Star.
London, England, 1816-04-19 00:00:00

FROM THE mum!, MARCH 26.

Ly the death ot Duke Fred rick Augusta, the
Goeernmeet of the Duchy of Nassau is now united
in the person of his successor Prince William of Ma.
satilburg. ty the duration of an unanimity
maintained vat!) perhaps unequalled steadiness in si-
milar cases, between the Regency Duke and his pre-
sumptive successor, the Government of the country
presented for several years past the spectacle of a
etinsistent Government, tending to political unity
under two Princes indepesident of each other,' who
solely for the attainment of this eziti had united to
carry on the Government is commit. This union
had happy consequences for the Duchy. particularly
attia the territory had beet. greatly ckanged.laitt year,
by the cession of a third ...If ii, for the acquisition ot
the principalities of Dillenburg, Dirz, and Hadamar.
Loin this time forward a mute rapid progress was
obstive4l in the establishments fur the internal admi.
nistratiun, which has attracted the attentiou of ob•
serving statesmen blth at home and abroad. .

PARMA, MARCH 25.
On the I Dth and 'ltk'► use, the following Procla-
mari.,ns were published here ;
Vicau:l4 the First, by the Grace of Goo, &c.
• By our Inters patent of April tZ, last year, we
mule known, that at the desire of our beloved daugh-
ter. the Archduchess Maria Louisa, Duchess of
ljttt tn.►, Placentia, and Guastella, we had assumed
the provisional Government of -these States.
• The circumstaces which made such a resolution
advisable being now happily ended, we give back
into the hands of our belayed daughter the power
entrusted to us, and have ordered these preseuts to
be made public. (Signed)

" Milan, March 7, 1816. I/ FRANCIS.
Vire, MARIA LOUISA, imperial Princess. Archduchess of
Austria, by the grace of Cole, Duch's- of Parma, Placentia,

at.dpuatt.ll.s, etc.

66 His Majesty the Emperor and King. ottr august
and beloved f.ather, remtived on our repairing to our
Duchies of larnet, Placentia, and Guastella, to re.
store to us the administration of these States, which
he had lr.therto graciously accepted from us provi-
sion:llly, as we made known by our letters patent of
the nI sr Mitch, 1815, irom the imperial 4'alace of
Lklineitio tea ; we have, timeline, judged it proper to
make knorio by these presents, that we re-assume the
Governnn of our said Duchies, and, at the same
time, to express our gratitude for the care which our
most beloved father has bestowed on the welfare of
our faithi O. subjects. We decla:e further, that we
cor.Grnr, and by these presents we confirm accord-
ingly, all the dispcsitions which our august and be-
loved lather has thought fit to make during his admi-
nistration ; and we command all our faithful subjects
and inhabitants of the Duchies of Parma, Placentia,
and &mitella, to continue to observe them.
" Given at Venice, 17th March, 1816.
46 MARIA LOUISA."
VIENNA, MARCH SI. •
The Ai/gene/as %titan: contains the following from
the Banks of the Wirral::

.‘ With regard to die prohibition of the Rhenish
Mercury, and the prosecution in which M. Goerres
was engaged ou that occasion, the public papers have
for some time propagated much untruth. As the
affair in itself is interesting to a considerable portion
ot the public, a circumstantial bnd correct account
of it will not be misplaced in the All:mei= ZeitiNg.
By a royal cabinet order of the '3d of Jannaty, the
continuance of the Rhenish Mercury was prohibited,
for the reasons; as it appears, oaclally assigned in
,the Berlin Gazette. To the general Government
Commissioner of the Rhine and Moselle department,
the State Connsellor Sack in Cublents (who is not to
be confounded with the General Governor Sack in
Aix•la•Chapelle), was intrusted the execution of this
order. He discharged this commission by coming.
aiming to Mr. Goerres the contents of the Royal
Order, upon which the Paper immediately ceased;
but, besides this, he placed all the remaining cokes
ot tow Ater.isrl, even the old ones, under seal ; and
threw thy pinta Heriot into prison for eight days,
because he had printed passages through which Pro-
fessor limning, the censor, had drawn hiepen.----
Upon this Lioesees mote to Sect she lodes which

