Star.
London, England, 1829-11-20 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INT ELLIGENCE.

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CHANGES.
The Marquis of Hertford, at his villa in the Regent's Park, yes-
terday, from Sedburne Hall, in Suffolk ; the Dowager Marchioness
of Salisbury, in Arlintea-street, from Hatfield ; the Dowager
Mare:blows of Exeter, from her seat at Roshampton, to Worthing ;
Earl Spencer, to St. James's-place, from Mr. Coke's seat in Norfolk
the Earl of Gosford, at his seat in Suffolk, from Ireland; Countess
De Grey, at her house, in &. James's-square. from her seat, in
Surrey ; Lord Melbourne to Earl Cowper's seat, Passenger,
Herts • Lord hiolyneuz to Crorteth Hall, near Liverpool • Lord
and Lad Dundas, at their seat, Aske, Richmond, Yorkshire. from
a tsar ; Lord Garvab at his seat in Ireland, from a tour ; the Hon.
Charles and Lady Catherine Cavendish, from the seat of the Earl of
Grantham for the Royal Hotel at York ; Major Lewis Rowley
. and Mrs. itowley, in North Audiereueet, on Wednesday even-
'Rig, from Paris; Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Dyer. yesterday, front
Jeleseester-pisee, for Bath ; lieutenant Gambier for Canterbury ;
• Major Stevenson for the Depot in the Isle of Wight; Lieutenant
Harslyn Murray for Dublin • Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart. for
-Norton Conyers, in Yorkshire • Mr. and Mrs. Courtney. from
Emanate, for Queen-square. Bath; Mr. William Heatheote an a
tour; Lieut. Maxwell for Devizes; the Hen. Charles Edwards for
Rohs Major and Mrs Ogle, from Reading to Brighton; Captain
Olokerell for Chatham ; Captain and Mrs. Hutchinson, in Gregor-
nar•street. from Essex Captain and Mrs. Rose, from Wintpoie-
amt. to Leicestershire ; Mr. and Mrs. Hicks, from Harley-
'street. for their seat in Norfolk; Capt. Hughes, from the British
• Mai, for Bath ; Henry Meyer. Esq• from ditto, on a tour.
DEATH OF GENERAL EGUIA.

The Courier de Bayonne gives some new details as to
the accident, of which General Eels became lately the victim, as
we some time ago announced. " The Captain-General (says the
Journal) in going to Madrid to assist In the celebration of the
'Ring's marries., stopped at Leon to sleep there. A little while
'ilfterwards a cant er 'Mtn a long stirrup arrived in that town. and
jot down at the hotel where be lodged, and calling the waiter, den.
?need some dispatches o& 411 sines to him, saying. ' Take care of
this for a monieirtil until I go to the posting-house, and
if I do not return in live minutes, do you deliver
them all to the Governor-General, and I will give you some-
thing to drink. I shall return to take the price of my jour.
ney.' Ten minutes passed, and the courteous awes mounts,
denten alibis letters and packets to the General, and withdraws.
An Instant afterwardso loud detonation was heard. The cause was
sought for; a frightful smote &ewes the apartment from which it
has arisen. On entering it, the General was found, stretched on the
floor, wounded in his bands. and having the lower part of his belly
horribly torn. A verification being made of the cause of this accident,
It Is discovered that the greatest packet the General had wished
to open was no other than a box or small infernal machine, which
the breaking of .the seal lhad exploded. Recovered from their Inc
alarm, the assistants wished naturally to know who was the bearer
of the dispatches, and explanations took place. The
poor waiter related what bad passed between them; somebody
was sent in pursuit of the pretended courier, but up to the present
time nothing has been discovered, either as to the man or the hone,
so that all appears to have been calculated for the best for the sos-
cess of this atrocity.
OEM= MEIIESMIEM
THE ARMY.

