Star.
London, England, 1829-12-10 00:00:00

BRUSSELS. Dec. S.

We have received a series of Batavia► Journals, but they are of
older dates than those which we received some time ago, and
which came down to the 27th July. Those that have come to
hand this morning are from the 6th May to the 20th June. They
contain four reports of the Governor-General to the Commissary-
General, dated the 19th and 20th May, and the 6th and 9th June,
The military operations which they detail are of small importance.
General de Kock has made a tour of inspection to visit the mill.
tart' positions in the district of Bogowendo, where he found every
thing to his satisfaction. It seems that the auxiliary troops gradu-
ally accustom themselves to European discipline. The Lieutenant
Governot-General in his last report says, that the military opera-
tions are of small importance; but that he keeps the enemy con-
stantly on the alert ; and that it is to be ascribed to this activity,
that several more of Diepo Negoros' partisans have submitted.
WARSAW, Nov. 17.

It is reported here that the Porte has offered to Russia
completely to give up the principalities in return for an en-
tire release from the payment of the sum stipulated by the
tasty of Adrianople. as en indemnity for the injuries of the war;
but k items that Rusk is not inclined to keep for itself Wallachia
and Moldavia; and that in case this, arrangement should be
brought about, it would cede them to Austria. which would on ks
side ghee up the whole or part of its Polish provinces to be incor-
porated with the kingdom of Poland.

FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA. Nov. S.

Sreeral reglinems of cavalry have already arrived at &can and
Rotuma, to pass the winter. The committee of Boyards at Be-
• charest is still engaged in the choice of a Hospodar. It seems that
the majority of votes will be in favour of Prince Gisks.—Bnisui,
Papers, Dirc. 7.

By the last Leeward Islands' Packet, we have received
files of the West India Papers ; and we must own that
our attention was never before so imperatively called to
the mal-administration of affairs in any part of our Co-

lanial possessions, as it has been by a transaction which
we find reported in the " St. Christopher Gazette" of
Oct. 2d, and which we shall presently lay before our
readers. To those who are at all conversant with the
nature of the Court of Chancery, in this country—
and we believe there are few of the community to
whom the details of that Court are not in some degree
known—how monstrous would it appear to have the high
office which, even to the mind of Lord ELDON, presented
but one long series of doubts and difficulties, filled by his
Grace of WELLINGTON I or by any one of his military
colleagues ! And yet in some of our colonies the King's
representative bears the sword in one hand, and the mace
in the other ; decides with as much promptitude upon the
intricacies of a law cue as upon the simplest point of
tactics, and laughs at the legal perplexities of an ELDON
or the re-considerations of a LYNDHURST. Upon what

' principle—whetber of Royal favour, Ministerial patronage'
or financial economy—two situations so perfectly incompa-
tible as those of " Captain-General" and " Chancellor,'.
.have been hitherto vested in one and the same person,
we pretend not to determine : but the fact which we are
about to adduce, leaves no doubt that the impolicy of
such an amalgamation of military and legal functions-.-

placing, as it does, an undue, unconstitutional, and un-
controlled power, at the disposal of any individual, calls
loudly for reform.
In order that the extraordinary circumstances of this
case may at once be clearly comprehended ; the re-
lative position of the parties made obvious at one glance,

and the public apprised of the discrimination and im-
partiality with which Colonial patronage is conferred,
and Colonial Jurisprudence administered.eeven at this

