Star.
London, England, 1810-07-05 00:00:00

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The Concert at the Theatre last night was crowded
long before the performances commenced. The fe-
male part of the audience was most brilliant. The
orchestra was directed by the almost unequalled skill
of Dr. CROTCH, the University Professor, and
BAR-
TLEMAN, BRAIIAM, and CATALANS, exerted their
pawers with effect CATALANS was peculiarly excel-
].at in her last song, 6, 0 u inuOvap" and curtsied at

entry expression of general aPPiobation. At the end,
after the Cotonatioa Anthem, Is God Save the King"
'was called for by several; the greater part of the
ilerformers were on the move, but the shewed a strong
'disposition to comply with the wish, and sang that
fine Anthem in tolerable English, assisted in the last
verse by BRAHAM. The Theatre then resounded with
her praises.
At night a grand ball took place in the Town-hall,
where about 700 persons assembled, and in which the
wealth and beauty of the city, and its neighbourhood,
was mixed with the Academics, and graced with the
rank and dignity of the Nobility. In the course of
the evening, a magnificent sort of procession was
made through the chief streets—men on foot, newly
clad in the most dazzling liveries, followed by several
cavaliers, gorgeously apparelled, and well-mounted,
one on a cream-coloured horse. This was taken by'
the inhabitants, to be no less than the grand entry ofl
his Excellency the PERSIAN AMBASSADOR, but turned
out to be no more than the first grand appearance of
Mr. SAUNDERS and his institution ; most of whom ap-
reared entitled to their Doctor's degree in korstmanshift.
This morning the grand attraction was at St.
Mary's Church, ; and the press to get into the
Church, resembled that in getting admittance to the
Theatre. The Rev. Dr. HOWLEY, Regius Profes.l
spr of Divinity, preached a most eloquent and ex-
cellent sermon, before the CHANCELLOR, the Nobility,
the Heads of Houses, Ecc. &c. all arranged in their
proper places, and clothed with their appropriate
habits. The galleries were entirely devoted to the
fair sex ; an order having been printed and placarded
in the streets, describing the necessary arrangements.
Dr. HOWLEY preached, instead of the Right Rev. the
Bishop of OXFORD, who is indisposed at Cuddesden.
Sacred music shone forth in its brightest and most
rapturous strains, from the melodious throats of the
BRAHAM'S and the CATALANIN. Nothing in a Church
could be finer than the whole it. It was for the hene:
fit of the Radcliffe Infirmary, and always occurs after
the Installation of a Chancellor.

Heavy rain this morning, has partially deprived the
High-street of its numbers of students and visitors,
and of its multitudes of mothers, sisters, and daugh-
ters ; but a solar ray is now shooting athwart ow
towers and domes that promises a splendid evening.
Yesterday Lord GRENVILLE dined with the Vice-
Chancellor, where he stays ; others of the Grenville
family are accommodated in the house of a respec-
table tra,lesman in High-street. A most sumptuous
and costly entertainment is preparing for his Lord-
ship at Christ Church, where his Lordship matricu-
lated, though he was, on the election, proposed by
Braze Nose. His Lordship dines in a more private
way on Saturday with Dr. COLE, of Exeter College.
For the Christ Church dinner the Noble Lord has sent
three or four turtles. Mr. WICKHAM, who is a Mem-
ber of All Souls, is also to give a grand repast.
To-day there will be a feast at the Town Hall.—
The business of the halls and iitchens quite eclipses
that of the lodgings and cloisters. The eloquence
even of the pnblvc Orator himself would cause no lis-
tening silence within the sacred walls of a College
the youths say, they are not to be crowed over in the
hours of their hilarity. A surprising mixture, and
variety of characters and professions arc brought to-
gether in this place. To say nothing of real Oxo-
nians anti their lordly visitors, here is all that Lon-
don can spare, in the shape of Milliners, Mantua-
makers, and Hair-dressers, a la Brutus and ,) In Taus.
Here are Taylors with the newest cut ; even a Quack
Doctor, witlr his nostrums and specifics ; and, more-
over, a Corn-cutter, who styles himself a great Chiro-
pecirll. Likewise, the wonderful Signor Polito, who
has come here, as he says, in consequence of ;lie va-
cancy of the Natural Philosoish7 Chair, to exhibit and
lecture on the qualities of a number of inhabitants of
Aria, Africa, and America, y'clept beasts.
Sitturd.ty, a flight will be made superior to the in-
most aspiring: of emulative youth. Mr. SADLER,
(the Aeronaut) will, from Merton Fields, in a pain-
ted car, presume, 44 an earthly guest," to visit the
upper world. _ _ _

