Star.
London, England, 1811-02-01 00:00:00

CITY THEATRE.

Mr. MELLISH presented a Petition from certain per-
sons, for le.tve to bring in a Bill for the erection of a
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Theatre in the City of London.
Mr. SHERIDAN put a question across the table to
Mr. Mellish, who professed himself unable to answer
it. The nature of !qr. Sheridan's question we could
not collect.
After some other private Petitions had been pre-
sented, the Speaker suggested the propriety of pro-
ceeding to the public business, and then after that
had been disposed of, recurring to what remained of
the private.

REGENCY BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the Order of the Day for taking into conside-
ration the Amendments sent down by the Lords. The
order having been read, the amendments were seve-
rally read and agreed to without any observation,
tind Mr. Perceval and other Members were ordered
to carry the Bill to the Lords, and acquaint_ their
Lordships that the House had agreed to their
Amendments.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, that he had intended
to make one or two observations upon the question
respecting the Amendments, but having Missed the
opportunity, he did not then rise to go into any de-'
tail ; lie had already explained his sentiments too
fully not to be understood as to what were his senti-
ments upon the Bill itself, whether as to the vice of
its principle, its injurious provisions, or their mis-,
chievous consequences. Upon all these he had al-
ready said enough ; but as upon a former occasion he
had expressed his suspicions of his Majesty's Minis-
ters a few years back, having been guilty of an undue
exercise of the Royal Authority ; of their having
*surged that authority at a time when it could not
have been legally exercised ; and as, from what he
had since learned, he had reason to believe that those
suspicions were well founded, under such circum-
stances he felt it his duty to state, that as soon as
Parliament was regularly assembled, and in case no
other Member should think it fit to do so, he should
snake it his business to bring it before the considera-
tion of that House, and leave it to them to found any
proceeding upon it they might judge proper.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that he felt as little inclined as the Honourable
Gentleman could be, to renew a debate which had
already been carried to such extent; nor should he
now do so, notwithstanding that the Honourable
Gentleman had arraigned the vice of a Bill to which
he had just given his Assent ; neither should he refer
to their past discussions upon that Bill, farther than
by saying, that the sentiments he had stated during
that discussion were unchanged, and that he had the
good fortune to have had with him a majority of the
House in confirmation of the justice of those senti-
ments. With respect to the other topic, as he con-
sidered what fell from the Honourable Gentleman
as a notice, he should not now go into a detailed
explanation, but content himself with saying, that
he should be ready to meet the charge. He, nu
doubt, had no more personal knowledge of the
transaction than the Honourable Gentleman him-
self, but from the information lie had received upon
that subject, an information on which he rested the
most complete reliance, he had no hesitation in stat-
ing, that if the information he had received WAS,
true, of which he had no doubt, he should be fully'
prepared to meet any charge which the Honour-
able Gentleman might think proper to bring for-
ward ; and upon the same grounds, he was equally
confident, that he should be able to sat:. fy the House
that the act complained of was done under the imme-
diate sanction of that very authority of which it has
been presumed to have been the violation; but as he
understood the gentleman's observations to be meant
as a notice merely,- lie should for the present abstain
from going into any detail.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, that when the Right
Honourable Gentleman taunted him with assenting
to the Bill he had complained of, merely because he,
(Mr. W.) had inadvertently omitted to announce by
his voice his dissent—when the Right Honourable
Gentleman descended to make 'such a trivial objec-
tion as that, he did that which certainly could not
either much assist him, or depress others ; as to his
(Mr. W.'s) opinions, he had said that they, as well
as those of the light Hon. Gentleman, had remained
unchanged ; and as to the premises held forth by,
the Right Hon. Gentleman as to what he should
be able toad when the matter 'should come to issue,
he (Mr. W.) enuld only say, that it would be very
satisfactory to tbe *Oldie, if the Right Honourable
Gentleman could establish by proot, what he had
se laboured to establish by assertion. Here the con-
versation dropped.
The thanks of the House were voted to the Rev.
Charles Proby, for his sermon before that House yes-
terday.
The Members wero now dispersing, when
The Sreaxcn *ye notice; that to-morrow being
the last day for teceiving private Petitions, he should
take the Chair at a. quarter past three o'clock.
Several private Yetitians were then presented, when
tite House aajoutibMi.

PONSONBY
PONSONDY, Imo.

The following Protest was read by Lord CROWE.
Novi, in the course of his speech in the House of Lords,
on Monday, the 28th ult. on a question of receiving
an Appeal from Scotland :--
Mita NT IZN T—Because the authority by which Parliament
has new the means of deliberating, is derived from a proceeding
irregular, and only to be justified by the necessity of the case; it
ought, therefore, to be strictly circumscribed by the same rule,
and not be permitted to extend to matters beyond the purposes
for which it has been created.

