Star.
London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

EAST INDIAMRN.
The Company's ships under mentioned arrivesi at
Calcutta as follows, viz.
The ATLAS and Gisaaat KYD, the 10th July.
The MIAQUIS or WEILLICIOX, the Eth July.
The MIXIATA and SYSLATIWIL, the such July.
Th. Rosa and Pumas* CIIAILLOTTE Or WALTS, 18th August
The Vtru.t.taat Ptrr and Caaaroetc, the 28th August.
The Thomas GILINTILLS and Loan Carrteara.un, Sept. 1.

The WArtaLoo and WINCHELSZA left Penang for
Malacca and China, the 25th July.
The DUNIRA, outward-bound, put into Plymouth
the 21st instant.
PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 23.
Wind S.W.—Arrived the brig Elizabeth, SOPER,
from Gibraltar for. Poole, with a cargo of salt, and
is put under quarantine. The collier brig mentioned
in our last letter as being on shore at Sally Port, has
been got off without damage, and has come into
harbour.

DEAL, FEBRUARY 23.
Wind S. W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the
Providence, FOY; and Albion, REED, from Leghorn;
Elizabeth, ELLis, from Liverpool ; and Joseph, Wit.
sox, from Minehead, for Sunderland ; the latter de-
tained by contrary winds.—Came down from the
River and sailed the Zephyr, BROWN, for Gibraltar.
Put back again last night the Sarah, HARLAND, for
St. Thomas s, and remains in the Downs with the
SEVERN frigate ; and Java, TuoMsoN, for Batavia.

HARWICH, FEBRUARY 25.
The Eliza, —, of and from Shields to London,
with coals, was abandoned at two o'clock this morn-
ing on the Middle Sand, but was afterwards brought
into this harbour by three smacks.

RAMSGATE, FEBRUARY .23.
Wind W.—The Johannes, I.INDBOOM, of Stock-
holm, from Hamburgh, for Lisbon, with wheat, was
lost on the Kentish Knock on the morning of the 216 t
instant. The Master .and crew were taken off the
wreck by Captain A. SMITH, of the sloop Hoop, and
landed here this day.

LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY its.
Arrived the Neptune, WADE, from Rio Janeiro,
in 70 days : on the 18th inst. in lat. 48. 45. long.
14. 30. spoke the Betsey, SMITH, from this port for
Rio Janeiro. Arrived also, the Hibernia, Bnowx,
from New Orleans—sailed the 4th January, and
from Balize llth January : on the 17th instant, off
Mizen Head, spoke the Susan, PIIKELIN3, from Li-
verpool to Charleston.

WHITBY, FEBRUARY 22.
Yesterday the Providence, of and from Sunder-
land, coal-laden, got on the rock outside of this
harbour, but shortly got off again, avid proceeded.

PORT GLASGOW, FEBRUARY 40.
Arrived last night the brig Lord Belhaven, MIT-
CtieLL, from Auz Cayes, St. Domingo ; sailed thence
the 6th of December; left loading the Intrepid,
FINDLAY, for Clyde, to sail about the 12th of Ja-i
nuary. On the outward passage of the Lord Bel.:
haven, when about twenty miles from Aux Cayes, a
boat witli apparently only four men on board, hailed
her, and inquired whether they wanted a pilot? On
being answered in the affirmative, the boat came
alongside, and it being duskish, fourteen armed blacks
jumped on deck and immediately proceeded to the
cabin, and commenced plundering, which they did
to a great extent, having taken a considerable part
of the cargo (which consisted chiefly of dry goods)
and almost every article of wearing apparel which
belonged to the crew, together with the brig's jolly.
boat, a quantity of provisions, sails, rigging, &c.

GRAVESEND, FEBRUARY 23.

Arrived the Wyton, Ardler, from Bombay ; the Leda, Smith,
from Nantucket; Anna Christina, Christianson, from Norway;
Waterloo, Jones, from Dublin ; the Euterpe, Stephenson, from
'Oporto; Jane, Wood, from Hiunburgh ; Maria, Palmer, from
St. Michael's ; Porcupine, Scott, from St. Domingo ; the Eliza,
Ford, from St. Andero; and Fair Brothers, Hinley, from Wa-
terford.—Salled the Lady Bankes, Walker, for Madras; Juno,
Bishop, for the Cape of (;ood Hope ; the Thomas, Bell, for St.
Vincent's; Harriet, Skillet, for Madeira ; Traveller, Lloyd, for
Demerara ; Tobago, Westmorland, for ditto ; John, Rennie, for
Oporto; Sirene, Preager, for Calais; Vrow Elizabeth, Vander
Stein, for Ostend ; Pot ate, ticker, for Antwerp; Susannah,
Peterson, for Elsineur ; Perseverance, Islaghan, for liamburgh
!skim's, Hutchinson, for ditto ; Elizabeth and Mary, Brown, for
ditto; Nottingham, Elliot, for Waterford; Traveller, Howes,
for Rotterdam; and Two Brothers, Robson, for ditto.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEBRUARY 23.