Waggery and punning are in full play. Some
queer mal-apropos have occurred. Take one as a
specimen. A Knight of the Rainbow knocked, on
Monday, at the door of Corpus Christi, and enquired
for the Vice-Chancellor. The bedizened gentleman
was introduced to the Rev. Dr. Comm, Principal of
that College and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and told him,
not at all to his dissatisfaction, that he had brought
dawn a fat buck and a fine turtle for his Reverence.
" I'o whom, Sir, am I indebted for this valuable
present ?"—Knight Iquitos.. 66 Are not you Vice-
Chancellor, please your honour ? I bring them from
Lord Gass WWI !"—" No, Sir, I am Pro-Vice-
Chancellor !" The gentleman was somewhat puz-
zled about the distinction, which seemed to him
without a difference, except that the prefix made it
sound more grandly. After many Pro's and Con's,
he found his way to the real Vice-Chancellor's gate,
where his gifts were very cordially received, and had
due justice done to them, by Heads of Houses, with
whom, we believe, the Pre-rice participated in the
Grenville bounty. This has occasioned a few jokes,
Corpus Christi having been, at the late election, an
ElAnian house, on one of the feasts of which, the fol-
lowing Epigram made its appearance :
For Eldon's good friend., Cycle fills airy dish,
" With ham, pheasant, ven'son, and vial;
" Hi, Lordship proposing to send a hue fib,
" Cooke wisely reqiivsts a Great Sealill"
The hissing on the admission of the Honorary
Doctors, and at the entrance and departure of some
of our Members, which our youths maintain to be
their privilege, (although recently forbidden in the
Convocation House,) was not great.

An order has been received to discharge the impress'
gang at. Margate ; also one of the two Impress gangs
at Dover, which has accordingly taken place.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL.—Saturday last her
Royal Highness the Princess ELIZABETH paid a visit
to the School of Industry at Old Windsor, of which
she is the Patroness ; and which is established on a
plan which we hope to see adopted more generally in
the country, in the education of females as untier-w-
-wants. This Charity took its rise ha cotflmemoration
of his MAJESTY'S entering the 50th year of his reign,
and is similar to the Institution at Cheltenham, in re-,
gard to the occupations of the children, in sewing,
knitting, brewing, baking, and other household affairs.
The produce of the School affords a seasonable relief
to the poor in the neighbourhood, as the clod* and
linen are sold to them one-fourth under their 64;7
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6dt:run. bI kINGI BE! CIL JULY 4.
SIR FRANCIS RUItbETT V. Tne StRJRANT AT ARMS,

