Star.
London, England, 1829-09-03 00:00:00

DOVER, SEPT. 2.

The late severe weather has contributed in a great
degree to produce an unparalleled influx of company to this place;
and the shortness of the passage to the Continent, with the sure.
rlotity of the steam-packets, has proved how highly this route is
esteemed. To-day no less than four steam-packets sailed : two
for Calais, two for Boulogne, with seventeen carriages and fami-
lies, and from two to three hundred other passengers.
The following families left Wright's, Ship Hotel : Mr. and
Mrs. F Dawson; CoL and Mrs. Blackburn; Mr. & Mrs. Stephens ;
Mr. Richardson; N. M. Rothschild, Esq.; Mr. and Mts. Potter;
C&. Bentinck, &c. &c.

Lord and Lady Dudley Stuart, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Cleveland and suite, the Prince Leven, Dr. and Mrs. Forbes,
the Rev. Archdeacon Berners and Lady, &c. have arrived at the
same Hotel this day. from France.

The Earl of Beverly and rake also crossed today.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
The Duke of Devonshire, at his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire,
from Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire ; Earl Fife, at the Pultwei Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from the Rapp! Lodge, Windsor; 3. Boswell,
Esq. at Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemark•stttet, from a
tour; Captain and Mrs. Gregory, in St. James's4treet, from
Paris; George Stevenson, Esq. and James Laing, Esq. at Gliuld's
Hotel, Jermyn-striet, from Edinburgh ; John Earle Drax Saw-
bridge, Esq. and Captain Sawbridge, at Marshal Thompson', Ho-
tel, Cavendish-square; the Misses Wilbraham, at ditto; the' Rev.
T. H. Tomes, at ditto.
DEPARTURES._ _ _ _ _

Mn. Carter, from St. James's-square, Bath, fee Canterbury ;
George Biers, Esq. from St. James's-square, Bath, for Oldbury-
place, Kent ; the. Marquis of Camden, from Arlington-strait, for
his seat, the Wilderness, Kent ; the Earl of Chesterfield, from
South Audley-street, for Weimer Castle ; Sir Hoary lied Litly
Watson, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Suffolk ; Gee.
Taylor, from ditto, for Boulogne ; Lady A. Chichester. for
Stunner, Susses; Dir. and Mrs. Tomlinson, from Fenton', Mosel,•
St. James's-street, for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, from ditto,
for ditto ; Sir Henry and Miss Fane, from the Royal Hotel, St.
Jameesotreet, for their seat in Hants ; Mr. Lane For, from Hert-
ford-Wed, for Ramsgate; Captain bleynell, from Albensark-
street. for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, from Harley-
street, for Worthing.

Hie Grace the LORD LIEUTENANT continues slightly
Allard with gam, bat is daily improving.—Dabliss
Earl FITEMILLIAM arrived at Wentworth House on
Friday, from Ireland.

We are sorry to state that the Right Hon. Sir Wm.
Gams: has been seised with a paralytic attack, at his residence,
near Wanstead. The side and face are affected—but there is no
immediate danger. We believe the health of this learned person
has been for some time declining.
The ATTOIty EY-GENERA L arrived at Downing-street
yesterday at two o'clock. The Right Hon. Gentleman had been
sent for arras by the Dyke of Watiosorox. and drove in lds poet
carriage with four horses to Downing-street,with the utmost rapi-
dity.
The Neapolitan Minister,Viscount STILANGTORD' and
Viscount Gwent.; transacted business yesterday at she Fipreip
Omer.

The Bishop of WINCHESTER is expected to embark
in a few days in a steam-packet from Souatamptao, to visit the
blinds of Giernsey and Jerseyt'which form part of kis Lordship's
extensive diocese.

THE EXISTING NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
HUDIBRAS says--

" Letters often ealllC the writers
To curse the time they were inditers."

Nothing more true. Hitherto we have suspended all
comment upon the proceedings of this unprecedented in-
quiry, until such inconsistencies and contradictions have
transpired to justify intermediate remarks. It is pain-
fully lamentable that an officer of superior rank, who has
hitherto been floating in the most exalted altitudes of his
country's admiration,—adorned not only with the laurels of
courage, but acknowledged for his refined honour of senti-
ment and moral conduct,—should now be groaning under
the weight of general reprobation in those circles, where
superior discernment can promptly detect the slightest
propensity to violate the sacred principles of fair
truth. It is not our intention, when discussing this
subject, to seek gratification, or by personal attack,
or personal compliment. The basis of our comments is
the broad, unpolluted principle of argumentum ad homi-
Atm, for the purpose of public justice to all parties in-
volved in the question at present under the consideration
of the most honourable characters,—who have, during
the proceedings, de die in diem, evinced that they are
unfettered by any description of prejudice, whether pro-
fessional, or moral, or official ;—and, most independently
uninfluenced by aught that may await their current and
ultimate determinations, from the approbation or displea-