day—we will usher in, with all due ceremony, the
CHANCELLOR whose decision gives the most ith-
portant feature to the occurrence, and the MAS-
TER of that COURT or CHANCERY, Whose Offi-
cial conduct that CHANCELLOR'S decision sanc-
tioned. In the judge, then, we behold " his Ex-
cellency, CHARLES WILLIAM MAXWELL, Esquire,
Companion of the most Honourable Military Order of
the Bath, Colonel in the Army, Captain-General and
Governorin-Citief in and over the islands of St.
Christopher, Nevis, Anguilla, and the Virgin Islands
Chancellor, Vice-Admiral, and Ordinary of the same,
&c. &c. &c. and in the other party, the Hon. ROBERT
WILLIAMS PICK WOOD, Chief Justice of the Courts of
King's Bench and Common Pleas ; Senior Member of his
Majesty's Board of Council ; Master and Examiner in
the Court of Chancery ; Chief Baron of the Exchequer ;
Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court, Commissioner of the
Admiralty Sessions; Member—and Chairman, when pre-
sent—of the Quarter Sessions ; Special Vestryman of
St. Thomas, Middle Island ; Adjutant General of the
Militia, with the rank of Colonel; Vice-President of the
-PiaTiet Committee for promoting Christian Knowledge:
Member of the Committee for the instruction and con-
viiiion of Negro Slaves ; and Member of the Agricul-
tapal Aesoeiation--all in the Island of St. Christopher—
with which he further combines the Offices of Chief
Justice of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and
Adjutant General of the Militia with the rank of Colonel,
in the Island of Anguilla, &c. dee. &c."—From this
au-
thentic notification of the parties, we proceed to the details
of the ease :

BASSETERRE, ISLAND OF ST. CHRISTOPHER,

a' Ott. 2, 1829.

" PROCIEDINGS IN CHANCRRY.

41 In the Court of Chancery of this Island, in a came Ryon
and aka vPegsors,'—under a clause of a lease made of an .et.*
tilled Pawn's Cayon Estate, in the pleadings of this cause mew

timed, the Muter of the Court, the Hoeourable Ream Wu.
tram losccwoon received several same of money from the tenant
of the property, in the years 1644, lid, IS, and 27, mann** b the
whole to the sum of 'Mel staling. The receiver ln /MVO'S obtained
free the then Clianceller, the Hon. Ssunsun Raman, en seder
•is, calling upon the Hater to show caves within foes meths,
why he should not pay weer this snooty, together with interest, to
the Receiver, to be applied to the nee of the estate. whisk
were the subject of the sub. As mikados was made to the
Court in may last, bifore the present Chancier, his Excellency
Gannon Hamenu., to nuke this order abselnuorrith costs apbst
the Haste. A preliminary objection, wpretad by his allidavlte, wee

made by the Master, of want of notice—nodes of motion
having been served on Gamins W. ➢laaominooar, Esq. who,
the Master contended, was not his Solicitor. (It is to bs
observed that Mr. ➢lasnsssaocax acted as Counsel and Solicitor

for the Master on the application in the August proceeding.) His
Excellency the Chancellor listened to this objectioo, and dismissed
the motion. The Receiver's Counsel holding it necessary to take
examinations previously to any further proceedings in the matter,
and conceiving that as the Master was a party implicated,
they could not with either delicacy or propriety be taken
before him, applied to his Excellency the Governor to appoint a
Master and Examiner Extraordinary for such purpose. This the
Governor refused to do, unless, as he stated, the Master had been
guilty of misconduct or delinquency in his °Bice ; and required, if
any thing was to be alleged against him on that score, that
the complaint should be distinctly made to him, in order that
it might be investigated ;—whereupon the Receiver, by his
Counsel, preferred two distinct charges against the Master ;
namely—that he had applied the greater part of the rent of
Pogson's Cayon Estate, so received by him in his public capacity,
to his own private purposes ; and that he had thrown every impe-
diment in the way of the Receiver in his endeavours to procure au
order of the Court for the payment of such rent to him, the Re-
ceiver, to be applied to the use of the estates, pursuant to the course
and practice of the Court. After much delay and hesitation,
C. G. Pants, Esq. was appointed an Examiner, for the purpose of
taking the required testimony. But after examinations were taken.
and evidence collected, its proof of the charges preferred, a almalle
was sent by His Excellency to the Receiver's Counsel. requesting
them to accommodate the difference, as It was termed, between the
Muter and the Receiver. In consequence of this intimation from
the Governor—who, it must be observed, sits as sole Judge in the
Court of Chancery, a compromise did take place, under the full
conviction that an order would have been immediately made, di-
recting the Muter to pay over the money as required. confirma-
tory of the order nisi. But, strange to say, at a meeting of the
Court on Monday last, his Excellency the Governor, sitting as
Chancellor, decreed that it should be referred to Mr. PICKWOOB
the very individual against whom the charges bad been preferred
and smothered—to examine and report if any necessity existed
for kis paying these monies over !!!--thus connecting a denial
of justice—an accumulation of expense—a delay of proceedings—
and a reference to a partial and interested judge, in a manner
which would prove destructive to any cause. The BOUCTIVI•
Gastimu., and Mr. SMITH—not employed, and perfectly unin-
terested in the cause, in the most able and manly manner, defended
the practice of the Court against so fearful an innovation ; but it
was to no effect : —the order of reference, as stated above, was
made."

