Star.
London, England, 1821-10-30 00:00:00

RICHARDSON D. CAIHPBRLL.

This was a special case, reserved for the opinion
of the Court, to decide in whom the property of a
certain vessel rested, under the following circum-
stances:—The plaintiffs were the assignees of bank-
rupts, to whom the vessel in question originally be-
longed. The defendants were parties claiming, as
proprietors of the vessel, by purchase, by the bank-
rupts previous to their bankruptcy..
Mr. CAMPBELL, for the plaintiff, now contended,
that, under the following circumstances of this case,
the property in the vessel in question never vested in
the defendants ; or, if it did, that by a subsequent
act of their own they had divested themselves of the
property, which returned to the original owners, un-
der the provisions of the 34th Geo. llf. c. 38, sec.l6,
regulating the sale and registering of vessels. A bill
of sale, by the bankrupts, of the vessel in question to
the defendants was executed on the 31st of Decem-
ber, 1816, and by a third partner, still solvent, on the•
21st of July, 1817. The ship was British built, be-
longing to the pOrt of London, but was at this time
absent in foreign parts. The purchasers, however,
were resident in the port of London, and under the
bill of sale they took possession of the property. On
the 11th of December, 1817, the defendant sold the
vessel in a foreign port, and to a foreigner, and the
register of the vessel was, according to the provisions
of the Register Act, the 31th of Geo. 111. delivered
up to the British Consul at that post to be cancelled.
By the Register Act, however, it was provided that,
on the sale of a vessel taking place under such cir-
cumstances as these, namely, the absence of the ship,
the purchaser should immediately send a copy of
such bill of sale so the Custom-house, and do certain
other acts required of them as owaers of such vessel ;
and further, within ten days after the return of such
vessel to the port to which she belonged, the new
owners should send the register to the Custom-house
of such port, with the particulars of the transfer 'in-
dorsed thereon. The defendants in the present case
had neglected to transmit any copy of the bill of sale
at the time they purchased the vessel, namely, the
21st of July, 1817 ; and they had further failed in
complying with the law, inasmuch as they had sold
her in a• foreign port, and of course had not suffered
her to return to the port to which she belonged, or
forwarded her register indorsed to•the Custom•heuse.
Upon these grounds, he contended, the verdict for
the plaintiff should be affirmed.
Mr. PULLER, on the other hand, contended that
thd defendants had done everything required.of them
by the ltezisttr Act, when they, on the sale of the

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vessel at Leghorn, directed their tv,:..ent to deliver up
the regiAer to the Britith Consul at that port.
The Court postpdned its juJgrnent to a future day.

OCTOBER 29.— LAWRENCE. 51. ABERDEIX.
This was al action upon a policy of insurance on
thirty mules, ten asses, and ten oxen, at and from
Cork to St. Vincent's, warranted " free of mortality
and jetsam." At the trial before Mt. Justice BEST,
at the London Sittings after last Michaelmas Term,
a verdict was found for the plaintiff, subject to the
opinion of the Court upin » case.
The animals in question were taken on board at
Cork, and before the vessel quitted the British shores,
she encountered a storm which so injured the mules,
&c. that several of them died immediately; a great
many others died on shore in the port into which the •
vessel put to refit, in consequence of their wounds,
and but five of the mules and one ass reached St. Vin-
cent's alive. The question for the opinion of the
Court was, as to the construction to be put upon the
exception in the policy, " way ranted free of 'nodality."
Mr. F. Por.Locic contended, that the meaning of
this was to guard the widen% itet s against a loss oc-
casioned by natural death, and not by the perils of
the seas.

