Star.
London, England, 1821-11-24 00:00:00

NAVAL IATELLIGENCE.

Extract of a letter from Monte Video, dated September 9 :--
" In the afternoon of the Ist that. the wind came round to SE
and continued to Increase from that quarter tin the night of the
2d inst. when it blew a very heavy pie. The Olive Branch lost
three anchors; several other vessel, in the Bay suffered in the
same manner. Among the shipwrecks on the coast that night
are, the Ann, of London, Porn, from Gibraltar, nine miles be-
low this; one man drowned, part of the cargo saved, but the
vessel is gone to pieces. About fifteen miles below Maldonado,
the Fly, of Liverpool, Moanax-r, from thence to Buenos Ayres,
and ft is feared little of the vessel or Gorge will be saved. In the
same place is a French ship on shore.'
The Maria, from Boston to Louden, which was on shore on
the 4th inst. on Lowestolfe Beach, has been got off, and arrived at
Yarmouth on Monday.
The James, of Galway, bound to Liverpool, was driven on
shore on Westport Bar, on Friday night, but expected to be got
off after discharging.
The St. Domingo, Emmen, bound to Bristol, ran on shore in
Waterford River, off Sunday, but was got off; but being leaky,
would discharge.

FAtmocru, No•. _L—Wind West.—Sailed, the Britannia,
rue

Poarsaaouvu, Nov. 2S.—Wind W.—Arrived, the Mirables,
RUTURRIPOSID, from London for St. Vincent's ; Royal Oak, STEM,
(Toni Watertord for London, with loss of main-boom and gaff;
and the Maria, GRICESSLADS, from the Downs for St. Michael's,
with loan of bowsprit, topmast, and jib. Sailed, the George
Myatt, Enoas, for St. Michael's. The wind blew very strong
all the forenoon from the Westward. At two r. an it shifted to
_ _

the North, and if it continues, the
at day-light to-morrow.
YARMOUTH. Nov. 23.—The Whim, of Hun, from St. Peter's-
burgh, struck on the Cross Sand this morning, and broke her
rudder. A fishing-boat and a salvage-bolt from hence are
assisting her.

will get away

Dim., Nov. 23.—Wind N.N.W.—Came down from the RI..
ver, and sailed with the rest of the outward-bound, the Zephyr,
Cox, for Hontiura, ; vay, lawm, and William, GUNN, for
Trinidad; Waterloo, Waicis.ox, and Harvey, Rowe, for Ja-
maica; Younghl.sh.:nd, Mown. for Barbadoes; Cherub. Fare-
MAN, for Cork,. &c. Swift, WALKER, for Seville; Alexander,
I'lmm:tire, fur : lavre ; and Sirene, Fatts-sxx, for Calais. Put
haek Last night, several of the outward-bound, but they have
all sailed again to-day.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 23.—A:rived the Wilheimina, Hanson, from
Dordrecht, for Brest, leaky, and with loss of sails, having been
on the Flemish Banks; Telemachus, TOPPING, from London for
Gijon, with loss of an anchor and cable and Jason, Caorr, from
Shields Mr Exeter, leaky.
Ara, Nov. 20.—Put back and arrived at Trout, the Martha,
KILNNICLIT, from Liverpool fur Quebec, out ten weeks. She ex-
perienced a succession of heavy gales on the banks of Newfound-
land, and was obliged to bear up, being leaky. The Friendship,
Weum, from Dublin, got on shore last night, southward of this
harbour, but Is expected to be got off without damage.
Bansintaxon, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Thomas and John, Ben,
from Poitunouth for Sunderland, with loss of mainmast.
DAM:IIOIMM, Nov. 22.—The Francisco', SONDSII3IIA; slipped
her cable last night, and went into Tbrbay.
A atuvao—At Newfoundland, the Gosport, Cox, from Oporto;
Waterloo, front Liverpool ; and timeline, from Poole. At the
Ide bf Mull, Oscar, Heltbery, from Bergen, dismasied, and
part of her cargo thrown overboard. At Demerara, Unicorn,
Wilson, from the Clyde ; and Jane and Barbara,. from Bristol.
At Bengal, Almorah, Winter, from Loudon. At Gibraltar,
'Betsey and Jane, from Gaspet ; Revanche, Julien, from Gua-
deloupe; Elisabeth, from Bahia; Upton, Stanworth, from New.
foundland ; and Star, front Rio Janeiro.
Currom-House, Nov. !M.—Ships Entered Inwards:—The
Neptune, from Zante ; Ruby, from Petersburgh ; Heart of Oak,
from Lebast ; Crocodile, from Denia ; Blenheim, front Onega ;!
and Rover, from Mersa—Entered Outwards: The Favourite,
for Port-au-Prince; Flora, for Antwerp; Iris, for St-Vincent's;
and Flying Fish, for Onead.--Cleired Outwards The Re-
ward, for Jamaica; Young Proteus, for Hayti; Hope, for To-
bago ; PetroaeUe, fur Rouen; Jopiter, Ibr Gibraltar; Melanie,'
for Havre ; Matilda, for Antwerp ; and St. George, for Grenada.

