Star.
London, England, 1817-11-04 00:00:00

PLAREMONT, NOVEMBER S.

Monday, Four o'Clock, P. M.
To-day, st noon. the Princess CHARLOTTE took an
airing in her open chair in the Park. Her ROYAL
HIGHNESS remained out about an hour and a kilt.—
Prince LEOPOLD, attended by Baron HAMM:BURG,
took the diversion of shooting,

Expresses were, we understand, sent off early this
morning to the ANCHBISHOP of Cistrzanuitx, the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-

QUER, and other Cabinet Ministers, requiring their
immediate attendance it Claremont. The accouchement

is expected to take place same time in the course of
to-dar or to-morrow.

We are assured that the preparations for the at-
couchensent of the Princess CHARLOTTE are of the most

simple and unostentatious kind, ju. such as would be
made for the Lady of a private Gentleman.
The M irchioness of EXaTER left Town this day,
for Lord GWYDIR'S seat, Sidmouth, Devon.
The Earl. of GUILFORD entertained a select party
yesterday, at his house in St. James's-place.
Lord Aurtionre is returned to his seat, Wiseton
Hall, Notts, from a shooting party in Norfolk.
The Bishop of LoNoou is arrived at Fulham
PaUse, from a tour.
'M Countess of HAAINGTON will return to El-

vaiton, Derbyshire, in a tew days, from her house in
tnrStable-yard, Si. James's.
The Earl and Countess of DARNLEY are expected
home nest week, from Paris.
Lord and Lads HOLLAND and family are expected
at Holland•house to-morrow or Thutsday, frdm Paris.
Lord Gwintn and Lady Witt.oucasit and family,
are expected in town this week.. from their seat,
Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire.
DRURY-LANE THEATRI.—The novelty of last night
was Mr. H. JosotsTote's performance of the character

of Sir Archy Mactareasm, in the Farce of Love a-la-
mode. Mr. JOHNSTON'S accent was truly Scotch. The
necessities of dramatic effect required that the eha-
racter slibuld be somewhat caricatured, while taste,
on the other hand, prescribed moderation. He hit
the mark with dexterity, being neither too ertrava-
gent nor too tame in his theatrical enlargenitt of
its peculiarities.
COVVIT-OARDEN.TheTragrdy of WOO, in which
Mr. YOUNG supported the character o the Moor, was
last night performed. Mr. You•to was, tet think,
more successful, last night, in his picture of the cha-
racter, than on any previous occasion. In the pa-
roxysms nt jealous rage there was more of fire than
he formerly displayed—and we also ob►erved, in the
melancholy of Othello, a considerable accession •of
terling. Miss O'Nent. appeared as Desdemona—and
played the character in her usual style of excellence.
Mr. BOOTH supported the character of logo. He
was well received —and, looking to the whsle of his
performance, we are far from thinking that he is an
inefficient lap.
Gitocsaamicar. BULL.—An Irish Gentleman writes
to his Correspondent at Leith not to forward his usual
supply of Coals • this season. as he has bad the good
!octane to discover a valuable vein of Scotch Coals on
his own estate, in the neighbourhood of Belfast.

Br *letter from Washington we learn, that the
eeulation of the French General Officers for a set-