Mr. CAMPBELL, contra, urged, that the meaning
of the exceptive clause was to exempt the under-
writers from liability altogether as to the vitality of
the animals, and that the word ;nodality must be un-
derstood loss of life under any circumstances.
The Court, however, were clearly of opinion that
the meaning of the clause wa,s to guard against
mortality arising from natural causes only, and not
from injuries sustained from the perils of the seas, to
which the loss in this case must he attributed.
Judgment for the plaintiff.
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Mrs. Denman, a person of resi ectable appearance,
her daughter (a child about ten years cf age), and
thirteen boys from the age of eight to fourteen, were
put to the bar, on an indictment for a riot at Oromp..
ton. There were five other persons in the indictment,
four of whom pleaded misnomers, and one did not
come in for trial.

Mr. ADOLPHUS, who was Counsel for the prosecu-
tion, stated to the Court, that Mrs. Middleton, the
prosecutris, from motives of kindness, wished to have
two of the youngest boys acquitted.
They were accordingly given in charge to the Jury)
and a verdict of acquittal taken.
Mr. AnoLenus proceeded to state the case—rye
mentioned.some of the particulars of it in our Police
Report, •hen the defendants were brought up to
liow•street to be held to bail.]—lie said that no rea-
son could be assigned for the riot by which Mrs.
Middleton had been injured in her property, her per-
son, and her feelings, but that she chose to keep in
her house a considerable number of cats. On the
Mb of August, an immense mob assembled before
her house, some of whom barked like dogs, others
mewed like cats, and all appe.tred determined to
demolish her house, which they so far effected as to
compel her to fly for'safety.

The prosecutrix, Mrs. Euphemia Middleton, an
old Scotch Lady, upwards of seventy years of age,
and reading at No. 11, Brompton-row, swore that
on the 13th of August last, between five and six
o'clock in the afternoon, a great many boys and girls,
to the number of 150, which increa,ed after it became
dusk, as she learned, to from 700 to 1,000, collected
about her hou e, and,after'abusing her for some time,
calling her " Old Mother Middleton," " Old Mother
Cats,' and applying other opprobrious epithets to her,
they commenced throwing stones and brickbats at
her door and ss indows, of the glass of which they in
a short time demolished fifty-one panes. Several of
the stones hit the prosecntrlx, alter having passed
through the window.; and she was compelled to seek
safety in the back part of the house, from which,
however, she was driven, by the attack being carried
to the rear. She said she could identify all the de-
fendants in the dock, except three boys, Russell,
flicks, and H'iblcn.

On her cross-examination by Mr. BRODRICK, being
asked bow she, who was near-sighted, and of course
could not approach the windows while this assault
was being carried on, cold i swear positively to hav-
ing seen any particular incividual? she replied, that
she fired a telescope across a trunk, inside a two pair
window over the door. From this observatory she
recognized several of the besieging party, who were
the children of the neighbourhood : and on being di•
rected to point out in the dock the boys whom she
could identify, she pointed out, amongst others, tLe
three boys whom she had before excepted; she stated,
however, that although she could not at first swear
to those boys as having been implicated, yet from
their having been subsequently pointed out to her as
having been there, she had now no doubt of it.

Boadicea Wilkinson swore she saw those three boy,
amongst the crowd on that evening. She did not say
she saw them engaged in any way in the assault.
Far the defendants, several witnesses were called,
who swore to alibis for most of them ; and stated that
the assault.upnn the prosecutrir's house had been oc.
casioned by her having severely beaten the defendant,
Hannah Denman, on the evening in question, and
knocked her infant sister out of Ler arms by a bin*
of a stick. It did n.)t appear what provocation the
child had given her.
After an investigation which occupied the Court
from eleven o'clock to four, the Jury, not•bein,,satis.
lied with Mrs. Middletcn's identification of I.Le de-
fendants, Acquitted them all.
• When the vesthct reached the lower part of the
Court, there was a loud shout of triumph raised by
the friends. of the accused; and the prosecutrir stated
that she should require a
.file of soldiers to enable her
to approach her house with safety: She also said,
that she would swear her life against the Magistrates
of the county of Middlesex. The Magistrates assured
her she should be protected.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, OCTOBEl; 30, 1821. •
THE FUNDS.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 0/111 O'CLOCK:
Bank Stock 289 2381,4
3 per Cent. Reduced 767/s 77
3 per Ct. Cons. 77% 14-31,4 per Ct. 87% 14 Ik
4 per Cent. 96 yi 3/8 —.5 per Cent. 1111/= 111
Long Anns.l9lk 9-16—India Bonds 68 69 pre.
Exch. Bills ss. 4s. 6s. pr.—Do. (Small) 4s. 75. pre.
Cons. for Account 777/11 78.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this forenoon.
Sir CHARLES STUART, OUT Ambassador at Paris,
received, on Thursday night, dispatches from the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY, announcing that the KING
will not visit Paris, but proceed directly from, Hano-
ver to London. On the following morning his Er-
cellency had a private audience of his Majesty, Louts
XVIII. when he communicated the intelligence which
be had received. It appears from this, that it had,
at one time, been actually our SOVEREIGN'S intention
•
to take Paris on his way home.