km alio* Apf 404 .in all the.intirnaise Mr.. Sack
thought the dignity and authority isf his office ins-
by this epistle, and applied to the Correc-
uonal Tribunal of Coblentz for the severe punish-
ascot of Zir. Games. He at the same time-supported
his plea by the preditction of another letter, which
Mr. Goerres had written to him some months previ-
pnsly on a matter of trifling importance. and of
which he had hitherto made no complaint. Accord-
ing to the French laws still in force in the territories
on the Rhine, the trial was appointed to take place
in public, before the CaTectional Tribunal of Co-
blente, on the 17t1, of February. As the affair had
excited universal interest, the number of people as-
sembled to hear the proceedings was so great, Mat
only a small part of diem could be accommodated
in Court ; the rest' were either under the necessity of
remaining abont the doors; or of returni:.g home
without having their curiosity satisfied. .
" Gmerres appeared in person with his Counsel.
of the name ia, enamel. The latter opened the
boisiness,, and defen.i.ed his client, not without elo-
quence. He remarked, that he hoped it would not
Le necessary to investigate the merits of the cause,
because, by. an express law, and in cot:formity to the
L opinions of all French Lawyers, no epistolary cainm.
hies cable within the jutisdictiou of a Court of Cri-
minal Justice, but at the most could be brought for-
Ward in the shape of a police or civil action ; it was
iircessary, therefore, %hat the calumnies should have
heen designedly published and propagated by their
author. This, however, was by no means the case
—and even if the letters of .Mr. Goerres (which, in
fact, contained nothing hut very cordial reminiscences
• and admonitions, which should be very welcome to
every administrator) actually did any thing injurious
to the authority of Mr. Sick, then Mr. Sack had
himself to blame, by giving publicity to these letters.
On these grounds, he contended, that the Court
should either dismiss the complaint as unbunded, or
declare itself incompetent.
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The State Attorney declared, on the other hand,
that be had received orders from die chief President,
Sack, to prosecute the business, and he must insist
upon the competence of the Court. The Court post.
poned its decision to its next sitting, which took place
on the 23d of February, when it declared its compe-
tence, and entirely acquitted. Mr. Goerres. Mr.
Sack, not satisfied with this decision, is now prose-
cuting his complaint before the Appeal Court at
Treves, from whence the, affair will probably he
brought before the Court of Revision at Csblentr.
the place of last resort. Mr. Goerres hats repaired to
Treves, to defend his cause before tli; Court there.—
This is a true and correct representation of the affair.
As was naturally to be expected, both the circurn.
stances wnich gave occasion to the letter of Mr.
Goerres, and the prosecution itself, have made an
unfavourable impression • in the provinces on the
Rhine ; but the definitive organization of 'these pro-
vinces, to which we mg now look forward with
tolerable certainty. and the satisfaction upon the
final cessation of our provisional stater mast, it is
to be hoped, soon do away this impression, and till
the Rhenish people with that confidence in their
Government, without which there can be no attach-
tnent or affection."

The Allgeweiee Zrituffg also states from Berlin,
under date of the 16th March, that the War Coun-
sellor Muchler ard Dr. John are now under proset.u-
tio,t before a Criminal Tribunal, on account of an
antinymotts pamphlet which bas appeared in Saxony,
attacking the Prusso Saxon Administration.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MAUCH 10.-011 II c 13th of
Tbbruary the festival of the birth of the Pro'Aet.
founded in the year ft 96 (15SS), by Murath the
Third, was celebrated in the klosque of Sultan Ach-
met 1. with the usual ceremonies, in the presence
of the Sultan and all the Court of State °dicers.
jThe Reis Effendi, notwithstanding his illness, per-
formed his functions, which consist in presenting to
the Sultan tl,e letter of the Scheliff of Mecca, an-
I notmcieg the happy arrival of the Caravan. (This
answer is brought by the Muschdedschi Baschi, Mes-
senger of Joy, oho leaves the Caravan at Damascus,
I to reach Constantinople with the joyful news of its
arriving Sale a few days before the festival.) -The
KislarAgareceiFed and entertained each of the guests
i as usual, according to his rank ;Ind dignity, and re.
; cei% eil fur it, Irons the Sultan, the pellise of lionour,
as the Reis Effendi, and the Murthdcdschi did the
Cafton,
__ _ _

At the end of the festival, sentence of banishment
from the capital was pronounced against the Kadi-
lesker of RomelL% Yssel Bey, the Nativel Eschrof,
or Chief of the Scherits, and one or tiro other.distin-
guished lawyers, because they had disputed in an
unbecoming manner about precedence. at, the cert.,
many, of which the Sultan was informed. This un-
expected punishment is the more remarkable, eve.
chilly as it regards Yssel Bey, who enjoyed great con-
sideration, and only filteen days were wanting to
complete the period of his functions as Grand Judge
Kliti3. Sade Mehmet Emir Effendi succeeds him as
Kadilesker of Romelia. Some of the Governors of
the Prorinces•have also been changed.

It appears by a letter received from Captain Matt-
ot the ship Atlas, bound to New South IV7iTes,
with 200 male convicts, that they wer: all well, di
Madeira, on the 14th of February last, but had ex-
perienced nothing but gales since they left Portsincuth,
on the 23d of Jauuary last : the convicts were gene-
rally healthy.
Persons Who have hitherto neglected to make their
purchases in the Lottery until the eve of drawing, is ill
do well to attend to the intention announced on the
past of the. Contractor of giving a Bonus of 300
Whole Tickets to an Purchasers him the 27th of
This Month.
We know not why it is, list so it is, that persons
who come into life in the month of April, are not
generally supposed to have many rev:juries faculties
about them, from which opinion, we presume, arose
the custom of Calling, the first of the month April
.Fisplll4l3% Certain it is, however, that in this month
list year, came forth that, the possession of which,
(even if be wort born in April) would give the owner
the reputation of a &lowa 1 we allude to the Two
Prises,-cif ,430,000, sold by Bisik and drown on the
very day of which this is the anniversary, the recol-
lection of which will no doubt (as there are Two
fltiees of ii 30,000. is the
.riseitt Lottery) induce
many .to pay a visit at Chun Cross or be-
lting night. - I

THE EVENIN

STAR. '

LONDON.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19. 1816.
FIR ta OF. STOCKS THIS DAY AT I WANE O'CLOU:
Mrduced 59/1-00.s. 611—for acc. 6a
4 per Cent.74l-5 per Coat. Von—Bonds It.. 3q. pr.
pout. 1644—D0. pay. 1711—;-Ezeb. Bslis par, IN pr.

