Star.
London, England, 1820-01-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE;

Ptl*Ar6T; J. 19.—1 t has blown a gale all last night from
S. to S. W. with a heavy well. Scveral vessels have parted i 3
our Pier, and by ninning on board each other they has re-
evivrd aons:derable damage.
Poitrrsit.irm, Js-r. W.S.W.—.-.-Arrived the Ex-
press, fit.taLlT, from Gibraetar, and sailed again for Lcildon.
hi:s M4.ety's ship -Camitton, on a cruize. It has blown
a heavy talc last ni;ht and this morning, but abated towards the
afterooon.

Dr. 1., JAN. 21,1.-WIT \V..s--Salled the Triumph, STREET,
for the River. Arrived and sailed for the River the Arabi-
/11c drs, Pa.% rr, from Lisbon, and several others, names unknown.
Do-ex, tx. f.1.-I.ie Brie Susters, JANSEN, from Charente
for Bremen, was lost in Eastware Bay, near Folkstone, this
morning : the crow and cargo are saved, but the vessel is a com-
plete wreck.
NORTIA SHIELDS, JAN. 29.—The stoop Providence, Stuarts,
from Alemouth to Sunderland, was driven on share yesterday
upon the liouth part of the Herd Sand; it is expected that both
vessel and cargo will be saved. Also, yesterday afternoon,
during a heavy pie from the N.r.. the Thomas and Alrey, of
Myth ; TURNNELL buss. and Ann, of Newcastle ;
Resolution, BALI. ; and Thrcz Brothers, of Blyth, were all
drove on share. 'The Three Brotho's has gone to pieces, and
the Resolution has lost all her luasts, but the remainder are ex-
rectA to be got elf with dama;e.
A NeLEITA, JANUARY i 1 —Tho trig Cruizer, MULLENTIII,
of Yarmouth, is on her: beam-cads on a reef of rocks, near
ltrry's Futlong. The crew are supposed to have perished.
The vessel begias to break up. No boat can go aboard ; and,
as the wind blows hard Rona tho northward, she wilt go to
pieces next tide.

Hl A t'MARIS, JANI•A RT 20.—The sloop Catherise, JONES, from
Liverpool to Pulhelly, foundered on Tuesday night, off the
On-mit:ad. The crew landed yesterday, near the Red Warp
Bay. The Captain dkd shortly afterwards, and a buy died ia the
ho.tt The ;loo? tlero, •f Lianger, is also lost—crew sated.—
.-%noth,:r slots?, in company, it is feared is also lost'

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Vestr.n-dav, a Court of Directors was held at the
East In,ha House, when the under-mentioned ships
were taken up for one voyage in the Company's ser-
vi,e, and thus stationed:
Wort:en, 425 tons ; Camden, 389 ; Asia, 458 ; Hyperion,
402 ; and Regret, 556—for Bombay direct.
Cornroandd, G 45 tons; new ship, 473; Waterloo, 416;
'Xoodforc!, 14 ; 650 ; Brampton, 482 ; Lady Rattles,
647 ; new ship, 470; Lady Carrington, 596; Asia, 410; Ti-
rnanOta, A 67; Providence, tiiii ; James SP/bald, 667 ; Kirkella,
409;' Richmond, 466; seal rhcenix, 493—for Bengal direct.

. JAMAICA.

(*.nom. VIE KINGSTON CIIKONICT.E.)
" The unprecedented state of trade at this moment,
in every quarter of the world,. engages a very large
share of public attention ; the pressure is universal,
and yet there is no certain cause assigned for it ;
there are, however, many speculative opinions upon
it, but hi;herto all notions respecting the disordered
sitnation of the commercial world rest merely upon
conjecture. In this Island we have long considered
dna the stagnation was occasioned by the operations
of the Corsairs, which at present infest these seas,
under the pretext of ac:ing in behalf of the Insur-
gents on the Spanish American Continent, mere
especially from the presence of that species of force
on the Pacific Ocean. We doubt not that the trade
on the southern part of the Continent is a good deal
interrupted ; and yet we cannot think that this cause-
alone would have conduced to the unexampled mor-
bid state of commerce avongst us. It has been
always admitted, by able politicians, that an excessive
dtty defeats the object of a tax; that heavy duties
operate as an additional incitement to a contraband
trade; and that the adventurous smuggler pockets
a large share of the gain thus produced, to the injury
of the Government and ruin of the fair trader.

