Star.
London, England, 1816-04-27 00:00:00

WthbSOß, APRIL 2G.

The PRINCE REGENT arrived yesterday from
London soon alter four o'clock, to he present at the
celebration of the Princess MARY'S birth day. His
Royal Highness was received by hii Royal Daugh-
ter, Prince LEOPOLD of Commie), thi' QUEEN, the
P.RINCESSES, &c. Ike. The whole of the Royal Fa-
mily dined at Frognioie, where a grand entertain-
ment was given by her MAJESTY upon the occasion.
Prince LEOPOLD of COIRWRG was constantly attending
upon the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALEs. The
PRINCE. REGENT left soon. after nine o'clock for
London.

The ROYAL FAMILY including the Princess QlAlt-
triTre of WALD ania Prince Leon°Loot Cobourg, are
,expected to leave here on Monday for London, for
some length of time. Aber the wedding of the
Royal Pair it is understood they will leave London
for Bushy Park, the residence of the Duke of CLAI
lENCE, tbeluan of that residence having been granted
by his ROYAL Hioaz s&

6 - MASSINOERPA Play, entitled, A Nem Way to Pay
Qtd liebte, was performed at Covent-Garden Theatre
lasenight. Mr. KEMBLE received great applause in
the character of Sir Giles Overreach, in which he dis-
played his usual judgment and discrimination. It was
a correct and chaste "iscrfiirmanie.—Miss S. Boom,
in Margaret., looked very handsome, and played the
part remarkably =well.—Mr. CON.WAY appeared to
great advantage In, Wellborn. The other characters
wefe adequately .sustained.
Within these last eight months 120 ships have been
paid off in the River Thames, and 33 have been
commissioned, 2.5 of which have ssiled from the
River, fully manned. for foreign stations; so that it
appears, that the seamen have entered with more
alacrity in the River Than any where else.
The good -arising from mankind making their ideas
known through the medium of the ?less is very great,
and there is no subject of political economy of greater
consequence to the welfare of :misty. than that on
the Poor Laws ; it claims the attention of all de-

criptions, because all are interested in its improve-
ment. The pamphlet of Mr. CLAnspoi4 on the In-
crrase of Pauperism has had the effect of bringing
the subject before Parliament. and it is to be hoped
all parties will join to accomplish so desirable a thing
as that of lessening the amount of the Poor Rates.

.Tus Jaw germ: Tux CARP/AWL—In the late Ses-
'ion, at the Old Bailey, a very remarkable Trial,
under the above title, has been reported in same
of the Public Prints. The plain facts, however,
divested of the wit and pleasarstry displayed in '
Court, at the expense of the Jew, seem to be as
follows :—Maxwell Hume, the Carpenter of his Ma-
jesty's ship Phauna, sold his proportion of prize.
money for the capture of Java, by a regular assign-
meut, to Messra. Ackworth and Matthews, of Chat-
ham, for 1170. Soon after this he came to London•.,
and proposed to Mr. Isaac Levy to purchase the
saute prize-money—declaring that he had not previ.
ously sold it, or given auy . authority by which it
coold be received on his account : a bargain was ac-
cordingly made 'between them for the prize-money in
question, and Plume executed another assignment to
Mr. Levy for ieltx►, of which, according to an ar-
rangement previously agreed to, £OO was paid in
bank notes, and 140 paid for goods by his direction.
When the prize-money for Java became payable, both
Messrs. Ackworth and MAttbews and Mr. Is tae
Levy demanded payment on their respective assign-
• ments, and were mutually surprized at the trick

which had been played on them. However the first
- assignment b6m.; of the prior date, of course became
legally entitled to the prize money, and it was accor-
dingly paid to Messrs. Ackworth and Co. upon
which Mr. Levy preferred a bill of indictment against
Maxwell Hume for a brand, which was most ably
discussed by the Grand Jury, and a true bill found.
When the trial came on, the point which seemed
most to engage the attention of the Court was, that
Maxwell Hume had made an improvident bargain,
in. selling his prize-money for £lOO, which might
eventually turn out to be worth more, without, how-
ever, adverting to the main question, that Hume had
sold to Mr. Levy what he had no right or title to
whatever, having previously disposed of it to Messrs.
Ack worth and Co. And, in point of fact, his pro.
portion of the Java prize-money already paid, anloun-
ted only to £123, and it is known to be uncertain
when there will be a future payment, which one of
the witnesses estimated, as a matter of opinion, might
amount to £7O or £BO, if the remainder of the prize.
money could be realized. Not a single witness was
celled to controvert any part of the prosecutor's state.
ment, nor were any of the facts denied, yet, notwith-
standing, it would appear from the manner in which
this trial has been reported, that Mr. Levy, and not
the prisoner, was the offending party. Towards the
conclusion of the trial a flaw was found in the indict-

