Star.
London, England, 1820-10-14 00:00:00

HOUSEMAN AND PIERCE V. 'BOSANQUET AND CO.

The plaintiffs in this case were the assignees of a
bankrupt of the name of Simpson, who had deposited
the sum of E 1,900. in bills of exchange, in the hands
of the defendants, respectable hankers. The only
question was, whether the money had been deposited
previously or subsequently to the act of bankruptcy?
The defendants were only desirous of ascertaining to
whom they should pay it with safety to themselves.
A person of the name of Haywood, with whom
the bankrupt had boarded and lodged, stated, that
on the 30th of January the bankrtipt told him that
lie must leave his house (which was in the City of
London), and remove into the County of Surrey, as
he was afraid of an arrest on the part of his creditors.
He also deposed, that several days before the 30th of
January,•`tUe bankrupt had requested him to give
orders to his servants to say he was net at home-when
any persons called for him. The reason assigned
was, that he hid become responsible for the debts of
a man named Wilson, and was apprehensive of mo-
lestation from his creditors.

A clerk of the defendants proved the bills to have
been deposited on the 31st of January.
The Jury found, that an act of bankruptcy had
been committed before the bills had been deposited ;
and they were consequently handed over to the bank-

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rupt's assignees.
Several causes were disposed of by arbitration ;
but nothing of interest occurred. The Court rose at
an early hour.

Extract of a letter, dated Banks of the Danube,
October 5, 1820 :
" His Imperial and Apostolic Majesty of Austria
has at length remitted to the Sovereigns of the Holy
Alliance, a long Note, in which he laments the rapid
progress of the innovating spirit of the times, and
which his Majesty attributes to the baneful influence
of secret societies, and the pernicious works of a few
sceptical writers of the age, whose aim, says the Mo-
narch, is the ,entire subversion of all constituted au-
thorities, as sell as all moral and social order. -The
Emperor then proceeds to recommend to his august
Allies, the immediate extirpation in their several
States of all secret societies, especially, g Freimaurery,'
6 Illuminati,' g Fregeistery,' and Misticismus: His
Majesty then states to the several Sovereigns, at great
length, the occurrences that have take place at
Naples, the whole of which he attaches to the cabals
carried on in the Lodges of the Freemasons, under
the name of Carbonari; and dwells very empha-
tically upon the imminent danger that Sovereigns risk
by tolerating in their dominions, societies that are
capable of overturning the regal power of the best
consolidated Governments. _ _ _

" The Emperor then proceeds to inform the Mem-
bers of the Holy League, after a long and elaborate
avant propos of the motives that induce him to assemble
so large a military force in Italy. He declares, that
to suffer the Revolutionists in Naples, is incompatible
with the dignity of his Crown, and with the tranquil-
lity and welfare of his people; that he is bound by
the double ties of consanguinity and State policy, to
re-establish order in the whole of the Italian Penin-
sula, and to protect the Head of the Christian Church
against the machi nations of revolutionary demagogues
that surround him. The Emperor concludes with com-
plimenting his High Allies on the good spirit which
evinces itself through all the Northetn States of Eu-
rope, and declares his determination to restore imme-
diately the ancient order of things in Italy.
" The Austrian troops continue to pour-into Italy
from every quarter ; Several parks of heavy artillery
have quitted the Arsenal of Vienna for that conntry.
The Landwehr is ordered to be immediately called
out ; it is supposed, by the middle of this month
that the Imperial forces in Italy will amount to up-
wards of 200,000 strong. One army is formed on;
the frontiers of Piedmont, the other on the borders of
the States of the Church ; his Highness Field-Marshal
Prince Nugent is spoken of as Generalissimo of the
Austrian forces, in lieu of Marshal Prince Charles of
Schwartzeuburg ; Prince Nugent, on his artival in.
Vienna, had a private audience with the Emperor,
which lasted four hours; he has also daily long con-
ferences with the Prime Minister, Prince Von Met-
ternich. The greatest activity reigns in the Aus-
trian War Department, and the whole military force,
with the Landwehr, exceeds nine hundred thousand
effective men ; the department of the Police has
been trebled; all foreign Newspapers are interdicted.
The Emperor, at the earnest solicitations of his bro-
ther, Archdukes Rudolphus, Cardinal, Prince Arch-
bishop of Olmutz, issued a Decree on the 20th ult.
for there-establishing of the Order of Jesuits in all
the Imperial dominions ; an Ordet or Mandamus
from the Imperial Aulic Council, has been addressed
to his Excellency Prince Louis Taaffe, Viceroy of the
Kingdoms Of Galicia and Lodymiria, instructing him
to place the Jesuits expelled from Russia, in imme-
diate possession of all their former Colleges, Gym—
nasiums and Novitiates, in the Austro-Poland States.
The Jesuits expelled from Spain are to be established
in the Kingdoms of Lombardy, Venice, and Dalma-
tia. The Sovereigns of Austria, Russia, and Prus-
sia are to have an interview the latter end of this
month, at Troppau, in Silesia. Ms Royal Highness
Prince Anthony of Saxony is arrived at Vienna, oni
his way for Madrid, to visit his daughter the Queen
of Spain. The Princess Nugent (born Princess Ruffo-
Soria), with her children, resides in the Palace of her
uncle, Prince Ruffo-Scalia, Ambassador in Vienna,
from the Court of Naples.