We skull not trust ourselves to make any comment
upon proceedings so utterly at variance with all the esta-
blished principles of laws, and quite as irreconcileable to
our notions of abstract justice and common honesty. But
who—let us ask, is tl•is highly favoured personage, who
presides in such an extraordinary two-fold capacity over
the Island of St. Christopher ? Can it be the individual
►hose name is so unpopularly associated with the Go-
vernment of Sierre Leone, and with certain proceedings
in the Court of King's Bench, in this country, con-
sequent upon the illegal imprisonment of a man
named CooKE—a case of oppression, in which, if we
mistake not, a British Jury showed their sense of the
wrongdoer's abuse of power by awarding £20,000 to
the injured party?--Can this be the Colonel MAXWELL,
against whose government the people of Dominica pro-
tested in terms of such decided reprobation, that he was
soon afterwards removed from that island ? And if it be
the identical Colonel MAXWELL,

" If such a man be it to govern t—Speal."

—ln the mean time, it is satisfactory to know that the ho-
nest indignation of the inhabitants of St. Kitt's has been
roused by the daring exercise of such corrupt influence ;
that the whole proceedings will be brought before the
House of Assembly, at its first meeting ; and that,
ultimately, a statement of the facts, supported by the
legal and official documents, and likewise by the cor-
respondence of the parties, will be transmitted to
Sir GEORGE MURRAY, accompanied by a strong
memorial to his Majesty's Government, praying for re-
dress, and also for the removal of the individual who
now so unconstitutionally unites in his own person the

highest military and judicial situations in the colony.—
It will then be the duty of our Government to decide
upon the condnct of this " Captain-General Chancellor,"
who, having required specific charges of misconduct or
delinquency to be distinctly alleged before him, and actu-
ally beard such allegations made, and substantiated by
evidence, so far forgets the sacred duty of his office as
Judge in the cause, as to send a message to the com-
plainant's Counsel, requesting—not that the charges
should be further prosecuted—but, that " the differences
between the parties should be accommodated !" And
failing in this overture, he then, sitting on the Judgment
Seat as Chancellor, directs that the whole complaint
should be referred—to whom ?—to another Judge—to
another Tribunal ? No—but to the accused party
himself ! !---to the Honourable ROBERT WILLIAMS
PICK WOOD, the very officer of his own Court,
who, as Master and Examiner of that Court, is
charged with having received certain monies in his public
capacity, and applied the said monies to his own private
purposes ; and He forsooth is " to examine and report,
whether there is any necessity fur his paying these
monies over !"

" A Daniel come to judgment—yea, a Daniel r

In the words of the St. Christopher Gazette, we too
would ask, " can any man view the order that was made,
and not turn an imploring eye to the Legislature of his
country, praying it, as it is its solemn duty, to protect
and defend the purity of Justice, and to preserve the pro-
perty of -suitors from gross and wanton misapplication ?"

ERRATUM.—III a large part of our impression yes-
terday, we regret to say that the Proclamation of
General MONTILLA was greatly mangled, through the
unpardonable carelessness of the corrector of the Press. We
will take care that such accidents do not recur. The
passage to which we allude runs thus : " The honoured
father of the family seeks not a revolution, nor the
ruin of the citizens, to make a fortunate people of the
district Magistrates." Which ought to have been : " the
honoured father of the family seeks not a revolution, nor
the ruin of the citizens, to make her fortunate. PzozLE
OT THE DISTRICT, AND MAGISTRATES! I direct my-
self to you," &c. &c.
It is said that his MAJESTY has intimated a wish that
the whole of the present eastern wing of Somerset Home
may be devoted to the establishment of Hing's College,
addition to the building now in progress.