Extract of a letter from Norfolk (Virginia), Octo-
ber 20:—" A N.E. wind, which has been blowing
since Tuesday night, has caused aconsiderable change
in the atmosphere ; and the effect of cold weather on
the health of this town has been most salutary. We
have not had any cases of malignant fever lately, and
not even a death for the last two days. The Nashviile
Papers, which we have received to the 6th inst. do not
mention the arrival of General Jackson, as was re-
ported in the New York papers.*
Fier.--About one o'clock yesterday morning, as
the watchman was going his rounds, he perce►ved
flames issuing from the lower part of the house of
Mr. CLARK, chemist and druggist, Back-road, Isling-
ton. He immediately alarmed the neighbourhood ;
the door was forced open, and the inmates had only
sufficient time to save their lives, when the whole
house was on fire. Several engines arrived, but their
services were rendered useless for want of water,
owing to the pipes being broke up, and laid aside for
the purpose of making the sewer that leads to the
new houses. Taylor, the constable, who took the
parish engine, succeeded in breaking the main pipe,
and by that means procured plenty of water, which
fortunately saved the neighbourhood. Mr. CLaais
house was burnt to the ground, and the roofs of Wee
adjoining houses were mach dassied.

DisrUftIIANCES tN IRELIND.

FROM THE DUBLIN JOURNAL OF WEDNIMDAT
COUNTY OF LIMERICK
madeAta b late hour last Saturday eight,
an mit.
was y a strong party of the armed
Kasantr(
on the house of THOMAS Funt.otio,
,Esq. The spirited resistance which bad bten
mad
by Mr. FURLONG and his son, on a fortner wait,
had .made a suitable impression on the minds of th,
wretches, for, as sopt* as they had dilcorertd
Mr. FonLoNc had gone from home,thdyrheftrht
opportunity peculiarly favourable
. fora setoQ att4
on his house. Mr. Fununid's son, however, wu
at
home, who, with his cousin, and Captain Srasniss,
his brother-in-law, together with a few soldiers,
fully prepared to resist the attack. The assailaks
were formed into three divisions; one was statiorel
at the front, and one at each flank of the hon,e,
Mr. FuftLowo and his little al ty fired several ,:het.,
but the assailants t% ere equally active; some 0/164
were wounded, and the circumstance caused thee,
to retreat. Mr. FURLONG anal his party followe;
them for some perches, and, in pursuit, ore of :;,
soldiers was wounded with a slug in the 4rei..,
Mr. FURLONG'S party kept up a brisk fire en
fugitives, and it is supposed that some of them h4,e
seen wounded.

The following is an extract of a letter from a Ma
gistrate of the county of Linietick, dated October 13,
“ You express a hope in .your letter, that the outrages
Mt reached my part of the country, ; glad I should be that tan
had tat; and if we had been supported by the Chief of
and Sir 1. tamber4 as we ought to brie been, the 31ag4sr,
teem deterinined to have been on the alat, and to pairal
country dbring the. night. Three weeks ago we stated to thy.
Gentlemen thgt we had reason to apprehend that the flaw IN
spreading, and eaptesssd•our wish to co-operate. No Midi
been afforded—on the contrary, the Police has rats.....- Leo •
nabhed. What has been the result? Irsthiu the last tee
above fifty stand of serviceable firearms have Lem takes, frse
the sentry and farmers near rue. Wilen i a,lt them why ta«
surrender them so easily? they say, that they find the 31*

strata and Police are not able to support them, and why sktui
they endanger their lives and property by resistance? foul
eases, when they meditate an attack upon a farm-house (or ass,
and expect opposition, they fin! drive all the live wick We 6
yard, and then threaten to burn the house and hulth the auk,/
the arms are not given up : last Thursday they Nssed by di,
I have my house made as strong as in 179 e, but what we km
most to fear is assassination. No Gentleman tau in: est the

