Star.
London, England, 1824-05-28 00:00:00

10IV-STREEI -THIS DAY.

CAPTION or A PARING GANG OF BURGLARS —Three desperate cha-
racters, named JAnson, Thompson, and Dann, were put to the hp,
charged with an extensive and most daring burglary in the house.
of a Lady named 3larratt, resident at Ishhgton, about half-past.
two o'clock this morning.
The plisoners were detected in the fact by Newman and Norris,
the horse patrol, and the property found on them. The greatest
praise is due to the Officers, who went up to them, and cots-,
ragcousiy called on them to surrender. lu addition to Vie
property, a crow-bar of a most vupctior make was found on tlietp.
—SJ quietly and dexterously had the robbers conducted themselvesr
tlmt neither Mrs. Marratt not her daughter were aware of what had
taken place until the prisoners had been secured.—Committed.


LAW REPOIZT.

S.' 1: ATM rn:TVITTS 3::FORIV/IM Lout Cuascomon, Ma Loses.
Trios ion% mcetoes O ToNrrc Tutu, 11124.
.tyre Virst Seal; Tuesday, June 15tb, Second Sea!;
leicinetthy. Julie 16th, Petitions.
7A:.11 PETlTtottSilat‘RT TOE VICE-CRANCILLWA, Arran EASTER
Tsan Anil TRE•IOI.3 su TRIPEEIr TWA, 1624.
V"JaY• J'tne 41.. Fiat Seal; Tuesday, June 15tb, Second Scii;
Welnclay, June itith, Petitions.

COURT OF CUANCEDY, MAY Vt.
ROLIDAY V. NO HOLIDAY--.LINCOL:i.&-INN HALL.
Tt.e LORD CHANCELLOR entered the Hall five
minutes after ten o'clock ; few Counsel were in attend-
ro7c4i, from the idea that his Lordship would not sit,
t:::.s day L2ing a holiday.
His Lot dship called on the Bar to proceed to business.
StiouEN was anxious to tinish•his arguments' in
the ci/Ue of the Covent-garden Theatre, but sasv•none of
the Counsel on the adverse side present.
;dr. Sraxcx applied to Lis Lordship to advance a
particular case in tie list of causes.
The Lonu Cum.:m.l.°a said he was placed in a very
unpleasant situation; it was very hard that his Lordship
should be taxed for the inconveniences of proceeding in
this Court, by the very Counsel who created these In-
conveniences.. It was the practice for Attornies to op-
ply to Counsel for the advancement of causes, and for
Counsel to apply to his Lordship to that effect; and
after his Lordship had acceded to such applications,
Gentlemen came forward, on the representations of
other clients, to tell him how badly he administered
justice. This was very hard ; it was pei haps imprudent
In him to say so; but it was a fact.—lf he should ad-
•ance Mr. Spence's present motion, he should and, on
his return to his house this evening,. complaints from
many other suitors, of their cases having been put back.
There were Counsel who applied to his Lordship to ad-
vance cases, and who the next day blamed his Lordship
for his corniliatice with their own applications. His
Lordship did not mean Mr. Spence, but others. He un-
derstood that the Vice-Chancellor was steady in reu-
sing to hear such irregular motions, and this his Lord-
ship mentioned to that Gentleman's credit; his Lord-
ship was determined to imitate the Vice-Chancellor in
that point for the short time that his Lordship was to
sit in that Court (Chancery); and he wished Counsel
would mention this to the Solicitors. When his Lord-
ship was at the har, it w.,s tot usual to take fees for
such applications; he was softy to hear that the prac-
tice was reversed. _ _

Mr. SUGDEN observed, that some Counsel certainly
took fees for such applicdtions, but it was by no means
an universal practice among the bar.
ROSE was convinced that fees on such occasions
were ref used fifty times oftener than ►eceived.
The Loan Cu atccetzon was glad to hear it. He had
come to Court to-day, though it was a holiday, through
a wish to dispatch the business of the public, and for
the convenience of the bar; but his presence was use-
less, it Cimmisel would not attend him. lie would not
blame them for their absence; as he knew they were
fond of holidays. &nerd ►y would be a holiday also ;1
but his Lordship would attend and deliver judgments.
He sheuld hear motions to-mellow. His Lordship re-
peated his wish that Gentlemen would proceed to busi-
No Gentleman appeared willing to address the
Ginn. Some time after his Lordship withdrew, seve-
ral Gentlemen having entered, expressed their readiness,
to make motions, and required the Officer in attendance
to mention it to his Lord::►ip. Tire Officer refused.
It v, s then cbserved, by a King's Counsel, that it was
a mete mockery to appoint this day for business, as
those suitors who expected orders to be made against
them would not attend, and in their absence the adverse
counsel could not make motions. The Gentlemen of
the bar then retired, and the Court broke up.