Last night we received Geiman ?vets, from wt,lch
we have given ample extracts. There have been
some paPular disturbances in the neighbourhood'
Befort and Vosges, iruthe suppression of which some'
Austrian soldiers were wounded.
The Archduchess MAMA Loz:rsA has resumed the
Government of the Duchies of Parma, Fiactotiat
and Guastella.

The American Congress, at tl:e time the irt i.
counts came away, was occupied in an etlitiry S. leo
the enpediency of excirding from the Pall cf the
United States all foreign vessels owned in, comity
from, bound to, or touching at any of the British
Possessions in the West Indies and North America,'
from which the vessels of the United kites are ex.
eluded."

By Official Instructions sent out by the tilA
Government, and publ;shed at S:. John's, New
Brunswick, American fishing-vessels are prohibited,
after the present season, from fishing within the Bri.
del jurisdiction, or using the British harbours for the
purpose of curing, &c.—these privileges having bete
merely conventional, and not renewed in the last
Treaty.

Letters from Spain announce, that ten °Sten ef
the Regiment of Catalonia have been arrested and
thrown into prison, as it is said, in consequence of a
suspicion of their being implicated in the late Madrid
conspiracy. Owing to this extraordinary circumstance
all the other officers have abandoned their regiments
It appears clear that the torture has been inflicted es
several persons in Spain. In consequence of this
General o,l)(,uottoub: has lost the use of his hands,
his fingers having been all separately disjointed. The
Intendant of Valencia died during the operation..

A circumstance k all probability will soon come
before the Public, which, if the opinion of two CI the
most eminent Men at the Bar is cotrect, will tend
very mach to the relief of Mercantile Men, who feel
very severely the inconvenience arising from the West
of discounts. It is on the subject of continuation in
the Funds, which has now arrived at so high a pitch,
that it is often impossib:e for the honest and even
wealthy mder to meet his engagements ; it is now
no uncomtnon thing for.+, per Cent. to be given per
Diem, the legal interest being Si J.—An action has,
we understand, been brought against a House of the
first consequence, to try the legal question on this
prntice. A similar action was tried a few years
since, in which the Plaintiff was nonsuited from
a defect in the evidence. A similar cause of failure
will of course, in the present imtanc•-; he avoided.—
We shall rejoice to see the public r. lieved from an
evil which, as far as it extends, is more pernicious
than even the Property Tax. Should the action fail,
it is to be hoped that the vnice of the cunntry will
call aloud for the sanction of Mr. Serjeant ONst.ow'a
motion, which has been announced for the 9th of
May, to do away the Laws on Usury, and to let
money find its level as it does in other countries.

Yesterday the PRINCE. REGETT, accompanied by
the Duke of 'Vona, rode on horseback through the
three Parks; crossed into Mary-la.bonne to the Re-
gent's Park ; viewed the improvements, &c. and re-
turned to Carlton House. Their Royal Highnesses
were on horseback for about two hours, from half-
past one o'clock to half-past three.
It is now confidently stated that the marriage of
the Princess ettatu.orrs is to take place on the 2J
of May.
- The Earl of LIVERPOOL was yesterday considerably
better.
Private letters by the French Mail state the arrival
of the Princess from the Brazils, the bethrothed con-
sort of FERDINAV) VII. The Princess is stated to
have arrived at Cadiz about ten days ago.
An American paper has a letter from Baltimore,
dated February 12, mentioning that the Chevalier de
ON's was txpecttd to embark at that port for Spain;
and that the misunderstanding between that country
and the United states was of a Test' set ionsdescriptior.
Extract of a private letter from Paris, dated the
15th insfunt :•••46 General Lespinois remonstrated
with Droutor after his trial, and was proceeding to
state the arguments which were made against hun,
when the veteran soldier abruptly asked wlL.ther be
imagined, during eight months he had been.con•
fined in the Abbey, the slightest of such obserw
tious had escaped him ? To this is attributed the
peremptory order he had received from the Minister of
War to quit Paris within 24 hours. His intention,
which he seeki every opportunity of communicating
to his friends, is, on arriving at Nancy, neither tope)?
nor receive arty visits. In his interview with the King,
his Majesty used the following expressions :•••-, I have
not ordered the process to be revised as I niight
have done, because, independent of the merits of the
case, I admire the rare zeal and fidelity yotrhaie dis-
played in the service of your master; and I harem°
doubt, were you to enter into mine, you would em.
brace it with the t, true principlet.' General Dnouov
made no reply, but suntanned bowing most rebrwLt•
fully to his Majesty. It esotild be difficult to :epic-
sent the interest the public take in the fate of this-in-
dividual; and the ri.gret the real friends of Covert!•
meet feel at the irjuelicions cli4IG4; (II the übjects (1
, .pros;:ct:
• -

. +ite :iibiiA.

tat following English Militia Regiments. how in
trand, have received (*deli th embark for this
awry, vit..s—The Den high, Hereford, West Kent.
East Kent, Glamorgan. South
.GlAucester, and Suf.
rata, at Dubli,i ; and the West Norfolk, Ist Surrey,
atorower Hamlets, an& Worcester, at Cork.

