Star.
London, England, 1816-05-17 00:00:00

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sibs 15th of last math all the out parties of the
Sth Royal Veteran Battalion were suddenly called in
to strengthen the working party at Fort Regent, not
even excepting officers' servants who were able to
work. Last week, notvrithstandiag this violent hurry,
ICO men were suddenly ordered to proceed to Al.
Berney, under the command of Captain Woods., The
Itrtt division sailed on Tuesday. The Scout, that car-
ried them to Alderney, was to take from thence the
detachment of the SU Regiment • quartered there,
laud them at Guernsey, and return here for the re-
sgict division of the Bth Veterans, who were to,
toAlderney.
The day before yesterday the new Lieutenant i
Governor Major-General Gonentr, landed here, us-
der adiaarge of the guns of Elizabeth Castle. The
late Lieutenant-Governor Lieutenant-Generat Sir
IL Ulnae, proceeds to England immediately.
The greatest reductions in every department, are,
it is said, immediately to take place.
Nine as sight.--This' moment an order arrived for
this Bth Royal Veteran Battalion to hold themselves
in-readiness to embark for Portsmouth, to be re-
duced. The transports are ordered from Portsmouth
to'receive them. The first division that embarked and
sailed for Alderney are ordered to return here. The
79th Regiment axe to replace the kith Veterans.

Extract of a letter from Guernsey.-7,“ The States
6f Guernsey have voted the erection of a superb co-
lumn, as a tribute of gratitude and remembrance, to,
Lieutenant-General Sir JOIAN Dons, our late excel-
lent Governor, whose inestimable qualities have en-
deared him all ranks, during a residence of nearly
15 years in this island. He is succeeded by Colonel
Daum of the Royal Engineers, until the arrival
of Major-General BAILILY, who is appointed LiCilta•
suintrernor."
Yesterday the dispatches were finally closed at the
East-In/la House, and delivered to the pursers of the
following ships, viz. Mangles, Captain B. Bonn, for
Bengal direct; Lady Carrington, Capt. D. MiLoo-
oeu., for Madeira and Bengal.
We have already noticed the circumstance of the at.
Tinted IS large heavily laden China ship, in 109 days.
To cot through 15,000 miles of ocean in that short
time, is without example in marine experience: with
similar passages, we ought to communicate with our
Asiatic Presidency at Calcutta within six months, in-
stead• of once in 12 or 15 months, as is now the loiter-
ing and dilatory habit of that important intercourse.
The Aglaia= of New York and Washington will
sobs =change letters and products with Bengal in
five tionthsf The only account we yet have of the
' of Waterloo being heard of at Ciliate, is
from York, where all was public in the firs,
daps of April, though no communication has yet
reached London direct. All the particulars-of this
fine passage deserve well to be carefully collected and
noted, for some evidence and guide in the practice of
navigation. The concurrent observations of so many
able seamen would be instructive, and of an evidence
to admit of no dispute. The writer was once, on a
passage to India, 140 days out of light of all had, and
In that lank time he did sot sail more than ihree parti
of the distance, which hoe now been run through in
109 days
Letters were last week received from Major Pep-
sis, the mllitary"commandant of the daring enter.'
pica of penetrating Africa, tracing the course of the
river Niger. The letters are dated Senegal, the 15th
of March. They They mention that the espeditioo will
not leave that place before September next, on ac-
count of the rainy season. In the mean time' the
Major was snakins, every necessary preparation. Col-
lecting information fine every person who had Ara-
',died any distance in the interior, making himself
acquainted with the most minute ciresithstanais re.
'meeting the fate of the lamented PAlliti to guard
himself from the mistakes committed by that cols.
braced traveller. He writes that every person in the
expedition is in the highest spirits, and from the ad-,
Suable plans laid down they • feel confident of obi.'
mate success. Opr Readers are acquainted that than
eke two expeditions proceeding to explore Africa—
the ene proceeding by boats up the river Congo, the
other tracing the river Niger. Maio!. Pawns com-
mands the latter. The general opium entertained
'is that both rivers join, and empty. themselves into,
immense morasses in the interior of Africa. Tht
two "mealtimes ore in consequence mated to meet.
Galleries far 16,000 Orisons are preparing in
the Metropolitan Marsh of Phis for the occasion of
the marriage of the Duke of linear.
Thaaridik (surf* basket) of the M-
OON 4 Smarr is exposed-to. dle view' of the curious
at the Hotel if Menus Maim* get Paris. The mat.
siege robs is white taller embetikredpith rid, and
ornamented with brilliants; a Made of white velvet
fa epthmsdered in the same manner, and also acne-
inotpktilth haltienti; there isanother robe of tone,
011104.4tsMit Paths 44 Migarobs embtoidared
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• Aor Writrlziascx.
Omar Of COMMON PLEAS, MAY. IL
DRAW V. CLAYTON. SAT. •
. This cam, highly impntunt to the sporting, world;
Cattle on for final argument. The question. is, whet
ther an action on he case will lie against Sri Wm.
Clayton, for petting spikes or sharp instruments on
his.manor to protect his game, in consequence of
Tlieh the plaintiff's dog was killed. The facts were
beibre the public on a former hearing of the clinic
The defendant having put up spikes to keep out loxes
and dogs, gate notice of what he had done. Thei
labitiff, a gentleman qualified as a,sportsmaa, being
with his dog on the estate of his fnetidUr. Town,
*end, which joined the defendant's ground, the
a hart, which ran into SIM Clayttnes
)rile could not restrain the animal, which a re;---sal-
mites after ran -open °scar the spikes and was killed.
The plaintiff brought his action for the loss of his
dog, 1111d_et the trial a special verdict was involving
lbr (Weldon; whether the action, could' be sns-
tabled The arguments /*mend on. were moots*
urged by Sejeant BRAT and Serjeant Bosanourr.
The farmer contended that Sir William Clayton had
acted unlawfully in putting up the said spikes; and
the Utter maintained, on the inthority of various
cues, that the mischief complained of was the result
of a trespass. The circumstance of the trespass being
voluntary or involuntary, could not, he contended,
give the plaintiff any right to support an action.
The Court did not give.judgment; the question,
however, will be decided this Term.
PREROGATIVE COPRT, MAY U.
PROCTOR H. HART.
This was a cause respecting the last will of Mr.
J. 0. Hart, late of Chatham, deceased. It appeared
the deceased, in May, 1814, gave instructions to Mr.
Crill (his Solicitor), of Knightsbridge, to preparehis
will; the instructions were accordingly reduced into
writing, by Mr. Crill, and afterwards sent to a con-
veyancer for his perusal. On being read over to the
deceased, he approved of them ; but undentanding
these would be an additional expense in making a
fair copy, he would not cement to have it done, but
executed the draft in question, which execution was
attested by the necessary witnesses. After the 'evi-
dence had been need (there being no opposition) Sir
J. Ificuor.r. said, that the proofs were sufficient, and
accordingly pronounced for its validity.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY Ib ,
LIBEL UICON COUNT WONONZOFT.
THE LINO C. UR NATHANIEL WILLIAM WIAXALIe

