Star.
London, England, 1820-08-03 00:00:00

NA I'.lL INTELLIGENCE.

Vecteiday, a Court of Directors was held at the
ra a India House, when the following ships taken up
for the ensuing season were thus stationed, Viz.
Neill: Castle, 1,332 tons, Captain A trzallota ok,.
natal Harris 1,200 tons, Captain Clawson Wra.setan; Inglis,
1,200 tons, ipta:n Trios. BURR DAME, lot Madras and China.
New Ship, building by Mr. LOCHNER, 1,300 tons, Captain
Wituam Cautca-snang; New Ship, building by Mr. Twin,
3,500 tons, Captain C. &Ns; Marquis Camden, 1,200 tons,
Captain Tito Null Lumina; Charles Grant, 1,..1110 tons, Captain
Scorr; New Ship, building by Mr. Cess, 1,500 tons,.
Captain Ilexar Cora, fur Bombay and China.
Waterloo, 1,325 tons, Captain li. ALsauza • Vansittart, 1,200
:ins, Captain lhawrxrce, for St. Helena, Bombay, and China.
Lowthtr Castle, 1,400 tons, Captain Citaar as Mow:west;
General kld, 1.200 tons, Captain ALEXANDER NAIRNE ; Atlas,
I,COO tons Captain C. O. Ma s•NE, for Bengal and China.
New Ship, bidlding by Mr. TistiNs, 1,300 toms, Captain JOHN
Tarzasow, for St. Helena, Bencookn, and China.

onia; (; cr, stia tuns, 6plain THOILAS Mainam ;
Warquis of wi.iling.ton, w 1 tons, Captain Jou:: Woon, for Bea..
s-. 1 direct.
.I.. Ctn, Ship, buihting by Mr. Dinar, 1,500 tons, Captain P.
illytxr; Bridgc;wat,r, 1:200 tons; Rose, 955 tons, Captain
Thomas 7st 'TAGGA ; Mirwrva, 978 tons, Capt29l.4nte _
Prince,3 Chlrlatte of Wales, 976 tints, Captain C. B. Gsasur.
for China clirect.

Fsusourn, JOLT 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Devonshire,
TAY/censers from Petersbtugh, in 38 days. Sailed the Wake-
field, CAI\TIR, for London.
Ptymoutir, ..smut I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Nautilus,
WarsoN, from Riga ; and Fortune, Downeo, from Petersburgh.
R;;!ismourn, Atmusi. S.W.—Arrived the York,
WALtiliT, Mill the Downs for Barcelona; Marla, WALICIII7
flew .:itto for New Solith Wales ; Ann, Lucas, from Flume;
and Venus, Eaton, from Blythe ; the latter has lost her top-
masts by the thunder-dorm un Sunday night. Passed by the
Findlay, illears, from Antigua for Landon. Sailed his Majea-
ty'3 ship Beauty., on a cruize.
Liveeroot, A ucusr I.—Arrived the Jane, Haste', train
.lanlz!ica; Mary, MoNTEAIu, from New Orleans; Young
By lt%E, from Saval;nah; Regent, liaamsos; Mary, Aacuta;
y, liras; and I.liza, BRAGG, from 31karnkhi; Molly,
Rt RN Eti ; Thomas and I leury, TnumrsoN ; and the Trafalgar,
PRAM' Ph YAWN, from New Brunswick ; Favourite, from
llucbe ; Columbui, —, from Nova Scotia; Albion, Wit-
!Lots, frum New York—sailed the 10th of July ; and Herald,
FLA, irum Charleston.

liras„ Aucusr 2.—Wind S.W. Arrived and sailed for the
Bleu-, the Bziina, Witatooose ; and St George, Baown, from I
Grenaua ; . oncaster, MARSHALL ; and Wellington, Atteettson,
tram (furotc ; Carshalton Park, CLARY ; SOITICTSDIShire, SMITH ;
Phesdu, PEN,Iam ; and Amazon, ADAMS, from Jamaica; the
Greenock, 31`1,aatv ; from bliramichi ; and several more,
names unknown. Sailed part of the outward-bound.
Alt)401:111, Auousr 2.—The Huddersfield, Rostestraw, a
IL:nand London trader, got on the Barber Sand yesterday, but
was got oil again without damage.
Wan:aroma JCLY 29.—Arrived the Sir John Cameron,
&LLD, front Quebec; she fell in, on the 17th inst. in lat. 40.20.
keg. WI. 50. with the Triton, WARD, of Whitby, for Hull.
-Ater-loru, out of which she took part of the crew; the re-
r.ainder were taken out by two other vessels.
Gaimocz' JULY 29.—1 n the Conestoga, American ship, just
here from Philadelphia, upwards of thirty persons have
returned home, who had emigrated to the United States but a
*but time ago. They are all os the lower classes. We have not
h.,en able to learn the causes of their disappointment in the ob-
jects they had in view, but are told, that after landing they had
:emained in the city, and did not venture into the interior in
(pest of emplisyment.—The Jane, Witoneut., from this port to
'he South &as, was spoken with in Berkeley's Sound, Falkland
Ides, 21st April.
Cerro:A-Hot:sr, LONDON, AMC'? 2.—Ships Entered Inwards:
The Caledonia, from Palau; Triton, from Christiana ; Rob and
7.iary, from Ross ; Eliza' from Konigsburg ; Resignation, from
Jamaica; Sarah, Flora, William, and Scoreby, from Sr. Pe-
; Diamond, from Pillau • Earl Bathurst, from Rotter-
dam; Lucinda l from Memel;&llona, from Riga; Albion,
i'ro:n St. John s ; and Abeona, from Quebec—Cleared Out-
wards : The Hiram, for Havannab ; Laurel, for Triestc; Ge-
nerous Friends, for Bremen; New Union, for Calais; En
dea-
:cm and Leveret, for Belfast; Julie, for Calais ; and Sun, for
Ft. Petershurgh.
Jamaica, the Alice, from Liverpool. At Cape
ar, the Thomas, Harrison, from Limerick ; and Ann,
: Wexford. At Goose Island, the Kingston, Collinion,
;:am Hull. At Rio Janeiro, the Belgrave, Fleming, from Li-
; and the Courier, —, from Jersey. At Halifax, the
"nor, Gray, front London. At Anticosti, the Hope, Pat-
from Shields.