Beciuse the above appeal has no connection with those objects
to which the attention of Parliament is now, from an act of ne-
cessity, directed.
Because, if a Parliament, meeting under the circumstances of
the present, when one branch of the legishstrre is incapable of
exertion, should assume to itself a free scope in the objects of its
deliberation, before the defects in the legislature is supplied, sub-
jects may be brought into discussion, by which a precedent may
be established subversive of the Monarchy and the Constitution.

GLOUCESTER ELECTION.

Gloucester, January SI.
Notwithstanding the majority in favour of Sir W.
GuisE, the friends of Mr. DUTTON are no way de-
pressed. The number of. voters in that gentleman's
interest on the skirts of the county is very large.—
Several bodies of freeholders in the blue interest have
entered the city to-day, notwithstanding the heavy
fall of snow which took place in the night ; the blues,
with very few exceptions, vote for Mr. DUTTON.
The following is a correct State of the Poll ;
FIRST DAY'S Pott..
For Sir William Guise 21 Majority for Sir W. Guise 116
M. Dutton 147
SRCOND DAY'S POLL.
Fer Sir William Guise 575/ Majority for Sir W. Guise 143
Mr. Dutton 4S!

Sir William Gulag
Mr. Dutton

TIRO DAT'S POLL.
41
Majority fur Sir W. Guise 85
397
Total Majority for Wl:W.ou* Sit

Yesterday C. Haden was charged at the Mansion• I
House, with being concerned in uttering a check for '
£l7, which had been stolen ; but owing to the ab-
sence of a material witness, he was committed for re-
examination.
Two lamp-lighters were charged by Mr. Coulson,
their employer, with stealing a quantity of oil, and
neglecting their duty. The prisoners in defence said,
they had fallen down and spilled the oil, which was
the reason they had not done their duty. The
master not being able to contradict this defence, the
Lord Mayor was under the necessity of discharg-
ing them.
Yesterday Elizabeth Littler, alias Watso►t, was fully
committed from Hatton-garden Office, charged with
robbing several laundresses in and about Hackney.
As was F. Malone, for uttering counterfeit silver,
at the Magpie and Stump, on Clerkenwell•Green ;
and Catharine Brown, for stealing several sheets,
blankets, &c. from the Red Lion public-house, in
Red Lion square.

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AGAINST TUC JAMISON Or LORD ZINO'S MOTION FOIL OMIT.!

