Star.
London, England, 1811-07-24 00:00:00

THE KING.

His MAJESTY enjoyed several hours of sleep on
Monday night, but without obtaining the benefit of
rest. The Physicians in attendance still entertain
expectations that the paroxysm, notwithstanding its
severity, will not produce any very material change
with respect to his physical strength ; but their senti-
ments are said to be much changed as to the permanent
impression that may now be made on the mental fa-
cultics of his MAJESTY.—Bulletin of this day:

" WINDSOR CASTLE, JULY 24..
His MAJESTY is to-day very much as he was
yesterday. (Signed)
" DI. umt.r.te, " W. IiEEk.ItDF.N, " R. WILLIC."

SECOND EDITION.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

This day, at three o'clock) both notices of Par.
liament were pror9gued to the 24th d iy of August
next, by COMMISS 011. The Speech delivered on the
nccasion, is the name of his Royal Highness the
F ti NCE REGENT, was in substance as follows :
Hi:, Royal Highness express's his satisfaction at
being enabled length to relieve both Houses of Par.
Lament from the lone; and laborious duties of the

present Liussion.
His lt,:yal azhness returns thanks for the firm-
-11•Sb peisvvertyce which Parliament has dis-
played in their determination to co-operate with the
Allies in the Peninsula during the continuance of
their long protracted struggle.

He thanks them also for their liberal and humane
attention to the miseries of the afflicted Portuguese,
in enabling his Royal Highness to relieve them in
some measure from the barb anus effects of the cruel.
tieg of their invaders, by means of pecuniary assist.
since, a munificenet, which cannot fail to increase and
s•rengthen that spirit of resistance to the encroach.
means of France which was still unabated throughout
the Peninsula.
Hi► Royal Highness next thanks both Rouses for
their attention to the internal security of the Empire,
by providing for an annual inc tease to the Wrgular
arm y.

He expresses his particular satisfaction at the mea-
sures adopted for the interchange of the Militias of
Great Britain and Ireland, and assures Parliament
th tt the numerous voluntary offers of service which
had been made on that occasion, had enabled his
Royal Highness to give effect in a satisfactory man-
ner to the leading principles of the Union between
the two countries.

In the Speech to the House of Commons, His
Royal Highness thanks them fur the ample Supplies
'which they had voted, in order to enable him to carry
on the war with that vigour which the true interests
of the country still continued to demand.

His Royal Highness then alludes to the financial
measures which had been adopted during the Session,
for the improvement of the Irish Revenue ; and con-
gratulates the House, that these measures had been
carried into effect without any fresh burthens being
laid upon that country.
His Royal Highness concludes his Speech by con-
gratulating both Houses on the capture of the Mauri-
tus, and on the immense acquisition of wealth and
commerce thereby obtained, while the resources of
the enemy have been at the same time greatly weal.
ened.

His Royal Highness speaks in g:owing language
of the great military achievements of Lord WELLING.
TON and the armies in Portugal, and assures both
Huuses of his hearty concurrence in their votes
of ap2robation of the col duct of his Lordship,
and or every officer and soldier under his command.
His Royal Highness describes Lord WELLINGTON'S
seal, prudence, and intrepidity, as being unequalled
in the annals of modern warfare.

His Royal Highntss expresses the high satisfaction
tillich Nevin feel, when it shall please the ALMIGHTY
$ MAW* his Roy•al Parent to the prayers of his faith-
ful peopie, at being enabled to call his rvharsii's at-
tention to the gratifying history of his Empire during
the period of his illness.

LORD WELLItkIth4ON's batkikitHES,
The Gazetie of last night contains an hiterestitig
extract from Lord WELLINGTON's d;spatthes of the
.Ith instant, which, as our Readers will observe, afford
but slight hopes of the truth of the report of BLAKE'S
success against Seville. In the mean time the French
are suffering so much from want of previsions; that
they have been forced to abandon the neighbourhood
of Badajoz and concentrate their forces more to the
I Southward.

