Star.
London, England, 1821-12-25 00:00:00

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, F2l.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a curie wherein THOMAS Mictaun and I
ethers are Plain:RN and Joux Matt and others are Defendants,
the CREDITORS of JOHN A ISII, late of liliddlesoy, in the
County of Somerset, Gentleman, who died in the month of
May, 1819, are forthwith to come in and prove their Debts be-
fore FRANCIS PAUL STRATFORD, one of the Masters of the
said Court, at his Chambers in Southampton-buildings, Chan-
' eery-lane, London ; or in default thereof they will he excluded
the benefit of the said Decree. F. P. STRATFORD.

ANN OF SWANSEA'S NEW NOVEL.
On the I st January will be published, in S large vols. .Cl. 10s.
(3.unAric OR NOT GUILTY or, A Leon for
Husbands. A Talc. By ANN of SWANSEA.
Printed for A. K. NeWman and Co. Leadenhall-street.
Where may be had, by the same Author,
Secrets in every Mansion, S vols. - 7 6
Chronicles of an Illustrious House, S vols. 1 7 6
Cesario Rosalba ; or, The Oath of Venzeancz ; S vols. 1 7 6
Gonsalo de Ilaidivia ; or, A Widow's Vow; 4 vols. 1 4 0
Secret Avengers ; or, The Rock of Glotzden; 4 vols. 1 .4 0
Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments; S vo!a. 1 7 6
Conviction ~• or, She is Irmo:mut ; S vols. - 1 6
Cambrian Pictures, 3 vols. - OAA ti

ELEOI7ON FOR COMMON COUNCILMEN..

LAST
Those marked thus •
ALDHRS
- - 195 I
- - 133
84
135
- 169
The first Eight
BREAD-!
Mr. Hayward (Dzputy) 69
Mr. Mathie - - 65
Mr. Coleman - 63

' DAY.
' are new Candidates,
G ATE.
Mr. Nunn
Mr. Lorkin
Mr. Walto* -
I Mr. Corbettla* -

Mr. Rolls -
Mr. 'MA:thews
Mr. Fisll,:r
lEggens•
Mr. Furrest

'were returned.
ST It
Mr. Mil r°
Mr. De Grave -
Mr. Webb*
I Mr. Ilruckfield° -
I Mr. Thomas*
Mr. Hatch*
Mr. Fulton*
Mr. Witts°
Mr. Corbett'

Dibt)ia

- 65

Mr. Gibson

- 62

:Mr. Hu rra

. 62

Mr. 11:41:e4liy - 60
Mr. Crocker - - 59
Mr. Bridge - - 59
Mr. nallam - - 59
The first Tweh
DOW,

were returned.
i ATE.

Mr. James Saunders - 65
Mr. Saunders (Deputy) 59
Mr; 1). Price - - 52
Mr. 11,mnett°
Mr. PAnnon•
Mr. Mortimer*

175
- 162
151
•- 74

- 53

- 52
- 27

- - 7
- T

- 51 I
- 50
The first Eight
FARRINGDC
Mr. Crowder, Deputy £B4
Mr. Plummer - - 282
Mr. Dunnett - - 277
Mr. Prichard, Newgate-st. 278
Mr. Winter - - 274
Mr. Westwood - - 274
Mr. Ilogard . - - 274
Mr. Howell - - 271
Mr. 3furcott - - 271
The first Sevente
LIME:
- 52

Mr. Nesbitt* - - 49

Mr. Forster - - 46
Mr. W. C. Wryglite• 46
Mr..l. 11. Coombs* - 45

Mr. Price

Mr. Wm. Wrilht• - 42
Mr. Vandercom . -
were returned.
Mr. Oldham - - 271
Mr. Pritchard, Blackfriars 270
Mr. Daw - - - 270
Mr. Hayward - - 267
Mr. Hartley - • - 267
Mr. Gilbertson - • 262

Mr. Szatcherd - - 261
Mr. Kagletun• - 167
Mr. Woodville:l* - - 17•9
n were returned.
iTREP:r.
I Mr. Shearman
Mr. Jone‘•