14,r L INTELLIGENCE.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 16.
Arrived his Majesty's ships JasrEit,.Capt. CAREW;
aad tignoN, Captain SCHI WEN, from a cruize; the
Active packet, with a Mail, from the Brazils, in 65
days'4 Montague packet. with a Mail, from Jamaica,
io st days' and the Speed): packet, with a Mail,
flop the Leeward [elands, in 44) days. The Speedy
is put under quarantine in crinsequence of having
boarded a vessel from Marseilles for America. Her
censequently cannt it be forwarded to London.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 18.
Sailed his Majesty's ship TYHTAIN. on a cruize ;
and the Sally, litiermattsuurtf, for St. Domingo.
DEAL, APRIL 18.
Sailed the Earl of Balcarras. Scaleby Castle,
hive Regent, Phoenix,. Hugh Inglis,
.and Surat
code, East Indiamen, for India ; al•aa sailed, the
Woodman, for the Isle of France; alb Christopher,
fur TriniJad ; and Lady's Adventure, for America.
R AMSGA'I'E, APRIL 37.
I Arrived this afternoon tae Prince of Waterloo
I. pact, twin Ostend, with Lord JOHN SOIRERSET and
tfamily, and about a i4„:zett other passengers. It will
' be re.cyllected this Nobleman was Aid-de-Camp to
the Prince of ORANGE. at the glorious battle of Wa-
terloo, where his Serene Highness was wounded.—
A child in arms, belonging to Lord Sintrattscr, was
brought out of the vessel by one of Ms Lordship's
grooms, with orders to be taken to the Inn, and we
could riot but smile at seeing the little innocent
stopped, and made to pay itarespects at the Custom.
House, beime it was suffered to go and take its pap !
About 3 P.M. the Eclipse, mentioned in our lac',
was finally launched from Mr. Canoirr's yard,
wlikor.a arty further impediment, amidst the usual
acclamations of the by sunders. She has come into
the harbour, to be fitted for an oversea passage vessel.
MILFORD MAVEN, APRIL 16.
Yeiterday arrived at the Quarantine siat;on here, I
the brig Effort, Wm. Warrant master, from Paler-
mo, bound to Liverpool ; sailed thence the 3.1 ult.
She spoke the Wellington, Brown, from Palermo for
Landon, •all well ; INVESTIGATOR gun brig from
cab, bound on a survey of Holyhead harbour ;
and BAT cutter, from cruising against the smugglers.
—The liar has brought in, which she captured yes-
terday alter a cline of two hours off the Land's End,
a fast sailing lugger rived boat, called the Ra%ger,
basin. oil hoard 136 ankers of branily and geneva,
which are deirsited in the Custom-i.ause stars. She
7.. as navigated with men, all of whom are on
load tl.e Bar, secured for the Royal Navy.
Sailed the LFF9RT :OKI INVESTIGATOR; also the
Agnes, Noale, !or W'litehaven ; Perseverance, Perry,
for Greenock ; Morris, Evans, for Liverpool, all from
j.endon ; Hopewell, Simpson, from Southwold for
Lircrrol.—Wind, S. W.
C?.AVEFEND, APRIL 18. •
•
•Arrive..l the Hercu:e4, Moen-Li, from Genoa; St. Gni:ler-
-Ire, Jenei-nn, from 13tVast ; Tozer, front Yrusball;
:yrn, Prager, from L:4l:tis amid Nordan Vieslattd,
- front Ii otter tam.
thv AsN, Grc'g, /or NlLtlvirs; Dora, Cross, for
Laos Ares; Hutton, tor Lisbon; C.:rrtn.t. Ards,
for Eiambrook;ll; Allwrdinc, Davidson, for Hantborough; sad
lianrqit:,vtr:tity, der Ruerrdara.
CMTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 13.
SUMS ENTERED OUTWARDS.—Summer, DITCHAM,
for Rolterd..m ; Wil44mandan, LUNDT. for Mar-
seilles, Nice, and Genoa ; Charles, GaasioNT, tot
Kneen ; Christina, ROELONT. for Amsterdam ; Con-
cord. Soar, for the Cape of Good Hope. ; Princess
ot Wales, Fox, for faacnd • Lord Castlereagh,
A LAING, for Bombay.

.
An Enclishman of the name of BELL, who was to
have been shot at Carthagena, in New Spain, made
his escape twenty-four hours previous to the period
ordered for his execution, and has since arrived at
Old Providence.
A letter from Plymouth states, that the Congo, I
:'hick h.tc been fitted nut for the purpose of exploring
tie hitherto unknown Coasts of Africa, as well as
-I aisternal discoveries, lately put in there, to avoid
emit 11;t:tvy gales. S!ar gives every prospect of
&awning the most sanguine expectation ; her crew
Were in WO spirits ; and she wilt take advantage
at the first spirt of wind to pursue her ultimate
entination.
The telegraphs being abolished, the situation of
Inspector, held by Mr. ltnenue.t, is done away, and
that Gentleman retires upon a pension :—the salary
was 4500 per annum. 'rite Lieutenants of the Navy
who superintended the machines at the stations are
now allowed the indulgence of remaining in the seve-
ra! houses, but tritlistat any addition 40 their half-pay..
The proceedings instituted by the town against the
to.aus seamen at South Shields and Sunderland, have
been moved by Certiorari into the King's Bench.
The new Bill for amending t!,e Act for the relief
of Creditors " against ft andthent Devisees, Ecc." re-
cites that it is expedient that the provisions of the
Acts of the fourth year of the reign of King William
a Queen Mary, and the fourth of Queen Anne,
°maid be enlarged : and it enacts that devisees and
limitatioas by will of real estates shall be void as
against creditors by covenant ; that creditors by co-
venant may maimain actions against the heir and dc-
/iivil that in case there shall be no heir at law,
Minas may be maintained against the devisees alone ;
hat that this Act shall not extend to avoid devisees
for Payment of debts, or for raising portions for
Younger children, in pursuance of marriage contracts.
xelief iven by statutes 3d and 4th William and
Mme, and
„ 4th Anne, against devisee, in case he
"as the laud devised, extended to creditors by co-
%%ant.
uIL--About one -o'clock on Thursday morning
rovroises of J. Pozwas, Esq. at Great .Barton,
_r nary St. Edmund's, were discovered to be on
11% The ultimo thereof was soon after given there ;
11/111, many of the inhabitants immediately forsook
beds, and having procured four fire-engines,
16t 'with the utmost promptitude, and by their
eotely assistance the fire, which had assumed a most
(tractive appearance,. was !post providentially sub-
21vdi though not until some out buildings, a large
"rtludge. and a hay-stack were totally destroyed.