In addition to the above, we have to announce the
arrival of the Chichester packet in six days front Lis-
bon, bringing papers to the 15th instant, from which
we have given extracts in another part of our Paper.
The Dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, brought
by the Chichester, are dated on the I lth instant. At
that time no battle had taken place, nor had there
been any movement of coxsequence. The British
troops were going into cantonments. General
GRAIIANI, the Hero of &myna, had arrived at Lis-
bon front C.tdiz in the LATONA, to take a command
in the allied armies. He was accompanied by three
hundred riflemen and some cavalry. The enemy had
sheaved themselves in force on the Bth, but soon re-
tired. MARNIONT was collecting his forces for some
purpose; and our troops were in high spirits, anxious
to meet in combat the enemies of their country. It is
probable, therefore, that a general battle will shortly
take !thee. The telegraphic communication of
BLAKE'S success against Seville proves to have been
erroneous. SOULT is returned to Llerena, after having
been to that city.
The Duke of Kent, Captain COTESWORTIft has ar-
rived at Falmouth, from Cadiz, after a passage of 19
days. She left there five sail of the line, two frigates,
and two sloops of war, with his Majesty's ship CALE-
DONIA, Sir EDWARD PELLEW. The Siege of Cadiz
was not raised when the Duke of Kent came away.
—lt was rumoured that some dispute had arisen in
BLAKE'S army, in consequence of which, the enter-
prize concerted with Lord WELLINGTON against Se-
ville had been abandoned. Under these circumstances
it is supposed that this Commander re-embarked on
board his own transports at Ayamonte on a Secret
Expedition. Four hundred large boats had gone up
the river Guadalqui;er, with provisions and ammu-
nition for this set vice, and also to bring off BLAKE'S
army in the event of a reverse of fortune.

The Ann, Captain BRITTON, has arrived at Fal-
mouth, from Halifax, in 21 days. She has brought
over, by order of Admiral SAWYER, a British seaman,
who acted in the capacity of a Quarter-gunner, on
board the American frigate, the President, during the
action with the LITTLE BELT. The evidence of this
man fully confirms, in every respect, the statement
of Captain BINGHAbit ( which is already befoie the
public) with the important addition that the crew of
the President were apprised, the day after she left
New-York, that it was-the intention of Commodore
ROGERS to attack the GUERRIERE, in the event of a
refusal on the part of the British, to deliver up an
impressed man. The seaman who brings the above
intelligence leapt overboard from the President, after
her return to New-Yolk, and swam on board the
Ann. Another British seaman who accompanied him
was unfortunately drowned in the attempt. The sea-
man who has arrived at Falmouth, further reports,
that the crew of the President consisted of 560 men,
out of whom upwards of SOO were English, Scotch,
and Irishmen; all of whom are ready to attest that
the American frigate fired the first gun. The Ann
also brings intelligence, that the slight rencontre be-
tween the EURYDICE and another American frigate,
has been apologized for by the American Captain's
passing his word of honour, that there were no orders
given for the firing of the gun.

By the Anholt Mail of yesterday we have intelli.
Bence Irom Dantzic to the 223, and from St. Peters.
burgh to the 29th ult. and from Gottenburgh to the
12th inst. An action off the coast of Zealand is men-
tioned between some English transports and Danish
gun boats, in which the latter were beaten off with
some loss. The following is an extract from one of
our letters :

44 GOTTENBURGH, JULY 11.
" We are now In no txpcctation of any change M polvics as to
Russia and francs. The intercourse with respect to you COiltiClleb
much on the same looting as before."

