Star.
London, England, 1821-12-15 00:00:00

DOUGLAS, ISLF. OF MAN.

Saturday Evening, Ten o'Cloct, December N.
Friday night, the 30th ult. this island was visited
with the most tremendous gale ever remembered by
the oldest of its natives. It began about eleven o'clock,
and raged with unceasing violence during twenty-four'
hours, from the south-west, resembling more one of
those convulsions of nature termed a hurricane in the
western hemisphere. Its fatal effects appear to have
been general throughout the island. The produce of
it has everywhere been scattered like chaff before the
wind, and in many instances scarcely a vestige of the
I well-piled corn or hay-stack is visible to its former
proprietors ; numerous dwelling-houses, out-houses,
and, what is still more lamentable, the huts of the
poor cottagers, have alike been sacrificed to its dead-
ful fury. Even very strong substantial. built houses,
such as I have the good fortune to be an inmatliof,
were in jeopardy. Some very large trees have been
torn from their roots, and so heavily violent was the
force of the current of wind, that a farmer in this
neighboui hood, endeavouring to fasten the loosened
ropes of his thatched barn, was whirlid directly over
the shattered roof to a considerable distance, where,
lighting in a bog, it had neatly cost the poor fellow
his life; however, it ended without the less of any
lives that I have heard of on shore. One poor fellow,
in the act of securing his boat at Peel, was carried
away by the surge, and on Sunday was taken up
about two miles northward of the harbour. He has
left a wife and six small children to mourn his loss ;
his comrade saved himself by catching hold of a rope.
A most melancholy case of shipwreck occurred
during the same dreadful night off Peel ; the vessel
is a total wreck—all hands lost. No appearance of
a human body was discovered until noon next day,
when one of the poor unfortunates was seen amongst
the rocks. Soon after, part of the wreck and the
Captain's writing-desk were washed ashore, since
which four bodies have been picked up. The desk
contained some papers, from which it appeared she
was the Marion, of Ayr, James Good master, bur-
den 125 tons, and eight men, having a cargo of hay
on board, bound to Ayr from Cork, where she had
been landing a cargo of coals.
The Triton, Captain llcadon, a regular trader be-
tween this and Whitehaven, a man universally re-
spected, unfortunately put to sea on the afternoon
previous to the storm, with twelve or fourteen pas-
sengers, and a valuable cargo. Great apprehensions',
were entertained for her safety, which have been re-
moved by the arrival of the Lady Elizabeth, who
brought accounts of her having, after losing her jib-
boom, been run adiore on some part of the Lancashire
coast—all hands, passengers, and cargo, safe.
The long-looked-for regular trader between the
Isle of Man and Liverpool, the Douglas, was off this
port on Thursday evening, since which, until one
o'clock to-day, they have been beating about in the
Channel. About a month ago, the Mercury, of
Whitehaven, from Liverpool, bound to Dublin, with
a troop.of the 16th Lancers on board, was driven in
here in distress; on landing them she returned to
Whitehaven, and from thence with passengers back
to Dublin; went down in a storm. The Triton was
driven over her, and at low water her masts may be
plainly seen.
There has been a tremendous row here between
the Governor, his Grace the Duke of Athol, and the
douse of Keys ( Manx Parliament), on the subject of
the late riots, &c. &c. I was present until strangers
were ordered out. Manx constables have been sworn
in within these few days; and a company of the 29th
Foot, which were sent here during the:slots, are or-
dered for Dublin, and will sail the first fair wind.—
Before the winter is passed, mark the result !

