Star.
London, England, 1826-08-17 00:00:00

SIERRA LEONE PAPERS.

FREETOWN, Mar eo.
His Honour, the Acting Governor, who had been
severely indisposed for above a week, was, ore were
happy to observe, so far recovered on Sunday last, as
to be able to prosecute his intended visits to the settle-
menu in the Gambia ; and, accompanied by the Hon.
G. Rendall, and the Hon. William Barry, Members of
Council, and Lieutenant *Vicar, Private Secretary,
accordingly embarked on board his Majesty's steam-
vessel African, Lieutenant Austin, R.N. Commander,
under the usual salutes from the fort and vessel, which
immediately proceeded to sea.
His Majesty's ship Swinger, Lieutenant Matson,
Commander, came into harbour on Friday, from a
cruise to windward; during which she visited our prin-
cipal settlement in the Gambia, and the Port ugue,e
island of St. Jago (one of the Cape de Verds); from
'whence his Majesty's ship Thetis, Sir J. Phillimore, Knt.
C.B. Captain, having on board the Right Hon. Lord
Ponsonby, his Majesty's Representatiw to the States of
Buenos Ayres, ss ith his Lady and suite, had sailed a
few days before for his Lordship's destination.
We are sorry to learn, by the arrival from ihe Sherbro
of his Majesty's steam vessel African, that the hopes
we entertained in a former number, of the probable
benefit which would be derived from the active inter-
ference of the Kings of the River in settling the peace
of that part of the country, had not been realised ; but,
on the contrary, that they had returned from their mis-
sion without attaining anything further than the resti-
tution of some of the property seized by Tucker and his
colleagues, from the traders of this colony. The rower
of these Kings has, in fact, bitn so long unexercised, that
their influence, it would appear, has almost entirely
ceased, and their authority is now almost laughed at by
the descendants of slave traders, whit were originally
mere strangers in the country, but who, from their ill-
gotten wealth, are now enabled to maintain about them
a number of armed followers, whose object is to keep
the country unsettled. The more peaceable natives are
in continual dread of involving themselves in disputes
with those men, whose sole object is plunder, in the sei-
zure of their persons to supply the French slave dealers
—who, now driven from Shebat., resort to the Galinas
market, which is almost solely supplied from the rivers
in the Sherbro under the influence of the Tuckers, and
other knows slave traders of the country.
This state of things, we should however suppose,
cannot be of long continuance. It is generally report :d
throughout the country, that SeaCca, fife King of tialinas,
has been obliged to come to terms with his slaves (that
is, his people); and That he has entered into a solemn
compact, recognizing them as freemen; that he has
further given them land, on which they are forming a
town, and, for himself and successors, renounced all
right over their persons. The number of people now
collected for shipping by James Tucker is supposed to
amount to some hundreds, which there is little proba-
bility of his being enabled to send away, while we con-
tinue our blockade in the neighbourhood of the Galinas,
the only part of the coast from which they can be em-
barked. These collected victims are, many of them,
natives of the country they are now confined in, and
understand the language. They will hear the result of
the resistance of Seacca's people, under similar circutn.
stances to those they are placed in; and it may, there-
fore, be reasonably expected that a like rising may occur
among them. A spirit.of this kind on the part of these
at present degraded people, would soon bring the hitherto