In one of our letters from an out-port of Russia, it
is mentioned that ALEXANDER had agreed with lin-
NAPARTE to reduce his military forces to a particular
standard, but we do not find that the letters from the
capital countenance any such arrangement. The ex-
change had fallen to 13d.
At Dantzick the garrison, which was before very
strong, had been considerably augmented, and the
fortifications had undergone further improvements.
A Heligoland Mail arrived this mottling; by which
we received the following letter :

HELIGOLAND, JULY 19.
" All communication with the neighbouring coasts
I continues to be as closely guarded as ever, and we
are consequently kept in the dark as to any events
that may be passing in the north of Germany.
j " In consequence of the complete failure of trade
! here, all the merchants are preparing to break up
their establishment, and shipping off their goods—
several of them have already left the island.
44 The price of fresh provisions, from the want of
alftsupplies from the coast, has this season been ex-
tremely high. Fresh meat has seldom been lower
than Is. 6d. per lb. and last week mutton was sold as
high as Ss. per lb. •
" As the island depends almost entirely for its sup.
fply of *water on the rain collected in tanks, this ne.
cessary has been at times very scarce, and in some
instances has been sold at the rate of Is. per gallon.'

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'HE ARMY:
•
"Yesttrafy the Duke of YORK held a pnblic day at'
Eby
in the Horse Guards, which was attended
by the Dukes of CUMBER LANTr, CAMBRTOCR, and
GLOUCESTER, and a numetous asserriblage of Military
Officers.
Sir JOHN .DOYLE; has returned to his Government
of G nernsey, to the great satisfaction of the inhabitants.
Government does not relax in its exertions fur re-
kruitlng the British army in Portugal. At this mo-
' men( there are about 40(X) men, consisting of vari-
ous detachments, ready to embark at Portsmouth ;
and at Plymouth ::bout 600 Dragoons, and the Buffs, •
all destined for Portugal.
A demchment of the First Royals, and part of the
4th, or Royal Irish Dragoons, embarked at Plymouth
ion Monday from the Dock-yard, on board transports
ifor Portugal. The remainder of the 4th Dragoons,
Iwith the exception of three troops that are to remain ,
at home, were to embark yesterday and this day.—
!These will he followed by other detachments in the
course of the week ; among which are 590 of the '2d
Battal'on of the Sd or Old Buffs, and a detachment
Hof the 7th Royal Fusileers.
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Extract of a letter from an Officer in Portugal,
dated Tone de Mauro, July 3 :
" The enemy have thrown a force of 7000 men
into Badajoz, and provisions for them ior 3 months;
the main body have taken a route towards Seville.
There are no French on this side of tie Guadiana.
Our camp will soon break up, and the difrerent Bri-
gades are going into cantonments baween the towns
of Portalegre, and Estramoz."

