Star.
London, England, 1810-12-26 00:00:00

TO TIM. BDITOR OF TIM STAR.

Ilymemb, December 41.
Ste--It is universally acknowledged that the Bii-
tish Government is willing to do all that can be done.
towards alleviating the hardships attached to the 11,1-
fortunate. prisoners of war, now in this country. A -
'flitting this to be the case, I do not think there can
be any impropriety in an individual, whoever he may
be, in suggesting to the Head of the Department,
under whose immediate care the prisoners of war are
placed, any improvement that might be made, either
in the places of confinement, or in the general ma-
nagetnent of the prisons, through the medium of your
Paper. What I shall at present call, the attention of
the Transport Board to, is the stave of the prison
yards, at. Mill Bay, Plymouth ; these yards are not
paved, and as nearly three then.and men have no
other ground to take their exercise in, it necassaeilg -
follow., that during the rainy season, both yards are •
completely covered with mud, deep, as to make it
impossible for any individual to walk for one minute.
without being up to his ankles in the mire. What
the erpence attending making this very great im-
provement may be to the nation, I' am net 'prepared
to state,but I will venture to say, that any country
Gentleman, would feel great pleasure in expending
as great a sum, on two of his farm-yards, for the ac-
commodation of his tenants. Hoping that the object
of my troubling you may be gained, by the evil I
have alluded to being removed, I am, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, .

THE DUKE OF QUBENSBERRY'..

,
This Nobleman has been more generallyTtnoft
cno
and for a much longer period, than any of his 1. i
temporaries ,• and though he has not displayed ch
talents which naturally attract the attention dims
kind, he has never ceased, from his first appearance
in the world to the moment when he left it for ever, .
to be an object of comparative notoriety. There has
been no interregnum in the public course of his ex-,
istence.

He was born in the year 1725, and few persons
have ever passed through life wither fuller enjo
of the pleasures and luxuries which it affordsM
possessed ample means of gratification in an *buff•
dant fortune, and he was wise enough to blend prua
dente and pleasure in all his enjoyments. '
His first distinction was that of the Turf : his
knowledge of which, both in theory and practice,
was considered as equal, if not superior, to the most
acknowledged adepts of Newmarket. He rode him-
self in all his principal matches, and was therivalvits
that branch of equitation, of the most eminent pro-
fessional Jockies. His famous match with the Duke
of HAMILTON, the tattier of the last Nobleman of
that title, and that of the macL%ne, which hate his
own name, were long distinguished articles in I
annals of Newmarket, and are not yet forgotten. •••• .
He blended, however, his pursuits of the turf with
the more elegant attainments of high life, and was lon
considered as the first figure in the brilliant circles of
fashion. He was the model in dress, equipage, and
manners, for all those who aspired to superiority in
exterior appearances.
He was also very fond of music, in which his taste
and judgment were acknowledged by the first pre-
fessors. He was a munificent patron of musicians.
particularly those of the vocal order, and the first
place to which the chief singers from Italy resorted
was to the Mansion of his Grace, where they were
sure of a polite and liberal reception.
After he had quitted the turf, and had succeeded
to the Queensberry titles and estates, his life has been
distinguished by little but his enjoyments, in which he
continued to indulge himself while the faculties of re.
ceiving gratification from them remained. Hitt can.
stant residence, and the scene of his pleasure, was
London or its vicinity. Scotland he seldom, if ever
visited. His house' at Amesbury, in Wiltshire, the
wot k of Irmo JoNas, and the classical mansion of a
former period, he has left, if it be not sold ; and hie
country pleasures were found in his Villa at Rich.
mond, which he had fitted up in a style of superior
elegance. There he occasionally lived in splenour,
till the folly of the inhabitants, by making a vexatious
claim at law of a few yards of ground which, uncon-
scious of any invasion of parochial rights, he had
taken into his inclosure, determined him to quit a
place where he considered hinarielf as having been
grossly insulted, and to which, in various ways, he
had been an ample benefactor. Latterly, he lived
altogether in •Pioeadilly, where his figure was daily
visible in his balcony, and had become familiar to
every one who was in the habit of passing through
that great metropolitan thoroughfare.
He was a very good-natured man in private life,and
'his purse was always ready at the call of misfortune
and unfriended talents. He *as often a liberal sub.
scriber to a measure calculated to support the national
honour and reward the national defenders.
His Grace was never married, but a long courtship
took place between him and Lady Harriet Stanhope,
daughter cf the late and sister of the present Earl of
Harrington, but it broke 'off without, as far as we
lia've heard, any assigned cause, and any interruption
of harmony between the respective families.
He had been a handsome avell.proportioned man,
of the middle size. It was generally reported,. but
. without truth, that he wars a glass eye. He had
only a slight blemish in one of -his eyes, which was
hardly perceptible.
He was appointed Lori of the Bedchamber to his
Majesty on his coming to the throne ; but in conse-
qucnce of the part he took in the question of the
Regency in 1789, his name is not to be seen in the
Royal Household after that period. He was in-
Ivested with the Green Ribbon us the year 1764, and
at the time of his death WAS the senior Knight of the
Outer of the Thisfle.
The gallantries of the Duke have been long a sub-
jecr,of taillery, and it is probable that much more has
been said on that subject than was founded in truth. •
Lord YARMOUTIT, as was expected, succeeds to the
greatest part of the late Duke of QUEENSBERRY'S dis-
poseable property. A legacy of £50,000 is left to the
Duke of SOMERSET, and the same sum to the Duchess.