Ar. Princes - - 46
Mr. Oyster - - 45 %
. The first Four were returned.
L.ANGBOURN.
71r. Fllion - - 174 Mr. Ayres
Mr. Gibson - - 174 M. Joyce
Mr. Milroy - - 175 Mr. Rice•
Mr. Carter - - 170 Mr. Haswell•
Mr. Dixon - - 166 Mr. Wright•
Mr. 'Wiltshire - - 164 Mr. lledome•
Mr. Stubbing - - IE2
The first Tcn s
PORTS
Mr. Colvin:eh - - 211
Mr. Carter - - 200
Mr. Perry - - 190
The first Five
WAI.II

• • 40
• a so

were rerun:m(l.
IOKEN.
Mr. Smith
Mr. Parker
Mr. Cu udello
were re: urned.
11.00 K.
IMr. Woodward
Mr. Hale -
Mr. Watkins'
Mr. N. Williams

Deputy - 72 I
Pearce - - 70
Cope - - 70
Richardson - - 70
Gibbs - - 67
The first Eight
:Ur. T. N. William; has dem:
mote adjourned till the 4th of J
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Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

.. - 160'
- - 134
.. - 122
- - 101
- - 87
- - 26

- IST

- - 178
- - 91

61
-
56
- 49

were returned.
anded a scrutiny; and the :Ward-
ianuary.

AMERICA.

rENV YORK, NOVEMBER 23.
Friday, the 9th Article of the Constitution was
amended as follows :
Sect. 1. This Constitution shall be in force from
the last day in December, 182'2 ; but all the parts of
the same that relate to the mode of Elections, num-
ber of Members, Etc. &c. shall commence on the Ist
of November. The Members of the present Le-
gislature are to continue in office till January 1,
18'23. Sundry provisions, rendering the assent of
two-thirds of the Members elected to each branch of
the Legislature, to effect spme alterations therein
named, to be in force from the last d iy of February
next. The Members of the present Legislatute ate
to subscribe to the Constitution, either by oath or affir-
I mation, on the first Monday of the ensuing March.

JAMAICA, NOVEMBER 5.
The Buenos Ayr2s schooner Decouverte, arrived
in nine days from Old Providence with dispatches
for his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor ; by het
we learn the death of General Aury, arid that the
command of Old Pruvitlence has devolved on Co-
lonel Farquhar.
NEW TORK, NOVEMBER 24.

The following is an c‘tract of a letter from Liver- I
pool, dated December '2`2:--‘, The Nex Orleans
Paper, which has reached us to the 9th instant, states,
that accounts bad been received, by a vessel which
left Campeachy on the 2.21 of October, of the city of
Mexico having, fur ditys previously, Fallen into the
hands of the Revolutionists after a dreadful battle,
in which 5,000 Royalists are said to have been killed.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed among the inha-
bitants in consequence of their having been delivered
from the Spanish yoke : to a man, they are' repre-
sented as being' Republicans.

Upwards of three thousand panes of glass were
broken in his Majesty's Dock-yard at Milford Haven
last week, by a violent hail-storm, attended with
thunder and lightaiag the most awfuL

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF ORDEALS

AND DULLS.

. An interestinA, work under the above title has just
appeared, by JAMES P. GILCHRIST, Esq. It .bears
' the imprimatur of his Royal Highness the Duke of
YORK, who has condescended to peruse and patronise
it. Lieutenant GILCHRIST traces the history of the
duel, or single combat, from the barbarous ages,
when it was a solemn species of ordeal, down to the;
days of modern, refinement, when. it has become
merely "an affair of honour." The work also con-
tans a chronological account of nearly 200 of the
principal duels fought in England since the accession.
of his late Majesty. In a wel-written and sensible
Preace, the author has some very judicious obser-
vations on the hardships of military men, in regard
to the laws of honour. From his remarks on this
subject we make the followiug extract:
may, however, be necessary to state the possi-
bility of establishing, in the bosom of the Army, a
Court of Honour, vested with ample authority fur
the investigation of all personal disputes, and armed
.with adequate power for the -doe punishment of.
every deviation from that line of honourable deport-
ment, which is so peculiarly necessary among mili-
tary associate. But this is an extended field of
m.i'ral and judicial argument, upon which my pro-
fe,:iion; and the peculiar line of my reflections, do
not warrant a decided opinion. I may, however, be
permitted to speak with more decision respecting the
present usage of the British Army, and the actual
and possible evils to which a British Officer may be
exposed, even when observing the principles of the
nicest discretion,-in every part of his temper and de-
portment. Such an individual, it imports not on
what subject, receives an insult from a brother Offi-
cer, or any Gentleman—he justly demands a reason-
able apology for an unmerited offence—the apology
is refused, and possibly under circumstances of addi-
tional insult or aggravation. If at this moment lie
hesitates—if he allows his preconceived notions of
morality and -religion to weigh a feather' in the
scale of his determination, he is lost for ever as a
British Officer. It matters not, if before that mo-
mentous hour, he had supported a character for
more than mar:al bravery—if he had mounted the
deadly breach' in his 'country's cause,' or faced the
caunon's mouth: No plea is granted for a moment s
hesitation. .The devoted victim to a MISTAKEN prin-
ciple must. send the fatal message,* or endure a con-
sequent suffering, worse than death to an-honourable
mind—the destruction of his fame and fortune as a
military man."