We have rarely met With a case more in point;
than the eirors so apparent in the political economy
of ft* Spanish Government, not only in Spain, but
in her Colonies. Pn proof, it is only necesssary briefly
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to iii.joire into the Incts, connected with this Subject.
in South America. British goods, on being imported
into Panama, pay a duty ef 24 per cent. and 121 per
cent. additional, when the goods have not been pre-'
viously paid for, on the specie received in return,
forming together a charge of 361 per cent. As Pa-
nama can only be lookei upon, in the same way as
this City is, as as entrepol, the purchaser re-ships the
goods to other ports on the South American coast ;
this subjects them to a duty of two per cent. and, if
they are sent to Lima, an additional charge of 42
per cent. is there imposed, or, if they are sent to San
Bias, the fluty in that quarter is 331 per cent.. Hence
it is clear that goods sent to Peru or Mexico, with-
out taking to account freights, insurance, transit by
land, &c. pay in duties alone Sti per cent. in one di-
rection, and 71,1! per cent. in the other.—but as the
goods are values by a tariff, far abovetheir.value,
and all costs and charges on their transit to Unlit or
San Bias, the obstacles thus offered to the trade
must be Eecevident ; but this is not all, for the re-
turns are sublet to heavy duty. Specie or bullion
being the only articles which can be brought from
Panama, from the difficulty and expense of convey-
in3 more balky articles across the Isthmus ; and if
that specie be brought .from Lima to Panama, it
pays a duty of nine per cent. on export, aad one per
cent. on import ; or, if the money be shipped at San
Sias, it then pays a duty of six per cent. and at Pa-
nama one per cent. exclusive of freight, insurance,
&c. subject in every case to an imposition of 12 per
cent. on its exportation to Jamaica.
" lcis hardly posible to shew more glaring errors
in the political economy .f any nation, and of the
bar wi ich such irnpolicy interposes to the fair trader,
and immense loss to the Spanish revenue, by
thus ofering such an enormous premium' to the
smut !tier.
".'l"he whole of the coast, from Porto-Cabello to
Vera Cruz, is open to British trade ; that is to say,
fiem long. 6S. to lung. 97. The trade to Porto Ca-
!Alio has long been on the increase, aid it is well,
known that an immense trade has for sometime been
Cal ri? i o between the Danish Islands and that part
of the Simni,ill !lain. The Spani,h Government, we
preuroc, would not he able to find proofs of the fact
in any o•iiicial tiocument ; but of the truth of this
statewent we entertain no doubts.

teel very sinzete pleasure at the information
we have I:tely been favoured with, that an Officer,
wllo recently waited on the Viceroy of Santa Fe,
fully expLii,e(i to him the true 'cause of the conti-
nued sinq;gling trtde carried on, and of the injuri-
ous consequenLe it had upon the revenues of the
cf Spain ; and we understand that his Excel-
lency was so sensible of the errors in the Spanish
Revenue Laws, that regulations are about to b,±
adopted to give encouragement to the fair trader,
which must produce immense advantages to the
tzuje a this City:'

Law

COURT OF CIIANCERT, JANUARTfii;
IN TILE M(TTER OF STABLES, RELATI' Ti 4 tiE.l;l,

MINOR AND WARD OF TILE COr:RT.