The Duchess of llat:NswicK is so ill that she was
not expected to have survived the last night. All the
Royal Dukes were with her till a very late hour.
Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Carl-
ton-house. About two o'clock his Royal Highness
left his private apartments, attended by Colonel
WMAHON, Generals TURNER and HAMMOND, pro-
ceeded to the State-rooms, and gave audiences to Earl
CAMDEN, Mr. RYDER, and Mr. PEactvat... His Royal
Highness then held a Council.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Last night this Thea-
tre closed the regular Campaign for the season, with
the performance of Pizarro, and the Melo drama of
imour the Tartar. At the close of the former Piece,
Mr. YOUNG delivered the following Address :
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN—I am directed by the Proprie-
tors of this 'chi atre, to otter you their most grateful and heartfelt
acknowledgements for the very liberal patronage and support
you have afforded them this season. Your kindness has been the
more sensibly felt, as it has relieved them from considerable ent-
barrassment, by enabling them to pay off a portion of their heavy
F incumbranees; and though much still remains to be liquidated,'
yet they row can look forward with a confident hope, that in a
few years they will be extricated front the difficulties which had
so nearly overwhelmed them. They hope they ma) he allowed to
,ay, that their exertions for your Thearrical amusements have
been, this season, strenuous and unremitted. The works of
Shakespeare, and of our admired Classic Authors, have been
re-
vived with the strictest care and attention—and bath Tragedy
and Comedy have received the most powerful support front the
' talents of their respective favoured votarivi. Our modern Dra-
matists have met with every encaurarment, and their Pieces
has been honoured with your approbation, the sure incitement
to future exertion. Pantom;me and Spectacle have been em-
ployed as auxiliaries, and the highest ambition of the Proprietors
has been (regardless of exptine,..) to gratify the different tastes
•ifo• • various classes eempodwg a British au•li. nee. Sur:. -s
(yawned their efforts, ariellivir hearts are 'rt plete with gratitude
fur such signal marks of public favour.
" The Performers, Ladies and Gentlemen, beg leave to unite
in their tribute of thanks, for y::ut uniform indulgence, and we
mots respectfully take our love till the 9:h of Sep'emher, the
rime filed for the re-opening of this Theatre, when we hope
successfully to renew our proesfional exertions for your enter-
tainment."—This Address was received with applauses.
BIRTD-DAY of ROBERT DE BRUS. —A respectable
Meeting was held on the 11th of this month, at the
Castle of the Lords of Annandale, beside the ancient
Burgh of Lochmaben, to commemorate the birth of
the patriot and saviour of Scotland, King Rozctr
DR BRUS. A dinner was served up, faithfully pre-
pared according to the feudal law of a Scottish
feast ; and the drink in which they toasted the de-
scendants of Brutes, the Wallaces, and the Dongl.ases,
was the best beverage of Highland distillation.—
The Castle, though in ruins, was the paternal seat
of the BausEs, and the tenant! y hold their lands from
an immediate grant given by their beloved Lord. It
was here that BRUS, when he first unsheathed his
sword for the redehiption of Scotland, met with the
Eallant JAMES, Lord Dot-mats, and his own brother
DWARD, with Sir ROGEIIKIRKPATRICK, of Closeburn.
The banner of Scottish independence was first reared
at Lochmaben, and its inhabitants led the van of bat-
tle at the memorable field of Bannockburn. No won-
der then, that the descendants of those illustrious war-
riors
should, seated in the feudal Hall, commemorate
the birth of the BRUSES and rejoice in the strength of
other years. The day was opened and closed by the
whole party standing and singing the heroic welcome
of the BRUM of Bannockburn, written by the Scot-
tish poet ROBERT BURNS. As this sublime and ener-
getic war ode has been weakened by the impertinence
of some and the ignorance of others, we present it to
our Readers unchanged as it issued from the mind of
the poet, and whose original first draught has been
adopted as the best by the natural critical sagacity of
the peasantry of Scotland :

BRUO'S ADDRESS TO HIS TROOPS,
AT DANNOCKBURN.
SEWS, wha hac wi' WALLACE bled,
Scots, wham Boob has often led—
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victorie!
Now's the day, and now's the hour,
See the front of battle lour; •
See approach proud EDWARD'S power—
Ciains and Slavcrie!
Wha will be a traitor knave?
, Wha will fill a coward's grave ?
Wha sae base as be a slave ?
Let him turn and flee!
Wha for Scotland's King and Law
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman ta'—
Let him tollow me !
By Oppression's woes and pains t
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our deare.t veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud Usurper low!
Tyrants fall in every foe !
LIBERTE'S in every blow!
Let us DO or DIE! •
While the people of a country continue to love it,
to esteem, and to commemorate the struggles of pa-
triotism, and the warlike achievements of ancestorial
virtue, cherishing them, like the people of Lochma-
ben, in their Minds, and lessoning them to their did- '
dren, that ountry may be overrun but will never be
conqu