rnent, :'n the ground that the bill stated the prosecu-
tor had been defrauded of Nettie:, whereas it was ad-
mitted that the consideration agreed for was paid in
• Bani-sootes, and it was declared that, in a legal sense,
bank notes were not money. Tlis latter point is P

great importance to the Public to be fully itequaiti
ted with.
Tuesday se'nnight Helen Reid was tried and found
gritty, at the Circ.it Court of Justiciary, in Aber-
deen, of the rnurdir of her husband, James Reid,
vintner and mail contractor in Keith, by stabbing
11;ni with a ti,ble-knife, on the 7th of &iambs/ lag.
to be czecutecl,•&c. uu the Slit of May.

•
WOOLLEN TRADE..
At a General Meeting of the Woollen Manufac-
turers of the Counties of Wilts and Somerset, held et
the White flan Inn, in Bath, on Wednesday, the
17th day of April, to consider the proposed Taxation
of Foreign Wools imported, Euwaan, PHILLIPS, Esq.
in the Chair, it was unanimously resolved,
That to impose any Duty whatever on suds Wools is, In the
opinion of this Meeting, highly impolitic ; it being not only de-
trimental to Manufacturers, and-the multitudes of Pour they
employ, but also highly Injurious/to the Nation at large :
first.--Decause we eonceive tefo be the true interest of this
country to give every possible en, .uragement to the import of
soch articles in a raw state, which;through the industry of the
inhabitants, can be so improved, as afterwards to be exported at
a much higher value; and we are warranted in this belief, by the
prosperity this nation has experienced iu pursniwg such a policy,
particularly with regard to its Woollen Trade, for centuries past.
Sectiodly.oellecause we believe that the Agricultural and Com:.
mercial Interests of this kingdom are so intimately blended toge-
ther. that whatever injures the one will, in a material degree, be
felt by the other.
Thirdly.—That as the whole amount of Wool imported does
not exceed one-twelfth part of what is produced in England and
Wales alone, we are further of opinion, that the idea of assisting
the Landed Interest at the expense of the Commercial one, by
the imposition of any duty, will be foitud altogether erroneous In
practice. inasmuch a, the apparent benefit to the English grower
of Wool can be only in proportion to the amount of the import,
Eimpared with our own growth. And as this, as before stated,
amounts to one-twelfth part only, of course the intended benefit
can go no farther than to one-twelfth of the proposed duty.
Fourthly.—That although the English grower* of Wool may
apparently be benefited, in a small degree, by a Duty on imported
Wools; yet it is obvious, that, by the consequent depression of
the Clothing Trade, all other products of land will bear a muck
less price than at present, from the circumstance of aless demand
existing for them. And as this Meeting apprehends that the
proposed Duty will effectually ,rxtel our Manufactures from
foreign markets 7 (which at present are at our command, through-
out the world,) 9t is easy to spew that such expubion would en-
tirely destroy numerous Manufactories, and put cote of employ
thousands of poor, who must, in that ease, he priucipalty main-
tained at she expense of the Agriculture. Interest.
Fifthly —That this Meeting sincerely regrets the distress ex-
perienced by the Agricultural Interest, they hope the pressure on
it van be but temporary, and soon find its remedy ; but they do
most earnestly deprecate any rebel to be sought for by the Agri-
culturists from the Mauufacturers, both Interests have groom up
together, and flourished by their mutual dependance oat each
other, and it is the opinion of this Meeting that any attempt to
afford relief to the oae by laying burdens on the other, must end
in ruin to both.