TINO Tilt NAME or " roanctoari.miese;, As bali of Ina PLYMOUTH, JANUARY, ids • , - •
MAJESTY'S COUNCIL. . • it it tiow confirmed, that the Mo Neittlit islatt.
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Dies a sync N I.—First, Because it is of theitighest importance,
that In the appointment of her Majesty's Council the public should Letters have been received here from our Ro4lilerPrt
have every security, which previous conduct can afford, that the
: squadron,. stating that the 1430i4ClitY sig4 lost of &l e.
persons composing the same will not act under any undue bias,
but that whilst they follow the course prescribed to them by their Isle, by running on a rock.—Put back; the Essex ft;-
duty for restoring his Majesty to the public exercise of his Royal gate, (which sailed bn Monday for Portsoir-ut:i) the
Functions, whenever be shall be in a capacity to resume them, .
nd having come round to thc eastward;—Arrired
they will neither expose his Majesty to the danger of a too early v n
pressure of business, nor concur in representing his Majesty as the FAvoniTE slap of war from a cruise ; the Rovut,
qualified to act in his high office, before his recovery shall be
complete. I 18 guns, from the Downs; the PHEASANT sloop from
Secondly, Because it appears by the evidence of Dr. Heberden, a cru:ze; and Nonce, 74 guns, from Cadiz, with three+
taken on oath before a Committee of this House, " that beans' cartel transport brigh under convoy, with French pri-
first called upon to attend his Majesty on the twelfth of February.:
1804; that he believed his Majesty presided at Council on the soners and deserters.—Sailed the Iris schooner of this
twenty-third of April following; and that he should consider the port, and the Edward for Cork.
interval between those periods as constituting the durtion of his
Majesty's disease a that time.' Yet nevertheless it appears from PORTSMOUTH, JANUAitt 311.'
the Journals of this House that between the two days above- Arrived his Majesty's ships KANGAROO and Swurr,
mentioned, John Lord Eldon, being then Lord High Chancellor
of Great Britain, did, on the fifth of Merck 1804, receive, and front a cruize ; DIANA frigate from the Downs; the
in his Majesty's name slimily his Majesty's consent to a Bill,
1-itilitißEß armed ship takes convoy to the Downs.—
entitled," An Act to enable his Majesty to grant the inheritance
in fee-simple of certain manors, messuages, lands, and heredita- Came into harbour a Spanish brig, that has met with
menu', in the: parishes of Byfieet, Nk eybridge, Wallin, Wallin- considerable damage, bound horn London to Cadiz.
leigh, and Chertsey, In the county of Surrey, to his Royal High-
nes, Frederick Duke of York and Albany, for a valuable consi- Wind N.W.
derision -" and that he did also put the Great Seal to a Commis- DEAL, JANUARY 31.
sion dated 9th March, by virtue of which fifteen Bills received Came down from the River his Majesty's ship
the Royal Assent ; as well as to a Commission dated March 23d,
under which seventeen other Bills received the Royal Assent ; NYMPHIA ; and the PnosasEno bomb from Sheerness.
although his Majesty was, at that time, as appears by the evi- Wind S.W. . .
deuce above recited, afflicted by a malady of the same nature and SHEERNESS, JANUARY 81.
character la ith that which has now occasioned a suspension of the Yesterday sailed the TICKLISH to the Westward.—
Royal functions.
Arrived the Cuo from Leith, and the 'SNAP from the
Thirdly, Because it further appears from the same evidence, ~. • .
w' that after the period when his Majesty was so far recovered as 1-' estward; No arrivals or railings this day.
to be able to transact business at any period of any day, he still
retained such marks of indisposition about him as made it expe- The PALLAS and NYMPITEN frigates, stranded at
dient that some one of his Physicians should be about his person Dunbar, have now Tone to pieces. - '• • -
for some months afterwards ; and that Dr. Heberden was in at-
The Mentor, WISE, from Newfoundland to Liver.
tondance on his Majesty so late as the end of October;" and it
was stated in debate, and not denied, that, during this latter pe- pool, is stranded near Tralee. ii-e
Hod, and particularly on the 10th of June, 1804, when it was The Industrious William and John, GarEN, from
understood and believed bath by this House anclibe public, that Strangford to Liverpool, is stranded near Whitahaven.
his Majesty was perfectly recovered, his Majesty not only conti- The Hibberts,
____, from Honduras to London, is
need in a state which required medical guidance, but that both
Dr. Simmons and his assistants were still in attendance on, and taken and carried into Dunkirk.
possessed a controul over his Majesty ; yet, that nevertheless, The Lord Duncan, —,from Lisbon to Greenock,
while his Majesty was still subject to such personal controul, the is on shore at Lockindahl.
said John Lord Eldon, as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, The Liberty, --, of Sunderland, with coals,
did receive his Majesty's pleasure on divers important matters of
foundered off Flamborough Head, on the 18th ult.
his Majesty's Regal Government, and did, In virtue of his said
office, perform various public acts requiring the sanction of the The Margaret, —, of Sunderland, foundered
King's authority. near Filey, on Sunday last.
Fourthly, Because John Lord Eldon having so conducted him- The Linskell, Hoca (a transport), is lost in the
self, is not, in our judgment, a person to whom the sacred trust Tagus, and six of her crew are drowned. '
of acting as one of her Majesty's Council in the care of his Ma-
jesty's person, and in the discharge of the other most important STATE OF THE NAVY.—The following is the State
duties, by this Act committed to the said Council, can with pro- of the British Naval Force, made up to this day :
priety or safety he committal. At sea, of the line, 89; from 50 to 44 guns, 9; fri.
GREY ROSSLYN
LAUDERDALE DERBY gates, 125; sloops and yatchs,lo2 ; bombs, fire-ships,
VASSAL Ht ILLAND ASHBURTON &t. 5 ; brigs, 140; cutters, 82; schooners, &c. 53-1
ERSKINE Total 555—Total in commission 792—Grand total.
including those in ordinary, building, and under re-
pair, 1062.
DISTRIBUTION OP PRIZE MOM. ,
The Speedwell, for the condemned part of the carp of the
Cute Hoffnung, detained on the lath August, 1805, will' be paid
to-morrow, at No. 22, Norfolk-street, Loudon, where the same
will be reeled
The Lively, for the Success, recaptured op the llth May, 109,
was paid on Tuesday last, at No. 10, Jan-street, Adelphi, and
will be there recalled. -
The Linnet, for the John, recaptured on the 10th December,
1810, will be paid on beard, on arrival in port, and recalled at
No. 42, St. Mary-street,.Portsinsonth.
The April, for the Anna Sophia, Florldenzia, Lorentz, and
Drey Schwistern, captured on the 224 October, 1809, was paid
en board. at Plymouth, this day, and will be recalled at No.- 70,
Great Rossell-street, Bloomsbury. -