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Mr. Wanteanto,, this day, bc,;a4ii liy: olyerving,
that the case had recently been before his Lordship
in the form of a motion, avhen it was ordered to
stand over; with leave to present a short petitiou,
founded on the affidavits which have been Sled. He
had now td submit that petition to the consideration
:of the Court, and it prayed that a reference might
' lie made to the Master, to inquire into all the cir-
cumstances attending. this Gretna Green marriage,
and to report whether it was valid or ndt, the Court'
meantime granting an injunction to prevent a second'
marriage taking place. The subject having been'
fully before the Court on a former occasion, it would
be unnecessary for him to g 6 into it again, excepting'
merely to state that the petition was nearly the same,
with the motion formerly beard. It aserted, that
Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Stables were sufficiently aw.tre
of the intended elopement, as was evident from the'
1 nature and singular mode in which that eldpernent
was effected. Mr. Stables, sen. retired to bed at a
quarter past eleven, on the evening of the 14th of
last December, and was soon after followed by his
two sons, who left Mrs. Stables, Miss Stables, and
Mr. Anthony Denn alone in the drawing-room,
tien'aing wine and water. The young Lady goes
down stairs, and is soon followed by her lover, who
handed her intd a pOsto;haise, and then drove off.
This, of itself, surely afforded strong presumption of
the family's having either connived at, or promoted
the mai riag,e. But he, would ask, if this were at-
tempted to be denied, what cause the two brothers
could have for leaving their young friend-and sister
in this manner? Was it entirely by accident that.
they had done so? lie certainly could find no ei-
case for them going off from this room so abruptly,
as it was contrary to the usual rules of common
politeness. There olight be some- excuse for the
pater familias retiring soon, as he niieht, from age
or infirmity, naturally he excised, but for his sons
no apology could be made. Alarm was soon after
given of the elopement, when they came down, but
according to their own account, in their affidavit,
not till fifteen or twenty minutes after they had gone
to their room. They appeared much agitated, but
'his Lordship required rot to be told how.often fear
and similar passions might, in such concerted cases,
be dramatically personated. At all events, there
was no great expedition in their so coming down, •
• for according to Mrs. Stables account, sho gave the
alarm in two or three minutes, whereas they said it
was in fifteen or twenty. There thus was an obvious
contradiction between the two statements, and truly
exemplified the justice of that old reritark, "taugna
tai veuiias ei i?"revalebit." Yet in fraud and other con-
certed plana, however well constituted such schemes
might be, there was always some part, which, by its
contradiction, eiribited the fallacy or the whole.
Had they been ignorant of the scheme, would they
have been so dilatory in coming down stairs? What!
in an affair so interesting to the character and hap-
piness of their sister, was it possible they did not
hear the voice of their alarmed mother? or could
any man believe they did not hear it ? When they
came down, they were only half dressed ; but would
it take fifteen minutes to have taken off or put on
half of their clothes? John, one of the sons, 'swore
that he ran out after his sister, but hearing no tidings
of her, he returned, when he heard that she had gone
with Dean over Finohley Common. John denied,
in his affidavit, that he had been in the Registrar's
office on Tuesday, the 14th of December, but ad-
mitted that he had been there on the preceding even-
ing, where he made some inquiries of Mr. Standon,
a clerk of Mr. Raynsford, as to whether any order
had been made relative to a Ward of Chancery, 'bit
not mentioning any names. This was precisely ano-
ther act of prudence to escape detection, and there
could be only one motive attributed to his going
there. It would not surely be said, that he went
front a metaphysical love of knowing the forms of
procedure in Chancery Ward cases? tor, on the con-
trary, his (Mr. Wetherell's) instructions charged
that Gentleman with knowing that Dean was about
to be made a Ward of the Court, and with having
come thus to the office, knowing that if, on in-
quiry, he found that Dean had not been made a
Ward, then the parties were at liberty to act er.l;ibitzim.
A post-chaise being procured, the two sons set off.to
Barnet, where they ordered the post-boys to stop till
they returned in the afternoon, which they did, and
cattle back to London, saying, the search was fruit-
less,
as the pursued were gaining ground on them.
Did they think they could possibly make any man
believe this story, 'airless one whose understanding
could be supplanted by buffoonery? When he read
over the affidavits of Mr. and Mrs. Stables, and com-:
pared it with. that of Dr. Moore the Vicar of St.:
Pancras, he was fully satisfied that there was a con-
spiracy among the parties. In their affidavits the
former declared they went to Dr. Moore to stop the
banns, which had been twice published in the parish
church, and that they had persuaded. Dean not to
marry till he was out of his minority. Dr. Moore,
however, gave a verrtlifferent account of the whole;
for he stated that in conversation with the father and
mother, he understood the marriage would he highly
acceptable to Mrs. Stables, as the parties %%ere at-
tached to each other. Dr. Moore saidl though the
parties were minors, yet if the banns were regularly
published, and no impediment offered, it would be
legal; but on understanding that they did not live in
the parish of St. Pancras, he rclt'used to celebrate the
marriage, and stopt the banns. Thus his Lordship
would see that the objection of Mrs. Stables was not
to the propriety of the marriage, but merely on ac-.
count of its illegality in St. Pancras.
The Loan Ctt.tootooon—" Dr. Moore teas right,
for though the marriage might be legal, it would,
under such circumstances, have been a breach of
the Canon Law."
Mr. WETHERELL then Wont oh to the afii.iavit Of
John Ballard, servant to Mr. Stables; who had cut
a prominent figure in this case. This affidavit did
n it in any ions contiadict what had been stated 01:
h raring the motion ; on the contrary, it admitted
cle .rly the part which he had taken in this elope
,nent, for it stated, that' the plaintiff (Mr. Deal )
1 having told him that his mother was reluctant tc
the match, gave him his name, and also that of the
young Lady, with which Ballard went to St. Pan.

