Star.
London, England, 1820-11-06 00:00:00

STOCKHOLM, OCTOBER 13.

A ship was fitted out at St. Barthelemy, which has
captured a privateer with a crew of 20 men, fitted
out by some merchants in the neighbouring islands.

ST. PETERSBURGH, OCTOBER 4.

The weather remains very mild. Our import trade
is very brisk. The importation of rum and raw sugar
is very great.

Yesterday his MAJESTY, attended by Colonel SEv-
moult, his Equerry in waiting, attended Divine Service
at the Chapel Royal. Dr. STANIER CLARKE was
the Clerk of the Closet in waiting.
The LORD CHANCELLOR had an audience of the
KIR° yesterday.
Yesterday the Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the
Princess AUGUSTA visited the KING, at his Palace in
Pall-Mall.
Saturday, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited his
MAJESTY.

Saturday and yesterday Princess AUGUSTA dined
with the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE.

Yesterday the Duke of GLOUCESTER went to
Blackheath on a visit to his sister Princess SOPHIA.
MATILDA. .

Friday evening Prince LSOPOLD, accompanied by
the Duchess of KENT and the Princess FEODOR, left
town for Claremont.

It is reported to be her MAzisres intention to go
to the House of Lords to-morrow morning.
Mr. Alderman WOOD was amongst the numerous
♦isitors at Brandenburgh House yesterday.
Her MAJESTY has fixed Monday, the 13th inst.
for receiving such Addresses as may be then ready
for presentation.
The following Addresses are now waiting to be
received by her MAJUTY :
Bray, in Berkshire Wigan, Lancashire
Females of Bray Dissenters of Truro
Clifton Bast Kent Militia
Cabinet-makers of London The

of the hie-

Goldsmiths and Silversmiths tropolis
of London Buckland and Rivers,near Dover
Leigh, in Lancashire Irvine, North Britain.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Saturday evening a
young Lady.made her first appearance in the cha-
racter of Polly, in the Beggar's Opera. Her voice
is not devoid of sweetness, but wants cultivation and
strength for a large Theatre. On giving out the
Opera for this evening, it was announced that Miss.
Povex would sustain the character. Madame VIM-
TRIS was excellent in Macheath, and the remainder'
of the characters were admirably acted. The scene
where one of the impure delivers over Macheath to
his enemies, is changed from a tavern to a ridatta,,
with a representation of Old Mary-la-bonne Gardens,
and some good dancing was introduced. The House
was fashionably and well attended.
We have received Neapolitan Papers to the 18th
October, which, agreeing in their contents with the
French accounts, which ' we have given in a pre-
ceding column, state, that the Military Convention
has been annulled by the Neapolitan Parliament.
mie Convention was submitted to the Parliament of
Naples on the loth of October; and rejected, on the
motion of General Gabriel Pepe, the brother of Flo-
restania Pepe, who had concluded it. The speech of
the farmer General was extremely warm.—" What
will Europe say," exclaimed he, " when it comes to
know, that, in the moment of the nation's most fervid
enthusiasm, we were terrified—we had so degraded
ourselves as to enter into a treaty with a handful of
the populace—even the refuse of the populace ?
What will the Nation say, when it learns that all the
measures which it has offered, and which it is ready
to offer, have been refused by those who wished to
seal our shame by the blood of our brave friends who
perished under the walls of Palermo?" After this
speech, several Members followed, who spoke in the
same sense, and the Resolution for rejecting the Con-
vention was finally agreed to. The rejection of the
Treaty seems to accord with the general disposition
of the Authorities and the popular feeling of Naples.
A Proclamation was in consequence issued on the
following day by the Vicar-General, declaring it
void, and-of no effect. General Pepe was imme-
diately recalled from Palermo, and Coletta, with a
force of 6,000 men, appointed to succeed him, and
to reduce the Palermitans to an unqualified submis-
sion. The accounts from Palermo were of the 12th,
at which period affairs continued in a tranquil state.
The citizens had so far fulfilled their share in the
Convention, as to surrender the forts and batteries,
together with all their Neapolitan prisoners. No at-
tempt had been made, however, to disarm the Sici-
lians, who remained, therefore, in a state sufficiently
formidable for the recommencement of hostile opera-
tions. It remains to be seen how far Naples will
consent to receive benefit from the stipulations of a
Treaty, the final ratification of which is refused by
the Parliament.
Captain HAY, Lieutenant H. V. Howri.ev, and
Mr. I'. Munson, Purser, are appointed to the RED-
POLE ; Mr. R. REDDELL, Surgeon Of the EURYALUS,
is appointed Suygeon of Jamaica Hospital, vice MAC.
NAMARA, deceawd.

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• OLD BAILEY Stssioksi.