The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordinance, giving
effect to several Papal hi iefs for the immediate in-
stallation of the Archbishops of AVIGNON, RHEIMS,
and SENS; and the Bishops Of CTIARTEF.S, PERI-
GOSUX, NISDIES, and LucoN.
A private letter from Madrid, dated October 15,
and written at the moment of the post leaving, says-
-44 We have received official news, that the contagious
malady has manifested itself at Murcia and at Ali-
cant ; and that at Valencia, all the gates of the city,
with the exception of one only, were shut, as a mea-
sure of precaution. The greatest desolation reigned
in that fine Province, the most populous of Spain.
In general the accounts are most distressing. Their
only hope is now in the approach of winter, which
may, perhaps, arrest the progress of the evil. Our
troops begin to have some sick, in consequence of the
fatiguing service in which they are engaged."
A letter from Malaga, of the 10th October, re-
ceived by a commercial house, states, that the fears
which existed of the appearance of the yellow fever
in that place bad subsided ; but that they were again
revived by a report that there were some persons in
the city ill of the malady.

French 5 per Cents. Fi Way, 89fr. 80c.

A Mail arrived from Lisbon this forenoon, with
Papers to the 18th inst. •
The Cortes continue their sittings, but nothing of
importance has come under their consideration.
For some days past the prisons of the Inquisition
have been thrown open to the public at Evora and
Lisbon, the Officers or Guards being ordered to ex-
plain the uses of the several apartments, and of the
instruments which they contain. Great numbers of
persons have been to view them.

We yesterday briefly mentioned the receipt of let,
ters from Constantinople to the 26th, and from
Smyrna to the 18th ult. which throw entire discredit
on the warlike accounts contained in the Continental
Papers.
The letters from the Turkish capital begin by
stating that the latest intelligence from the Motea is
unfavourable to the interests of the Turks in that
quarter. They then mention the surrender of Napoli
de Malvosin, Novarin, and one or two other fortresses,
with which cur Readers are already acquainted•
They notice, however, a fact not so well known, and
which is as novel in modern warfare, as it is revolt-
ing from its deep atrocity. The Turkish garrisons,
after having endured all the extremes of famine, had
silt rendered by capitulation, which has in every in-
stance been violated, the prisoners having been put
to the sword in the most cold-blooded manner, not-
withstanding the most solemn engagements that their
lives should be spared. However, the Greek Officers,
who had served in the Russian Army, such as CAN•
TAGUZINE and YPSILANTI, did not approve of those
proceedings, and it was always in their absence, and
against their declared wishes that they took place.
These letters explain the celebrated Hatti-Shirriff,
of which we published yesterday, from the Brussels
Papers, a pretended copy. It is actually true 'that
this important Inman has been published, but with-
out containing a single allusion to Russia. The name
of that Power is not once mentioned in it, nor is the
least reference, direct or indirect, made to the diffe-
rences between the two States. The following is sup-
posed to be the cause of its appearance: the Janis-
saries, who were employed in. Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, have, since their departure- from those Pro-
vinces, displayed strong symptoms of insubordina-
tion, and even a disposition to perform one of rose
frightful acts, which have been characterized as the
correctives of tyranny in the East. The ostensible
motive of their dissatisfaction is the encampment of
a largc body of Asiatic troops in the vicinity of Con-
stantinople, whom they suspect, probably with jus-
t;zes of being kept there as a check upon themselves.
—Tice Sultan, who is a Prince of great firmness and
energy, appears determined to try the experiment,
which has proved fatal to many of his predecessors,
that of breaking the formidable power of the Janis
saries, and extinguishing the corps altogether. He is
therefore supposed to have published the Finnan, ea-