SPORTWO DeTTELCIGifkai:

NEWMARKET CSAintN =TIN% 11114; • .
THURSDAY, alagtlll. 18.
A Subscription Plate of .850. for 11.1r.olds, carry* est. 1%4
3-yr.olds B.t. 811). ;,....yr-otde, sat. ISib ; SlePolds. Na. lib.;
6-yr.otils and aged, est. sib. D.M.
Mr. J. Edward's bay hone Amadeus, aged • - 1
Mr. Villiers's bay horse Cwriv, 11-yrs.old - • . 2
Mr. Embson's shesnot colt Rankaboroush, S.yrs.eAd $
Twelve started—The Judge placed but thew.
I k to 8 asSt Asmodews.
The Claret Stakes of 200ge.. each, Lit. Sit. 7a D I.
Lord Grosvenor's St. Sebastian . , 1
Mr. Lake's cult Serapail, by Granicus • . : 2
General Gower's Itaphacl - • 1... ' S
3to 1 apt St tiebastiau-2 to 1 eget Serapall-Eiren s 141014

BETTING ON THE DERBY AND OAKS.
DUST.

7 to 1 against c. by Guhanna —Taken.
II to 1 against c. by Orvige.--T'a'Lith• • '
12 to 1 against e. by Wilton, out of Pardo*.
12 to 1 igainst t. by Walton, out of Bale de Vino%
12 to 1 against John of Pads.

fIAICS.

to 1 against Sister to SoutbSayers
7' to 1 agaitet any other.

Yesterday the promenading tide offinhion, from the
favourable change of weather, set over to thi west
side of Bond-street, from the East, where a numerous
fi .et of alx)rour cruiser:, eariiinsly rigged, saileJ
freely before a light breeze, until five o'clock,it. m.
Tile slouch great coats. of our belles. and the
Dutch do, er vests of our beans were cast off yelper.
day, by ail those who find it convenient eto appour in
lighter apparel.
The Orangery in Kensington Gardens Is reps ring,
and the dilapidation so long the subject of r et in
that admired building, will soon disappear.
The Governor of • the Royal Military College has
besides a large salary, five hundred pound: alear for',
31: table and forage for six horses!
The gaieties of the season, at Hatfield House,
commenced on Monday last, with the sports of the
field, coursing, and shooting. A dinner for a-select
party was provided. covers being bud for fifteen per..
sons. Oo Tuesday, lox boat; and in the evening,
a hall and supper. The dancing commenced at ten
o'clock in the Wait, and consisted of German