EARL PROIRA, ETC.
Mr. Serjeant Sitarmain stated that in two cases,
Sir Francis Burdett again.... Colman, and Sir Francis
Burdett against Earl Moira, he had to attend their
Lordships in consequence of an application made for
Trials at Bar in these two cases. The application
narrated the proceedings that had taken place in the
different aetions, and then went on to state that they
involved questions of great public importance, going,
as they did, to question the power of the Serjeant
acting in his capacity of a servant to the House cf
Commons. The Learned Serjeaat admitted tkat these
cases involved questions of very great importance to
the public. He only wished to be allowed to state
the proceedings. The Attorney-General had said I.e
did not wish to hurry the plaintiff. The present mo-
tion surly had not the effect of hurrying, but of re-
tarding and delaying the trial, and the judgment
which might be come to on it. The Attorney-Gene-
ral, however, seemed to imply, that delay and a
reluctance to proceed had been manitesied on the part
of the plaintiff. The cl.:claration had been filed, and
the plea given in last Term, and the plaintiff had re-
joined only one dily beyond the usual time. He cer-
ta;nly should not have advised that notice of trial
should hale been
-given for thee short Sittings after
this term. So he could not see that there was any de-
lay on eith:r side. As to Earl Moira's case, there
had been some delay, but it proceeded from the•de-
fenditot's counsei having wished for time to consider
how they ought to proceed. He did not understand,
however, how the Attorney-General came to be
impressed with the notion, that, in the third action
against the Speaker of the House of Commons, the
plaintiff was not to reply at all. He could not con-
ceive how the Attorney-General entertained such an
idea.

Lord ELLENBOTIOUGH said, such an idea might
wander abroad, but it was not at all conveyed to the
Court.

The ATTORNEY-GINERAL said he had stated thus
far, that finding the plaintiff was not about to reply,
he had ruled him.

Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD agreed that it was so, and
that within the terms of that rule the plaintiff did de-
mur. He believed he should have been indulged, but
he was within the time. As to the question now before
the Court, if their Lordships were of opinion that
these questions were fit to be made the subjects of
Trials at Bar, he could have no objection to it. He
agreed that they involved points of very great im-
portance to the public. But, if the Court should be
of opinion that the Trials should be at Bar, he hoped
a day for trying them would now he named, as, he
believed, eighteen days notice of a Trial at Bar was
necessary.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that in a ca.e like
the present, where three actions had been brought ;
where the plaintiff had replied in two of them, and
the other had, by the plaintiff's act and deed, been
placed in such a state that it c(etld not be tried by a
jury, while the same question of law would cccur in
all the three actions, he could not but' feel auxious
that the question of law arising on tie demurrer. should
come on to be argued before the:r Lordships, in the
first place, before the trials at bar should take place.
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—'Phis was, undoubtedly, the mot regular mode of
proceeding, because it (the Demurrer) might be car-
ried further by a Writ of Error ; while the others, in
all probahi:ity, would never go out of that Court. He
did not :Ittrituite.delay to any one. In two of the ac-
tion', namely, those against the Speaker and Serjeant
at Arms, he had been ordered to defend by the House
of Commons. He was also of the Counsel for the
Earl of Moira, by whom be had been employed as by
any other client.
Lord ELLENBORODCUI said, no blame was imputed
to either side. The only point before the Court,
namely, whether in the cases mentioned, there should
be trials at bar, was not objected to, provided the
Court thought it proper. The question therefore was,
should the present application be complied with ?
Considering the magnitude of the question, and its
great general and public importance, his Lordship
thought it proper that the trials should be at bar.—
This would to him, individually, be a great relief, as,
in this way, he would have the assistance of his bre-
thren in the important questions which were to be
discussed ; whereas, in the usual mode of proceeding,
the determination would fall on him alone. It was
next said, that there was a question before the Court
on demurrer, in which the same question of law as
occurred in these cases, was to be tried at bar, would
fall to be discussed, and it was contended that it would
be best that that question should first come to be ar-
gued before the Court. His Lordship agreed that it
certainly would be better, if the point of law which
occurred in the case of the'demurrer had the bearing
it was said to have on the cases to be tried at bar, that
the demurrer, if it could, should first make its way into
the Court. It would be better, and more convenient
for the Counsel themselves, that this should be the
mode of proceeding. It would enable them to see
their way, in all the different bearings of the case, and
to shape their arguments accordingly. If thother
Shepherd, therefore, had no objection, it would be bet-
ter that matters were thus adjusted.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD being thus called on,-must
admit that the same question might occur in the trials
at bar, as that which must occur in the arguing of
the demurrer. But, unless the Court chose to bind
him to consent to the marshalling of things in the way
now proposed, he could !Jot, of himself, consent to it.
If his client should be in default in bringing forward
his demurrer, he must suffer for it, by having judg-
ment against him. He, however, could not consent
to be bound by this arrangement.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, he certainly could not
be called on to consent to be so bound.