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ATITA
By the letters of yesterday, his Majesty's ship SAFE:
GUARD is reported to have been taken by some of the
enemy's cruizer's in the B iltic.
FALMOUI'H, JULY 21.
Arrived this day the Duke of Kent packet, Capt.
CoTessvoirrn, wi-h mails from Cadiz, 19 days pas.
sages—leit there .5 s nil of .he line, 2 frigates, and 2
stains of w ar, with his Majesty's ship Cat.r.nosisa,
Sir EnwAnu PELLEyr, Bart ; the siege of Cadiz was
not raised. About 400 large boats were gone up the
river Guadalquiver, with provisions and ammunition
for General BLAKL'S army, and also to Lting off the
troops in case of necessity. The Chichester packet,
Captain Rooms, arrived this evening, in 7 days from
Lisbon, A fleet of transports, with about 4000 sick
and wounded, were to leave L:sbon nn the 15th inst.
His Majesty's ship A IiMIDE, with a fleet of tran.parts,
10 days from_Plyinouth, were entering the Tagus as
the fleet came out. The Ann, Captain BRITTON, is
this dry arrived, in 21 days finm Halifax. The PAZ
schooner had :mired at Halifax. The affair of the
EURYDICE and the American frigate was amicably
settled ; the American Captain giving, on his honour,
that there were no orders for the firing of the gun.—.
Atransport has just pat in with 160 French primers
TORBAY, JULY se.
Arrived the ship Mentor, Captain JAMES QUELCH,
.from the Downs, bound to Cork and Martinico ; also
the ship Britannia, Captain CiturcirELL, from Pool,
bound to Newfoundland ; Miry Ann, Capt. CURRY,
from London, bound to Falrttotrh ; Vestal, Captain
H. LOGGAN, from the Downs, ballad to Gibraltar.
PLYMOUTH, JUI It 22.
The LANDRAIL schooner is lilting for sea in this
harbour, and, in the event of an Ansel-tom w:tr, will
cruize between the Channel and Atlantic, to intercept
the A merican merchantmen. Admiral Sir IL CAL-
DER, Commander in Chief at this port, has struck his
flag and gone on six weeks' leave of absence to his
seat in Warwickshire. 4t ear Admiral Sir EDWARD
BULLER commands ad-interim. The Master of a pro-
vision ship, which arrived this day from Cork, states,
that on Saturday last, in the Channel, he passed a
French lugger privateer of 16 gaits, but was not near
enough to hail her. She had no doubt been taken by
one of ourcruizers, as the English cnlonrs were flying
over those of the enemy.—Wind W.N.W.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY es.
Arrived the ALBICORE, irom Newfoundland.
DEAL, JULY £3.
Arrived the PARTRIDGE, with three sail Of mer-
chantmen, from Oporto, last from Portsmouth.—
Sailed the THESEUS, for off Flushing, and the SPE.
CULATOR lugger, with convoy, to the Northward.
GUERNSEY, JULY 21..
His Majesty's lugger VIOLET, Lieutenant SEDLEY,
drove a privateer lugger mounting 10 swivels, and
having 4-0 men, on shornear 'Freguier, on the 18th
inst. Mr. SIDNEY, the Master, and Mr. YATES, Mid-
shipman, with 13 men, took possession of her in the
boat, after a severe contest of an hour, and succeeded
in bilging her; but the tike retreating, they were
obliged to abandan her. She was accompanied by
a brig, which, after escaping in shore, hoisted Ame-
rican colours.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 22.
Arrived the Orbit, Boer, from New-York. She
sailed from thence the 27th June, at which time nei-