night-fall, nor is he safe by day. Sr J. Lambert had hir.Gni;
may think it is all over ; I tell them It is not : all the ne:gcka:.
ing villages were ransacked for arms last Friday nigh.
" A respectable farmer, Mr. Grady, whose house vas-
tacked, beat them off, although his boom was •ec es grt;
applied for help, but none could be had ; they returned ca Sr.
day night, with sledges and fire, and drove the stocg ;has
yard, and compelled him to surrender. They amide' oh.
Gibbings, near Charleville, acd fired more than twenty that ta
lat the windows. Such is the,state of this unfortenas county.-
I have just beard that all our police hare bet n withdrawn, and n
soldier within ten miles. After calling the lead off.the Anil/cry
• Barrack, and Chapel in Limerick, we have woos to tiro. they
will strip every Gentleman's howsein the county. I wish the rd
state of this county was known pa the other side tithe water"
The Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the Path
of Maaltur and. knockanure, which border on fa:
county of Limerick, having assembled a: tle
of Kriockanure, on Sunday, the 11th of Noveckr,
IB'4l, the Rev. 111cataEt. O'Sou.tvas, I'. P. I tie
Chair, it was

" Resolved, That we deeply lament the unhappy state d

neighbouring County. That we are determined, every sod
us, so far as we are able, to keep our Parishes fret Wawa
disturbances ; and. that we will enter into no combination tiara
the laws of our country, which afford protection to thrills.
trious poor man, who conducts himself peaceably, as miles
the rich. That, on the contrary, if any evil-minded penes
persons should, by threats or otherwise, attempt to imams
the mischievous principles which prevail beyond our totem
and to disturb our present quiet, we solemnly, before ouraki
pledge ourselves to unite in repelling such an attempt.

" Resolved, That we have hiard with regret

►einuations, which could only have sprung from false inforeing.
or be invented to answer private purposes, tending is cast gill
upon that peaceable and loyal demeanour which has Woo
ceasingly inculcated by our Reverend Pastors, and whicire
repose our confidence in COD, in Whose presence we auk tie
solemn declamtions--will be made manifest, as well by 'EP
sent as our future conduct.

ts Resolved, That we seize the present occasion is ny's
our gratitude and thanks to Thomas Stoughton, Ent *di
Rev. Anthony Stoughton, for their kind and eomiciesaarsok
of dealing with us respecting our tithes, by which one do
heavy burthens has been considerably lightened; and wrIP
sorely regret that all other proprietors of tithes do not forts
maple which would in a great measure tend to MAO.*
minds.of the People at large.
Signed. on behalf of the Parishioners.
" MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN,
COUNTY OF CARLOW.
While we exult in the general tranquillity of this
part of the country, we cannot help to deplete °
particular depravity of heart which prompts 9211
individuals to repay kindness and benevolence blbil
of savage barbarity. On Tuesday night, a bastii
and valuable- Devon calf, the property of N.A.
was, Esq. of Eriwlale, near this town, was Wog
-the pasture field, and brought to a grotto ow&
house, where having been killed, by some cue,
more ruffians, they loft the carcase behind, curl
away only the skin We are totally at a loss to r
count for such conduct, for if there is one Geutleo..
in the vicinity of Carlow entitled to the uneoelot
esteem of the Public, Captain VIGORS is that vo;
This Gentleman has expended several dews'
pounds on his demesne, which he has literally :110
open to the Public : and during the summer nxeso
the inhabitants of this town have every accost:
tion they can wish fbr, whenever they may be
posed to recreate themselve in the beautiful stood
and improvements of Erindale : yet the liberal Pi°
prietor, whose heart and hand was ever open to
lieve his fellow-creature, is not secure, as it aPPt,
from this outrage I Can the perpetrators of go'
',Woe* It

1301411)ZD egAnc

we copy the following from the Nortakh Mercury,
}coi We led this morning :
0 have just received the following letter from
our worthy County Member: it relates to the abstrac-
01' Wheat from under the King's lock, Whitt we
wee the first to bring under the public notice, in a
'pt, a few weeks ago. We then, recommended,
sad we are persuaded it would be well for the Agri-
clitoral Interest, if a genentl survey of the ware.
under the lock was instituted
To FRE EDITOR OF THE NORWICH MERCURY.
I sn—ln one of your Papen of this month, there was an al.
bon lode to a fraud that was supposed to have been committed
go the eon of Yorkshire, respecting bonded Coen. The same
„rebid prviously reached me from another quarter, and I
vred o Mr. 110111430 N for information. The fact, as stated,
is
—lt was occasioned by neglect on the part of the Col-
lector d Excise, though there does not appear to have been any
wince in the fraud. His pay has been suspended, and
worts taken, which, it is hoped, will guard against a recur-
w the practice.-1 pm, Sir, your obedient servant,
• EDMUND WODEIIOUSE.'"