COUItT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY U.

fin KING, •T ZSZ TROSTgarTIOS OT :ow &Lank :q a iuss.

The defendant was convicted at the Last Assizes for }lampslase
of a libel, of and concerning Air. Carters in his character of a Ma-
gistrate, accueng bini of exerci,ing his oZce with partiality, and
insinuating that he was prone to habits of a nature not to be dr
scribed.

Mr. lgrarwrrtiza now moved for a role to show cause why a
new trial should rot be had in this ease. In the first place, he con-
ttnided that evidence was received against the defendant which
was not adtrissil.k ; and in the se:ond place, tiorivideuce w.s given
which brought home the lti.el to the defendant.
The Couar Lorin heard notes of the trial read by Mr. Justice
Littledale, was decidedly of opinion that the Jury had abundant
thintids for their verdict.
After hearing Mr. C. F. Wu.uasts and Mr. MrnswEinta, in
stiittgatton, and Mr. Gaszt.sa in aggravation,
The CouRT sentenced the defendant to be imprisoned for eighteen
calendar months it. the jail of Portsmouth ; and.rt the expiration of
that time, to enter into rscognizonces fur his good behaviour for
five years, in ,C,;00.
HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.
THE AGINCOURT.

Tlii: was a snit of damages preferred by a mariner
named John Thompson, who slipped on board the
Company's ship Agincourt as conk, from Mail as to the
port of London, in 1823, against John Mahon, the Cap-
tain of the said vessel, for a violent assault upon, and
flogging of the complainant by the Captain's orders. A
great quantity of evidence was read to the Court, from
which it appeared, on behalf of tie mariner, that the'
Captain was of a passionate arid violent temper, and
that without any provocation he cau.:ed the complain-
ant, upon an occasion of a trifling dispute with anotherl
seaman, to be tied up, and to have a dosen lashes given
Lim. It was also stated that the Captain was so dissatis-
fied with the mo.!e in which the bontiwain was admi-
nistering punishment. that he took the cat-o'-nine-tails,
and added two or three fresh knots to them. On the
caws.' baud, she evidence for the Captain represented
Thomson as :t troublesome character, who made him-
self odious to the whole of the crew by his insolent and
bullying hthaviostr. The Captain himsolf had expressed
fears fot his petsoral safety, and that it was in his own
defence he was Wised to resort to this punishment.
The reading of the evidence, which was exceedingly
voluminous, occupied tine Court during the greater part
of the day.—Judgment deferred.

CO.NSISTORIAL COURT, EXETER.
DAVY V. WALTS.A.

This suit was instituted by Mr. John Giddy Dairy,
late of Lifton, in this county, against Charlotte Walter,
the parish of Yealmpton, falsely calling herself Davy,
and pretending to he the wife of the -said John Giddy
Davy, in a cause of nullity of marriage.. It appeared,
by the pleadings in the' suit, that the plaintiff, when he
vas fourteen years old, was put to school with a Mr.
♦Palter, at Yealnapton; that in the management of the
school Mr. 'Walter was assisted by his two daughters,
l'atrentila, aged 45; and Charlotte, the defendant, aged
59; that when the plaintiff was about 16, an attach-
=ant was formed between himself and Charlotte, aided
by the amiable Patrunella, who, together, prevailed
upon the stapling to hays his banns called at Stoke