waltzes and trench figures.—Atuortg the inmates

were—
The Comte.* of Verolans„ and she Misses Grimstonef Mr,
li‘nry and Lady Wenewer; the Re'. Gerrard Welle•sley.Lady
Esti:ly Wrlirstey, Lord P. Dentinal ; Marittis and Mardi/Otteis
of DownZile; Mr. Bran I, Mr. John liaq, Me. Dranustood,
Lord and Lady itanclille, Lord Cratiboume.
kalatoso, ot Urery.lane Theatre, who has the
good w,shes of every body, is said to be about pur-
chasing Vauxhall Gardens.
Favour is reported to have resigned the manage-
ment of Covent-Garden Theatre to FARLEY.
• Sir RALPH MILDANXB, the father of Lady Biome.
has publicly stated that he knows of no conspiracy
against the dumtstic peace of Lord thrum
IL is said the Bertish Government have placed £5OOO
at the disposal of the Martinis d'lsente, (Canova)
for the purpose of opening a school for painting at
Rome. The young English: artist, require it.
Paula. N FASHIONS, ArftlL is.—The tashions at''
Longcliamp have hitherto been simple and tasteful.'
White straw hats are much worn ; those with . flat
rims are two fingers broad, .having round the crown,
at equal diatancet, three circles, each of vahieh is
formed by three a kite ribbons; three white • feathers
placed ice flora, bend over the crown ; they have also
broad ties, half silk and half gauze, striped rose and
white, lilac and white, Pistacke and white, or yellow
and white. When a iai.phu is used instead of rib-
bon, it is striped with the same colours. Flowers
worn in wreaths aft generally of two sorts. Several
florists have studied to compose singular flowers;
they have, for instance, made moss roses, one half of
which was a rose and the other a chesunt stalk. To
common roses they join the leaves of tyre thistle, the
maiden hair and the tulip ; they have 'also invented'
the blossom of May with thorns, for trimming.—
Wreaths of roses and lilac, or jonquils and lilac, and
large garlands of lilac wily, are most in vogue.—
..7,7am: are still worn on black spencers, but long
matted gold chains art more genteel. White robes of
very fine muslin, with the bottom and the shoulders
bound with colours, are numerous.
On the evening of Tuesday a btirglary was corn.
mitted on the house of Mr. N. Harrison, of Sutton,
farmer, by T. Nord:, of Beverley Park, and six others,
, who broke open the door of the house; but upon the
alarm being given, and J. Conk, the constable, and
a number ot the inhabitants assembling, they made
a precipitate retreat. On the following day, how.
ever, North hired a number of the most abandoned
characters in the neighbourhood of Hull, and.at
night '25 of them proceeded from the Labour-in-Vain,
at South-End„, armed with bludgeons, and headed
by North, for the purpose of breaking a second time
into Mr. liarrison's premises. T. England and J.
Stat k, two Constables, having received information
of their intentions, collected a number of men, and
proceeded after them to Sutton ; upon reaching that
place they found G. Harrison, the brother of N. liar.
rison, in the street, in Its shirt and night-cap, who
informed them that North sad his party had broken
into his brother's house, and threatened, if they made
resistance, they would murder them : that himself,
his brother, brother's wife, and.a labourer, had leaped
from the chamber window without clothing and
that Mrs. H. was very much hurt by
the fall.—
The constables having collected a sufficient force,
proceeded to Harrison's house, where they fucceeded
in taking North, and fifteen of his accomplices, who
underwent an examination on the following day be-
fore J. BrOwn, Esq. at Sculcoates, when North was
committed for trial at the next Assizes,• and his asso-
ciates were bound over to the next General Quarter
Sessions.
CORN EXCHANGE, Arlin, 19.—'rite supply of Wheat
continuing small, and having a brisk demand, what
appeared this morning was readily disposed of at
rattler better prices than were obtained on Monday.
Fine Barley is,ls. per quarter dearer, Ratan* but
little at market. Oats are rathek' cheaper. owing to
the arrival of a very considerable 4i/entity. In other
grain there is no altetafion
aMI II MELD itiAItICHT, AtiBILI9.
Beet 4i tpi to 5. 04, 1 Veal a+'• 04 to ea 11
Minton ts Od to Ss DJ / Park as 04 Id Ss' 14 •
Lamb .. el 04 So 7s Isd. - : •
Beasts 630—5he.4.1, and I.slttbs 5,341.07.4Ca1ve. / 5. 0,-.14114110 •
114 Y ~ND stitow,,LlA LOAM_ . •
Miadow Ilia) 41 • 0. to it 5s i Clover 5i Oi blf 111 ./.-
.4 wave Jr to sir t3`as: -••'b' s ".

