Star.
London, England, 1827-05-25 00:00:00

UNITED STATES MANUFACTURES.

FLANNELS. —Brtween Salisbury and Amesbury, and
about three miles above Newbury Port, the river Powow
discharges itself two the Merrimack. On the Salisbury
side of this stream is a flannel factory that employs 80
hands, and manufactures weekly 100 pieces of flannel,
and pays yearly 20,000 dollars for labour. On the Ames•
bury side of the Powow is a factory that employs 180
workmen, manufactures 200 pieces of flannel per week,
and pays annually 40,000 dollars for labour. A new
building is electing, which will contain 10,000 spindles,
and manufacture 400 pieces of fl tnnel per week.

MISS TURNER.
The following is a Copy ot the Private Bill brought
into the Hou,e of Lords to annul the alieged marriage
of Miss Turner
" An Act to annul and declare Told an alleged Mantle between
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.Rllen Turner, an infant, and E %ward Gibbon

4, Whereas Ellen Turner, the only child and heir of William Tur-
ner, Esquire, an infant, under the age of sixteen years, was lately, by
fraud, contrivance, and forgery, illegally taken and carried away by
Inc Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a stranger, wholly unknown to the
said Ellen Turner, and, being under the controul of the said Edward
Gibbon Wakefield, was afterwards, to wit, on the eighth day of
March, In the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-six, by fraud, imposition, fear, and intimidation, made and
induced, at Gretna•green, in that part of the United Kingdom rot
Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland, to marry thread Edward
Gibbon Wakefield, according to certain forms and ceremonies,
' which are alleged to constitute a marriage according to the laws and
customs of that part of the United Kingdom called Scotland:
And whereas the said Edward Gibbon Wakefield was after.
wards convicted in due course of law, of conspiring, with certain
other persons, to take arid convey the said Ellen Turner out of the'
custody of in persons then having the lawful order, keeping,
education, and governance of the said Ellen Turner, and to cause
and procure her to marry the said Edward Gibbon Wakefield
without the knowledge or consent of the said William Turner, her
father, and of having unlawfully taken and conveyed the said Ellen
Turner, then being a maid, unmarried, under the age of sixteen
years, out of and from the possession ',remain persons having by
the consent and appointment of the said William Turner the order,
keeping, education, and governance of the said Ellen Turner, and
is cow mitring the sentence of the law upon the first of the said
convictions:
" And whereas it is expedient that the said alleged marriage should
be declared to be null and void :

May it therefore please your Majesty,
(Out et your princely goodness, and In companion to the sufferings
and misfortune of your said subject and his said daughter,) that It
may be declared and enacted; and be It declared and enacted by
the King's Most Racellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
conseut of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the sanse,That
the said alleged marriage between the said Ellen Turner and the
said Edward Gibbon Wakefield is and shall be from henceforth null
and Void: And It is hereby declared and enacted to be null and
void, and so for ever hereafter shall be taken and adjudged to be, to
all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if such forms and ceremo-
nies never had been celebrated or performed."