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eras; on the 25th• No4ember• to get the rine
published: Plaintiff, after this, told him that hi
would elope to Gretna Green; on which Balbrd got
the chaise ready in Maddni-Street, ,nth Which Mis
"Stables was conveyed, without either hat ar bbnnet;)
meiseiiger was cent beforehand, to secure Sufa
ficient reiays of horse:;: Deponent saw them mar:
ried at Gretna Green, and on their return back, he;
by mistake, went into the coach for Newcastle:
under-Lyne instead or the melt 16r Newcastles
upon-Tyae, and, on corning to London, he was ue.t
alldwid to remain in Mr. Stables' house. This, Mr:
Wetherell observed, was rot to be wondered at, as
there we; repeated instances of servants being die=
charged after having played•the !issigned them,
such tlisehail,e being always iis a pretest to
save appearances. At Carlisle the tv.-o love, s gtnpt,
having given the Gretna Green priest £4O in cash,
and £6O on pro:nissory. note, at there they r ere
visited by another brsther of Miss Stables. VVhat 4
strange coincidence! flow did this happen? If it
was said that a letter had been sent down, be would
reply; that the post must have travelled with more'
than usual haste to enable that Gent!eman to meatthe lovers there. He would like know_ where the
other footman of Mr. Stables had been all this time?
It was denied that Ballard was his servant; on the
contrary, it was sworn that he had another, !tad that
Ballard was merely there for a few weeks. Why, in
the name of GOD, had no account been given of him?
Was he, on that night, seized also with the same
somnolency as the rest of the family? Amidst all
the buffoonery of the case, and all the trick; "at•
tempted to be played, it would not surely be said he
was sick or sleepy, as Gentlemen did not, in general;
allow their footmen to go to bed before tiley there=
selves went ?

Here a long conversation took place between Mr.
WETHEIREI4,, Mr. StIADWELL, and Mr. HEALD, as
to the line of argument which was now taken.
The Lotto CmAsect,Lort—" I have nothing to do
with this Cd'e, except so far as a contempt of Court
is involved: It is a most se:ions and impot taut cause
in another respect, to which I cannot attend ; bit for
the part which each took is it, they must answer to
(ion and their own consciences. I shall, however
sift it to the very bottom before I I^t it go'out of my
hands; and I am quite clear, from the alUarit of
Ballard, that he has, by his ov,n confession, been
guilty of a gross contempt of the Court. I shall not
tail to notice that in the manner which it tieserve;
and I may be allowed to say, that it has unilormiy
been the custom with my predecessors andn:ysi:if,
when a young fernaie ward of the Court has been
thus manied, to send. it to the Mager, to inquire
whether such marlia,e is valid? but no n ale ward
of the Court can take a second marriage to make
that valid which was invalid in itself. 1 repeat, this
is a truly serious case, as I never knew a case of a
young man being so kidnapped on a former occa-
sion, and the parties must know, that I shall sift the
whole to the utmost point. I apply blame to no•
body, as yet, but to Ballatd."