thuiLesson--Molsihs, is entirely pireific and apical-
tuff, though the vicinity of the place to Mexico may
lead in the end to important political results. A ;se-
goci ition was managed by the able and excellent di.
plematist, Mr. Las, the late American Consul at
Bourdeaux, for the purchase of 100,000 acres of land
by Generals CLAUZILL, Feints DISMOUIETTEE.
Nahanni/Rip GARAI= DU SAINTPS, LA KA..
NAL, and others, and which was brought to a success-
ful conclusion. The above persons, with a numerous
body of farmers, artisans, and peasants,. formed
thensoelves into a company, and they obtained the
cession of 96,000 acres of land, at two dollars per
acre, payable in fourteen years, without interest—with
liberty to choose the spot between the 32d and 3.50 i
degree of latitude in the Mississippi territory, on
condition that they should plant the vine and olive.
They have chosen an excellent situation on the Mo-
bile River, at the mouth of the Black Warrior, called,
in some maps, the Tuk-a-too-sa, a fine climate, and
rich soil. They have already fixed themselves there,
and there are foul townships within their district.
Land in their neighbourhood has been selling at pub-
lic sale in the Government Land Office, at from 2 to
70 dollars per acre, averaging 40 dollars. Some of
the subscribers to the French Company have been
offered 20 dollars per acre profit on their shares.—
The four townships included in their bargain are esti-
mated to ba worth at least 2,000,000 of dollars. This
is one of the most extraordinary speculations ever
known even in America, fertile as it is in spirited ad-
ventures, It cannot fail that such a colony, planted
in such a situation, must produce singular advantages
to the American States, as well as to the settler a
themselves.
The new Russian Tariff, which is daily looked for,
is repotted to be very favourable to the commerce of
Ws country.
WILLIAM HARVEY, late Mate of the Britannia,
came to Saltcoats abqut a fortnight ago, after suffer-
ing, with ten more of the crew, great adversity. The
vessel was shipwrecked on the coast of Newfoundland
in October, 1816, when the crew escaped on shore,
after the manner prescribed by Captain MANBY ; and
the only provisions saved weft a few apples, and a
small quantity of beet and pork. They found a tree,
which they planked with a hand-saw,, and therewith
lengthened the boat, in hopes it would carry them
off, but the next night a frost closed it up. Two I
wandering hunters came and directed them where
provisions might be obtained ; and eight of them set
of, expecting to return in three weeks, but that occu-1
pied eleven weeks. Two men and a boy remained
with the wreck, and for eight of these weeks had
only four apples each a day for their whole support.
They were seven months in these disastrous circum-
stances, and their only shelter was a tent, from the
remains of an old fore-sad. The snow was from 14
to 22 feet deep. There was plenty of game, but they
had no means of taking it. The boy lo.t his reason.
Spirits, bead 30, coagulated. None of these men
lost fingers or toes. A schooner was wrecked about
a mile distant from them, and only one Englishman
-saved. He must have suffered still more, for it was
necessary to amputate botti his feet and hands ; and
without fret or hands he has been returned home.

TO THR RIGITT HCINt LO Rn S 1 DM, LITAI
Pri,.cfpal Stem ry of State fir Ih: Hoop Deprtmeot.

MY Loan—lt wit not, I trust, be necessary to
apologize to yoer.tolthip for calling your attention
to some circumstances which appear to have escaped
notice during the late trials for Hi4liTr. Ilion. It is
laid down in the books on Criminal Pleadings, upon
the authority of a case in Lord Raymond's Reports,
th..t no person On be indicted by two Christian
nam•s. The case in Lord Raymond is, Rey varata
Newman, vol. Ist, page 562, in the folio edition of
4775. " Defendant was indicted by the mina! of
ilizateth Newman, &c. alien Judith Hancock, for &c.
r. King moved to quash it because a worn in can-
not have two Christian names : for which reason in
a case in WY the return of a rescous was :loathed.
And for this reason the indictmem was gnashed."
The same is laid down in Civil Pleadings also in
Lewd Raymond's Repnrts, vol. 2d. page 1016 ; whets
though a plea in abatement was held bad in form.
Lord Holt, C. J. and Powell, Justice, both) decidedly
agree that " a man can have but one name of i.olitns."
In the late trials the first prisoner tried was indicted
by the description of "Jeremiah Brandreth, late of
the same parish of Pentridge, in the same county,
labourer, otherwise called Jahn Coke, late of the
same place, labourer, &c." Again—" Joseph Tur-
ner, late of the same parish of Southwingfield, in the
same county of Derby, labourer, otherwise called
litancberter Turner, Lite of the same place, labourers
&c." Sir Matthew Hale, Pleas of the Crown, vol. 23,
page '193, remarks; /slope of the Statutes of leofails
extend to indictments, and thetefore a defective in.
dictment is not aided by a verdict."
Mr. Justice Blackstone, b. 4, chap. 30, indeed re-
marks, that writs of error, to revere attainder: in
capital cases, are only allowed ex gratin, aial' not
without express warrants under the King's sign ma-
nual, er at least by consent of the Attorney-General ;
but a higher authority, Sit Matthew Hale, vol. Ist,
,page 353, says, that judgments le treason Are rever-
sible at common law by writs of error, :tea the Stat.
7th William 3, cap. 5, after enacting that no indict-
ment, dec. shall be quashed fur ecc. adUs,
but such judgments may nevertheless be reversed
upon writs of error, as before the passing of this
Act," thereby intimating that the writ of error in
treason was bf right.
Sir Matthew Hale, chap. 32, vol. 23, page 251,
' remarks upon the authority of Lord Coke, 4+ Rep.
that if one be indicted attei convicted of felony, but
• bath not judgment of death, it is no bar to a new in-
dictment, if the first were insufficient ; but it clerky
allowed or attain', though upon an insufficient in-
' dictment, it is a good bar to an indictment, or appeal
fur the same crime in all cases, but in appeals of
death ; the last by Stat. Si, Hy. 7, cap. 1.
Whatever may be the guilt of the persons in clues..
tion, your Lordship will doubtless consider them en-
titled to all the benefits they can derive from the de-
'cisions of former periods, and the strictness with
which the laws of their country have at all times
watched over the deprivation of human life.
I am, my Lord, your most respectful servant.
isanutsrit,