COURT OF CHANCERY, Avoca 16.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.--JUDGMENT.
CONST V. HARRIS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR having stated on a former
day that be would dispose of this case to day, on his
Lordship's coming into Court this morning, he observed,
in the case of Const so. Harris, I have looked into the
affidavi;s, with reference to so much of the case as came
on yesterday, and I am clearly of opinion, that what-
ever may he:eafter be done, as to the payment of the
debts on the bonds and bills of exchange, and however
right it might be that they should be paid, ni.l I catsnot
dep.irt from the practice of the Court, so as to say the
teceiver had anything to do with them. As to the pay-
ment of the rates and taxes, I do not see how it vas
possible for the receiver to avoid paying them, as, if he
had not, that would have destroyed the Theatre. The
.um asked to be paid inee toort is a iiirts of 19,0Q01.
Will the receiver pay into Court 10,0001. and take a
reference to the Master as to the rates and taxes?
Mr. SHADWELL said his client, the receiver, would rather pay in
that sum than 19,0001.
Mr. HART said, if Mr. Robertson would undertake to
pay into the Accountant;General's office, before the
closing of that office on the 2.51. h, the sum of 10,0001.
thoogh he had no instructions to do so, he. would take
upon himself to consent to that order.
Mr. SHADIFELL requested that the time might be ex-
tended beyond the 25th, as his client informed him
there was a physical inability on the part of the receiver
to pay .in the sum of 10,0001. before .the 25th; in fact, •
he had not got the money.
Tile LORD CHANCELLOR said,' he could not agree to
the time for payment being extended. I happen to know
(said his Lordship) from my experience—perhaps I may
call it my bad experience—that in former times the
vacation was gealerally•given to the Chancellor, and All
the business was done by the Master (Atilt Rolls befrite
there was a Vice-Chancellor. In the course of the Va-
cation, I have myself gone down to Sir T. Sewell to •
get business done, and I recollect a singular circtun-
Istance which, because it is a professional Anecdote,' will
tell to. your—Mr. Hollist, the Barrister,, went down to
S;r T. Sewell, at o:tershaw, and that Learned Judge
would not hear him, because he had not his wig and
gown with him. 1 went down at a subsequent period
to Sir T. Sewell, and he, seeing my wig and gown in
the chaise in which I went d )sun, desired me very pet-
btely not to put it on. Last Vacation, my ftiend, the.
Master of the Rolls, was a great distance off, and my
friend, the Vice. Chancellor, was abroad; the conse-
quence of which WAS, that 1 had a great many Chan-
cery sittings.
Mr. HART said, if Messrs. Kemble, Willett, and Forbes. would
undertake to submit to have their names introduced into the order
for payment jointly with Mr. Robertson, the receiver, then he would
acquiesce in the time for payment being extended to the first day
of the next term.
Tile LORD CHANCELLOR said he thought that would
do. He had looked into the decree which had been
made on the notion, that this Court was to cat ry on the
concern from time to time. lie disavowed the juris-
diction of this Court to carry on a concern like this,and.
he wished the Gentlemen co icerned in this matter to
understand, that it they meant to carry on the theatrical
concern, they must take it out t-f Chancery. The juris-
diction of the Court was to put an end to•tliis, as to
any other partnership, and not to carry on Covent Gar-
den Theatre, though he should be sorry to deprive the
public of the amusement and entertainment they ex-
perienced at the Theatre. Looking at the decree and
orders made in this cause, it appeared to him to amount
to .no more than making either the Chancellor. the
Master of the Rolls, or the Vice Chancellor, managers
of this theatre; whether those two Gentlemen...could
carry it on will he did nor know, but he was sure he
could nor. His Lordship then ordered the sum of
10,000 L to be paid into Court, on or before the first day
of next Term..
ax PARTE BOURNE IN THE MATTER OP BOURNE.
• Mr. HEALD said this was a petition of a Bankrupt
named Bourne praying the Lord High Chancellor to
supersede his commission, on the ground that it had
bren fraudulently sued out by his father-in-law, for. the
purpose of effecting his ruin. The Petitioner was a
printer and newspaper vender, also the publisher of the
Poole, Weymouth and Dorset Gazette. Having incau-
tiously suffered a libel to appear in his paper, he attended
the Court of King's B.:nch to receive judgment. He had
previously contracted a debt with Bennett his father-in-
law, and during his absence from Weymouth, Bennett
seized his goods. The petitioner having brought an ac-
tion for the wrong done, Bennett made him a bankrupt,
and with other assignees sold his printing presses and the
copyright in the paper. This was done according to the
petition to prevent him horn going on with has action
at law.—Bennett, who had claimed a debt of 4,0001.
proved, at the meeting of assignees, no more than 1,3001.
The commission, he alleged, had been taken out for the
Ilsole purpose of depriving him of obtaining redress at
law. The petitioner's newspaper, presses, and effects,
had been swept away by this commission, and the peti-
tioner completely ruined. He therefore prayed it might
be superseded.

' Mr. Hstaus-in support of the petition contended that the circa,-
stances under which this consraissien had been sued out became an
abuse of the Great Seal, and that it could not stand.
Soon after four o'clock, the Loan CllANciu.g.oft intimated to Mr.
Heald, that he could hear no more of the case this day.—His Lotd-
ship then left the Court. •

Accounts from Halifax to the 15th July, state, that
Sir HOWAID DOUGLAS had arrived at that place on the lash, and
had been weU received. The drought bad been felt in most parts
of the province u injuriously as in Europe, and rain was still
anxioudy expected. MALI notice had been given that therms of
Saint Pierre, Fort Royal and Trinity in Martinique, Basseterre and
Pant Petre in Guadaleupe, were open to all foreign 'feuds at
reduced tariff, on goods specified in the Ordonnance. Upwards of
1,500 anicyasts had arrived at Sc. Join's, New Brunorkk, since
the 30th of April, many of whom were in a most miserable condition.
The Barbados Globe of the 29th June last, adver-
tises the loss of a poetical work which had out the author, (R.
Wuacrunt !) fifty years labour. It fell a prey to burglars, ant
.500 guineas reward are offered for its restoration I It was to have
produced the Poet "large seats of money."

in 321 I 34, Greek

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The Consol market, which had the appearance, in the early part
of the morning, or a further improvement, has, within this hour,
rather declined. Consols, which were at 7111 f for the'Account,
have receded to 781 a; and for October Account 781 sellers, at
which price they remain steady, with no busines4 of conserenee
transacting.—The Foreign Market is also dull to what it was in
the early pert of the morning, and the prices of South American
Securities are somewhat lower.