It was then resolved that the following Gentlemen be ap-
pointed a Committee, to conduct the opposition to the proposed
Duty, and to carry into effect the objects of the Meeting, by
presenting Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded on
these ittsolutions, viz.
Fosewan Puit.tirs WRE. EVERETT WALDION•
JOHN PHILLies SAMUEL SALTS'
G wiLGL SIILUARD 10111. NORRiI CLARICE
WILLIAM SNLIPPAID FRANCIS ALLAN
Grotioz Buss, COMMIS W URINE •
JoTtt PRO. WRITTAILER LEDTARD 4
EDWARD CAPS' HENRY BATTIN POOLL
Tooldnis CoNATIIAN NORD
Tilub.Hositt SAu NEW I Hamar Jorce. and
WILLIAIt STAitiOltist SLA rat HEAtt:
Any cliff of whom shall bee Quorum, with liberty from time to
time to add to their number. _ _ _

That Mr. Joule Soso, of Endford, be appointed Solicitor for
conducting this opposition.
That a Subscription be immediately entered into to defray the
Expenses of the opposition, subject to the direction of thy Com-
mittee. _ _

That the foregoing Resolutions be ingerted in two London
Morong and Earning Papers, and in thy Salisbury Journal, and
Beth Chronicle.

lhat the Chairman do sign then Resolutions nn behalf of the
Meeting. EUWARI) PHILLIPS, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the Chair, it was unanimously re-
solved, that the flanks of this Meeting be given him for his very
able and impartial conduct therein.

The Ramsgate Harbour Bill, which stands For a
second reading on the 30th, will probably excite con.
siderable discussion ; for the Wharfage, which in its
present shape it proposes to impose, will press very
heavy on the inhabitants. In many instances it will
ex-eed the amount of the whole freight from London.
The Monks Advertiser announces the sale of twelve
Estates; Live of them for the payment of Taxes !
These are insular taxes. The Isle of Man pays no
Ponperty, Assessed Tax, Duties on Newspapers, nor
any other Government Taxes; yet it is described in the
paper alluded to, as being in a most depressed state.
A return to an order of the House of Commons
states the net produce of the revenue, in the year
ending the sth of A?.ril, 1815, at £65.806,470; snd
in the
_year ending the sth of April, 1816, at
£66,292,135—making a difference of £485,665 in
favour of the Litter year.
A retort to an order of the House of Commons
states the Lumber of gallons of spirits distilled in
England, from the time the distillers in that part of
the United Kingdom began, in 1813, to work froth
corn, up to the 30th of September, 1314, inclusive,
at £3,686,222.
It is stated in a correspondence between the Office
of Works and his Majesty's Treasury, relating to the
repair of the front of the Secretary of State's Office,
Whitehall, that it was in a ru;nous state ; that to re-
pair it with stone would cost £3000; and that brick
was preferred, as it would only involve an expense
of £6OO.

The following reductions in the Army Medical
Board Office, are to take place the 24th of June next:
—The Director-General, . who at present receives
£2OOO a-year, is to be cut down to 41000. The
two principal lwpectors, with a salary of 41200 per
annum each, are to be done away with altogether.
The Physician and Staff-Surgeon, whose joint pay
and allowances amount to nearly £lOOO a year, are
likewise to be reduced. The Secretary's salary to be
curtailed to £9OO a-year, and several of the Clerks
to be discharged. The Accomptant, and Clerks be-
longing to his Office, it is in contemplation to trans-
fer to the Gommiisariat, whose duties more pardon-
' larly appertain to that branch of the service. Thus
a saving of at least 46000 a-year will be effected in
the Wfice part only, of the Medical Department; and
we trdst that every ether 'Establishment under Go-
o vernment will be equally sifted, that the Country, in
the end,_ may riap son.)se betitegt, by the. abolition of
All useless and expensive Offices.

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Monday, the IStli instanthat Ca in the Isleef Wight,
the Lady of Charles Benson, Esq.. of a-daughter.

MARRIED.
Thursday, at Hagley, Worfiatershlie, 'Captain Henry W.
Dews, of Churchill. to Mary, Tunnel daughter of the ate
Joseph HRI,.Esq. of the forgoer glaie.
Thursday, at Mary-1244nm' church, Henry Leek% Esq. tf
the Web Light Dragoons' to Gertrude, youngest daughtor of to ie
late Alesander Wallace, Esq. '

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