Loin Hru.'s Lynam-General Lord Hill, G. C. B. and G. C.
H. commauding In Chief, held a levee yesterday at his care in the
Horse Guards. A few Generals and about twenty-fivember of.
Aura, paid their respects to hie Lordship.
A detachment belonging to the and (the Prince of Wales's Vo-
lonee.e.) arrived in town on Wednesday from Bury St. Edmunds,
on route to join the reserve companies of that corps at Sheerness.
The Sta'ord troop of Yeomanry Cavalry have mustered in In.
gestre Park every day daring the last week, for exercise. On Fri-
day, Captain Viscount Ingestre invited the troop to dine with his
Lordship. The entertainment was sumptuous, and his Lordship's
affability was a source of high gratification to the company.
W Col. m. Gore Langton and the Officers of the Ozfordsbire
Regular Militia have, in the most flattering manner, presented to
ter
of Esq. upon his retirement from the duty as Pay.
master of the regiment, $ roust superb chased tea service, with a
suitable inscription, as a token of esteem and regard.
The Officers of the ?oth quartered in Tipperary. assisted by m-
ews' of the ',resident Gentlemen, have set on foot amateur Om
daring the winter. In their first performance on Friday of "
She
• Steeps to Conquer, " they met with the patronage of all the beauty
sad fashion in the surrounding neighbourhood. They have Stied
up a most tasteful little theatre at Barry's Hotel,—where. from
the talent and humour already shewn, they bid fair to attract
crowded audiences.

THE GARTH PAPERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

" their value's great ;
And I am something curious, being strange,
To have them in safe stowage : may it please you
To take them in protection?—

Willinsly :

And pawn mine honour for their safety."
Sirsonntaas.—Crobeline.

Si u,—However earnestly it may be desired, for the
sake of certain illustrious parties, that the documents to
which Captain GARTH lays claim, should be destroyed,
at any pecuniary sacrifice on the part of the individuals
whose characters' they are said to compromise ; it is in-
finitely more important that, in such a case, a flagrant
wrong should not be perpetrated in the face of the people
of England, by withholding from him—merely on the
plea of preventing the exposure of personages who should
have been as jealous of their own honour long since, as
they now affect to be of public morality—the only docu-
ments which he ever possessed to substantiate his
claims to that provision which the undisputed splen-
dour of his parental alliances—even on the showing
of his opponents—would justify any man, so descended,
in requiring: In thus asserting what I conceive to be
an immutable principle of justice, I disclaim the slightest
intention of appearing the advocate of Captain GARTH,'
individually : in his whole career there is little to be found
which can entitle him to sympathy for any personal suf-
fering which he has undergone ; for not even the indul-
gence which may be regards the natural consequence
of the circumstances of hishirt- can palliate thalicentinus
and profligate pursuits which have given an anenviable
notoriety to his character, long, before any euspioions
were entertained of his actual origin. But neither the
errors nor the vices of a man's life furnish a pretext for
the infliction of a positive injury ; nor place him, out of the
pale of that legal protection, by which alone his personal
and civil rights can be secured.
In the transactions to which the possession of these
mysterious Papers has given rise,—be their ultimate
result what it may—it is deeply to be regretted that even
the most generous feelings should have induced a distin-
guished Officer, whose high professional character is only
equalled by his estimation in private life, to become in-
volved in the disreputable intricacies of a negotiation, in
which he has consented to appear as the confidential and
responsible agent of a nameless and irresponsible prin-
cipal. It is much and deeply to be deplored that Sir
HERBERT TAYLOR did not long since relieve him-
self from all participation in the details of an
affair in which the party with whom, or with
whose agents, he was to treat, appeared so disreputable
in his eyes, that he refused to hold any personal com-
munication with him: and it is still more to be lamented
that Sir HERBERT TAYLOR should have been influenced
by any consideration whatever to attach his respectable
name to the document which has been published as his
answer to GARTH'S Bill in Chancery. Throughout
that voluminous affidavit, Sir HERBERT TAYLOR never
once endeavours to shift a very odious responsibility from
his own shoulders, even by an allusion to the party by
whose authority, or on whose behalf, he has acted, further
than by the indefinite mention of " certain individuals
in whom he took an interest." Now this " taking
an interest" is, in its general acceptation, so very
little more an the unmeaning phraseology of
professed patronage, that it would seem to have
been adopted in this instance merely to divert
public attention from the actual rank and station
of the parties. The very defence which Sir HERBERT
TAYLOR sets up for the line of conduct which he--a
man of honour and a soldier—pursued subsequent to the
delivery into his charge of the box containing the mys-
terious documents, is, that " he was informed that those
papers did not belong to the complainant, and that he
had no lawful interest in them; and that he had, in or
about the month of January, 1828, obtained the same
improperly, and without the consent of Gen. GARTH,
the complainant's natural or reputed father, to whom the
same belonged ; that he obtained them during the illness
of Gen. GARTH, and that he retained them without his
consent." Now, although Mr. WESTMACOTT—whp ob-
tained all his knowledge of the matter, as GARTH'S
confidential friend and agent, does not hesitate to cor-
roborate this statement by deposing that "he does not
believe the complainant was rightfully entitled to the
same, because he was informed by the complainant that
be had surreptitiously obtained those documents;" yet
the only testimony that can possibly give unequivocal
validity to Sir HERBERT TAYLOR'S plea, was the
Ajidavit of General GARTH, to the fact of the papers
having been surreptitiously obtained—and that affidavit
is wanting. Throughout the entire negotiation, which
occupied a period of three months, no complaint was made
of the mode by which GARTH became possessed of the
documents elucidatory of his birth ;—be was treated
with, throughout the preliminary proceedings, as the
rightful owner of the papers ;—and it was not until
they had been delivered up by him—on the faith of a
solemn agreement—that his title to their possession was
questioned, or he was charged with having surreptitiously
obtained them; and then the charge is made—not by
GENERAL GARTH, who alone was capable of maintain-
ing such a charge—but by Sir HERBERT TavLoa; who
admits that he has derived all his knowledge of the matter
from an ex-parte statement, having been " informed"—
not that GARTH " had surreptitiously obtained them,"
but that "he had no lawful interest in them." If the
papers were so exclusively the property of Gzeznat..
GARTH, he alone was entitled to demand their restitu-
tion, or, having obtained control over them, to with-
hold them from his " reputed son." • Sir • Han-
BERT TAYLOR did not.., even appear .in the af-
fair as the " confidential friend,' or agent, of Ge-
neral GARTH. who not only took a part in the ne-
gotiation himself, but bad beside a " confidential friend"
and agent of his own—Mr.' CHARLES FREDERICK
WILLIAMS, very actively engaged in the whole business.
By what authority, or on whose behalf, I again ask, did
Sir HERBERT TAYLOR proceed to an extremity, which
General GARTH, " whose property" he admits 'd the
Papers were," did not feel warranted in having recourse
to ? By whose authority, or on whose behalf, did'he first
obtain control over the papers, and does he now openly
declare his intention " TO PRESENT THE RECEIPT"---.a
power vested in him with full reliance upon his honor as
an Officer and a Gentleman—" AT THE HOUSE OF SIR
JOHN PAUL, AND DEMAND THE BOX AND ITS CON-
TENTS, AND PREVENT THE COMPLAINANT FROM
REGAINING POSSESSION THEREOF," St the same
time that he does not hesitate to submit to the