SPORTIAG INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING.
retro:ton Hounds meet on Monday, at Caxton Turnpike ;
yeasoday, at Brampton Wood; Friday, at Abbotsly Downs.
The Fast Essex and Thurlow Fox.hounds meet on Monday,
peaky Wood; Tuesday, at Bulmer Plough ; Thursday, at
Sasstead-street,near Cavesidish ; Friday, It Gol Grove.
The Woseestershire Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Chillington;
Iraq, at Emboli.
The Cheshire Hounds meet on Monday, at Weaver 1101;
Nrobiesday, at Mitobell ; Thursday, at highway-side; Satur-
do, it die Fox and Harrel.
Sir Richard Pukaton's Hounds net on Monday, at Twem-
kesCiliervday, at Overton Scar.
Su lkomas Stank-i's Hounds meet en tifonday, at Morton ;
Wolatelay, at iluotun. Park ; Friday, at Thornton Common.
Lard Anson's How& meet on Monday, at Kirkby.
CUNNING OF THE FOX.

At the Golden Beat tun, Reading, a young fox had. a few
wan since, been taught to go into the wheel and turn the jack.
After be had thus officiates' for some time, be escaped, and re-
vised his native woods. Herr be met the fate common to his
▪ s• 3 • was pursued by the hounds, and in his flight ran
&ugh the town of Reading, reached the inn, and springing
swathe half-door of the kitchen, jumped into the wheel and re
word his occupation, he the very place where he had been brought
IN by which means he saved his life.
PEDESTRIANISM.
Tsar/ se'nnight, West, of pedestrian celebrity, undertook
Saslow to run ten miles in the hour. wbkit be accomplished,
at Ash, Sandwich, without modem:in any distress, ih
ikons tuinutea 41.0

Wednesday morning a !uel was fought between
vroGenrlemen on Bagshot Heath, which proved fatal
to ou of the seconds; in consequence of his standing
too nee his man, he was shot in the left side, and
died ia two hours. The unfortunate man has left a
vie and child—they are, however, provided for.
CHARLES DAwsoN, Esq. of Charles Fort, has re-
duced the rents on his estates in the county of Lime-

s Ifr
ties,
oat
1 w•

rick, more than one-third.
The Rev. G. Moons, of Wrotham, has handsomely
deducted 20 per cent. (amounting to nearly £500)
from bis tithes, due at Michaelmas last; and we are
happy to find that this laudable exataple has recently
ken followed by the Hon. and Rev. F. Non., who
deducted 15 per cent. from his Nettlested tithes. The
Pr. Dr. Wiu.is, Vicar of Vs'ateringbury, at his late
tithe-day, made, unsolicited, a deduction of 10 per
test. from his tithe composition.
Geese were sold last week in the Dublin market, at
101 each ; and turkies at a sovereign a score.
Some idea may be f' rmed of the immense resort of
Irish labourers to this country during the time of the
tartest, from the circumstance, that one of the pas-
sengers in a Manchester coach counted no less than
284 Irish labourers on their return home, between
Viarrington and Liverpool, on one of the last days of
October, when the harvest was nearly over.
The Louisiana Advertiser of the 20th September,
sap—,. Along the frontier State of Louisiana there
is at this moment almost every species of smuggling
carried on. Slaves are brought in by the dozen.i
elide our vessels are coasting along the shored ot
Africa to prevent their departure."
Last Sunday evening, a beautiful lunar rainbow
vas visible for a few minutes in a south-west direc-
tion from Perth. The phenomenon was likewise seen
etlinross, much about the same time.
The variableness of the climate of Great Britain
has never been more remarkable than of late. On
die 2d instant, at six in the morning, Fahrenheit's
'thermometer stood at 601 degrees, and at the same
hair on the 4th of July last, it was only at 52; so
Oman one period in the middle of the present =m-
em it was 8i degrees colder than in the month of
November. On the night of November 1, at York,
the minimum of the thermometer was 49 ; on the
Eight of theed of July last, it was 56 ; being 13 de-
grees colder. On the sth of November, at tire same
bout in the morning, the thermometer was at SO,
being 19 degrees colder than lour days before.
The cascade and the gravel walk, at the east aid'
of the Serpentine River, exhibited a curious appear-
ance on Sunday morning last. The dykes had given
tray next Keusingten, and the torrent of water be-
eline so impetuous as to overflow the banks, carry-
ing with it multitudes of Saws. Boys were seen
catching carp of six pounds weight on the gravel
walk and sloping lawn.
Guttman, Nov. 22.—A bridge across the Junction
Navigation of the Arun and Way, near the Com-
?asses, between this town and Horsham, was washed
hay yesterday by the flood of heavy rains (although
lice the summit level), and a man, who had been
with cattle from Blackwater to Horsham, returning
was the said bridge, was unfortunately drowned.--
At Kingston, the Thames has overflowed the turnpike
toad between that place and Ditton.
Thanes, Nov. 21—The storm of Friday night last
appears to have been general throughout the western
part of England, and in some places considerable da-
mage has been done. It commenced in this neigh-
bourhood at about half-past ten, with one of the most
tremendous showers of hail we ever witnessed, accom-
par.ied with thunder and lightning ; the wind at the
lame time blowing a ga!e. SeVeral houses were corn-
odor floode.l. It visited Bath an hour or two earlier.
Le shower of ice at Dartmouth included ragged
Pieces of two or tin ee inches long; one actually mea-
sured four inches and a half. Among its effects in
Brat neighhourlrood were from 2500 to WOO panes of
east broken.