A letter from Nuremberg, dated November 3, says,
" The vintage, say the accounts from the Rhine, has
been everywhere bad, or to speak more properly,
there has been none. Our distress, already so great,
is not a little aggravated by this circumstance. To
this may be added, that we have been also deceived
in the hope of seeing other articles of produce rise in
price; even wine, of which the Kock is still large, has
not risen, notwithstanding the failure of the vintage.
There is a want of purchasers, because the consump-
tion daily diminishes, from the stagnation of trade.
To this may be added, the impediments thrown in
the way of exportation by high tolls and duties. It
is easy to see what will be the end of all this. The
most lamentable is, that though this incteasing dis-
tress has been so long represented in Journals, Memo-
rials, &c. in lively colours, no relief appears from any
quarter. It is remarkable that a complaint has lately
been heard from the North, like that which has so
long resounded in the South of Germany.
" It is true that it would be folly to expect the ex-
isting evil to be entirely relieved ; but as no effectual
step has yet been taken by the Governments to afford
any kind of alleviation, this is extremely discouraging,
and it is certain that if any measure of this kind in-
dicative of good will should be put in effect, it would
be a great encouragement to the citizen to induce
him to take the best advantage of the relief afforded,
and to submit in patience to what cannot be altered.
Our attention is directed to the negociations at Darm-
stadt, and we look impatiently to the result. We may
expect that something will soon transpire, for this
subject, which is of the highest importance in the
economy of all the States, must necessarily be brought
forward in the Assemblies of the States of some of
the States concerned, and it is to be hoped that ob-
stacles not hitherto to be removed will become known,
so the means be investigated to remote them."

LONDON.

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SATURDAY: DECEMBER 15, 1821.
TRICKS OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 237-3 per Cent. Consols 76% 34
3% per Cent. 87%-4 per Cent. 96% %
Bank Long Annuities 19% 7-16
India Bds. 70s. 71s. pr.—Exch. Bills £lOOO, 2s. pr. par
Do. (Small) Is. 3s. pr.—Cons. for Acct. 78% 'is.

The Midge-street, or “ Consaittioaal Association,'
as it is called, met with a new defeat in the Court of
King's Bench, yesterday. In the cause the KING V.
DOLBY, the Counsel for the defendant challenged the
array, en the pound that the Sheriff who impanelled
the Jury was himself a prosecutor. The issue was
referred, as a preliminary question, to two chosen
tryers, whether Mr. Sheriff GA Ram, who, in that
capacity, returned the Jury which should try the case,
was not at the time a Member of the Association ?
The tryers returned their verdict in the affirmative,
and thus vitiated the whole of the proceedings. After
so many defeats as this Association has sustained in
Lotidon, it might have been expected that it would
pause in its career of persecution; and this, we doubt
not, many of those who have contributed their money
to its support would gladly do, but the business is in
the hands of agents, who, stung by disgrace, and ex-
cited by gain, will not abandon a single prosecution:-
Hence we find that these trials are only postponed
until new Juries are prepared—Special Juries, with
which the Sheriff has nothing to do. As, however,
it rarely happens that all the Special Jurors attend,
and the deficiency is made up from the Common Jury
Lists, the whole of which, for the next ten months,
will be liable to the same objection as that of yester-,
day, we trust that, should the prosecutions be revived,
they will prove equally abortive.
Much has been said on the illegal and unconstitu-
tional character of a body of men combining togetherl
and furnishing funds, sufficient to ruin any person
against whom their agent may choose to bring a pm-
secution. It is a species of imperium ix
which is not called for either by justice or necessity.
The Libel Law in this country is sufficiently severe,
and the Officers of the Crown are not wanting in
vigilance, as the records of our Courts of Law, and
his MAJESTY'S jails throughout the country, abun-
dantly prove. If seditious libels are published, the
ATrox x EIf•GENIMAL is the pi oper prosecutor in every
point of view. He is also responsible for the faithful
discharge of his office, and having a legal as well as
a moral reputation at stake, he will not hazard it by
vexatious or untenable prosecutions. There is also a
respectability of character in his subordinate legal
agents, whi:h is a security to the accused. None of
these securities attach to the Bridge-street Associa-'
tion, which, though possessing among its members
many Noblemen and Gentlemen whose characters
are strictly unimpeachable, is, through its agents,
rendered one of the most odious and oppressive com-
binations that ever disgraced a free country.