joining the Ttuks to arm themselves, that by means
of this general armament, he might carry his pur-
pose inm effect. His Highness seems to think that
an armed people are the best check upon a licentious
soldiery. It is even suspected that a project of a
deeper and blacker die, than the disbandment of the
Janissaries is in contemplation. The fate of the Al-
banians at Bucharest, who were surrounded by Asiatic
troops, and cut to pieces, for having evinced a dispo-
sition to play off the pranks of the Janissaries, coun-
tenances this opinion; and it is surmised that some
terrible blow of a similar kind is meditated against
the refractory Janissaries. The Asiatic troops near
the Capital amount to about 50,000 men, and are,
commanded by an Officer (the Pacha of Bursa), who
enjoys in a high degree, and is understood to merit,
the confidence of the Porte. Between these troops
and the Janissaries the utmost antipathy is said to
prevail ; and it is not improbable but the Sultan will
take 'advantage of those circumstances in order to
rid himself and the Empire of the apprehensions
which the Janissaries inspire. It was against them,
and not against Russia, that theHatti-Shirriff was
directed.
At Constantinople, the fears of a rupture were less
than ever. A report, which obtained great credit,
prevailed there, and which, if the facts it Awed Were
true, would justify the most sanguine speculations in
favour of the continuance of peace. According to
this report, the Porte had come to a definitive reso-
lution of withdrawing its troops from Moldavia and
Wallachia, and leaving them to be governed by their
own laws and functionaries. It is even confidently

asserted, that the Divan would proceed immediately
to the nomination of tWo Hospodars ; and that
everything would be replaced in the same state as it
was before the troubles.

The following is an interesting extract of a letter
from Constantinople, dated September
" I have no doubt you are already sufficiently well
informed of the present state of Turkish affairs. In
Moldavia and Wallachia, everything is at an end:
things is that quarter appear to have taken a peace-
able turn.

" In the Morea the Greeks appear to succeed better :
almost all the strong holds are in their possession :
much will depend on the result of a battle that is ex-
pected to take place daily between the fleets. If the
Greeks are victorious, which I think very possible,
the independence of the Morea and the islands of the
Archipelago will be the consequence; if, on the con-
trary, the Greek fleet is destroyed, it will put an end
to every chance of success on their part. Constanti-
nople has been very quiet for some time past; but the
Turks have again begun to stab and plunder. I hope
that it will soon be put a stop to. The whole Turk-
ish population are armed
We swords and pistoh and al '
and fresh orders are issued every few days, stating,
that any person that is found in arms will be severely
punished. The Porte, I believe, is afraid of its own
people, and the meaning of the strict orders for arm-
ing is, that the higher orders may, in case of need,
be able to defend themselves against the rabble. More
than ever discontents have shewn themselves among
the Janissaries.