LAW nfriLLzIENcR.

•i . • Imm. • a•

COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER W..
TAIIIBETT V. VESSETT AND TENANT.
M. HEALD this day applied to the Court to dis-
Wive an injunction which had been obtained to pre-
vent the sailing Of the ship Apollo, and which ap-
peared in this Paper at the time. It will be remem-
heed, that the grounds on which the plaintiff ob-
tained the injunction were, that the ship was not sea-
worthy, and that he would be rendered liable for the
repairs that had been done to the vessel by the defen-
dants, who had dissented to his continuing Master of
her. The Learned Counsel stated, that that injunc-
tion had been granted on an er parte hearing of the
case; and he had now to state, that the plaintiff had,
or would be indemnified for any loss he might sup-
pose himself liable to, and consequently he had no
right to interfere with the vessel. The plaintiff, as a
further proof of the justness of granting the present
motion, he should state, had previously applied to
the Court of Admiralty, and obtained security for
tany loss he might sustain—a circumstance not men-
tioned to his Lordship at the time the injunction was
obtained, and whit); he could not account for, as it
was a circumstance that, in his opinion, ought to
have been stated; but the most material fact was,
that the defendants had, from the application that
had been made, suffered great detriment in a pecu-
niary point of view. The vessel was one of the first
class, and rated as such at Lloyd's; she had been
freighted by the East India Company, and had taken
past of her cargo on board. ' Tuenty-eight persons
had taken their passage in her; but the consequence
of the application had been, that the East India Com-
pany had objected to her proceeding on her voyage,
and a considerable number of persons had declined
going in the vessel. Affidavits had now been filed,
rebutting the charge that the vessel was not sea-
worthy, by three surveyors and several ship-brokers,
the Captain, Mate, and Midshipman—the latter of
whom alleged, that the vessel had never made more
than two or three -inches of water in tu-enty-four
hours. Under these circumstances, he trusted his
Lordship would not continue the injunction.
Mr. Ducirwoetit followed on the same side, and
took a similar hue of argument.
Mr. HART contended that the injunction had been
properly granted; and stated, as a reason for not
mentioning the application to the Admiralty Court,
in the former hearing, to have arisen from its not
bearing on the case, and therefore it had not been
mentioned. •It bad been stated, that the defendants
were willing to indemnify his client for any loss he
might sustain ; in fact, it had been, to use their own
words, stated, that " they had, or would do." Now,
this was all he wished Or required from them. Let
them do this, and he ivould be satisfied ; but, until
this was done, he certainly would submit, with de-
ference to the Court, that the injunction ought to be
continued.—Mr. BAYNES argued to a like effect.
Mr. HEALD replied, and enforced the necessity of
dissolving the injunction, on similar principles to those
be had before urged.
Mr. HART said, he had just received a note, stating
that his client had been served with a bill for the ex-
penses the defendants had gone to for repairs; and
also an intimation that they should hold him liable
for hi. quota of them. The letter to which he had
alluded had been sent for, and would be in Court in
half an hour.
The LORD CHANCELLOR-44 Take that time, and I
will then state what I think of the matter."
Mr. HART having got the letter, stated, that if it
was wished, he would verify it by affidavit.
Mr. HEALD said, the letter was written on the 4th
of October, though it had not been put into the bill
filed by the plaintiff.
' Mr. HART said, if the defendant; would undertake
not to call on the plaintiff for the amount of the ex-
penses, he should be content.
Mr. HEALD said he would not advise them to do so.
The LoRD CHANCELLOR took a general view of the
cam, and concluded by giving it as his opinion, that,
`under all the circumstances of the case, he ought to
dissolve the injunction.
Mr. HART then gave notice of a motion for a re-
ference to the Master, in order to secure the plaintiff
from any liability.
Mr. HEALD said, when that motion was made, his
'clients would be prepared to meet it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the Gentlemen were
very respectable, and he thought if the £2,000 for the
repairs were paid, there would be no necessity for
going farther until the return of the ship.
Mr. Heat.o—c. My advice is, that they all set off
in the ship together for the East Indiea."
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" I think they had bet-
ter all go in the ship together to the Eastlndies than
stop in the Court of Chancery, in England r
The injunction was then dissolved.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER 0.
The COURT was occupied the greater part of thel
day in passing judgment upon persons guilty of of.,
fences against the Excise and Customs Laws; and va-
rious terms of imprisonment wese imposed upon them,
according to the nature of their offences respectively,
None of the cases were of general interest.
THE KING V. ISAAC COX. GENT.