Court, that " MB IS NOT BOUND TO PERFORM TDB
A 0 REEMENT"—upon the faith of which he was entrusted
with any control whatever over the box and its contents?
But Sir HIMBERT TAYLOR has been betrayed Into more
than one hasty and inconsiderate, though prejudicial,
statement,in the course of his answer toGAßvu'sßill.He
says, for instance, that " he was informed and believes
that complainant was in possession of certain documents,
consisting chiefly, or wholly, of correspondence or letters,

and copies of letters, and memoranda, relating to his own
birth or station, or situation ;" and yet in the same para-
graph he proceeds to say, " they are not in any manner
relating, according to his knowledge and belief, to the com-
plainant's fortune, nor to any claims which he bad upon
any person, nor to the mode of sabetantiating or enforcing
any such claims :"—in this way does Sir HERRERT de-
scribe these documents and papers, although he imme-
diately afterwards admits that, " not having perusud the
said documents, papers, and correspondence, nor any
part thereof ; nor been made acquainted with their con •
tents, he cannot set forth, of his own knowledge, to what
the same relates." Surely, surely, if these papers, re=
lated to his birth or station, and by developing the
mystery in which that birth tnal stition had been involved
for a period of thirty years, and then for the first time
made evident to GARTH the exalted rank of one of
his parents—they did " relate," and most
"relate to his fortune" and to his " claims"
upon the newly-discovered author of his being.
The affidavits 'of Sir H. TAYLOR and Mr. WEST-
MACOTY--(‘ such MUM mingled !")—state that G ART it
became possessed of these papers during the illness of
" his natural or reputed father, ' General GARTH. And
from this admitted fact a strong presumption arises, that
his so " reputed father," in the anticipation of a fatal
result, had in his illness placed the documents in
GARTH'S hands, for the most obvious and natural of all
human purposes—that he might possess au indefeasible
Claim upon the protection of his surviving relative. I
will not.:trespass further on your space this day, but with
your permission, resume the consideration of the subject
in your paper of Monday next. For Sir HERBERT
TAYLOR, I, in common with all who have witnessed his
public services, entertain a very high respect : but in
this ease
" Aodeus Plato, sed !nazis soda Vaitas."
1 JOHN OLDHAM.
20th November,lB29.