Damerell, about nine miles from Yealm',ton, for mar•
riage to the defendant, in which they were described as
John Davy, of Stoke Damerell, scrivener, and not John
Giddy Davy, and Charlotte Walter, of the same parish,
spinster, though they ere troth residing at Yealmpton,
the boy at school, and the ladies formlng part of their
father's family; that on the banns being called out, the
plaintiff was walked into Davenport by the ladies, in
borrowed plumes, and after hiring a person to vouch
for their identity, the plaintiff, then only sixteen years
and fire quontlis old, was married by the Curate of
Stoke Damerell, to the defendan7, his schoolma ter's
daughter, aged 3P, with Miss Patroneila for their
brides-maid; that after the marriage, the party re-
turned 'to Yealruptoni the boy to his studies, and the
ladies to their work; but the marriage was unknown to
the plaintiff's mother, or to the defendant's family, until
the plaintiff came of age, and then the defendant,
claimed him as her lawful husband. The suit, there-
fore, was instituted by the plaintiff, to set aside a mar-
riage so clandestinely solemnized, and the cause having
come on for judgment, the Worshipful the Chan-
cellor delivered his sentiments at large on the subject,
highly condemning a proceeding so fall of fraud, and
directed that the pretended marriage, so solemniz,:d
between the said parties, was null and void, pursuant to
an Act of Parliament. 26 Gen. 11. for the better pre-
venting of clandestine marriages, from wirieh sentence
the Proctor fen the defendant appealed.

TILE4TY BI•;TIVLhN GRAAT BRITAIN ANL'
THE NETHERLAND S.

BRUSSELS, MAY 23.
The treaty of London concluded en the- 17th of
March, which was lately presented to the Second
Chamber of the States-Genekl, is accompanied by an
explanatory memo, ial, 'hewing the grounds and ex,
pediency of it, the entire substance of whit's we have
already published.
The following Note was delivered by the English
plenipotentiaries to those of the Netherlands, on the
day on which the tre .ty was signed:
" On procee.iing to the signature of the treaty which
has been agreed upon, the Plenipotentiaries ..f hi, Eli
tannic Majesty feel a lively satisfaction in expressing
the justice which they do to the spit of good will and
liberality maniteved by their Excellencies tbe Plenipo-
tentiaries of the Netherlands, and their eginviction that,
both parties are equally disposed to execute sincerely
and in good faith the stir ulations of the treaty in the
sense in which they have been negotiated.
" The difference, which gave rise to the present die
cussion, are of the nature of those sk!;icii it is difficult
to arrange by fig mal stipulatilns. Cmisisting in a peat
degree of jealousies and suspicions, and occasioned by
the acts of subaltern agents, they can be terminated
only by a frank declaration of the intention of the Go-
vernments them elves, and by a mutual explanation of
the principle, which guide them. The disavowal of the
measures whic!: had ietarded the execution of the con
vention of the 13th of August, Ibl4, will have proved
to their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of the Ne-
the:tan:is the scrupulous exactness with which England
always f,'lfils its engagements.
" The British Plenipotentiaries recollect with real
pleasure the solemn disavowal on the part of the Go-
vernrnent of the Netherlands, of every project to aspire
at either political supremacy or exclusive trade in the
Archipelago.
We readily acknowledge the promptness of the
Plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands to enter into ar-
r.l.ngements calculated to encourage the most complete
liberty of commerce between the subjects of the two
Crowns and their respective dependencies in that part
of the world.