We have received a file of Gazettes from Sierra
Leone to the 14th October. Much activity continues

to be shewn by the British ships of war on that coast
in the suppression of the Slave Trade, though we are
compelled to add that it proves wholly inadequate to
the object. About the middle of September, the Por-
tuguese schooner Adelaide, with upwards of 200
slaves on board, was brought into the harbour of
Sierra Leone by his Majesty's ship Pheasant, and con-
demned as a lawful prize to the Crowns of Great
Britain and Portugal. The slaves were liberated.—
Another Portuguese vessel, called the Conceicao, with
54 slaves on board, was brought in on the 24th of
September, prize to his Majesty's brig Snapper, Lieu-
tenant Knight, Commander. The vessel last named
had returned from a cruize to leeward, and the infor-
mation given by her Commander fully corroborates
the statement formerly made regarding the increase
of slave-vessels on the coast. A great number of
French and Portuguese vessels, fitted for slaves, were
found securely riding at anchor in the different rivers
visited by the Snapper, while their cargoes were col-
lecting in the factories on shore.
In the course of her cruize, the Snapper, in pro-
ceeding down the coast, and when off Cape Mount,
chased two schooners under French colours, that made
every exertion to escape; when, from the vicinity to
the share, they found that impossible, they separated.
so that only one could be boarded. The largest vessel
was the object of attention, and was brought to by
the Snappers when she was found to be the French
schooner l'Etincelle, of Bourdeaux, fitted out at that
port for the Slave Trade her equipment was of the
most superior description, and her cabin superb—
French mirrors and scarlet curtains. The Captain
auxnestly begged of Lieutenant Knight to accept some
presents, and wished to have put some cases of cham-
pagne into the boat. The other schooner eluded
search, owing to the lateness of the evening. When
the Snapper was at Calabar, she found, besides the
Portuguese schooner sent up for condemnation, a
Spanish felucca and two French schooners, the Hy-
polite and le Neptune : the Spaniard was so fast a
sailer that they entertained no fear of her capture
when once clear of the river ; she is a constant trader
between the Itivannah and Calabar.

The late visits of the men of war and their boats

had made the 'slave-trat!ert.at that place so ratitioes.
that, with the exception of the Conceicao. All avert
keeping their slaves in factories on shore, until the
very day of their departure. Lieutenant Rtlight veil
informed that a French schooner had lately scei
with 200 slaves for Cayenne, which vessel, frog, the
sharpness of her building, for the advantage of sal
ing, could only carry at the rate of nine &l s,*
water per slave, and her Commander had no ;oto.
tion of touching at any other place before he read,el
his destination.

to preetit,
It is stated, that in the river of Calabar thereto
recently several slave-vessels,' moored together,
springs on their cables, in such a po:ition as
at a short notice, a half-moon battery ; and they were
determined, as they said, to support each other to rhe
last. They went to quarters every night, and 1,4
guard-boats for some miles down the river in e
munication with each other, and they threatened ts
hinder the sailing of the English cil ships until diet
were all off themselves ; but they did not p,tii
making such an attempt.