Mr. WETHERELL then commented on the aflida.
♦its of the cook-maid, who is also implicated ; and
on the affidavits of Mrs. Stables and Dean himself.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" It is now four o'clock:
I shall be glad, Mr. Wetherell, to hear you to- mon;
row on this interesting case."

COURT OF KING'S 11V14.7C11, JANUARY 21.
MILLAR AND ANOTHER V. MARL
This was an action of assurnpsit upon a promis-
sory note, for securing the payment of £2O, which
the defendant had given to the plaintiffs' as surety
for one North. At the trial before the' Lord Chief
Baron, at the last Assizes for the county of Notting.
ham, the plaintiffs had a verdict, a,ld a Rule Nisi
for a new trial. having been granted last Term,
DENMAN now shewed cause.

The case was, in sub‘•tance, this :—The plaintiffs
were Stewards of a Money lending Society at Net=
tingham, of which Mr. North was a member and
subscriber. At one of the meetings of the Society,
plaintiffs put up to sale by :Inc tient the loan of a sum
of £2O. Several Members were bidders, and at last
it was knocked down to North, at the price of £27,
which he agreed to pay by ir,stalments, the whol,e
aggregate sum to bear interest at five per cent. until
all the insrdlments were paid. In order to bind the
bargain, the defendant :weed to become North's sdt
entity, and gave the plaintiffs the promissory note in
question, upon which he was sued.
It was contended on the part of the defendant, bir
Mr. Serjeant
.VIUORAN, thit as this tranFaction was
conducted in usury between the plaintiffs and North,
the action would not lie.
The Court, however, were clearly of opinion that
this was not a case which came within the Statutes
of Usulf. if the transaction was one of lending, it
was a loan bet.seen the plaintiffs and North, who
was a member of the same society with them,-and
was equally interested with them in the funds of the
Society, and consequently it could not be said that a
man might'lend money to himsoll.—ltule discharged.
ADMIRALTY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS.
SKIP PETER ELLIS, R. JOMNSON, MASTER.
This was an application to the Court to grant ati
attachment against the person of Mr. Edward Hunt'
of Liverpool, pall Owner, for contempt of Court, n
refusing to deliver up the certificate of ship's regi!teri
by order of the Court, in a suit broupht by the may
*icy of owners, claiming the proper: 7 of the ship ;
of which they had taken posses-ion from Jsihns(n,
the Master ; Johnsen, as it appealed, being about to
leave the Iliver,in command of her, under the direct
Lions of Mr. Hunt, and what he me:rat to du ss ith
the vessel not being known to the. rest of the owners.
The defendant, Hunt, had, it appeared, transferred
;o Johnson the certiticote in quiplion, which docut
meat gave the authority to employ Ilse ship, u:A
h 1 out which the possession of the ship itself v. as
unavailable.

The defence in this case was,' that Mr. Hunt had
parted with the cet tine:tie of retister to the Master ;
and that it was no longer in his power to restrre ros&
sesion of that which was iii the custody of another
,:erson, over whoa► be had no eontr, ul.

The COURT was cf. (pinin, that here wgs just
foundation to suspect a between Hunt and
Johnson, the master, acting without the au:hority of
:he other parties interested As the majority of ownerati
:lad that having tranderied to the Master. the pos.
.essioli of the cei tiricate which he was hound to re.
4(;e to them, with the possession of the ship; the
ittachment bhotdd issue, unless delivered up ivithiri
:t fortnight.

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