, and must be refitted before she •can proceed.
l'aamourn, Dec. 7.—About 40 vessels are reported to have
lost anthill and cables mister the Cork, and to be now in the
North Sea.
LYNN, Dec. 7.—A sloop foundered yesterday off Thontharn,
and it is feared all on board perished.
Dec. 9.—Thursday, the Ceres. of this port, J. W. HALL,
drove on shore on Long Sand, soak and upset ; the crew, con-
sisting of six persons, cipwned.
Sr. Ives, DEC. 6.—Last night, in a gale, was driven on shore
and wrecked on Gwithian Sands, in this Bay, the sloop Lord
Nelson, of• Plymouth, with butter and oats; boat painted inside
W. POUNDER, supposed the master. Vessel and crew lost; and
the cargo, except about 140 firkins of butter, which are picked
up. Shipper's name Strangetnan.
Dusem, Dec. 7.—lt appears pretty certain that five boats,
with their crews, which put out for the purpose or herring fish-
ing from Bray,.Windgates, and that neighbourhood, were lust
on Friday night ('eats ult.) in the gale.
CUSTO3I4IOUse, DEC. 9.—Shipl Entered Inwards : The Flo-
rida, front Smyrna • Lord Wellington, from Gottenburgh ;
Violet, from Harlingen ; Sarah and Jane, ft tun ditto; Friends,
from Stangate Creek; Deux Amis, front Caen; Endeavour,
front Riga; There, front St. Petersburgh ; Princess of Wales,
from Rotterdam; Neptune, from Haniburgh ; Success, from
Memel; Nonsuch, Belleuncle, and Sistets, from Stangate Creek;
and the Malta, from Trinidad.—Entered Outwards: The Dryad,
for Tobago; Grenada, for Calcutta; Valck, for Ostend; Pilot,
' far Antwerp ; and Britannia, for Madras.—Cleared Outwards:
The Africa, for Jamaica ; New Harmony, fur Dublin ; George,
for Dort; and Piggott, for Bombay.

notice he Understood to have been given in a recent
case at the Old Bailey, before the party publidring
had been fined for doing so, which notice appeared to
him to be a proper act by way of caution to the party.
Mr. HORNE wished the Court tto point out to Mr.
Wetherell the course which he was to pursue on
Thursday, when this matter was to come on.
Mr. WETHERELL said that the conduct of this pe-
tition was with him ; and the Court itself, high as it
was, had no right to dictate to him the course which
he was to pursue; nor should he_be guided by the
sense of his adversary, but his own, on the propriety
of the course which he should take.
Mr. HEALD spoke at considerable length on the
same side as Mr. Horne, and complained that the
defence made by Gentlemen on behalf of Lord Ports-
mouth was merely feigned ; for their real object
was that the commission should issue, but Lady
Portsmouth really opposed the commission, and then
she became the subject of attack, and was accused of
adultery. She felt herself no match for her oppo-
nents in this collateral attack, and therefore retired
from the contest.
Mr. TacsLovis followed on the same side.
Alter which the ATTORNEY-GENERAL WAS heard
at some length against the conduct of her Ladyship;
and did not retract, on the contrary, maintained the
charge of adultery against her Ladyship.
Mr. WETHERELL, with great animation, spoke
against her Ladyship, and maintained that the adul-
tery was a part of the case in support of the Com-
mission ; for that it was sworn that the adultery
had been committed even when the Noble Lord
was in the bed during the time of its commitment—
an .event which never could have happened if that
Nobleman had not been insane. He not only should
maintain his right to go into the adultery, as con-
nected with the question of insanity, but he should
hereafter call upon his Lordship to order that all
these affidavits of Lady Portsmouth, and others upon
the subject of adultery, be laid before the Attorney-,
General, to be prosecuted for perjury, for that crime
was solemnly charged upon her by one hundred and li
thirty v.itnesses.
The caveat entered on the part of Lady Portsmouth
against the issuing of this Commission, was they.
urthdrawn.
Tire LORD CHANCELLOR said, that on Thursday
he should know what to do with the case.
Mr. llouNe said, that although, on the part of
Lady Portsmouth, the matter was to be contested no
longer, as far as regarded the issuing of the Corn-
mi,sion, yet they must all be heard in her behalf, if'
Mr. Wetherell should cart y his menace into execution.
The case now stands for final decision on Thursday.

MgETING TO REFORM THE WATERMEN
AND LIGHTERMEN OF THE THAMES.

Yesterday evening, a very numerous Meeting was held at the
City of London Tavern, to take into consideration the best
means of promoting Religion and Morality among the Lighter-
men, Watermen, Bargemen, and Rivermen in general, Alder-
man and Sheriff Timmrsos, M. I'. in the Chair.
The Rev. Mr. himern, of Penzance, in an impressive and
suitable prayer, invoked the blessing and protection of the AL-
MIGHTY for the objects of the Meeting.
Shcriff THOMPSON regretted that the amelioration of the con-
dition of so meritorious a class of persons as the Wateneen on
the Thames, especially at a time when such pains were taken to
introduce sedition and blasphemy among them, was not taken
up by a greater authority than himself. The objects were, to
distribute Bibles and religious works among theca—to give their
children a religious and Christian education.
The Rev. Mr. Ssorn said, he had first seen the worthy Al-
derman in the Chair when he was consoling a criminal, and
directing him to his Goo, at a time when be was just about to
be launched into an eternal world ; but now he was happy to
see him supporting a Society of men, for the prevention of
I crime. Ile congratulated the Chairman on being surrounded
by the Firemen, Watermen, Bargemen, and other Rivermen,
whose benefit was intended by the institution of this Society;
and concluded by moving, that it was of the utmost importance
that exertions should be made to promote religion and morality
among the Thames Rivermen generally.
PHILLIPS, a lighterman, addressed the Meeting at greatlength
in support of the object of the Meeting; and he was followed
by the Captain of the Hannah, collier, and two Watermen,
whose addresses to the Meeting were warmly applauded.
The Thanks of the Meeting were given to the worthy Chair-
man, and a liberal subscription made.
Several other Resolutions, having in view the establishment
of the Society, were put, and, like the first, carried unanimously ;
and the Meeting broke up.