" Maorocordato, and two of the sons of the Prince
Caritza, are arrived in the Morea, from the Continent
of Italy, with thirty military and engineer Officers,
and a vessel load of arms and ammunition, for the
Greeks. Joanina is still in possession of Ali Pacha,
and he is reported to be gaining force daily : he is
supposed to have been one of the prime movers of
the Greek Rebellion. Winter is close at hand ; there-
fore, if something is not done very soon, things will
remain the same till the ensuing spring, during which
time the Greeks will have plenty of time to train, and
consequently become more formidable. The Turks
sit pulling their beards, without having taken one
effectual step to check them—so much fur politics !
" No business is doing ; everybody ruined, fled, or

beheaded. The Apothecary, Frederico Gavrina, is
among the latter; his son will continue the business.
He was put to death, because a Greek who occupied
a floor of his house (by a separate entrance) had re-
presented a Play, the subject of which was the resto-
ration of the Greeks; he was therefore accused by
the Government of having known the fact, and not
giving them notice.
44 You can hardly imagine the anxious state we
have been in for some months past ; now things are
better ; but if the Greeks gain any new success, I am
afraid we shall have the sames scenes over again.—
Many lies and much exaggeration have appeared
in the Newspapers."

The lonian Islands, but particularly Corfu, have
for a considerable time exhibited a scene of severity,
complaint, recrimination, and punishment: at pre-
sent, however, the state of Corfu appears most de-
plorable. The adv ices yesterday from the Medi-
terranean state that the popular feeling against the
English Admtnistration there is little short of rage..
The sanguinary Proclamations prohibiting all aiding
or abetting of the Insurgent Greeks against the
Turks under pain of death, instead c.f operating in
terrorear, had provoked a daring and reckless system
of contraband intercourse with the Morea and Archi-
pelago. The Government, on the other hand., bas,
condemned to death six of the inhabitants of Corfu,
and twenty three to banishment, for viola:ions of thq
prohibition. The families and friends of the convicts

have made a solemn appeal for mercy to tie Ifgh
Commissioner, but hitherto without effect: the sen-
tences, however, were not executed when the last
accounts came away. It is to be hoped so awful an
exertion of the executive power of the Britith Crown
will not take place without the petsonal cognizance
of his MAJESTY, in whose humanity those unhappy
men may find a refuge from the strife of passion,
which, within the island, is likely to prevent justice
from being tempered with mercy, in the spirit of
British administration.

. The Prussian State Gazette, of the 18th, contains
the following article, which may be considered as an
official Declaration, caused by the report that ltussia
had declined the mediation of the Allied Courts, in
the affairs of Turkey :
a An impudent falsehood, which the malice of a Journalist
has invented, and the ignorance of ethers repeated, requires cor-
rection; and we undertake the task with the more pleasure, as it
gives us an opportunity of 'hewing the modern European policy
in the fair light in which it will appear to impartial posterity.—
The statement says—‘ The Emperor of Russia has declined all
intervention of his Iligh Allies in his affairs with the Porte, and
declared that he would have free liberty to proceed with the
Turks, as he left it to Austria in Italy.:—Each of these words
contains a falsehood. To begin with the last sentence, it is well
known, that when Austria undertook the pacilication of Italy
with her own Army, this enterprise, and all the steps accomp::
Hying it, were undertaken in the most intimate understanding
ssith Russia and the other Allies.

" When his Majesty, the Emperor of Russia, afterwards re-
ceived,
at Laybach, the first news of the mad attempt of the
Moldavians and %Vallachians (Gretks in reliAion, but sot by de-'
scent or language), his acute understanding was immediately.,
sensible of a truth, which has since been proved by incontro-
vertible facts, viz. that the insurrection in Turkey was the work
of the same faction; the enemies of ail order and tranquillity,
who, after they had indeed overthrown or shaken several States
of Europe by their doctrines of disobedience and wickeduest,
and had failed in their plan of dividing the Holy Alliance of the
Monarchs by the revolutions In Naples and Piedmont, now as-
sumed the mask of religion to lead to an event, by which the
political interest of all must be endangered. But the Monarchs
recognised the hand which had prepared this event for them,
and their union was still further confirmed. They mutually en-
gaged, that the insurrection in Greece, to whatever measures it
might in the sequel compel them, should not disunite them.
Henceforward there prevailed on this subject the greatest, and
certainly an unparalleled openness and coincidence between
the Cabinets.