PRICE Or STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 202%
M per Cent. /tr.i.79?w Sid
S per Cent Congo's 783/4 % 114
3) re:, Cent. 8674
Sf, per Cent. Red. 5614 %
New 1. ',el Cent. 94% 1/4
4 per Cent. Scrip VA
4 per Cent. 1826, 951/2 951/4
Lang Ann. 19%
India !Ion& 23 25
South Sea Stock 861/4
New Annuities 781,4
3 pet Cent. 1751, 781/2
4.:1")(1.1::icheq. Bills 14 16
4300 ditto 14 16
CI 04) and £2(X) ditto 14 16
Cons. tor Account 7844 % 1)4 44
FOREMN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK.
Colrenbisa Roods. Met. lids 1615. a p. Ct. 454
Ditto for Ace. I 451 64 aIS
foods, tBl4, 36i 3 4i Met. Acct. 454 4 S 6 54 64 6
i 0 Acc.Siti S 24 4464 5
Thlui.ll Ponds. I p Ct. 561 1 1 Perim 11ds. 6p C. 141
Dino Acet.s7 61 Russ. ilds. 1622, 5 p C. 634
Greek Boods,tßitS.3p C. 13 Span. Boo& S p Ct. 104
Ditto Acct. 13i Ditto Aect.lo4
21t1TIS11 AND FOREIGN SHARES. TWO O'CLOCK.

small& PAM
Anglo Mexican S pin. 100 lIS 171
Brazilian 100 IS 554 30 SS Si
Gwen! Mining Aso. 100 5 de
Hayden 100 11 $
Real del Monte 400 400
Ditto Now 400 200 ISO
rnitad Mexican 40 221 121 11/
Pearl rishory, Yellow 45 2 11
Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 20 14 IS 141
AUSTRIAN FUNDS, VIENNA, Ave. S.
Idetalliques 901•x$. Bank Shares 1004 4-5.

IVe have received advices from the Mexican Capital
down to the 24th ult. and the Caroms Colombian. to,
the 23th inclusive. There was a strong probability that
PorNsztr would succeed in making a good treaty
with.the Government of Mexico, without the invidious
exception which that Government had so pertinaciously
urgtd. As for the affairs of Venezuela no blood has as
yet been shed, and moderation and national loyalty were
professed ; but as BOLIVAR was not likely to arrive soon
in Colombia, the political horizon remained overcast.

Milan Gazettes, with German, and other Papers,
reached us this morning. The following ate extracts :

MILAN, Avauss 5. i
The Goyernment at Milan has given notice that the
Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries of the Coons in-
terested in the execution of article ninety-seven, of the

final act of the Congress of Vienna, 9th June, 1815, in
conformity with the maxims approved by the respec-
tive Courts. signed, on the 19th of July, a Proclamation,
which the Government publishes for the information
and direction of the persons interested. This notice
recalls to mind that on the dissolution of the kingdom
of Italy, and the treaties between the allied Powers and
France. all dotations, denatickos, assignments. &c. which
were inscribed in favour of France, to the charge of the
Monte Napoleone, were extinguished and annulled. The
Sovereigns, who resumed possession of the States of
which the kingdom of Italy had been composed, de•
clued, in a proclamation of the 14th of April, 1821,
that. notwithstanding this extinction of the dotations,
itc.eey admitted the right of the parties interested to
receive the arrears due before the 50th May, 1814.
Considerable delays were, however, occasionei by the
length of time necessary for the persons interested to
bring the required proofs of their claims, and then for

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i, STOCK RIZCIIANOP., TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 71111 for the Account. the same
price as they left of yesterday, and although there is but little doing
at present. the market bas a very firm appearance; and tor next
Account they may be quoted at 7111 buyers.
In the Foreign Market there is a good deal doing in Colombian
and Mealcan Bonds.
current prices: Old Spanish 104 1, Mewican 454 46, Colom-
bian 324 1 34, Greek Bonds 13 4, Brazilian Shares 16‘ to 174.

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