Tne Gazette of the 13th October, contains a stage.
meet of the number of slave-vessels, with the sr&
culars relating to them, examined by his Majesty's
ships Snapper and Pheasant in the month of July.
l
from which it appears thit the total number ens
sixteen ships, of which twelve were Portuguese, duet
French, and one Spanish ; and these vessels, it is sap,
posed, on the most model ate calculation, would early.
from the coast 6000 slaves. Besides which, in Ile
same month, his Majesty's ship Alyrnridon, in
same period, in the Bight of Benin and its neighbont.
hood alone, examined sixteen vessels carrying tinge
detestable traffic. 'these vessels, on a moderate cols
putation, would carry from the coast 3400 victics;
though only one of them, the Adelaide, accordinsa
the tenour of the Treaties, could be captured.
In :he beginning of August, there sere three ha.
maphrodite brigs and two schooners under the Fiendi
flag, waiting for slaves at the Gallinas: and aboutthe
end of September four other vessels, under the same
flag, came to anchor off the bar, and were prepalig
to send their cargoes on shore to exchange for s!ares
Advices from Cape Coast Castle state, Ithat pt
hope is not correct, that the Dutch Government Fare
sent out to the Governor and residents of their sat.
Clement of Elwina Castle, full permission to soil ca.
noes to the Portuguese and other slave-traders, their
affording great facilities to that traffic; and that,
consequence, many slave-vessels had anchored at that
port and been amply supplied.
The settlements on the Gold Coast had been tra-
usually unhealthy this year. Among the deaths an
these of the Governor-General of the Dutch sena-
ments at Elwina, the Governor-General of the Daitir
settlement at Accra, and Mr. GORDON, Governor
the English settlements of the same place.
Extract of a Letter from Sierra Leone, dated
24th of September :
" The sickly season is now well advanced: it has him
proved the most fatal one ever known in this relay. Hint
Europeans have already fallen victims to the fever: a
these were new corners, but several old standers are ale ply
In fact, every second European is no more—many of Ma.
loured settlers have also died. The Gambia has been seeks
bad : Mr. and Mrs. Humors, Mr. and Mrs. Sucre, Sere
Giuma and Queens, and several others, are dead!"

The Duke of DEVONSHIRE arrived at haps
two yesterday afternoon, at Devonshire-hou-e, fog
Brighton ; after changing horses, his Grace set ON
his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire.

The Duke of RUTL A ND is howly expected ;non
from his seat, Belvoir Castle, on his way to the Pali
lion, Brighton.
Yesterday, the Duchess of BUCCLEUGH anirea
Montague-house, in Privy-gatdens, from a tour.
Lord and Lady Nuoatir are among the distil.
guished visitors at Mr. COKE'S seat in Norfolk:

FASHIONABLE ARRIVAL&
Countess Willoughby and Miss Fitzroy, at Whitehall, kto
Leamington' Warwickshire.
Hon. W. B. Gray, at his mother's, the Dowager Countezil
Stamford's, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from Woks
Hon. Mrs. Robinson, in I'rivy Gardens, from DurniordAll
The Earl of Albemarle and the Ladies Keppel, in St. Jan
square, from Sir Robert Harland's seat, Ipsw:ch, Suffolk.
Hon. Colonel Lygon,front Farmington, Gloucestershire.
The Bishop of Ely, in Dover-street, from Ely Palace, OD
bridgeskire.
R. Jukes, Esq. and Mrs. Worthington and family, at Thal
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Leamington, Warwickshire.
Captain J. Forrest, and Chevalier Franchi, at the Clara"
Hotel, Bond-street, rom France ; and Edward U,:win, Esti'
ditto, from Hertfordshire.
TheJtiarquis and Marchioness of Waterford, in :Vasski%
street, from Ireland.
Viscount Melbourne, at Melbourne House, Whitehall, fro
Brighton.
Earl Morley, at Kent House, Yorkshire.
Orby Hunter, Esq. in Grosvenor•place, from Sufro'.
DEPARTURES.
The Marquis of Salisbury, for I latfield.
From the Claremont Hotel, Bond-street—Sir It. Clifton, fit
Clifton Hall; and Captain Delaney, for Ramsg ite.
Count and Countess St. Antonio, from Wimbledon forßrigko

The Earl of Essex, for Cashiobury Park, Watford.
Ministerial arrangements. are now, it is slid,
a state of completion: the GRENVILLES are to coi
in, by their rept esentative Mr. Cu A RLESWYNN.
Gentleman is, no doubt, to go to the Board et Car
tmul. And not only is Nlr.WrNs to become l'resdro
of the Indian Board, but being, it is said, ail'
with the rest of the GrteNvatts for the succeso,
the Catholic Question, he has stipulated that he hl
be allowed to support the emancipation with and*.
influence of his office. Dr. PIItLLrMORE is talkedo
as a new Lord of the Admiralty.
There are also certain chznges in the Law dert
menu in Ireland. Mr. Sit on s, it is reported, es
succeed the Lord Chief Justice NO RB U RY, Wilt) "6'6
in order to make way for Mr. PLuNKErr as A wog:
General ; and this latter Gentleman's succes,i4
the Attorney-Generalship in Ireland is surmiA
know not how correctl)) to be plepArato!Y I"
ks
transfer to the eminent station of Lord Chanceila ,
England, whenever Lord ELDON retires.-1114

THE ARMY.