'rock:a amts.—The Agenoria, Ridley, front U-
s. :10-.1 to the Brazils, in Lt. 46. r,C. long. 9. • Somersetsbiref
troto Jamaica to bad, n, on the 14th ult. in lat. 41. long. 49.
4: .lays; of North Shields, for ..Quebec, on the
, i.i lat. 43. 56. to gig. :;6. and the Telegraph, of and for
Ptotat:Lli.hia, front Liverpool, on the 20th, in lat. 45. 39. long.

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A valuable gold watch has been presented by the
rxn-cibnimissioned office's and privates of Lord KIL-
N•
!txte.: Trap of Renfrewshire Yeomanry Cavalry
• their drill-fetjeant, WILLIAM STRANGE, of the 7th
J;agoota, in approbation of his conduct.

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Yesterday, an Address trom Lewis was pt -ste•-
to the QUEEN; to whit i she-replied is. Kitliir-'
" The High Conitable, Burgesses, and oher iris..
the ancient Borough of Le xes, are requested th aceept my tor.
dial thanks for this loyal mai affectionate Address. My heart is
in perfect unison with the espressions which they use In their
topics of condolence. I felt the loss of his late venerable
jesty to be, indeed, irreparable; for he stood like the Angel Of
Mercy between me and persecuting Cruzlty. The untimely end
of the late beloved Prilicess Charlotte seemed, for a moment, to
throw the shadow of death over the land. The voice of merri-
ment was mute in our streets and the gaiety of the naafi Sid.
fered a temporary eclipse. It was the unbought tribute of loyalty,
the spontaneous offering of love in thousands--nay, In millione,
to those bright properties of the mind, and those tender qualities
of the heart, in which the people read a cheering presage of her
glory, and of the public happiness.
" The machinations of my enemies are supported by a faction,.
that has long operated like a canker-worm upon the noble trunk
of the national prosperity. If I would have stooped to become
an instrument in their hands, or to have lent myself to their sor-
did purposes, I might have averted their vengeance, or have
neutralized their hostility. In the year 1807, this faction were
eager to make use of my power as the means of gratifying their
ambition ; and when their ambition could be gratified by other
means, they immediately sacrificed my honour and my' ights
upon the altar of their selfishness.
" That calm wisdom which is the result at once of reflection
and of experience, teaches me that I ought never 'to give my
sanction to the narrow views of any sect, or to the Interested
projects of any party. Tnat comprehensive charity which kin-
dles in my heart shall be visible in my conduct ; and I will
never forget that the Queen of a faction is only half a Queen.
The good of a faction is only the good of a few ; but dee good
which I cherish is that of threat/amenity."
(From DIP Times .1 • ' • • •
The 17th of August is fast approaching ; and of
such a solemn nature are the expectations associated
with that fearful day, that there is scarce a company
in which we mix, or an individual whom we casually
converse with, altogether insensible to some anxious
hope that her MAJESTY'S conduct will not, even after
what has passed, become the subject of Parliamen-
tary investigation. Were we disposed to indulge
such w ishes, it would not be for the sake of the
Quec::. Her honour is attacked, and her vindication
calls for what she is not likely to obtain—a full ac-
knowledgment from her adversaries of their injustice
in accusing her ; or, what we trust she will yet ob-
tain, a trial in its consequences equivalent to a
concession. In what various lights—and all, to this
hour, how unfavourable—have the measures of this
Illustrious Lady's antagonists appeared ! There are
but too grounds on which it was conceivable that
she could be prosecuted. One was law, provided
that her conduct had been illegal. But illegality
can be defined by law alone—and on that ground the
King's Ministers gave up the contest, declaring dun
her MAJESTY had violated no law, and that there
was none by which she could be punished. Then the
mode of attack was changed, and a d,eg,ee of . '
rolit which ought to be chastised, became thenext
argument for prosecution. Now loot; at the ea,tuie
of this new ground of e.7-posi facto punishment, and
contemplate; those who have nerves to do so—the
unavoidable fruits of which it must be productive :
Ist. The profligacy of a QuEEN of ENGLAND tnight
lead to a corruption of the Royal blood, and place upon the
throne her bastard issue. But this is noes ease in Point.. The
Wars is past the natural age of child-bearing; audit, while she
lived apart from her husband, she bad the fortune to bring forth