A Green Ribbon is become vacant izy the death of
the Duke of QUEBSSIIRRHY.

As the. Earl of Parzaeostevuri was passing through
New Bond-street on Monday evening, in his carriage,
it broke down, but his Lordship did nut receive nay
•
injury.

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ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1810.

WRITTEN BY WILLIAM THOM As YITZGERALD, ESQ.

Hail, day revered! for ever glorious morn.
On which the SAVIOUR of the World was bent!
Soon as the Heavenly iNPANT drew his breath,
Mercy appear'd upon the gates of Death:
The word was written by an Angel's hand,
In glad obedience to Divine command!
Th' Apostate Spirit breath'd an angeislt'd groan,
From Heirs deep caverns, to th' Eternal Throne;
While Seraphs this celestial strain Isegan,
" Peace be en earth, and GOD'S good will to man

LAW INIELLIOENCE.

• I%tIDDIASEX..-SHERIFFS COURT, DEC. it
MOULTON AND OT/lIIRS v. HILL.
The Plaintiffs in this case are Proprietors of the
coaches from the Golden-Cross, Charing-cross; the
'Defendant is a coachman, lately employed by them in
di iving one of their coaches. ' It appeared in evidence
that in April last an action had been_brought against
-the Proprietors by a person; to recover damages fl.r
the injury he had sustained in consequence of their
servant. (tb present defendant), having driven their
coach against him when on horseback, whertiby he was
thrown from the. horse and much hurt, and the horse
killed, and in which action it being proved that the
accident arose through the extreme negligence and
improper conduct of the coachman, the person in.
jured recovered damages against the proprietors, who
therefore brought this action against the coachman to
tecover back the amount of the damages incurred by
them through his improper conduct.—Verdict for the
groin ietors, damages £l3B 9s.

• COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 14.
SCHLENKBR V. WRIGHT.
This was an action brought to rectreer damages to
the amount of 028 7s. being the price of seven sacks
of flour, which the plaintiff waa induced to sell to a
person of the name of Floyd, in consequence of the
defendant having given the said Floyd a character
which he well knew he did not deserve.
Mr. SCl94lllt BEST stated, that the parties in this
action were mutalmen and bakers—and the plaintiff
.sought to recover compensation in damages for the
loss he had sustained by the improper conduct of the
'defendant in misrepresenting the charactee of a baker
of the name of Floyd, in consequence of which the
plaintiff had sold him a quantity of flour, which had
never been paid for, and with which, but for the de-
fendant's favourable account of Floyd, he never would
have intrusted .him. When Floyd applied to the
plaintiff for-the floor, the•latter sent his sort to Mr.
Nirright, who was well acquainted with Floyd, to
inquins into-his capability of paying—when the &fen-
dent informed him " that Floyd had turned a sober
, -steady man, and was doing very well." At the time
the defendant had thus expressed his opinion of
'Floyd's growing prosperity, he held in his hands •a
warrant of attorney which had been granted to
bim by Floyd, for the payment of £l3O, by instal-
lments of £1 ss. per week—and he made the repre-
sentation complained of in the month of April last,
when he was in the habit of receiving the instabrents
under the warrant of attorney; and of course must
*save been aware that Floyd's circumstance. were
pot such as would justify any person in giving him
credit. The plaintiff's son called several times at
Floyd's house, for the purpose of procuring payment
for the flour, but he was.put off from day to day.—
.When he calied the last time, however, he found the
shop shut up, and Mr. Wright in possession of the
premises, Floyd having absconded. The young man,
eeeingtwo and a half sacks of the flour which his father
had sent him lying in the shop, expressed a wish to
take possession of it ebut the defendant, by whose flat-
tering account of Floyd the property had been origi-
nally obtained, said—" NO, you must net take it, all
Floyd's property has been made over to me in satis-
faction of a debt." He would proceed to substantiate
%hat he had asserted ; and he should then confidently
expect a verdict for his client.
Jacob Schlenker,' the plaintiff's son, deposed, that
Floyd had applied to his father to sell him a quantity
at flour ; they had some suspicion of his credit, and
he (the witness) having chanced to meet Mr. Wright
on the folloWing day, introduced the subject of Fioyd's
ability to pay, and was infoimed that " he had turn-
ecl sober and steady, and was doing vet y. well."—
Witness's father had desired him to send the floor to ,
Floyd, but not to permit it to be unloaded unless the
money was paid. But when he heard Wright's ac.
itount of Floyd, . he gave directions that the flour
should be sent in the morning, and the money sliould
be called for in the afternoon, which otherwise would .
not have been done. He called fur the money on the
Monday and Tueiday following, without success.—
When he went on the Wednesday, lie found Floyd
bad absconded, and Mr. Wright was in possession of
the premises, which he offered to sell to witness for
relso, alledging that he had authority for so doing.
He saw two bags and a half of the flour in the shop,
but they were not given up to him. He never knew
cf his tather having applied to the defendant to in-1
duce Floyd to purchase the flour. He had never told
his-father, or any other person, that Floyd was a man
who ought not to be trusted. •
William Floyd, brother to the person who had ab 2,
kondid, proved die hand-writing of the defendant on
the warrant of attorney which Ris brother had execu-
ted. He recollected the plaintiff in- the present ac-
lion having called at his brother's hot se repeatedly.,
to induce him to purchase some French flour, and he
at length agreed to take seven bags.
• Thomas Lloyd paved that he had purchased the
fistures of the shop in which Floyd had resided from
the' defendant ViTtight. He understood they were
read under the authority of a warrant of attorney.
Mr. Serjeant MARSHALL, fur the defendant,'replied
at considerable length. He contended•that the plain-
tiff Wa`.• not igneraneof Floyd's circumstances at the
time he sent him the flour. In support cif this as•
session, he called Thomas Skenton, who deposed that
he heard young Schlenker say, in conversation
with a third person, that Floyd was not deserving of
eny,credits and hr would not trust him a.firthing.
The Jury retired for a considerable time,, and then
eleartud a verdict lot the plaintiff, diseleggetos.