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The Tribune, for the Danish vsmels Three Brothers, Stjernen,
two transports (Nos. 29 and 45), and three lioats, captured on the '
15th, 16th, and 20th October, and Ist, 2d, and Xd November,
1809, was paid on board, this day, and will be recalled at No. 23,
Norfolk-street, Strand.
'I be Censor, for the Jonge Jan and Fortuin, captured en the
24th June, and for the Endraght, en the sth October, 1809, was
paid on Tuesday last, at N 0.12, Clement's inn, and will be there
recalled.
The Prometheus, tar the Russian gnn-boats Nos. 5, I*, 15, 15,
captured on the 7th and Bth July, 1809, and bounty-money for
the same, will be paid on board, to-morrow, and recalled at Nu.
22, Norfolk •street.
ADMIRALTY COURT, DOCTORS'COMMONS, lAN. 31.
This day the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM &Ayer pro-
ceeded to the adjudication of the following cases:
Zevey Geschivester, Kohler raaster.—This vessel sailed under
PrUalan coloura,laden with potash, soap, and candles. Restored.
Confiance, Petterson master ; and Helena, Mactu;elsen mas-
ter.—Tire latter vessel was laden with loam, potash, tar, &c.—
both restored, subject to the captors' expenees.
Lykkens Prove, Kioge master.—Thia Danish vessel was ladle
with corn. Restored.
Fraternite, Merrstern master.—This Danish vessel was lades
with corn, and other articles. Restored (except a quantity of '
beef in barrels) subject to captors' expences.
Dorothea Louisa, Zeich maser.—Restored, and the opinion
of the Judge, as to the captors' expences, suspended till the next
Court-day.
Endraght, Berg master; 'and Hoop, Yryland master.—These
vessels, under Dutch colours, were lades with pitch and tar.—
Restored.

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CEconolnie, mutster.—This vessol was sailing under Rus-
sian colours, with a cargo of various articles. Restored, subject
to ca p t ors expences.
3 0 THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Northumberlaid, Cawsand Bay, Jan. 28, 1881.
Sta—Having observed it stated in your paper that
the Captain's Clerk of the Northumberland, had been
tried by a Court Martial, at Plymouth, and sentenced
try receive 300 lashes for issuing different counterfeit
papers to some of the seamen and marines of the
above ship ; and as such a report may not only prove
very injurious to my public as well as private charac-
ter, but likewise alarming to my friends in a distant
I part of the kingdom, I have, therefore, to beg you
will cause that report to be immediately contradicted,
as the persons tried for the above offence, were two
seamen of the ship, who had been appointed to write
under me; and the other the senior Lieutenant's
writer. I am, Sir, your very obedient, humble servant,
JOHN IRVING.

At a Court-Martial held and assembled on board

A boy, about ten years of age, is whose tatter'd his Majesty's ship BELLEROPHON, in the Downs, Ja.
clothes his poverty bespoke," has for Several weeks nuary 26th, for the trial of Captain EDWARD SNEYD
past frequented the streets of Brechen, known by the CLAY, the Officers and crew of his Majesty's late ship
name of Dumb Tom. He joined the children in all NYMPH!, the Court were of opinion no blame was
their sports, by whom he is much regarded, hearing imputable to Captain E. S. CLAY, his officers, or ship's
and understanding what they said, but could give no company, with the exception of Mr. Gioaus Scerr,
utterance to his thoughts, but by wild screams and Master, and C. GASCOTONE, Pilot, who appear to the
incoherent sounds. On Tuesday the 15th, it was pro- Court to-have been very incautious, in asserting, in a
posed by several Gentlemen to try the operations of positive manner, the'light seen to have been the :Light
cutting his impediment of speech, which was very on the May Island—the Court does therefore acquit
apparant. For this purpose Dr. BIRSE was called, Capt. E. S. CLAY, his officers and crew, of all blame
and most happily succeeded in the operation. Tom for the loss of the said ship, with the exception of the
caq now use his tongue most fluently. The only ac- Master and Pilot, who, for their incautious conduct,
count lee can give of himself is, that he came from the Court does adjudge to be severely reprimanded
Ferryden his moth& is dead, and his father lilt sea. and admouidond to be more careful in future.
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