a child, the circumstances of the birth would be an insuperable
bar to its succession.
2d. A Queen-Consort may justly be deposed, of,
proof existed that she has lived licentiously, to the disgrace and
injury of a virtuous husband. Now this might bear asynsent,
as a case in point, had not the Kixo's Ministers abandoned k..as
untenable, recommending a procedure which disables Parliament
from ascertaining the comparative morals of the patties, and
substitutes the &ate (which is incapable of adultery) for the
husband, whom the commission of adultery would have disqua.
lifted for the office of an accuser. On what score, therefor*, of {
reason and justice is it, that the &ate, or Commonwealth, can
become the complainant against a Queen no longer capable of
-tainting the succession to the Crown of England?
3d. The preamble of the Billinforms us, we think,
that the Queues licentiousness was a disgrace or scandal to her-
self and to the kingdom. This introduces a novel view of the
ends of British Legislation. Such was not the aim of the law
of diyorce in private life, nor of that which made it High Trea-
son for the Qom, to forfeit her fidelity to her husband. It was
from no suck vague and loose description of the bad effects re-
sulting from a Queen's immorality, that our ancestors con.
donned her to lose her head. It is not from any scandal to
herself, nor from any detriment to pablic morals, that the
Queen-Consort of Becton can be prosecuted as a traitor under
the law of England: it is because she may give a spurious heir
to the Crown. and plunge the Monarchy in a ;Mk commotion.
If a Queen-Consort can be rightfully dethroned for adultery,
which, except by the law of EDWARD, is not a criminal action—
and if, in cases like the present. where that law Is imperative,
she is to be deposed by an erpostfects law, as a scandal to her-
self, and as offering a bad example to her subjects—think for one
moment where this principle would lead. you. What should
preserve a Queen-Regnant on her throne, If. a Queen-Consort
can be deposed for mere immorality ? The scandal is as great,
or greater, as the party is more elevated. the corrupt example-
is by the same rule, more pernicious when proceeding from a
Queen-Regnant than a Queen-Consort. It would be more dan-
gerous in Qbeen Anita, bad she been as loose as she was
virtu-
ous, than in Queen Ceaottex : and whit, on that moral view of
the question, could save Queen Arms herself, if Queen Ciao-
sore were to be uncrowned for " scandalous" or "disgraceful'"
indulgencies?—Such are the absurdities its point of argument—
such are the mischiefs and miseries in practice, to w 1 we are
driven by this new scheme of legislating, on piineiples unknown
to our ancestors, and for purposes by which they would have
felt themselves disgraced. It is an enterprise charged with ter-
rors, and which we would conjure the authors of it to relinquish,
but that we are aware of its entailing on them a mortificatiii•
perfectly insupportable. So, as it is unhappily out of the pies.
tion that the Kum, though in truth a party to this cause, sh
refrain from exercising his prerogative as the third estate, in
passing, should It be required of him, the Mid Divorce against
her Munn, we are hopeless of prevailing with the body of Mei
Nlinisters, who are substantially in their own persons the pram.,
tutors of the Query, to retire, like Mr. Canty" when the vote
is called for. Delicacy, indeed, would relit, this—jilidee
would be served by it—the people would at allestbeseneksuil
and gratified by the removal of a stain from the peeeeediass Of
Parliament. The same men would not be psiiisidoes sod
!rand jurors—and petty jurors, and judges. But we feat the,
Ministers will stay and vote—Learned Lords pronouncing that
there Is no precedent against it. - .
The Duchess of RIITLAND having, some few days.
back, by accident, sprained her allele, is the means 4
canning the family in town longer than they in='
tended ; but her Grace, we are happy to state, is. so
much recovered that the whole of the family know
town on Monday next for Belvoir Castle. 2.
The Duke of DORSET is arrived at his seat Opp,
ton House, Northamptonshire, from a tour.
The Earl of MALSISBURY has taken a house at
Brompton, to which his Lordship is removed, frons.
Hill-street, Berkeley-square. • t
The Earl of CARLIsLE has arrived at his seat of.
Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, in better health than
his Lordship has been for some time past.
Yesterday, the Right Hon. THOMAS GRENVILLV
left hip house in Cleveland-square, on a visit to the
Marquis aid Marchioness of BUCEINGHAN, at their
scat, Buckingham Cottage, Isle of Wight.