Mr. Serjeant PELt. prayed the judgment of the
Court on this defendant, a respectable solicitor of
Honiton, who was convicted at the last Assizes for
Exeter, before Mr. Baron Graham, of a libel pith-
lished in the Devonshire Newspapers, upon a young
man named Charles Norman, a student of the Mili-
tary College at Sandhurst, and a son of Colonel Nor-
man. The alleged libel contained a statement of
circumstances, tending to impute to the prosecutor
gross and barbarous cruelty in putting to death a
favourite mare, his property. The prosecution had
been suggested by the heads of the Military College,
for the vindication of the young Gentleman's cha-
racter, who was in danger of !ling expelled from
the seminary in consequence of the imputation con-
tained in the libel.
Affidavits were put in on behalf of the defendant,
in mitigation of punishment, from which it appeared,
that the transaction m hich was the subject of the al-
leged libel, had excited a great sensation at Sidmouth,
where it took place, and prompted Miss Ann Barbara
Wright, an elderly Lady of that town, and a Gentle-
man named Barrow, to employ the defendant profes-
sionally to inquire into the circumstances of the case,
and adopt such proceedings as wale calculated to

bring the prosecutor to punishinent for his supposed
cruelty. The defendant, in putsuance of these in-
structions, took down in writhig the statements of
ieveral eye-witnesses to the transaction, and amongst
others, of the prosecutor's grooni, and, after submit-
ting the case to Counsel, and fiudinly, that there was
no law which could reach the offence, he, under the
direction of his employers, inserted in the Excter
Flying Post, a statement of the circumstances, with-
out mentioning the prosecutor's name, With a view
of exciting public opinion against the practice of
Istich cruelties. The affidavits tended to exculpate
the defendant from every improper, vindictive, or
malicious motive towards the prosecutor ; and, on
the contrary, went to sliew that he was influenced by
the most praiseworthy feelings on behalf of the brute
creation, and with an intention of warning the Public
against so atrocious an example of unfeeling brutality.
inc defendant was admitted to be a Gentleman of
irreproachable character, and who, in domestic life,
was a pattern of filial piety and fraternal goodness.
The CHIEF Justice suggested, that probably the
parties would go before the Master?
Mr. ADAM (with whom were Mr. ERSKINE and Mr.
JEREMY) said, on behalf of the defendant, that his
client 'would be most willing to adopt, the suggestion
of the Court, but this prosecution had already sub-
jected him to such an enurmous expense, that he was in
no tondition to pay the costs of the trial. The par-
ties who had employed him had left him to his fate.
The case then proceeded. The defendant's Counsel
addressed the Court on his behalf.
Mr. Serjeant PELL spoke in aggravation.
The COURT, taking all the circumstances of the
case into consideration, sentenced the defendant to
pay to the King a tine of I:50.
THE KINU V. JOHN WATSON AND OTHERS.
These defendants, John Watson, Richard Grear,
and John McMahon, were brought up to receive the 'I
sentence of the Court, having been convicted, at the I,
last Assizes for Lancashire,_ of assaulting two Excise
Officers, in the execution of their duty, at Liverpool.,
They were sentenced to pay a fine of £5O each, and
to be imprisoned for one month in the Middlesex
House of Correction.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. NOVEMBER 23.
DAVIS V. THE SANK OF ENGLAND.
Mr. Serjeant Leas and Mr. Serjeant ONsLow now
appeared to support the Rule obtained on a former
day in this Term, to shew cause why the verdict which
had been given for the defendants in this case should
not be set aside, and why there should not be a new
trial granted. The Learned Gentlemen contended that
on the special matter which had been disclosed in the
affidavit, the Rule must be made absolute. They
were not able to meet the case at the first trial, as
they should be now, if the Court would permit a
second investigation. The plaintiff had certainly
been taken by surprise at the trial, but even admitting
that he might have expected from the terms of the
notice some examination into his banking accounts,
still it did not follow that he should have been able,
at such a short warning (for the notice was given on
the 22,1, and the cause was tried on the 23d of July),
to explain the cause of every particular entry which,
in the space of nine months, might have been made
in his banker's books. lii the bill of discovery, which
the defendants had filed in equity, there was no in-
terrogatory so adapted to the circumstances of his
case, as to warn the plaintiff of the point which af-
terwards influenced the Jury at the trial. The ar-
rangements for the tiial had all been made previously
to the receipt of the notice from the defendants, and
no man could be expected to be prepared at one day's
notice for a long and minute investigation into his