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i OWN COURT, THURADAY, MARCH Si.
The KING V. FUTOt S.
beibis da
• ••
:, -- y this very interesting trial was proceeded
ht, when the Court was crowded to excess. The pei-
,sank Thews and J.4ft Fenton, Esqrs. were indicted
far the murder 'of. John Hillas, Esq. by killing him,
Ott a dttel.
Mr. VANDILIIUR, as Counsel for the Crown, laid
before the Jury the following statement of the circum-
stances in which the prosecution had originated :
Upon the 6th of lase December, a vessel was cast.
ashore by stress of weather, etabn the coast of Tive-
nigh, near the residence of Major Hillas, wbo was
an active Magistrate, and a young man of the most
humane disposition. A Roman Catholic clergyman
of the name of Burke, sent to inform him of this un-
fortunate Occurrence. He immediately hastened to
the spot to discharge his duty at a Magistrate, and
fulfil his natural OK linations as a man. The Captain,
he found, had fallen noel board ; and to hls exertions,
duriag the entire• of a datk and stormy night, the
s.eety of the mate, and of eleven of the crew, was
c:iieHy to be attr'enal. His object in so acting re-
buffed merely from motivesof humanity, and was far
from originating in any pecuniary consideration.—
While he was in this laudable pursuit, Mr. John Fen-
ton, one of the prisoners, came up, and interfered in
a manner which appeared eo him not to ba very cor-
' feet : an altercation arose; and the result was, Mr*.
John Fenton's telling Major Hines, " that, if he in-
terfered further, he would throw him into the sea."
He, however, continued his exertions from the 6th to
the Bth of December, on which day the other prisoner,
Mr. Thomas Fenton, arrited with a body of yeomen,
and forced the property out of his possession. It was
in vain that Major Hillas remonstrated; it was in
vain that he declared his object was not salvage, and
that he was only endeavouring to save as much as
possible from the wreck, for the benefit of the owners.
Bring.in this manner frustrated in his intentions, he
made a journey to Scotland, where the owners resided,
to order to make them acquainted with the circum-
stances of their loss; and on his return, Mr. John
Fenton sent him a message, which, however, was de-
clined, upon principles which, he must say, appeared
to him perfectly justifiable. Thus the matter rested
until the 30th of January. when Major Hillas and
Mr. Fenton put in their respective cl.ucns before Mr.
Wynne and Mr. Irwin, two Magistrates, who were
appointed to investigate. the matter. Major 'Elias
disclaimed before them having been actuated by any
1 pecuniary motives, and. professed that he came there
merely to gave the violas of the respective partivc
clearly ac.cettaitted. It was up al this eiccasion that
the ciicumstances arose inwhicO the ~1..iel orig:nated.
Major Hillas complained that he had tweis treated
unhanNomely by Mr. Thomas Fenton, who !:ad in-
terfered uejustifiably, and, by taking the mate out or
his hands, secured to himself in an iinhandsonw
manner the legal custody of the vtasal. Mr. Wynne
and Mr. Irwin investioa:ed the transaction. In four
days after the itivestigation clooal, Mr. Jelin Fenton
delivered a message to Major Baas, in the name of
Mr. Thomas Feuton, the result sit which was fatale°
Mr. Hillas.
The following witnesses were th.'n erara;ned :
James Moffat knew Major Hillas : he di, d by a
•pistol shot fired by Thomas Ftuton ; he was on the
ground at Ktlmacowen, in the county of Sligo ;• was
there berme the parties were placed on the ground;
saw the ground measured ; Fenton and Hiram walk-
ed backwards and forwards on it; they passed each
other twice ; Fenton was first placed on the ground,
then Hillas took his ground ; thinks from about a
minute or two before Hillas was placed on his ; .ri m.
not say who handed Fenton his pistol; when he had
it in his hand, John Fenton cattle up and pushed in
Thomas Fenton's arm, opposite to Hillas's hip, lie
then stood between him and liillas, who also had his
pistol ; he stood immediately before Thomas Fenton,•
he cannot say how long before the word was given,
but he remained there about ten seconds after ; J let
then stepped aside, across the muzzle of Thomas
Fentort's pistol; Mr. Jones did the same towards
Hillas; he thinks he retired a little before Fenton re-
tired ; after that they fired immediately: Fenton tired
first, And Hillas fell : the two shots went off just as
one might say 44 one, two."
On is cross-examination, he ,said, when John
pushed Thomas's elbow, the effect was, that he pre.
seated a less front to his antagoniat—it protected his
body; after the ground was cleared, both were at
liberty to fire immediately ; lie saw lianas before the
transaction ; he gave him a paper to copy about ten
days before ; on reading it, be remarked, that the
language was very strong, and calculated to irritate:
Hines said, it was not strong enough for such con-
duct, and that, if stronger could be used, it ought
to be inserted.
Dr. Ar.• strong is a professional man, and at-
tended the deceased as such on the ground ; he saw
Loftus Jones, the deceased, and Capt. Wm. Feu all,
.on the. ground; a stone marked the gad where
Hilts stood, another the sped where Fenton stood ;
when witness came to the stone on Hillas's side, lie
moved it a little from a rising ground, where it %VAS,
down to the level ground ; John Fenton asked him
why he did so ? he answered. because the place was
not level ; when on their ground, Hill is addressed
the crowd; he was not certain that Fenton heard
him ; he said, '4 I am sorry the mistaken laws of ho-
nour oblige me to come here to defend myself, and
I declare to God 1 have nteanimosity to any man or
woman on the face of the earth ;" John stood before
Thomas, he moved his hand a little up and, down ;
Jones stood opposite Hillas, they each moved away.
On MI cross-examination he said, that he is con-
nected by blood and marriage with the deceased ;
Captain Ferrall was friend to lalillas ; there was no
better judge of the laws of honour ; believes Ferrell
tossed up fur the choice of the ground, and won it;
Hillas wits dressed in black ; when he threw off his
frock, he bad on a bile's waistcoat with black sleeves
to it; he saw Hillasatt Captain Soden's house shortly •
before the duel, and asked was 'it possible fur any
friend .to. bring .about a reconciliation? Hillas said
not. and that he would not make any apology while
his heart but its.his bosom ; he heard that before the
duel be said he would insult either Thomas Fenton
or °swig his family ; .there was such a rep..rt in the
'country. bet he did not hear him say so.. • .
Loaf tus James, If.s.—lie was present when i MS-
' Was.daiieereet tw Hellas by-Jelin Fenton iu the

name of Thomas. The message Was to fight a duel
he was present at the duel ; he was not on tl)e,ground
exactly when the Fenton: arrived ;.he, was walking..
with Hillas ; not sure who was Ora there, but hrie.
companied
.he was or 16 yards • frotu:the
Fentons ; he saw the ground meastwed, and stepped
out the nine paces himself, at Capt. Ferran's request,
o;lio.wis lame ; he saw them both take their ground;
Fenton was on his ground about& inlniite before H=l.
took his ; he had his eye on Fenton ; saw him
squaring himself to fight John Fenton was with his
friend, and put his pistol in his had aad shOved hip
round ; Fentoa got his pistol before Hales, because
Captain Ferrall was a lame m'n, infirm, and between
70_ an a 80 years of age ;Hillas declared he had no

anirnosi:y; Fenton might have heard him, as ovas
within seven or eight yards of him ; John Fenton was
behind him first, and ts.en he shitted before him cite
heard ro word given, but supposes Ferralllgave it,
as he won the toss, “ as we call it." . Jobn Fenton
remained in hunt of Thomas about a minute; Wit.

ness was much agitated, he does not think there was
half a second between die shots ; could not say Iv rev
soon Thomas fired after John went from before him.