Slurs rrszkrn Itrwasins.—The Fortitude, Johnstone, and Se-
vern, Gibbs, from Seville ; Eliza, Capp, and Jane and Ann,
Wilkinson, from Messina; Lenach, Driscol, from Bombay;
Fanny, punter, from Hamburgh; Pante, Rickey, and Nassan,
Oiler, from Lisbon; Speculation, Corben, from Gravelic:s;
Good Intent,—,from Boulogne; Richards and Mary, Brown,
from Newfoundland ; Minstrel, —, from Palermo; London,
Cuming, from Jersey ; Integrity, Sutherland, and Thais, Gap-
pleby, from Charante ; Ann and Elizabeth, —, from Santwi-
der ; Antelope, Brian, from the Cape of Good live; Diana,
Anbert, from St. Valery ; Margaret, Saunders, from Oporo;
Martha, Thomas, from Limerick ;aril Electra, Todd, from Phi-
latlelphia.—Ourwaans--The Elizabeth, Castain, for Mon-
treal; Vrow Antje, Triereman, and Ar.u, Scott, for Amster-
dam; Waterloo, Munro, for Ostend; Jane, Tian, and Venus,
Kilgour, for the Cape of Godd Hope ; Venus, Allison, for Elsi-
neur and Riga ; Julius Czaae, Luikie, for Madras and D.:me-
-an, ; I.ord Cathcart, Brown, for Fort William, and Vriends-
.ll4, Leon, for Ostend, Bruges, and Ghtnt.

The amount of the Navy and Victualling Ordinary
Estimates for the current year is 2,071,4-751. 17s. 3d.
An abatement is expected of about '250,000/. from
sic of old Nasal and Victuaning Stores.
The Prince George, which was reported to have
foundered at sea and all hands perished, it appears
by a letter from New York, had arrived at Edgar
Town, (district of Main), having sprung a leak 17
days previous.
Letters from Copenhagen of 10th February, an-
nounce the death ~f• the King of Sweden, and that
all communication between the two countries is pro-
hibited on the part of Sweden, till the Crown Prince
shall he recognized as King.
A Letter from the Hague, dated Feb. £O, says:—
, " It is understood, in consequence of the enactments
'of the late new laws on the finances, a negotiation
will shortly be opened for realizing twenty millions
of bonds of the Syndicate of the Netherlands, created
by the law of the 9th of February. Meantime it is
said that some of the principal dealers in this branch
have engaged for the whole amount, on the same
footing as was formerly done iu this country. We
have been positively assured. that on the first of.Tuly
next a beginning will be made to pay the interest of
the actual debt for the first six months of the c:-.rreat
year, on the day it is due."

LAW INTFILIGZNCE.

COURT or KING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 2i.
!: • CIBEL.-TI►L LINO V. GENERAL GORR.

this_ was indictment against the defendant, pre-
ferred by Dr. Thorpe, and charging the defendant
with having, whilst Governor of the province of Upper
Canada, published a certain pamphlet in the form of a
Letter to Lord Castlereagh, containing a wicked, mali-
cious, and malignant libel, reflecting on the character
of Dr. Thorpe, who had, previously to that time (1809)
held the situation of one of the Judges of the Court
of King's Bench in the province of Upper Canada.—
The pamphlet imputed to the prosecutor that he had
in his speeches from the Bench uttered seditious ha-
rangues; that he had drawn round him, in conjunc-
tion with Mr. Wyatt, the Surveyor-General of the
Province, and Mr. Wilcox, formerly Sheriff, and
given encouragement and support to all the turbu-
lent and factious spirits in the Province.
Mr. ScAttxrer opened the prosecutor's case, and
called the following witnesses.
Mr.Serjeant Firth was Attorney-General of Upper
Canada trom March 1807, to March 1812. Dr.
Thorpe had left the Province before witness's arrival,
but the defendant, Francis Gore, was Governor of
the Province in 1807. Witness had heard General
Gore mention Dr. Thorpe at table and in public
companies, and in private in his own library : the
defendant, in the latter end of the year 1809, shewed
witness a letter addressed to Lord Castlereagh, re-
specting Dr. Thorpe; this was not an official, com-
munication to witness in his character of Attorney-
General. The letter was in the form of a pamphlet.
General Gore took it out of a box containing several
other similar pamphlets, and gave it to the witness.
Witness cannot recollect what General Gore said on
that occasion (witness here produced the pamphlet);
witness had heard Governor Gore read passages from
a manuscript. He thought Governor Gore would
not have communicated to him what he did, had he
not held the situation of Attorney-General. Witness
considered the communication as confidential though
not official.