banking accounts. As to the argument that he
might have suspected his brother's forgery in March,
and that he did not take any step to discover it till
September, the Learned Serjeants contended, that
though it might be charged against the plaintiff as
negligent conduct, still it did not go to the real merits
of the question.
Lord Chief Justice DALLAS—" On the one hand,
all that has been done by the Bank in this case has
been properly done; on the other; the plaintiff must
be acknowledged by all to have been placed in cir-
cumstances of a very distressing nature—circum-
stances that must alike home to the feelings of every
one. We must not, however, decide on our feelings;
we must take care of the interests of the country, and
administer strict and impartial justice, according to
the circumstances and the principles of every ease.
I thought it my duty to state clearly to the Jury the
law of the case, that, if they had any doubt, the
plaintiff might have the benefit of it; but if they
were of opinion that there had been a wilful suppres-.
sion of knowledge on the part of the plaintiff, they
must give a verdict for the defendants. The Jury
thought, that, under the then existing circumstances,
they could come to no other conclusion. Those cir-
cumstances are now explained by the plaintiff, on the
Rule for a new trial; and the plaintiff asserts, and
apparently with some force, that he was taken by sur-
prise; for otherwise he might have given the same
explanation then which he now offers in his affidavit.
His attention had not been drawn to this circumstance
by the bill in equity, for that contained no interro-
gatory as to the £l5O, alleged to have been paid in
his name into his banker's. It has been supposed that
be must have known of those forgeries in March,
which he concealed till September. 11 he did so, his
conduct in that particular was not correct. He was•
situated most unfortunately. It was his legal duty to
communicate his knowledge to the Bank, but the
exercise of that duty appeared to be, in effect, leading
his brother to an ignominious death. That was the
peculiarity of the cage. It did not even seem like a
question relating to the ruin of one of two individuals,
but we must judge of it as if it were ; we must in this
case regard the Bank as an individual, and ask, on
whom is this loss to fall? The fact that the plaintiff,
must have known of the forgery in March was pressed
on the Jury by my brother Bosanquet, and I have no
doubt it weighed powerfully with them. If the plain-
tiff did know of that circumstance, he would now be
perjured. The affidavit is full as to the plaintiff's
belief that the money was paid as his brother's share
of the housekeeping account. On the whole, there-
fore, although 1 approved of the verdict at the time,
I now think that there should be a new trial. I should
be very unhappy if ultimately there should be any
doubt on the subject, and yet I cannot, as a human
being, blame the plaintiff for wishing to save his bro-
ther from an ignominious death."
The other Judges concurred with his Lgrdship in
making-the Rule for a pew trial absolute.

o rit T OF KING'S BENCH—THIS bAilt

LIBEL ON LADY WROTTFSLRY:
TIM KING t, •SHACKELL AND OTHERS:

On the usual routine of business being disposed di

Mr. SCA RLETT moved the judgment of the Court
on SHACKELL, WEAVER, and ARROWSMITII, the
printers and proprietors of the John Bull Sunday
Paper, for a libel on the late Lady WROTTESLEY, of
Staffordshire, in their Paper. The defendants suf•
fered judgment to go by default.
It will be recollected that the John Bdl Newspaper
was in the weekly habit of corn menting in the grossest
terms upon the Ladies who then visited her late Ma-
jesty the QUEEN, at Brandenburgh House. Some of
the family of the Hon. 11. G. Betmerr, M.P. were
in the habit of plying their respects to her late Ma.
jesty, and John Bull opened a battery upon the me-
mory of Mr. Bennet's sister, the• late Lady WROT•
'MUM, who was the mother of a very large familys
and who had been fOr some years in her grave.

• The defendants put in several affidavits, declaring
they knew nothing of the paragraph.
_ _ _

Mr.Soractroß-GENERAL then addressed the Court
in mitigation of punishment, urging that the dco
fend.ints never wrote the paragraph; and, on theft
hearing of its libellous nature, they made every
apology and reparation in their power.
Mr. SCARLET? replied, in an eloquent speech, and

Mr. Justice BAYLEY delivered the judgment of the
Court on the defendants, which was, that WEAVEA
pay a fine of £2OO to the KING ; and be imprisoned
Nine Months in the King's Bench Prison ; and
Shackell and ARROWSMiTH to be imprisoned, in the
same prison for the term of Nine Months, and also
pay a fine to the King of £5OO each. The whole to
' find sureties to keep the peace, themselves in £5OO,
and two sureties in £250, for five years.
There was a considerable sensation of applause on
the sentence being pronounced, which was instantly
checked by the Court. The defendants were given
into the custody of the tipstaff.