ther Mr. FosrEa nor Mr. PINKNEY had arrived.
WHITBY, JULY 22.
Arrived the Henrietta, KEARSLEY, from Green.
land, with. 36 fish, a full ship. She left the ice about
the Sd June. The fishing in general was very go 4
—not a single loss among the shipping! The Ocean,
of London, had received damage, but was well filled
with fish*. The Whitby •ships had as follows :
Resolution, 27 fish ; Aimwell, 26 ; William and
Ann, IS ; Volunteer, 17 ; and the Lively, 15.
The Anna, Harman, from America to Portsmouth, was on
shore, near Carston, the '27tb of May, but %vas expected to be
got ~fl..
'l•he T:o3vera,, Hart; from Amelia Islands to Deptford, pat
into Carleton the ':9:D May, in distress.
'l•he Success homb,ni Oporto to Rio Janeiro, was wrecked
the dist off Fels:nary, sof Bona Vista.
DISTRIBUVON OF PRIZE MONEY.
Richmond, for the l' Sisters; and Surveil:ante, for rEclair
and Margaretta, on !marl* this day ; recalled at :3, ague'.-coart,
Temple.
Vulture, for the Martha, on her arrival; recalil a: 9, Cilf-
ford's Inn, on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Nyaden, fur the Peter Metropolite; Beier, for the Twe.? Jul-
frow Ettjece ; and Mosquito, for the Juliana Sophia and toe
Foglen, at i.. 2, Arundel-street, and there recalled.
The Express which brought the dispatches from
Pans for the John Adams frigate, arrived from that
Capital in 30 hours, when the American ship of war
immediately set sail for the English c,..sst, and with.
out touching at the port, as we have already stated,
sent a boat on shore, with dispatches trim Mr. Rus-
suf. to Mr. SMITH, Charge d'Affaires of the United
States, resident here. They contain an account that
the Two Brothers, the Good Intent, and the Star,
captured since the Ist November, have been released,
on satisfactory proof being produced that the pro-
perty was American. It is asserted that the nume-
rous others detained under tie like circumstances,
will be immediately surrendered to the claimants by
the French Government.
It is stated on the same authority, that the proceed-
ings in these gases, on the part of the captors, in t!:e
French Courts of Admiralty, are not at ail founded on
the Berlin and Milan'Decrees, which are held by the
Judges of these Courts to have been abrogated,: an .l
rendered null and void since the Ist of-November last.
This morning ROBERT ARMITAGE and Cirairtrs"
THOMAS, the two Bank Clinks, convicted .'ef f;rgi”g
dividend warrants, were executed opposite to the
Debtors' door of Newgate. They behaved in a man--
1 nor becoming their awful situation. ARMITAGE was
assisted in his devotions by a Roman Catholic Cler-
gyman.
Early this morning a gang of thieve's broke into
the George public-house, in Middle-row, Holh'rn,
and stole about five pounds in copper, with a quan-
tity of silver spoons. They got access by the caar
window, and proceeded up stairs to the Liar, where
the property was deposited.
Coax MARKET, JCLY '24 —We have some few far-
ther as rivals of Wheat to-slay, and the remaining sap
ply not very considerable ; the trade extreme heavy
sale, and last prices hardly maintained.--Rye some
what dearer—Barley and Malt dull sale—White Pr
at little variation—Beans of each kind rather lower.
There are some few fresh arrivals of Oats; this tr .%.
likewise heavy, at little fluctuation, and sales of Flout
at Monday's advance.