This morning the Arroanzr GOMM. moved
the judgment of the Court on this defendant—who
bad suffered judgment to go by default, upon en in-
formation Sled against him in the last Idichaeleneel
Term, as the publisher and author of a certain grow;,
scandalous, and malicious libel, of andconceraing
Simeon Count Woroozoff, originally Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Empress Cache.
rine of Russia, at the British Court ; subsequently, it
her death, Ambassador from the late Emperor Paul;
and at the present moment having retired -frurn
office, a resident in this country.
The libel• in question was published in a work,
called—" Sir N. W. Wruall's Memoirs of his Own
It commenced by stating, that the Grand
Duchess was not the on person who had
been put out of the way by the Empress Catherine,
for that Augusta Caroline, daughter of the Duke of
Brunswick, who had married her son, the then Prides
of Wurtemberg (now King of Wurtemberg), had
,hared a similar fate. The author then went on to
state, that he had himself seen the young Princeu at
the Court of Brunswick previous to her marriage,
-under, the cue of her mother. That 'subsequent to
her marriage with the Prince of Wurtemberg she was
conducted by her husband to Russia,. and that she
WU received by the Empress Catherinei at Peters.
burgh, with great attention. That some years after-
wards the Prince, her husband, quitted Russia, sad
took with him histbree children, leaving his wife be.
hind, et the desire of the Empress. That at the end
of two years it was notified to him and to the Duke
of Brunswick, that the wife. of the one, and the child
of the other, was dead ; and that although the Duke
of Brunswick requested her body might be sent to
him, this was -never granted. Dmibts were after-
wards entertained as to the cause of the death of the
Princess—and that she had died a Amoral death be-
came questionable—indeed, whether she bad died at
all seemed to be a matter of uncertainti-wand suspi,
cions were entertained that she still survived in gibe-
ria, or the Polar Deserts, whither many others of her
Illustrious Family had been sent bl_the Empress
Elizabeth, cm her deposing Wan. The author fol-
lowed up this insinuation, by .the statement of a pre.
Talent opinion, that it was suspected her death by
poison was acquiesced in by the Print* of Wurtem-
berg himself; which opinion, he oblerved, was re-
ceived with so much confidante by the King of Great
Britain, that, when in 1791, overtures were made by
the Prince fora marriage with the ?titian Royal of
England, the King refused to give his consent to the
match till this circumstance was cleared up
factorily. ",Upon this, (continued the Author.) the
Prince of Wurtemberg sent -over an active and- int&
liigent Agent to this country, if possilde too ascertain.
the source of the report. That agent I petionalty_
brew, and - he•told me that he traced the imputation
to have come from Count Woroozoff, the then Mini-
ster of Cittherke at the British Court ; whom, epee.
strong remonstrance, beindiced to acquit she Prue,
of Wurtemberg of all participation in the Mime. .
causing the death of his wife, and finally to satisfy-the
iKing that there was no ground for the twhich
-had. been circulated. Ups* the death of: XVI
!Catharine soon_ afterwards, however, the.
.ronr.off was induced to depart from his assertion oil
,the innocence of the Empress Catherine, although he
maintained the innocence of the Prince. 4ftei.
"the death of the Empress, thenegociatiens for the.
!marriage wets tepidly advanced, and 'the aaptisit
were solemnised. without delay."
Such was the substance Of the ahel Ai allieek
'on the-Part of the Coma Worosanif..waiputis, et- ,
early denying *er having mocha agent alluded tool
,or teeing been in any rhea et fastroinemal to-the in•
port alleged to have bees circulated. And by a lett*
him the defendant to him,requitiai bier to statethe
name of the -agent from whom ballad remind his
information, it appeared that bi, the defeadast, a
period d 19 years having *elapsed ditiChttlOr khan
could aft mocellat has Mune. '"'
-Oa she al tits *fondant it was urged, that
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Monday, Mr Jamas Montgomery, But. M.P. of Stanhope, to
Miss Helen, Nand daughter of Thomas Orahant, Isl. of Mo-
ron, N. E.
Ap Y 211, at Tullansore, (hand, Captalo Egan, of the Benabay
!away, to Ana, sumnd datighter of. Richard Devito% Eq.
At OtleiMi, Oattgier nth, James Atklition, Esq. to Jane, se-
mod daughter or Dr. Heade, of Hanuttenaldt.
J=H. P. Dewey, ts Mary, youngest finaghter of the late
111, Estk.of