CUPID AND HYMEN.

ISOM THZ TRUCE.
At Venus' Court, when Hvmso made a pother,
They mobbed and milled him.—
The god, enraged, then wised upon his brother,
Youoo Lova—and killed him!

Prns SCULINUIL.

THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.
From the Glasgow Free Press.
We have not been disappointed in the anticipations we
had been led to form, from a consciousness of the good
sense and independent feelings of the Students of Glasgow
College. The Marquis of Lansdowne was elected Lord
Rector on Monday by a decided majority—gaining it in
three nations, and losing it in the fourth merely by the
vote of the Principal ; an occurrence which, strange to
say, also took place at this very time last year.—
We sincerely congratulate the students on the choice
which they have thus made. They have selected
a man, who, in the eyes of the public at present, holds
the first estimation ; and whose talents as au orator and
a statesman—whose eminence for Ifterary attainments,
and whose station in society, render him, indeed, a most
worthy successor to the distinguished individuals who have
lately held the office of Rector. We have no cause of
complaint with the gentlemen who proposed Lord Mon-
crieff—we have all along borne testimony to his high me-
rits, and we believe that his supporters were influenced by
sincere though mistaken views of the good which ho could
have done to the College in his capacity of Commissioner.
The attempt, however, to bring in Lord President Hope,
we are disposed to look upon in a very different
light. Supported, as shame to say he avowedly was, by
many, on the mere ground of the high office which he
holds, and the political sentiments which he professes—
for most of his partisans made no attempt to disguise their
disregard for the preservation of the franchise, and their
belief that no exertion, if exertions should at all be made,
could prevent its limitation,—we are inclined to look
upon his nomination as an endeavour to lower the dignity
of the Rectorial office to the grade which it held some
time ago, when it was regarded as belonging of right
to the landed proprietors of the neighbourhood, whence
it might not be very difficult to retrograde still farther to
the days when a master of the Grammar School was
thought a suitable person to preside over the University !
Again, therefore, we say that we congratulate the Stu-
dents on the choice which they have made : they
have secured an able and zealous advocate in Parlia-
ment; and we trust that his influence will be sufficient
to avert the danger which they have now just cause to
apprehend. Before leaving this subject for some time,
there is one thing which we have yet to refer to—we
mean a protest, which was taken in the Hall by the
Professor of Divinity, against the election of the Mar-
quis, on the grounds, Ist. That he is not resident in
Scotland ; and, 2d. That by the articles of union between
England and Scotland, no Episcopalian can hold any
office in a Scottish University. We must call in
question both the taste and the tendency of this pro-
ceeding. It was in bad taste, as coming from a bench
where sit three Episcopalian professors ; and, as
the precedents which might be brought of Episco-
palian rectors are without number, the protest
can never be acted upon, or intended to be acted
upon, it appeared very probable that it was made with
no other intention than to influence the Marquis to de-
cline the office. If such was the motive which led
to the protest, we can only say that it will most assuredly
be frustrated. As we hold that the Marquis of Lans-
downe is worthy of the office, so do we hold that the
office is worthy of him. He has every conceivable in-
ducement to be gratified with his election. As a friend
of Ilteratp", he will be proud to preside over such a
University is Glasgow; as interested in the London.
University, he will be anxious to cement more closely the
connexion Asetween that Institution and our College;
which was its avowed prototype ; as a public man, he
will be proud to fill the office which has been held by
such men as Burke and Jeffrey, and Mackintosh and
Brougham ; as the friend of Campbell, he will be glad
to be his successor ; and as educated in Scotland, he
will be glad to revisit the scenes where he passed his
boyhood.

ACCIDENT OCCASIONED BY THE FOG.—About
twelve o'clock last night, a country waggon, heavily
laden, was coming down the east end of Oxford-street,
and turning into High-street, St. Giles's, a hackney-
coach, going in the contrary direction, came, owing to
the density of the fog, in contact therewith, by the near
hind wheel of the coach being caught by the fore
wheel of the waggon, by which the coach wheel
was smashed to pieces, and the coach completely
overturned. The coachman was thrown on the
ground with great violence, and received so much
injury, as to be carried to the Middlesex Hospital.
The passengers in the coach were a lady and two gentle-
men,. the former of whom providentially escaped with
little or no hurt beyond the fright ; but one of the gentle-
had his shoulder put out, and the other his arm broben
near the wrist. They, with the lady, got into another
cosch,lasid were driven to Davies-Street,Grosienor-square.