sure of constituted authority. Yes the Court hasmani-
fested itself a chaste undeffikwed crucible, for the purpose
of ascertaining, through the medium of strict truth,
where purity or impurity exists ;—and then dispassion-
ately, and with undaunted integrity, to pronounce their
judgment accordingly. It must appear to every one,
uninfluenced by partial or personal feelings, that the true
motives of the equivocal prosecutor were never intended
to meet the public eyes The most disgraceful and, de-
grading hesitations have blotted every declaration and
reply throughout his evidence thus far. What inference
must naturally be drawn as to the original motives of a
Commander-in-Chief, when he himself declares, that the
poisonous insinuations in his extra-official, clandestine
communications, were never intended to be made a wea-
pon of accusation ?
41 But. above all, far let me Br
From those who deal th' invidious lie,
And work, like moles, unseen."
And what can prove more strongly unconsciousness
of error, on the part of the victim of these insinuations,
than his having requested, rather demanded, that his
conduct might be investigated ? And, how ? by that tri-
bunal most competent to judge upon the occasion.
Our more minute remarks will, we trust, fully justify
all we shall publish upon this proceeding. The Admiral
disavows all intention even to have arraigned publicly the
conduct of a subordinate commander: at the same time,
having expressed censurable opinions to a superior
power, which opinions could not fail to leave an indelible
impression upon the mind of that power, highly in-
jurious to the honour and future advancement of the
secretly-accused officer,—had it not, by accident,
as it were, transpired that such opinions had been con-
veyed. If such opinions were justifiable, it was the
Admiral's duty to have brought the censurable party to
a Court-Martial, for the honour and discipline of the
service, no less than common justice ; and if, on the
other hand, no cause of censure existed, how reprehen-
- Bible to poison the mind of controuling power with a pre-
judice against an innocent man, who, it appears, de-
served the highest public eulogium, instead of secret
reprobation ! Then, again, is it probable that the Capt.
would have ventured to ask the Admiral (the latter on
his oath at the time), if he, (the Admiral). did not recol-
lect certain interviews, and certain expressions, at certain
periods, when it was impossible that such interviews
could have taken place (in ships) without the knowledge
of many other Officers ?—thereby exposing himself to
detection and defeat, upon that most of all incontestable
and satisfactory proof—alibi ; for a visit cannot be paid
afloat as on shore. A person on shore mav, if he be
intent so to do, obtain an interview, ate-t.)-fite, with
another, unobserved by a third ; but when an Officer,
especially the Captain, quits his ship to pay his per-
sonal respects to the Admiral—their respective ships
being at some distance from each other—he (the Captain)
must necessarily be conveyed in a boat, to the knowledge
of every one on board the ship he commands, and the
boat's crew immediate witnesses of his movements. Then
he cannot ascend the side of another ship without being
' received on the quarter-deck, to the knowledge of every
Officer on that deck ; nor can he obtain an interview

with the Admiral without being announced ; or, at least,
if circumstances or confusion after a battle were such as
to intercept, or render certain etiquette unnecessary, it
cannot fail to be known by numbers that Captain
•had an interview with the Admiral; also his quitting the
ship after the interview must be alike known, and wit-

need by many. Thus, we do contend, that the Captain
would not be so rash, or so imbecile, as to risk such in-
terrogations, whatever might be the object of them, when
such facilities of refutation existed to destroy that object.
But to these most pointed questions from the Captain to
the Admiral, the latter (though not without some hesita-
tion) replies in the negative ; or avails himself of that
offensive, disgusting, deprecated equivoque " non nii
ricordo."
This, alone, we insist upon it, exhibits impurity of in
tendon ; and so the Admiral comes out of the crucible
tainted, in the eyes of every one who peruses, with com-
mon attention, the minutes of the Court, It is not our
intention to select this peculiar proceeding for our re-
proof, and limit our reprobation to evasive testimonies
• upon such occasions as this. But we announce that we
shall boldly consign all public characters to the crucible
of the most rigid, but dispassionate investigation, when-
ever political or moral delinquency shall presume to in-
sult public judgment, and set public opinion at defiance,
either to gratify secret personal spleen, or outrage na-
tional feeling. For this day, however, we have done ;
but we shall resume this very momentous question for the
serious consideration, not only of the parties concerned,
but of a discerning public.

It is said that the ruin which would be consequent on
the sale of the Ant wardrobe, splendid scenery, glasses, chande-
liers, and decorations of Covent-garden Theatre, is likely to be
averted, by the interference of three or four persons of high rank
and consideration.
The Union, Oriental, and BOODLE'S Club-houses are
all closed while undergoing repair and new decorations.
Several families which had left town for the sea side,
it is said, have been driven back again by the late tempestuous
weather.
The New Police will came into active operation, we
are told, on the 29th of this month.

Professional men speak in high terms of the manner in'
which the new Chief lades of the Common Pkas, &r N.TTIMAL,
has performed the ardsomthitles of his Ent circuit.
At the Surrey adjairned Sessions, on Monday, the
business was very light, owing to the Anises having been so re-
cently held. There were but two or three trilling cases of felony,
and about as many assault charges, .all of which were disposed of
by two o'clock in the afternoon.
A " Guard-house" is fitting up in Scotand-yard for
the aural station of the New Police.