On:Pridit; ibt pribows were tiled; 'air of whout
were convicted of felony, viz.
W. Beckett, Dad W. Thompson, for 6teallng a ttautity of
leaden pipe; W. Lacey, for stealing a chaise harness; J. Davis,
for stealing a coat ; W Cooper, for stealing Who great goat.;
eidgns, for stealing a man's cwt; T. Clebony, for stealing a
coat; F. Abrahams, for stealing 66 lbi. of iron; J. Richards,
for steering two strings of coral beads, and a gold clasp;, J.
&Waders; for stealing a watch ; W. Penny. for stealing a watch ;
E. Lovell, for Stealing a watch; J. James and J. Jones, for
+healing a silk handkerchief ; E. Jackson, for stealing a gold
watch; J. Bell, for stealing a handkerchief, fined ls. and disi
charged; "I's Lawrence, for stealing five lbs. of candles ; W.
Brown, for stealing two saws, two planes, &c. Cath. Roach, Pot.
stealing a quantity of bed furniture; It. Newsham, for stealing
a plane and a saw ; T. Nowiand, for stealing 16 lbs. weight of
mother-o'-pearl; R. Berry and J. Chick, for stealing a piece of
bacon (transported for seven years) ; G. Wilson, for stealing a
black silk handkerchief; Ells. Marshall, for stealing a scarf, a
shift, &c. H. Wrenham, for stealing several brass Caddy feet ;
and J. Temple, for stealing 17 dodo and a goose.
And 15 were acquitted, viz.
T. Freeman, W. Messenger, sen. W. Messenger, inn. G.
Cradgington, J. Maky, T. Wicks, & Huntley, J. %ft, J.
Dodds, D. Crane, C. Marsh. G. Gray, J. Cotter, and J. Fisk.
Saturday morning the RECoRDKIt passed sentence
of death on the following prisoners, viz. .
Charles Griffiths, for horse-stealing; Daniel Gentle and Wl?
Ham Reid, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Charles King, for
sending a threatening letter, demanding money; John Wilcox,
for house-breaking in the day-time • Thomas Eaton, Thom*
Hunt, and Thomas Hughes, for highway robberies ; Sophia
Andrewtand Mary Leonard, for stealing in dwelling-houses;
Martin Feeley, for burglary; John Pritchard, for highway rob-
bery; Charles Goodwin, for house-breaking in the day-time;
and Richard Scott, for aliciously cutting, &c.
Sixteen were ordered to be transported for life ;
twenty for fourteen years; and three were sentenced
to imprisonment in Giltspur-street Prison, two
Newgate, and twenty four in the House of Correction,
Coldbath-fields, for various periods ; several of whom
were to be publicly and privately whipped. Five
judgments were respired until the next Session; five
were privately and one publicly whipped, and dis-
charged ; and thirty-four were discharged by Pro-
clamation. Sessions were then adjourned till the
6th of December next.

Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, be.
fore the Right Hon. Sir Roses r DALLAS, Knight,
Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Com-
mon Pleas,•at Westminster, in and after Michaelmas
Term, 1820: IN TERM.

Tuesday
Wednesday
Wednesj

LONDON.
Nov. 7. Wednesday -
15. 1 Thursday -
22. I Thursday

Nov. 'B.
16.
23.

AFTER TERM.
Wednesday - Nov. 29. I Thursday - Nov. SO.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Saturday, M r.Ctokes, of Lom-
bard-street, attended a second time, at the request of
the Loan MAYOR, respecting the bill he had printed,
intimating that a General Illumination, in comme-
moration of the Qvcan's Defence, was expected to
take place this evening. The Lord Mayor--,, Mr.
Stokes, I have requested your attendance to know if
you will give up the name of the person who em-
ployed you to print the bill ? If you do not, the Act
of Parliament empowers me to levy a fine of £20."
Mr. Stokes-4, My Lord, I shall decline giving up
the author." Mr. Eicke—,4 My Lord, it is not with- '
out feelings of alarm andaapprehension that I venture
to address your Lordship, when I find my worthy
client proceeded against under so tremendous an Act
of Parliament as that entitled, 4 An Act for the Sup-
pression of Seditious Papers and unlawful Assemblies,
for the purpose of overturning the Civil and Ecclesi-
astical Authorities, and the Constitution, as by Law
established.' My friend, Mr. Stokes, is well known
to your Lordship, and throughout the City, as a fel-
low Liveryman, and a man of the greatest respect.
ability, and one utterly incapable of printing any.
thing which has a tendency towards sedition. But
really, my Lord, I see nothing in this bill likely to
overturn the Civil Authorities and Constitution as by
law established. I think Mr. Stokes is perfectly right
in declining to give up his author ; and your Lord-
ship may now take such course as you think proper.
The bill may certainly be called inflammatory, inas-
much as"—. Mr. Newman, the City Solicitor, here
interrupted Mr. Eicke, and said, that any discussion
was at that time out of place. As Mr. Stokes had
given a denial to the request of the Magistrate, he
would be proceeded against by information, as di-
rected by Act of Parliament; and Mr: Eicke had
better reserve himself until the information was heard,
when he would have the liberty of making whatever
observations upon the subject he thought proper.--
Both Gentlemen, with their friends, then left the
Office. The RECORDER was on the Bench with the
LORD MAYOR, and seemed perfectly recovered from
his indisposition. Mr. Stokes was served with an in-
formation, under the Act for preventing Seditious
Meetings, &c.. at a late hour on Saturday night.
Bow-vrazar.—This Office was on Saturday even-
ing kept in a state of disturbance by the conduct of
Thomas Preston, of political notoriety, arising out of
the following circumstance daughter, Anne,
was brought to the Office upon a Bench warrant, she
having been indicted for assaulting and wounding
Jane Fortesque Williams. The bail .offered were
Preston, her father, and another man, a tailor. Upon
inquiry neither of them proved to be housekeepers,
and of course were not received. Preston entered
iuto an abusive attack against Mrs. Williams, who
charged his daughter, and her husband. After a
considerable time baiKwas procured. After the Ma.
gistrate had agreed to take it, Mrs. Williams referred
a charge against Preston, for having threatened her
life repeatedly, and particularly on that-evening after
his daughter had been apprehended. She considered
that she was in danger of some bodily harm from
.him, and that her life was in danger. At this charge
against him he became outrageously furious, insulting
the Magistrate, charging him with partiality, and
threatening that be would make him an example,
The Magistrate informed Preston his violent conduct
tended to confirm the charge preferred against him;
he should therefore call upon him to find bail to keep
the peace. Preston said he would not find two Man
• to bail. The Magistrate then agreed to take his own
bail, which he refusing to comply with, he was or.
dered to be committed.