" The undersigned are authorized to express the en-
tire adherence of his Britannic Majesty to the enlightened
views of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands.
" Appreciating the difficulty of suddenly adapting to
a loug-established exclusive system the principles of
commercial policy which have just been established, the
undersigned have been authorized to a.giee, that the
Molucca islands shall be excepted from the general vi-
pulation of a free trade, as the treaty describes it.—
They hope, however, that since the necessity of this ex•
ception is caused only by the difficulty of abolishing at
the present moment the monopoly of the spice trade, the
effects will be sti icily confined to that necessity.
44 The British Plenipotentiaries consider the term Mo•
luccas as applicable to the whole of that Archipehr.,o
hicli is bounded on the west by Celebes, the east i)y
New Guinea, and on the south by Timor; but that those
three islands are not included in the exception, which
would have been extended to Ceram, did nut the situa-
Lien of that island with respect to the two principal ones
for the cultivation of spices, Amboyna and Banda, re-
quire a prohibition of traffic dui ing the whole time that
it shall be necessary to maintain the monopoly.
" The exchanges of territory which have been judged
necessary, in Order to avoid all collision of interests,
impose on the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Ma-
jesty, the duty of giving and requiring some infos ma-
lien respecting the subjects and allies of England in the
isiands from which it is going to withdraw.
" A ir,2tity concluded by British agents in 1819 with
the Kinm of Acheen is incomi,atible wide Art. 3 of the
present n eat y. The Bluish Plenipotentiaries, thei elm e,
promise that the treaty vi ith Acheen shall be reduced as
speedily as possible to the terms of a simple arrange-
ment for the hospitable reception of British ships and
subjects in the port of Acheen. But as sonic of the con-
ditions of this treaty (which has been communicated to
the Plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands) will be advan-
tageous to the general interests of Europeans settled in
the eastern seas, they confidently hope that the Govern-
ment of the Netherlands will take measures to place,
those advantages above all violation, and they likewise
'express their conviction that no hostile measures towards
the King of Acheen will be adopted by the new pos-
sessors of Fort Marlborough.
" It is no less the duty of the British Plenipotentiaries to recom-
mend to the kind and paternal protection of the Government of
the Netherlands, the natives and colonists subject to the ancient
,Enzlisll factory of Bencoulen.
" This appeal is the more necessary, as at a period so late as 1818,
conventions were made with the native chiefs, in consequence of
which the situation of the natives has experienced essential amelio-
rations. The compulsory system for the cultiv.:tion aiAl supply of
sepper has been aboAshed; encouragement bas been given to the
icuirivation of rice; the relations between the agricultural clat.s and
ithe chief; of the districts have been regulated ; the propifty of the
soil hat been adjudged to the latter; and an end has been put to all
linterference in the details of the internal administration, by re-
naafi:if Runs the advanced stations the European resiticiiis, and
Putting-in their place native officers; the object of all which mea-
sures was to favour the interests of the inhabitants.
" In recommending these interests to the care of the Government
of Jim Netherlands, the undersigned request the Pleniltitentiaries
at his Majesty the King of the Netherlands to assure their Govern-
iment that the British Authorities w_in on their side show particular
attection to the inhabitants of hitlacto and die' (Witt possessions of
the Ache:Lads ceded to Glasse Illsitaid.
. "lii conclusion, the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Diajea•;

rongratulat e their ratkellenries the Plvnlpotentiarics dic• Nether-
lands on the happy issue of their conferences. They are convinced
that by means of the arrangement which has just been concluded,
the COMMeree of the two nations will prosper, and thlt the Allies
will by able to preserve no less entire in Asia than in Europe, the
friendship which has so long subsisted between them.
" Now that an end has been put to the disputes which f r two
centuries have occasionally produced irritation, there can no longer
bean), rivalry in the Fast between :Ile Eng;i4i and the ll:lrian ra-
tions, but for the more solid estaldfshrocut of those princirles of
liberal policy which they have thi; day aalemrily ref: Ign:icci in O. •
face of the trniverse,

"The undersigned, heing"&c.
(We sh.:ll give in 211nther Enrni•er the l'lnte tLc Pl2e;:otati-
darks of the Netherlantig, in answer to the zbove.)

Par. )CL INTEL LIGENCE.

DI A NS i WT. HOUSE.
Dorrins. 70 year, of age, was Ilccus :4 cf forgery, by Mr. Trz-
land, maru.facturet, of Keedat.
Mr. Leland stated, th.t the prisoner bought of him goods to the
value of 70E. and presented a bill for 64:11. 10s.purporting to he ac-
cepted by Johnson, Nerdy, and C.,. of Wbitehaven. Ile took it,
returned the balar.ce, and wrote to the bankers to ascertain if they
bad accepted the hill, and %vs. answrred i: was a forgery. and that
they did not I:r% any person :limed Wm. Dougla...
In defence. I.e stated, that there must have been some mistake
in writing letter, as he lad frequently traesacted busiress with
thoe and produced a letter of credit from tLe::), allowing
hint to (Law on them to the amount Of 3000/.

An order wr.sairen for the appearance of cre cf the bankers,
and the primmer was renttnd,d.
John Joseph Knee, who h..d formerly beec Icfore the Court, was
next brought cp.
It appeared that Hayle was a clerk Ir the bsrldr4,..house cf —.—
Fuller, Esq. tornbill, and Lad stolen a preat variety of bills of ez-
chargt, some for 1001. and others fer 5tAl. to the amount, as was
stated, of nearly SOC.C.i.
1 he diheres.t owners of the bills,and those who had cashed them,
appeared to i;:ve cvidenc-, and were found over to prosec!ite. The
prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the Cid Bailey.