On being cross-examined, he said he was an sd.
vising friend to Hillas, so was Mr. Taaffe; Captain
Ferrall Was his acting friend; they were•all practi.
tioners. When Fenton squared himself, he magic
Hillas square himself also; after the messaged Fiala;

was in witness's house ; be made arran{etttents hit
the duel there ; he prepared his pistols there; tried
them; there was a vast number of shots tired ;
las fired two shots oui of witness's pistols at a tree, as
a mark; he was dressed in black on the ground, and
had black sleeves put on his waistcoat after the mtg.
sage was delivered, no doubt wish a view to the duel.
John Armstrong was on the ground, and described
the transaction in a manner •imilar to the preceding
witnesses. He believed it to be the duty of a friend
to square his friend on the grniittd, in as to plate him
as advantageously as possible—JoAn Fenton dll
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nothing more to his ftiena.
Robert Ormsby Was present at the wreck; there
was an altercation between John Fenton and the de.
ceased ; John Fenton threatened to throw the deceased
down the rock ; Hillas was a great means of saving
.the crew: he heard Fenton say, f• damn you.;"
there were warm words on the subject of the wreck--
he heard that the mate, on on-the care of the ves-
sel devolved, gave it hp Lto Mr. Fenton's charge,
and he saw the writing by which it was conveyed to
him ; be heard Mr. Fenton had remained all night
upon a rock on the share, eadeavouring to give all
the assistance in His pwer. He saw Mejor Hides
at Mr. Jones's house on the day befere'the due:, and
s :te them preparing the piatols, and practising
at a boa:it, and tit Hillas fired but a few &bets
only to try his pistols.
Mr. N.Vynne was one of the Magistrates who sat on
the leeestigation of the salveee claims ;.Co'oeel Tr
sat %long welt him ; Mr. Haas rernaieei! all the
time of the it:vestig•tiett ; lie used very warm expos.
does of. Mr Thomas Fenton ; lie stated his own care,.
and :targed that the .neite was unwarrantably takttl
out of Its hands by Mr. Thomas Fenton; his wads
were ves'y strong: he recollected hie concluding '.y
5404, that the mate was taken, he might saiy,
stolen from him ;" the Magistrates iuterrupted !tiros
his belie wase that he meant to apply the explesaion
to Mr. ThOntas Fenton ; as a Magistrate he wisisesi
to put a stop to the proceeding. •
Mr. Wutwamosts..Cususse} .tat- the prisoners, wad,
he would call but one witness. " •
Doctor Carter was at the deel ; he proposed an
apology to Mr. Ferrall to be made by Major Hillas;
the apology he proposed . was for him to say, that
" the expressions which he used relative to. Mr. Fen-
ton were spoken in heat, and not founded in Mt,
and he was sorry for them." ,This was objected to.
Doctor Carter then proposed to expunge the words
i• not founded in fact," but Captain rerrall would
not sutler any apology. Hillas was attended by
three men, all very competent to advise him on such
a subject ; but Captain Ferrell Waiti particularly so.
The case here closed on the part of the pritortets ;
and Judge Fleretien proceeded ea charge the Jury ;
he said, that he had an arduous duty.to discharge,
'hitt that there was no exception in :tease of th:s kind;
and he was bound to tell them, that where in a du. I
death ensues, it is murder—mtirdet as well in the
princ;pal as in the secend. Here one ot the seconds
vre: the cethin, and the oiher (Mr. Ferran), thOith
not indicted, was equally culpet.;e. No Matter Whe.
ther the duel was fair or foul, usual or not ;" the le w
recognised no shadtr. of dieinetinn ; and he was
obliged to tell theist, that if t mo people went out with
mortal weapons to tight, acid if a death easue, tt etas
murder. It was his painful duty to tell them so;—
but in such a case nothing could be innocent,
where two men, wearing, as formerly, swords, had
a sudden rencontre ; if death ensued, it was onl7
manslaughter ; but even theie, it a previous message
had been delivered, it was murder. As to the dis-
cussion whether this was. a fair duel or not, it was
for dem, having thus laid down the law to them,
to consider. lie had told them, it they acted
gaily, how they should find, but. he could not pie.
tend to be ignorant of what his cepei fence had taugh:
him ; and he mist say, in the nielaiieboly course el
his professional expetieuce, he had never seen. less
deviation or conrob4ratian in the wituesses, or less to
induce thein to suppose tli,tt a faitee- duel was ever
fought. 011 the part of t nefortim ate deceased, there
even appeared to Le scrue attetnia at display ; he made
a speech irritate the ma;ictrates ; lie made a speech
before the crowd—there • se.med even some stage-
trick in his proceedings; and he could not help re.
marking it to them, though he must at the same time
greatly regret that so very worthy and excellent a
young man, as he appeared to be, had met with so
untimely an eud. It was: peeved, also, thatthe de-
ceased not only wore a black dress, but had prepared
black sleeves to his waistcoat; what effect black had
in such a case he did not knew, but it at Lela sheaved
a purpose en the part of the deco iced. He bad, per-
haps, entangled himself on this subject more th.iu he
ought, INat he had previously done his duty; by in-
forming the what the law was; and be had in ad-
dition to tell to m, that they could find nti intertie:
diate verdict bet ;ect'an acquittal or murdet.
The Jury retire,' and in a few minutes returned a
verdict of—Not Gu ley a' to both the prisoners.
Judge FeeTeux rhea addiessed the youegsentle-
men id •a very ittipresive edinitnitory address at to
the awftil sitenstipt:in which tile), were placed, and
l.ordemi.theas to be intnicLately discharged.

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