Serjeant Cortitv, for the defendant, here sub-
mitted. that this was such an official communication
from the Governor to the Attorney-General as ope-
rated to bar the witness from answering that question.

Witness resumed.--The communication was made
to him when alone with the witness.
Mr. SCAIILETT contended that communication
made by the Attorney-General could not be conside-
red as confidential or official, unless made to him in 1
his character of Attorney-General: it might be the
communication of one Gentleman in friendship to
another.
Witness resumed.—lle believed the Governor com-
municated with him on this occasion in confidence,
and that he would not have communicated with him
had he not been Attorney-General He could not,
however, say the communication was official. He
felt a delicacy in answering, and begged his Lord-
ship's decision.
Mr. Justice Assorr said his opinion was, that
official communications could not be made the sub-
ject of evidence. Communications between friends,
however confidential, were so, and ought not to be
withheld when justice required they should be given
as evidence.

Mr. Serjcant FIRTH—Most likely every commu-
nication made by the Governor was made to me,
with a view of having my advice, if necessary.
Mr. Justice Armors. held, that these were then pri-
vileged communications, and not subjects of evidence.
The pamphlet was then read, and imputed to the
prosecutor the facts stated by Mr. Scarlett in his open-
ing, and further, that Dr. Thorpe, had, in his address
from the Bench, represented the conduct of the Go-
vernment, for the last 15 years, as disgraceful and
ruinous to the Province ; and that he and his party
having found it difficult to induce the regular news-
papers to insert the seditious writings, they had esta-
blished a Press of their own for that purpose, and by
this means had been enabled to disseminate sedition,
and encourage the turbulent and disaffected.
Dr. Thorpe was Judge of Upper Canada, from Au-
gust, 1805, till October, 1807. General Gore was
the Lieutenant Governor the greater part of that pe-
riod. Witness first saw the pamphlet in May, ISIS.'
Witness believed he was the person alluded to in that
pamphlet. Witness was one of the Judges of the
Court of King's Bench in upper Canada, and was af-
terwards appointed Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.
Cron-examined.—Witness had heard of the Pam-
phl2t prior to 1816, but knew nothing particular of
its contents till then.

Lord CASTLERRAGIL—Witness could not recollect
whether he received a copy of the Pamphlet from
Mr. Gore. Ile was not aware whether he had such
a Pamphlet now in his possession. Witness cannot
recollect whether he was in office in ISIO, but a re-
ference to the red-book would shew that fact.

Marquis CAmDES.-11is Lordship did not recollect
receiving from General Gore any Pamphlet address-
ed to Lord Castlereagh, nor did he recollect ever
having seen the Pamphlet in question.
Mr. Serjeant COPI EY addressed the Jury on the
part of the defendant. At the period this Pamphlet
was published, a pamphlet containing strong party
spirit, the Colony was in daily expectation of a war
With America, and the Governor was therefore bound
to notice what he considered as dangerous; and he
did notice it, by consulting with the King's Attorney
General, the first Law Officer of the Crown, upon it.
With this view it was, that he communicated the
pamphkt to the Attorney-General, and not with any
intention of giving publication to, or lending the
sanction of his name, to a malignant libel. lie was
convinced the Jury would feel with him, that this
was a communication made by General Gore to the
King,s Attorney-Genzral in the discharge of his duty,
and not with any intention of injuring the character
of a respectable individual, the malignant intention
imputed to him.
Mr. Justice Assorr summed up to the Jury, who
returned a verdict of—Guilty.

COURT OF COMMON ri.F.As.
SMITH 0. BARTLSMAN.
The action was brought to recover a compensation
in damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff,
in having been by violence turned out of the seat he
had taken at a public concert in the Hanover-square
Rooms. The plaintiff went into the box en the left
of the King's box, from whence he was dez,ired Ly
Z.fr. Knyrett (who acted for Mr. 3artleir.ani to with-
draw. Oa his refusing, Townsend, the cuter, was

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