Yesterday, at three o'clock, Parliament was pro-
rogued by commission with the usual formalities, till
Tuesday, the 16th day of Decetaber nest. Tl:e C.aa.
misaioners Were IC! LORD Cunsicat.t.on, Viscount
MatAtiu.s, and Lord Sr. HELENS. None nl the other
Peesi were present. Mr. RICKMAN and the other Of-
ficers, as usual, represented the H 'use of .Commons.
Our Readers have bees long since made acquainted
with Mr. O'Coanna's &terinination to prosecute
Owen: and Warring for perjury. At the preient Dub-
lin Commission, bills of indictment were sent against
the former of them to the County, and against the
latter to the City Grand Jury. The bilis against
Owens have been- ignored, but those against his ac-
complice have been hund.
Enemas: AT Ptn•lH.—Friday, the two unfortu-
natt men, Clark and G. ifyle, who were capitally
convicted at the I.st Circuit held at Perils, were, ift
pursuance of their sentence. executed in front of the
old jril there, ro nicest* the utmost penitence and
contrition on account of the crime for wl►ich they
suffered.

The circumstance f a number being drawn a
£20,000 Prize, after it bad been previously drawn a
Blank, has treated great interest cnncerning the pre.
sea Lottery, as it is to be drawn on the same plan
as the one in which the event above alluded to oc-
curred :—the number was 4,867, drawn 9th July r.a.t
a Blank, and re-drawn on the 19. h of the same
month a 820,000 Prize, and shared by BIM I.i it) Siz-
teen Sizteeoth Ihares. It is more than probable
that some of the numbers drawn Blanks NEXT FRI.
DAY will afterwards be Capitals, and Blues Offices,
OM having in almost every Lottery for many year'
past sold more Capitals than any other, are expected
so sell the greater part, if not ail the Sii €20,000
Prizes in the Lottery which begins NEXT F RIDAY.
About ten o'clock, on Sunday night, as a respee.
table young woman was going along Ailrahury.
street, Clerkenweil, a man came op to her, and with-
out speaking a word, gave her a violent slap on the
cheek ; she turned round surprised, and demanded
why he struck her ? on which he pulled out a long
bar, and said, 1 mean to cut your throat p she gave
a loud scream and ran away calling out murder t—..
a man who fortunately happened to be fusing at the.
same time came to her assistance, on which the vii.
lain, without speaking, made two or three desperate
thrusts with the knife at the man, which he had the
good lock to ward off, and seizing the assassin Ey
the wrist, which he held in spite of his struggling.
until assistance came ; the felllw was properly stew.
red and, lodged in the watch-hoose. Yesterday he
was brought before the Sitting Magistrates, at Hat-
ton Garden, where the charge was satisfactorily
proved. On being asked what his motive was to
commit so horrid crime ?he said he bad no mo.
tive. He was ordered to give 48 hours notice of bail,
and in the mean time was committed.
A few months ago it was considered a grand Lot-
tery when the &Acme contained three or four Capitals
of 420,000, and then there were 4 Blanks to l Pr tae,
and the Public were charged about £24 for a Ticket
—bbt in the Lonely ullich begins Next Fliday, there
are ism Prizes of £20,000. and mere Prizes than
Blanks, yet the Price of jackets is nearly than
turnerly : fur thew self-evident improvements in the
Lottery System, the thanks of the Public 41V due to
Mr. Sivewitoact.
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