" Not a step was taken on the part of the Russian Cabinet 1
without being arranged with it► Allies, without being approved
of by them. All have openly done justice to the principles of
integrity, humanity, and magnanimity, which the Russian Mo-
narch has professed and followed,without in the least departing
from his dignity. All have giien him the tribute of their ad-
miration and their gratitude. Every step of die Russian Cabi-
net has been most energetically supported by the Ministers of
the other great Powers at Constantinople. The exertions of these
Ambassadors had not the form of a media:km The mediator
endeavours to abate the exaggerated demands of two hostile
Powers with whom he is on terms of amity, and to produce,
by reciprocal concession, a happy reconciliation. This could
sot be the case at Constantinople. The demands brought for-
ward by Russia were recognized by all the Powers as founded
on treaties, justice, equity, and magnanimity. As such, they
were brought forward consequently as postulate, which could
not be in the smallest degree departed from, and on the

acceptance or rejection of which peace or war must entirely
depend ; and if there was any mediation on the part of the
Ambassadors, it was only so far as they made use of the per-
sonal esteem which they enjoyed with the Sublime Porte, to
overcome the prejudices of its Ministers, and to draw their at-
tendon to the situation of the Ottoman Empire, which had the
unanimous sentiments of the five great Powers against it, and
no other Allies for it, dun the abcvementioned party and some
visionaries in Germany. In fact, the voice of reason has suc-
ceeded in dispelling the error in which the Divan for some time
acted. Authentic accounts from Constantinople state that the
Porte, even before the arrival of the Russian ultimatum, lately
addressed to it, had accepted individually all the demands con-
tained in it, so that it might be said that the afair was entirely
settled, were there not still some unimportant accessary circum-
stances, respecting which the consent of Russia and of the other
Courts could not yet be obtained.
" How, then, should the Emperor Alexander have refused a

mediation which was never offered him, and could not be of-
fered him ? How should he have declared that he would settle
the business himself, while, on the contrary, be has caused his
last step to be taken through the medium of the Allied Powers?
The enemies of tranquillity in Europe may, therefore, renounce
the hope which the article that we have refuted. had excited in
them. The wretches who, with wicked intentions, have put
arms into the hands of the Greeks, and made themselves answer-
able for the blood which has sowed in the East since March,
will have been guilty In vain of so Many crimes.•

Advices from Hanover to the 24th inst. fully con-
firm the previous accounts of his MAJESTY'S entire
restoration to health. On the 21st an audience was
granted to Prince METTERNICH, who had been sent
by the Emperor of AUSTRIA to compliment his MA-
JEST: on his arrival in his German dominions. Prince
METTERNICH was introduced by Count MUNSTER,
Hanoverian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Vice• Chancellor, Sir Jour; LEACH, arrived at
Paris last week from a tour through the South of,
France. _

The Suttling-house, attached to St. James's Palace,
is to be pulled down to make room for the new im-
provements.
Yesterday morning, twelve labourers, in the employ
of the Ordnance Department at Woolwich arrived in
town with their foreman, Mr. M'DONALD'
' and, ac-
cording to orders, proceeded to remove the large can-
non called the Regent's Bomb, from opposite the
Horse Guards, in St. James's Park, to the spot which
was occupied by a Waterloo carriage at the back of.
the Home Office. Another cannon and carriage
are on their way to town from Woolwich, to rake
place of the Regent's Bomb, and the Waterloo carriage
will be removed nearer Spring-gardens.
The complete suit of steel armour worn by OLIVER
CaostweLL, which is a most unique piece of u ork-
manship, is new being repaired and polished at a
manufactory at Sheffield.

MARTIN EDEN DAVISON, Esq. pf Beamish, in the
County of Durham, with his usual liberality, gave
orJers to hii Steward to return 15 per cent. to his
tenantry, at his audit, held at Bishopton last Tuesday.