;nab Fanny. Loyal Briton, and Thomas and Mary, transports,
60,, arrived at Cork, from Plymouth, ari:h the 84th Regiment.
ra present Lord Eassnresopinion on the right of the Crown
any Military Officer without the intervention of a
iiimagerrial, dated Serjeant's Inn, September 1801, con-
* following concluding sentence :—" I am bound to add,
Mit parties are wholly without remedy. The King is at the
widdie Army ; his will ig the law ; and neither his conduct, nor
Mons of it, can be examined in any Court, Civil or Milli-
"- Rfhen his Majesty dismisses an Officer, his military eha-
owl, latterly gone ; and although he may have purchased all
maseneessiens, from the highest to the lowest ranks, he must,
;or" Inte his purchase-money, and the fruits of it, with the
bis d lie station. Every man who makes himself a soldier
rh w ought to know, that this is his condition."
sowing i; the Official Communication made to the
eeweasainin a: Cites by Sir CITA REV; MORGAN, Judge.AdVo.
07-ariggal. respecting the Officers of the 85th Regiment :
" Judge-Advocate-General's Office;
Grafton-street, May 4,1841.
oSee..-The proceedings of a General Court Martial, held at
&milt, Isle of Wight, on the 16th day of March last, and on
;;;;;Irebultient days, having been submitted to his MAJF.STY,
bohtch Court Martial Lieutenant-Colonel Joust Ross, of the
go Regiment was tried upon several charges preferred against
on to certain Officers of the same Regiment, a transcript
*riot, together with the opinion and adjudication of the Court
Aerial, ii to this annexed :
ai have the honour to acquaint your Royal Highness, that
ke Mau has approved the sentence of the Court Martial,
00,4,/ the said Lieutenant-Colonel Joins Ross bring found
fey of the first article of the charge, viz. of having employed
to Krems Davin Ross and WILLIAM WEAVER, as his servants,
irk the periods in which they were respectively mustered as
(Aerials, hut did not do any duty as such, was adjudged to be
feimaieted; and his blaaeser is pleased to direct that the
ase be promulgated in public orders, his IMAJETY being pleased
• &row with any other reprimand than that which such pro-
pagation will virtually convey ; and at the same time command-
*it to be intimated, that although his hlaaesry is disposed
a, pay all due attention to the recommendation from a Court
Rte, upon the ground of any meritorious conduct that has
armed to them, his 51aaeser cannot admit it in excuse of any
egdarity Committed by an Officer, more especially by one. ho
is, untitled the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, though the like has
Lim practised by others.
• tiffs MAJESTY has been pleased to approve the opinion of the
fort Martial, as well with regard to the acquittal of Lieutenant-
Wad Ross upon the other articles of charge, as to their pointed
oiliest strictures upon the conduct of the prosecutors.
"This circumstance has recalled to his Maatistr's mind the
Ile conduct on the part of Lietia• Colonel floss himself, in le-
ge to the several unfounded charges lately urged by him against
Rips Demo., of which his Masters- has directed me to express
IX son serious displeasure, remarking, that to prefer accuss-
Sri which cannot be maintained, at the same time that the
practice is highly inconvenient and injurious to the service, roe
lects much disgrace upon those who bring them forward.
I have it in charge further to notify to your Royal High-
sea, that his Masesev, in consideration of the whole matter, is
pleased to direct that it be notified to the several Officers who
etietiteti the afore-mentioned charges against Lieutenant-Colo-
ad Rase, that his :thiatstv has not any further occasion for
der smites; which Officers appear to he—Captains J. C.
Pieter, T. &tenpin's, end J. L. RaieLT ; Lieutenants Joseen
Tunas, JANIS CARTEL, WILLIAM NORTON, G. PINFORD, and
Mums Satter, all of the 85th Regiment.
" His Idsnerr, moreover, perceiving that it must be incon-
egos with the barmony and discipline of the corps, that Lieut.-
faked Ross should retain his situation in the 85th Regiment,
ins commanded me to acquaint your Royal Highness, that his
Muerte his determined that he retire from the Regiment ; but
bis Mensal is pleased to permit, that he may sell his commission
.Iliestenant-Colonel, having purchased the same.
" I have the honour to be, with profound respect,
"Ike Royal Highness's most dutiiul and most humble servant,
" CHARLES MORGAN.
6/leld-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Yogic,
Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's Forces."