ourAdoss IN IRELAND.

Dammam, 18.—Saturday night las!, one of
those nocturnal outrages which have, and we regret
to say, continuo to _ disgrace same of the southern
counties, tool: place within three miles of thii town.
' 'Nearly one hundred villains, some of them armed,
attacka the farm-house of Townley B. Hardman,
Esq. at Caulestown, county of Meath, and on enter-
ing it demolished al the furniture, pulled down the
stairs, and broke every article they could. They af-
terwards destroyed the ploughs, harrowd, gates, &c.
and polled up some young quicks. Mr. Hardman
was in possession of Caulestown only since November
last. This work of destruction being accomplished,
they deliberately proceeded to another farm of this
gentleman's, on the Nanny-water, which he has been
for some years improving, broke into the house, took
the steward and his wife out of bed, threatened them
with death if they left the place, and abused the man.
In this neat cottage, wherein Mr. Hardman lay fre-
quently in summer, they literally destroyed every
article of furniture, and then proceeded to the farm-
yard, where they committed the same destruction as
at Caulestown. Such of the young trees in the plan.
tation as they could not pull up they broke in two.
After accomplishing their hellish purpose, they took
six of his boreewut of the stables and went off ; but
not until they warned.the steward to leave the place,
as that was only their first visit !—They called! them-
selves Carders." The horses were found next day
1 near Bellestown-hill.
This daring and destructive outrage calls aloud
for the prompt interference of the neighbouring
Magistrates and Gentlemen of the Barony of Duleek
to check it in its bud
Monday, six threshers, who for some time have
been administering unlawful oaths, and committing
depredations in Cunnemara, (two of whom were
dressed in white shirts over their clothes,) were
lodged in the County Jail of Galway ; they were
apprehended, after a long and fatiguing pursuit.
Three others of the gang were killed, and one
wounded ; another effected his escape after being
I taken.
WILXFORD, Dec: 2C.—The horrid murder of John
Lonelle, paik-keeper to John Knox Grogan, of John-
stown. Castle, Esq. was supposed to be about ten
o'clock on Sunday night, the. 16th inst. It appeared
at the Inquest, held on the folliewing day, before
Christian Wilson, of BereVille, Esq. one of the Ma-
gistrates of this county, And George Harrison Beade,
Esq. Mayor of Wexford, that the deceased was partly
uncressed, and is•the act of closing the window-shut-
ters, his wife standing beside him, when a gun,-loaded
with three bullets, was discharged at him, two of
which unhappily. took effect. The assassin was close
to. the window when he fired, as the two balls entered
his throat, under the chin ; one was extracted from
the upper part of his skull, the other lodged in the
brain. The third ball having struck the bedstead, and
broke part of an adjoining rafter, was found in the
room. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Mur-
der, by some person or perscins unknown. The de-
ceased and his wife were natives of England, and had
no family ; had been several years in the service of
Mr. Cr. igan, and from his strict honesty, and faithful
discharge of the several trusts committed to his cafe,
cnj.iycd the highest confidence of his master. Two
( persons of the name of Merryman have been com-
-1 iniacd to goal, on suspicion of being accomplices to.
I the above murder.
CONIMISSION INTELLIGENCE.
On Wednesday last Mr. Mac Nally moved the
Court to postpone the trial of John King and Edward
Kirby, Esqrs. at the prosecution of David Foley, Est.
for a conspiracy to prevent one William Roper, Esq.
to conclude a bargain and agreement for the purefraFse
of a certain wood, called the Wood of Dundrum, in
the county of Tipperary, the property of the Right
Hon. Lord Heywarden, which was fixed for the first
this day
The motion was wounded on two affidavits, one
made by the prosecutor, David Foley, stating, that
George Charles Jefferies, Esq. was a material wit-
ness
for the prosecution, and that he was l) ing dan-
gerously ill ; the second affidavit was made by Sur-
geon Crampson, stating, that -Nit.. Jeffries could nut
attend with safety to his life.
The Court, after hearing Mr. Goold and Mr. JOY,
eibservech the affidavits contained. all the necessary.
t.tcts to we: rant their postponing the trial.
The traverst!ts having appealed to the Court on the
extreme hardship of their being obliged to remain un-
til the next Session under the odium of such a charge
after the former ale:ay,
Mr. Justice MAYNa observed, that the form of the
affidavits did not allow the Court any alternative ;
that they were sworn in the usual way, and that there
were certain remedies to punish the deponents, if the
allegations were false. The trial was accordingly
postponed to the next Commission.
CPJM. CON.