• The result is here fraught with singular uncertainty ; the
conseTacnces having sometimes proved as full of hazard to the
seconds as to the principals ; when experience has demonstrated
that he who fell was fortunate to escape the ignominy of a judi-
cial sentence, consigning the survivors to death, or irretrievable
loss of character.

A French Paper s-- A.woman of Provence,
named Paule Caussac, almost sixty, has just been
tried for polygamy. This woman had already ha-
tie.l. two husbands, and was separated from the third,
for whose death she had not patience to wait to
enable her to marry a fourth. She was living with
the last when No. 3 found her out, to the great sur-
prise of No. 4, who having no wish to retain posses-
sion, offered to surrender her. No. 3, however,
would not receive her, and she was delivered over
the Court of Assize of \'ar, which sentenced her to
five years bard labour." •
Quaff TM'S RETREAT, WEAR YORK.— A very singu-
lar character, known by the name of Charles Wheat.
field Squires, has lately been lodged in this Asylum
for members of the Society of Friends. He is the
proprietor of a largefarm in the south, which he sud-
denly left a short time ago, and, as was stated in the
London papers, repaired to London on a velocipede,
himself being dressed as a Friend, but having in his
hat a large cockade of red, blue, and white. In this
dress, and followed by several whom his peculiar ap-
pearance had drawn together, he repaired to the Lon-
don Mansion-House, and presented to the Lotto
Nlaxou " a paper," saying (with an air of mystery)
that he might read it or not as he thought proper, as
a copy of it had been transmitted to Earl Batlitint.
The paper was inscribed " The Spirit of Despotism,"
and presented a sort of cat icature portrait of himself,.
with several public c! aracters laid prostrate under
the wheels of his velocipede, representing Judges,
Clerical Characters, Military Commanders, &c, and
inscribed, "Pensions, Sinecures, Oppression, Blarney,
Military Despotism, Taxes," &c. In this way the
Quaker has been proceeding with his tri-coloured flag,
till at last he has safely arrived at the Retreat, where
the c-ire of " Friends" will, we hope. preserve him
from harm, and restore hint to himself.
St NGULA Il OCCURRENCE—In the course of last
sum-
mer, a Lady of Liverpool, in:ending to visit her
friends in Manchester, sent a piece of valuable lace
to her deess-maker, to be prepared for her wear on that
occasion. The lace was clear-starched, and put to
bleach on a grass plat in the outskirts of the town,
at the back of a respectable dwelling-house, well
fenced with high wails, notwithstanding which, it
disappeared in the course of the day. The only oc-
cupiers of the premises were a Lady and a female
set vent. The most painful suspicions were excited,
and all search and inquiry proved fruitless. The
Lady made her visit to Manchester without the or-
namental appendage, and the other parties thought
of nothing leis than indemnification for the loss, on
the Lady's return. It so happened, some time after,
that the bed-room window had become so bespattered,
on account of a bird's nest over it, that the Lady en-
glged a workman to remove it, when, to her astonish-
ment as well as joy, the lace, which was of consider-
able length, was found neatly rolled .round the inside
of the nest, and, although a little soiledt was riot in
the least injured.