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LAW lATELLIGENC.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, EDINBURGH, JULY 2.
GILLESPiN V. DUNLOP.
This was a case of considerable importance to the
merchant and manufacturer.
CoCKITURNE stated. it tribe an action of tres-
ra" brought by the plaintiff, who is a merchant in
Geisgow, against the-defendant, who is Cellector
et customs at Port Glasgaw. The Legislature, by
a variety of enactments, had shown an :Anxiety to en-
vier:Age the manufacture of linen and coaon
and mere veecielly that of the creaser kind. The
Act of 231.1 Geo. 111. cap. 2. allows a bounty up•in
all printed calicoes which shall be of the ssidth of '25
inches or more, Which sM 11 be entered at iha Cushan.
house for exportation. When the cloth exce •ds Is. 6d.
per yard in value, no bounty is given ; end the vaitie
of the cloth is ascertained and fixed previous to prin-
ting, staining, or dying it. In the present case, the
plaintiff had entered at the Custom-house, to be ex-
ported to Jamaica, four boxes, containing 4172 yards
of printed calicoes ; the bounty upon these amounted
to 423 is. 6d. which, upon being demanded, was re-
fused, on the grr nod that it was originally above
valise of Is. 6d. per yard; and this was the case
the Jitry to try. When the Act was made, cot.
cloth, in all probability, was manufactured from
Moms of 25 inches in breadth, but improvementshad
made upon machinery, wed the manufacttirer
could now make two webs at once in the same lo m ;
these two webs are joined together by a thin run up
middle, called a .0 gaw," and are weaved to the
hrea lth of 50, 52, and 54 inches. After being taken
of the loom, and lerfore being printede the piece is
up the middle, through the gaw. Now the Crown
iies that cloth made in this way is entitled to the
einty, because, when made, the piece is of one web,
id of a considerable breadth, and consequently is of
ore value then Is. 6d. per yard. The plaintiff, on
other. baud, contends, that the piece consists of
wo disrinct webs, only connected by a few lOose
treads, of no earthly use to the weaver, and that it
of no consequence how broad the web is woven ;
. is sufficient that the cloth, before being printed, is
above the width of 25 inches, and of no more value
than Is. 63. per yard.
The Counsel for the plaintiff then called his agent
Port Glasgow, who proved the entry of the goods
the Custom-house. A manufacturer from Gies-
e., was examined as to the mode of the manufactur-
ig the calico ; he stated, that the old way of working
was en a loom commonly of 25 inches in breadth, or
above it. Improvement is now made upon the ma-
mfacture, whereby two webs are made in one loom,
,ids a gaw in the middle ; the gaw is cut after the
cloth is taken from the loom, and this forms two webs.
(Here the witness pi oduced.an uncut web, and which
was shewn to the Jury). the reason of making the
cloth this way, is to enable the manufacturer to sell
his goods cheaper. The web is useless as one piece
pith the gaw in it, and must be cut before it be wore.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL, for the defendant, con.
tended, from the different Acts of Parliament, that
the bounty was only meant to be• given upon the
loth valued as it came from the loom, but not atter
undergoing any other operatioy ; and cenclOed by
saying, he would cell witnesses to prove the state of
the cloth when examined in the Custom-house, and
also the practice which prevailed in similar cases at
the port of London.
Two Custom house officers at Port Glasgow stated,
that they had examined the Cottons entered by the
plaintiff ; but as they had found two boxes conrain.
ing webs, which appeared to have been cut down in
the middle, and the outside sewed down in place of
having a selvage, they did not consider them as en-
titled to the bounty.
Two Gentlemen from the Customs of the port of
London were then examined. They stated that they
hart seen cotton goods within the last twelve months
entered at.the port of London, which bad been slit up
the middle ; these the witnesses had seized, and they
were condemned, no appearance having been made
for the merchant. In these goods the selvage is only
on one side ; the other sewed over, but so neatly done,
as not to ba easily perceived. These goods, the wit-
nesses understood, had come from Glasgow or its
neighbourhood, and representatioiis had been made
by the owners to the English Boatel of Customs ;
when the Commissioners, after taking the opinion of
their o.ficers and Solicitor, had found it a fraud, and
bad invariably refused the bounty ; but the case had
since been stated for the opinion of the Attorney or
&elicitor t-;eneral.
The Lome Cele" BARON summed up the evidence.
Than the present, his Lcrd:ltip had never seen a fairer
and more candid case laid before a Jury. The plain-
tiff, had all along,botliin and out oiCourt,laid the mode
of manufacture open ; and as the case stood solely
upon one fact, and upon the plain interpretation of
an Act of Parliament, this was the ease for the de.
vision of the Jury. In lodging of a case upon the
construction of an Act of Parliament, it was not for
the Court or the Jury to go one step beyond what ap-
peered upon the face of it. In the present case, his
Lordship was of opinion, the Act was abunclantkr '
plain and clear. It principally applied to the quality'
of the goods entered for exportation ; and the only
duty of the Custom-house .officer was to ascertain
whether the cloth .weas under theeealne of Is. 6d. per
yard, and of the sufficient breadth required by the
Act ; butrwith the mode of manufacture he had no
concern. The Act was entitled.. for the encourage-
ment of the cotton manufacture." Now, was this
proceeding of the Board of Customs calculated to do
so ? If an improvement had been made by the ma-
nufacturer, so as to enable him to make two or three
webs at once, by which means he lessened his ex-
pences, and was enabled to sell cheaper to the public,
was his ingenuity and industry to be thus checked and
cramped by the Custom-heuse °nicer, because he had
not made his web in one loom, at one time, and by
one operation ? But we have been told, said his
Lordship, that this is a case of great importance to
the revenue, and that many thousand pounds depend
upon the verdict of the Jury this day. lam happy
to hear this ; I am happy to hear that the industry
of our manufacturer can yet find a forei market for
his goods ; but though half a million should depend
upon this question, it is nothing to the Court or Jury.
The only thing that can come under their considera-
tion, is, whether the manufacturer is fairly and ho-
nestly entitled to the bounty? and, be the amount what
it may, it must be paid from the public ruse& until