JOHN IILACHFORD, MCI. PLAINTIFF, W. D. LATOUCIIE,
kti‘t. HEVENDA&T.

In this action, the defendant having suffered judg- 1
ment to go by default, it remained for the High She- I
riff of the county of Wicklow to assess damages ac
cordingly, in pursuance of the writ of enquiry, taken
at Newton Mount Kennedy, on Monday se'nnight,
before the High Sheriff and a respectable Jury.
The first witness was the Rev. Michael Sandys,
examined by Mr. CUTHBERT, who proved that the
`conduct of the plaintiff towards his wiie had been in-
variably indulgent and affectionate ;that his habits
I
were truly domestic ; that Mrs. Blacliford was also
attentive :o her domestic duties, and paid great atten-
i tion to the education of her child, for which she was
, I well qualified, being a woman of very high endow-
lments. The witness further stated, that the infide-
lity of his wife had caused the plaintiff greAt distress
of mind, and that he had remained in a.very dejected
state ever since it was disco,rercd.
Mr. Charles Hamilton examined.

Stated that the plaintiff and the child went to his
house immediately after the discovery ; that the plain-
tiff was in a state of great dejection ; that he still sup-
ports his wife, and that he continues to regret her loss
as a person that was necessary to his happine s.
On his cross.examination by Mr. CuorTon, thinks
' Mrs. Blachford had not much affection for her hus-
band, but believes she must have had a high respect
for him. Witness does not know the defendant be-
Ilicies Mrs. llachford is.about S 5 years of.age •' lA-
,lieves the first introduction of .the defendant to Mts.
Biachford, W 74 a at last Wkklow Races.

, Mt. Mott Tagbe eltMdima. - .. 0
• Is brother-in-law to the plaintiff. . Plaintiff was
'gready attached to his wife, and indulged her taste
!tor rational amusements, or for retirement, u she
pleased to prefer thevoe or the other. Tile witness
corroborated the testimony of the former witnesses,
that the plaintiff laboured under gret affliction ever
since the infidelity of his wife was discovered.
Colonel Howard's testimony was of a similar ten-
dency with that given by the other witnesses era-
t mined. He stated that the parties, before this unfor-
tunate affair, had been held in high respect thratigh.
out the country.
... The plaintiff's case being closed, Mr. Caorronnd.
ressed the Jury at some length on behalf of. the dz.
fendant, who, from his youth and inexperience, he re-
presented as an object for whom great allowance
ought to be made, he being a minor until. the month
of August last ; Mr. Peter Digges Latouche had biita
'his Guardian. Great attention had been paid to his
education and morals by, a most affectionate mother,
from whose maternal care he had never been abs;:iit,
until the unfortunate period of the last Sommer. kli%
fortune he stated at about six thousand pounds. The
Learned Gentleman concluded by again entreating
the Jury would take all the favourable circum,unces
of his Client's case into their consideration, and esti-
mate the damages accordingly.
The Jury retired for halt an hour, and returned
with a verdict—Damages Two Thousand Pounds.

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