The ATTORNEY•GENERAL begged to state, that,
in the case of the demurrer, the Declarati( n had been
filed on the 10th, and the Plea on the lfith days of
May, and the Demurrer had not been put in till the
26th of June, being the fourth day of this Term.—
That being the case, he could not compel the Plain-
tiff to put down the Demurrer for argument during
the next Term.
Lord E LLENBOROUGH asked, Had they joined in
Demurrer ?

The ATTORWEY•GINKRAL said they had. It was
for the Plaintiff to make up the paper. He might, if
he pleased, bring it on for argument ; or, if he pleas-

tia, he tight keep it back. If he did not child t
set k down for argument, he (the Attorney-Genera 1
presumed to think the Court would not drive him to
try these causes till the Plaintiff had ar7led his de.
murrer. The Counsel for the Plaintiff had intimated

intention to go first to the trial of these c s e, -it
bar, but he trusted their Lordships would not Jr' ve int
Lithe Attorney-General) to these trials till the ques-
tion involved in them, and depending on the n
in the case of the demurrer, should have been argued
and determined on.

Mr. Se jeans SHEPHERD said, this seemed rather to
he an application for postponing the trials, than ono
for their taking place at bar—at least, this would be
,the operation of the Attorney-Generli's .trgonle,i.,
the Court consented to what w now :,ITtf,t. I. •
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had mentioned what had

just fallen from him merely in candour to his Learned
Friend, wishing that he should know what •iew he
entertained of the subject.
Mr. Justice Le 13Lasc said, it had already been ad-
n;tted that these were cases fit to be tried at bar.

Li rd Et.crwsonouoit added, the cinestion now was,
these trials should take place ? The Court would
not now make any order out of the motion before them.
They would go merely to the consideration or s
peslion, and would not endeavour to anticipate any
I.lrther call which might he mad,., on them. They
would go in a straight forward way to Appoint a day
for the trials at bar.

Tuesday, the 20th November, was then fired on
for this purpose.
• - The MASTER suggested that this was a Special Pa.
per Day.
Lord ELLENBOROUGII observed, however, that e
Court had got so well, he ouvlit, probably, rather to
say, so far through the Special Paper (there being at
this moment NO AMMAR) that this could (cum no
objection.

WEST INDIA DOCKS.

A special rase, reserved for the consideration of
the Court,4sas argued to-day, on this point, whether
the lioEk Company, for the allowance of 6s. Bd. peg.
ton for Mooring, unmooring, and rnanagittg vesselt
coming into the dodos, were bound to take the entire
charge of the vessel from the moinOnt Of her arrival,
and if she be in a leaky state, and requiring ithrhedi.
ate means to be used for the safety of the vessel and
cargo, so that expences are incurred in empky'uz
lighters for the accomzinociation of the cargo, while
the vessel is waiting for admittance into the Docks,
the Company is bound, out of the 6s. Bd. per ton, to
defray such expence ?
The Court was clearly of opinion in favour of the
Company on this point. The dccks were meant to he
literally docks, not tobe an hospita ; and it was the im-
plied meaning of the Act, that the ships coming into
the docks should not be in the state of wreck, but be
in a manageable and navigable condition. It any oc-
casional inconvenience should arise to vtssels in a
leaky state, from -waiting till their rotation for get-
ting into the docks arrived, this lesser evil must be
home, on account of the greater:good produced by
the erection of the docks. Judgment was accordingly
given for the defendants.