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it is the pleasure of Parliantant to alter the law. His
Lordship then observed upon the pmceedings at the
oort pf London : he was sorry to think that he should
differ from the Honourable Commissioners of the
English Board of Customs, but he really thougltt
1 they had not considered the case well, in seizing and
condemning goods made according to the plaintiff's
1 mode of manufacture ; he thought it would have been
much better, if they had made the case the subject 'of
trial in the Exchequer, when the law would have been
at once fixed and ascertained. They had considered
the goods thus made, and entered, as a fraud uoen the
revenue ; but upon what grounds they could do so,
he was at a loss to know. After going over the dif-
ferent Acts of Parliament, his Lordship concluded
by saying, it was his opinion, and that of his brethren
on. the Lend:, that the plaintiff was entitled to a ver-
dict ; and if the Jury were of his opinion, they would
find accordingly, with a small, sum of damages ; no- I
urinal damages being all that the plaintiff. asked.
The Jury retired for a few minutes, and returned
with a verdict in favour of the plaintiff for 826 ls.6d.
amount of the beunty withheld, and damages, and
the interest of the money since May, 1810, when the
goods were entered at the Customhouse.

SURREY sr:ssioNS, JULY 23.

John freilei, k, a toll-taker, at the Circus gate, was
indicted for a misdemeanor, in having taken 3s. 6d.
excessive duty for two post horses of Colonel Evelyn,
on the 15th of February last. •
Colonel Evelyn stated, that on the day mentioned,
he hired a post-chaise at Ballard's Livery Stable,
Duke-street, Berkeley-square, to go to Footscray ;
the usual Post Horse Duty Ticket was delivered to
the post-boy, and paid for by the Colonel ;on his
arrival at the Circus gate, the boy produced the
ticket to the defendant, who said it was not a proper
one, and would not permit the chaise to pass until
the Colonel consented to pay Ss. 6d. Thus finding
it was of no use to argue with him, Colonel Evelyn
paid him, and was then suffered to proceed. The
post-boy and Mr. Ballard, Master of the Livery Sea-
, ble, were examined, who proved that the ticket was
a proper one.
Mr. BARROW, for the defendant, said, the demand
had been'made by him under a mistake ; he under-
stood that the chaise had been to Footscray to fetch
Colonel Evelyn, and therefore that the ticket was an
improper one.
The CHAIRMAN, after animadverting on the impro-
bability of the defence set up by the defendant, ob-
served, that although the defendant was the first who
had beer placed in that situation, he was not the first
offender by several; and in order to prevent similar
impositkots being 'practised in future, the Court sen-
tenced him to he imprisoned in the House of Correc-
tion for one month.

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