Costs Excuattos, hiaitit-Lsigs, Nov. o.—The 8,14 of Wheat
was rather large this morning from Essex, besides a conalderabio
quantity which remained over from last week's arrivalssthe saki
of which was exceedingly heavy, and Ss. per quarter cheaper fly
all descriptions, except pnme samples, which obeli:l4km iateck`g
prices. Fine Barley, being scarce, said Is. per quarter higher
than this day week, but the inferior qualities were dull sale, and
rather cheaper. Beans It* is. dearer. The Gams& was
dull, at a &char of is. per quarter.. In Fees sad nthsjs7
the there is no alteratiOa•

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, NOVEMBER. 4, 1120.
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant WILLIAX EDWARD PAILItt;
commanding his Majesty's ship Ilacik (lately employed with
the Gamma gun-brig on a Voyage of Discovery in the Arctic
Seas), to Joni; WILSON CZOKKIii Esq. dated his Majesty's
ship Haar, west coast of Davis's Straits, lat. 70 deg. 41 min..
N. long. 69 deg. 17 min. W. September 5, 1820. -
" SIR—I avail myself of an unexpected opportu-
nity by the Lee, of Hull, whaler, to acquaint you, -for'
)he information of my Lords Commissioners of the,
Admiralty, that his Majesty'slhips under my orders,
succeeded in discovering a passage through Lancas-
ter's Sound into the Polar Sea, and penetrated, during
the summer of 1819, as far as the longitude of 112 k
deg. west of -Greenwich, between the parallels of 74
deg. and 75 deg. north latitude.
-" In this space twelve islands have been discovered,
and named the Islands of New Georgia, in honourof
his Majesty. The expedition wintered. in a harbour
on the south side of the largest of these islands (called
Melville Island), in latitude 74 deg. 47 min. N. and
longitude 110 deg. 47 min. W. and proceeded to the
westward immediately on the breaking up of the ice
at the commencement of the prekent season, the ships
being in perfect condition, the Officers and meLis
excellent health, and with every prospect of the
accomplishment of our enterprise.
" At the south-west end of Melville Island, how-
ever, the quantity and magnitude of the ice was found
to increase so much, that for 16 days (being above
one-third of the whole navigable season in that pin
of the Polar Sea), it was found impossible to pene-
trate to the westward beyond the meridian of 113
deg. 47 min. W. in order, therefore, that no time
might be lost, I determined to try what could be
done in a more southern latitude, and for that pur-
pose, ran back along the edge of the ice which had
hitherto formed a continuous battier to the south of
us, in order to look out for any opening which might
favour the plan I had in view ; in this endeavour I
was also disappointed, and the season being so far ad-
vanced as to make it a matter of question whether,
with the remaining resources, the object of the enter-
prise could now be persevered in, with any btape of
success; I consorted the principal Officers of the ex-
pedition, who were unanimously of opinion that no-
thing more could be done, and that it was, on that
account, advisable to return to Englan.i.
" In this opinion it was impossible for me. under
existing circumstances, not to concur, and I trust that
the detailed account of our proceedings, which I shall ,
shortly have the honour to lay before their Lord-
s will prove highly satisfactory, and that, though
exerzi,,rs have riot been crowned with complete
succe,s, they will not be found discreditable to the'
naval honour of out country.
" I beg you will be pleased to acquaint their. Lor-
dships, that, having proposed to survey the weo-ast
of Davis's Straits, previous to my. return, anceing
desirous of losing as little as possible of the remaining
part of the present season, which is favourable for
the navigation of these seas, I have not. considered it
right to detain the expedition for the purpose of trans-
mitting by the Lee, a more full account of this
voyage ; I shall only the7efose add, that having-ac-
complished the object now in view, I hope to reach
England by the first week in November.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
W. E. PARRY, Lieut. and Corn."