The vintage is begnn in Hungary; and is the.
most abundant ever remembered." -

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Her MA.TILSTY returned the foltowing Most graeioui
Answer to the Address from Limehouse:
" I feel much satisfaction in receiving this loyal and affec-
tionate Address from the Male and Female Inhabitants of the
Path& of St. Anne, Limehouse.

" Whatever may he the final issue of the present proceedings
against me in the House of Lords, the measure itself will not
form one of the brightest pages in the judicial history of our
country. Though the conclusion of the most Honourable Jodi.
cature should be in favour of my innocence, it will never be
forgotten that the principle cf the Bill was highly unconsdtuz.
tional—an infraction of individual right—and an invasion of
national liberty.
" To behc.d all existing laws, both civil and ecclesiastical, de-
liberately set aside is order to crush one individual, for the
purpose of gratifying another, is a proceeding which, however
it may have found support in the obscured judgments, or in the
corrupt interests of particular individuals, in the present gene-
ration, will experience the unqualified reprobation of posterity.
" When the tumultuous agitation of the present conflict shall
have subsided, and men's minds shall have recovered their for-
mer serenity, it will hardly be thought credible that any Minis-
ters, not absolutely insane, would have suffered such a question
to endanger the peace of the community.

" The great excellence of a free Constitutimii, that the law
is one and the same for all. But how can we reconcile to our
ideas of a free Constitution the violation of every existing law
for the benefit of an individual? Yet is nut this, in a few words,
the substantial intent of this Bill of Pains and Penalties?
“ Conformity to the laws is, for the sake of example, more
requisite in a King than any of his subjects. ' Ought, therefore,
a divorce to be granted to his Majesty in circumstances in
which it would be denied to any of his subjects?
" Ought it to be granted to him on terms which are neither
compatible with the precepts of the Gospel, as interpreted by
the Church, nor with the temporal laws, as fixed by the State?'
The following is her MAJESTY'S Answer to the
Address from the Ward of.Farringdon Within:—
" I am deeply obliged by this impressive and affectionate
Address from the Alderman, Deputies, Common Council, and
Inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Within.
" I am grieved, but not surprised, that the Clergy should so
universally have acquiesced in the erasure of my name from the
Liturgy. Charity is the most es►ential part of piety; but this
sort of piety may often be an obstruction in the way of ecclesi-
astical advancement. While the Pastors of the Church are so
worthily occupied, it could not be supposed, that more than two
or three of them would step beyond the line of ecclesiastical

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decorum to administer spiritual solace to a persecuted Queen.
I, Is it not a little remarkable, that the only. innovation which
the hierarchy has been willing to admit in the ancient Liturgy-
for about a century and a half, is orie that was dictated by male-
volence. But, if any alterations had been proposed in the Li-
turgy, which harmonized at once with the genius of Christianity •
and with the improved sentiments of the age, the authors of
the proposition would have been reviled with as much rancour
and as little moderation as if they designed, not merely to prune
the superfluous branches, but had come prepared with an axe to
cut down the very trunk of the Establishment."

To the Address of the Deacons of the eight incor-
porated Trades of the City of Perth, her MAJzsri
returned the following Answer : •
" I have great satisfaction in receiving this loyal and affec-
tionate Address from the Deacons of the eight incorporated
Trades of the City of Perth, in the Convener's Court assembled.
" The indignities which I experienced when abroad were ex-
crescences from that great trunk of conspiracy against my ho-
nour and my rights, which has taken such a deep root in this
country, and has spread its branches far and wide over the Con-
tinent of Europe.
" The Nation has been insulted in the person of the Queen ;
nor ought it to be forgotten that a Minister of the Pope dared,
in an official instrument, to deprive the Queen of England of
that appellation to which she is latefully sntitled. There have
been times when such an insult wed not have been suffered by
any Ministry, and when, if they fiad been endured by the Mi-
nistry, that Ministry would not have bin endured by the People.
" The malice of my enemies has done its worst; and the day
of moral retribution is at band. Injustice and falsehood may
flourish for a season, but it call be only for a.season. That sea-
son will soon pass away; and he who seeks them, where they
were once seen, soon finds that they are to be seen na more.
The ways of PILOVIDIMCS are not as our ways, but they are al-
ways in favour of moral rectitude in their ultimate results." •

Yesterday the Marchioness of STAFFORD, arrived
at• Stafford-houses Cleveland-row, from Dunrobin
Castle, in Sutherlandshire. The Noble,Marquis and•
Marchioness had a select party of family friends to•
dine with them on the occasion.
On Wednesday,• Count de BOURKE, Minister of
Legation from the Court of Denmark, and his Lady,
arrived in town. His Excellency has been knighted-
since his late departure from this country, by his So-
vereign, at the Court of Denmark.
Viscount and Viscountess HAMPDRN, have issued
cards for a dinner and evening party, to-morrow, at
their house, in Green-street, Grosvenor-square.

The Right Hon. JOHN MIINDESTONE has been re-
elected Provost of the City of Edinburgh.
Mr. LITTLETON, M.P. for Staffordshire, is now ra-
pidly recovering from the effects of his late fall from
his horse. Fortunately no fracture occurred, which-
was at first apprehended.

• FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
Lord Binning, in Chesterfield-street, from a tour.
The COuntess of Essex, from her seat; Cuhiobury Park,
Lady Anthers; from her seat, Montreal House, Kent.
Countess of Galloway, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-st.'