Sir THOMAS MAITLAND has issued a Proclama•
in to the Inhabitants of the lonian Islands, dated
49th October, which contains the following orders:
" That from the present date (except in cases of storm), no
iip of war belonging to the belligerent parties, or any other na-
tioa cooperating with either of them, shall be received in any
lithe ports in the lonian States.
That every subject of the lonittn States, or any other indi-
vidual residing there, who shall in future dar• to attempt, of his
sin accord, to have the least communication with such vessels,
elk considered as guilty of open rebellion against the lonian
Government, and shall be treated accordingly."
Thursday forenoon, the Earl of itOCKSAVAGE and
Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY left Cholmondeley-
louse, Piccadilly, for Malpas, in Cheshire, in order
So attend the interment of the remains of Colonel
inuoue, in the family vault, at the above place.
Yesterday, the Earl of LIVERPOOL arrived at Fife-
blase, from Combe Wood, and in the course of the
day transacted business at the Foreign Office.
Lord SIDMOUTII and Lord STOW ELL left town this
day, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness CAM-
DEN, at their seat, the Wilderness, Kent.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.-The Tragedy of Jame

sore was acted yesterday evening, for- the purpose
rir bringing forward a young Lady of the name of
IDMONSTONE, stated to be her first appearance on
any stage, in the principal character—she appears to
be very young—her figure is good, and allowance'
being made for the embarrassments inseparable from
a first appearance, she displayed powers of a very su
perior order. We recollect but few female performers
•rho could at all compete with her in gracefulness of
action and motion ; and still fewer whose hy. play
could be compared with hers. During the whole time
sbe appeared on the stage, she was acting. If she
spoke nut, her looks and gestures were sufficiently in-
telligible. .They declared, distinctly, the feelings
which agitate Shine's unhappy wife. Her scene with
the Protector, in which she avows her loyalty to Ed-
ward's offspring, was acted with much spirit, parti-
cularly that part of it in which, cairied away by her
enthusiastic feelings, Jane Shore pours forth a pas-
sionate benediction on Lord Hastings. Her con-
cluding scene was distinguished by a vein of strong
natural feeling,w•hich made its way direct to the heart.
She WAS raptUraisly applauded.—Kemi's Hastings
was an excellent performance. The character is be-
neath his taleats : but it is the property of genius
to elevate and dignify everything it touches; and,
undoubtedly, Mr. KEAN shed more interest round the
Lord Chamberlain, and rendered him a more promi-
nent and important personage than usual.—Alicia
*as pourtrayed with considerable ability by Mrs.
EGERTON. The Play, altogether, went off with spit it,
and was announced for repetition on Monday, amidst
rte phrldits of the audience.
Covewr-Gaaven.—The Play of The Fxile, with
the magnificent pageantry, still retains its interest
with the Public ; it was last night repeated to a very
numerous audience, and received u its the usual marks
of approbation. The lively Farce of The Two Page.,
closed the evening's I.eiformances.
Mr. ABBOTT, of Covent-Garden Theatre, is so far
recovered from the wound he received. that he will
resume his theatrical duties early in neat week.