Between nine and ten o'clock on Thursday nights
the shop of Mr. GEORGE PAIN, boot and shoemaker,
Ballard's-lane, Finchley, was broken into and robbed.
of several pair of boots and other property. The
coach-house of Mr. THOROOOOD, in Acre-lane, Brix-
ton, was broken into and robbed of a leaden pump
and pipe, several bridles, saddles, horse-cloths, &c.
Thursday evening, about nine o'clock, as Mr.
GEORGE THOMAS, of Mitre-street, Latnbeth, was
passing through the New Cut, he was attacked br
two men, who knocked him from the footpath into
the road, and in an instant plundered him of his
watch, with which they escaped undetected, though
pursuit was immediately made after the villains.
What makes the robbery more daring is the early
hour of the night, and as several persons were passing
at a small distance from where it took place.
A Barefaced Robbery !—Yesterday as a well-dressed
elderly woman was walking along St. Giles's, a fellovt
snatched her spectacles off her nose, and ran off.
A servant, near Limerick, wrote to his Master, in
Dublin, that he had secured thefire-arms, having sent
all the pokers and tongs to the barracks!
As a constable was conveying William Atkinson, a
boy about 15 years of age, to prison in Dublin, on.
Monday last, for theft, the nimble young rogue slip-
ped himself out y his coat, of which the constable had
a fast hold, and made his escape.
The Serjeant-Major of the Royal Marines at Wool.
wich Barracks states, that Cadman, who was executed
on Wednesday, was Clerk to the Adjutant of the Royal
Marine Batta►ion at the battle of New Orleans, where
the unfortunate man was wounded.
The following is the copy of a letter addressed to
the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex :

" November 43,
_lB2l.

" Ginensurx-As it is evident that a large body of the ems
lightened and respectable pan of the. community are decidedly
against the severity of the present Criminal Code, and more
especially of that part which relates to the punishment of death
for the Forgery of Bank Notes, it has been thought desirable to
call a Public Meeting in reference to the cases of the penoni
under sentence of death for next Tuesday ; and the undersigned
request you will have the goodness to call the same."
An Inquisition was taken on Wednesday before J.
W. UNwIS, Esq. Coroner, at the Angel Inn, Ed..
mOnton, on the body of an old man named Patrick
Wall, ostler at the Rose and Crown Inn, at the above
place. It appeared that on Friday se'nnight the main
road near the bridge at Duck-lane, was rendered to-
tally impassable by an immense flood to the depth of
four feet, 'which communicated to a ditch of great
length and depth, that emptied itself into the River
Lea. The inundation was caused fi orn the late rains,
and the. coaches and waggons were obliged to go
round a mile before they could get on the other side.
The ground floors of several houses were knee deep
in water. The deceased was it Tottenham about sir
o'clock in the evening, and was on his road home
when he was overtaken by a milkman named Tit•
marsh, who was on horseback, and he hying near the
deceased, he invited him to ride behind him, which
he agreed to, and mounted. On their arrival at the
flood they were met by a cart loaded with hey in the
middle of the water. 'Die horse which they rode
shied at the cart, and the deceased slipped oil into
the water. The impetuosity of the current soon car-
ried the unfortunate man away into the ditch ; he
was heard to cry " LOKI), have mercy upon me!"
but in a moment he Was lost. His body was picked
up about a mile beyond where he, fell, and had been
carried under several arches; his head was cut its se-
veral places by being knocked against the brickwork
of the arches as he was carried through. The unfor-
tunate man had resided at Edmonton for the last
forty years, and Lore an exemplary character. He
has left a wife and five children. Verdict—Acci-
dentally drowned.
Last Tuesday Another £30,000 was Sold in Shares
by CARROLL. No. 11,406 was the lucky Ticket, and
the fortunate Holders may receive their Money on
demand. This reminds us that the very last 130,000
Consols was also Sold by Caaaotr. ; and it is confi-
dently anticipated that, as CanauLL is so peculiarly
fortunate in Selling 00,000 Prizes, that Another
will also be Sold by him, before the close of the pre-
sent Lottery, at his fortunate Offices, 19, Commas:,
and 2d, OXI/ORD-sTIiZET.

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